Designscape
BBC Gardeners World Live Autumn Fair
29 - 31 August 2025
Visit the APL 30th anniversary garden, built by members
Throughout the show, talk to experts about your landscape or design questions or needs at our FREE landscape and design clinics.
The build of the garden starts on Tuesday 26 August and has to be completed in JUST 3 days!
Audley End, Audley End Rd, Audley End, Saffron Walden CB11 4JF
To celebrate the APL's 30th anniversary, The APL have built a series of gardens in shows around the UK, all displaying quality, design, build and beautiful planting schemes. Our aim is to provide you with inspiration, but also to educate you on what quality design and build look like. Whilst the garden hopes to be a showcase for our members, it is also packed with small take-home ideas as you walk through this show garden. Details of the garden below.
The Garden: Pursuit of Excellence
A long walk through garden that is dominated by large-format geometrical shapes and colours. The start of the journey brings you into an area of calm and beauty. The 4 planting zones provide height and structure, framing the tranquil water feature at the centre of the zone. Planting is bio-diverse, encouraging wildlife, and areas for other wildlife will be incorporated in the first half of the garden, making this a beautiful and restful place to explore. The vertical planks not only offer privacy to the seating area, but also provide you with a glimpse of the contemporary area ahead. Within this zone, planting still exists, but the planting will complement the contemporary materials it is surrounded by, whilst also giving the visitor suggestions of architectural and drought-tolerant planting.
The gardens could not be built without the support of our members. This includes Designers, Landscapers and Suppliers. This fantastic collaborative trinity comes together to deliver something that is not only aesthetically pleasing, but also something the visitor can use for inspiration.
