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Scone Palace: Scottish Garden Design Competition
( Now a permanent Installation )

Medal:

Gold 

Award:

Best In Show

 

Judges:

Paul Hervey‑Brookes: Multi gold medal winner and RHS Chelsea Flower Show judge

Dougal Philip & Lesley Watson: RHS Chelsea judges 

Lewis Normand: President of the Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society

​Sponsors:

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Feature Elements

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- ADEZZ – Corten structures
- CED Stone – Boulders and Hard Landscape
- FirePit.co.uk – Corten firepit
- Scottish Wood – Bark-edged larch
- Urbis – Water bowl
- Wolfe Studio – bench design & build

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Planting Contributors


- Alba Trees – Early stage woodland regeneration planting
- Highland Moss – Moss
- R & B Nursery – Trees & shrubs
- SoilFixer – Biochar

Story

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Inspired by the 2023 wildfire at RSPB Corrimony Reserve, After the Fire explores resilience and regeneration within a recovering Scottish woodland.

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The garden begins in a charred landscape, marked by blackened timbers and a central firepit with the triskelion symbol, a symbolic origin of change. Beneath the surface, biochar enriches the soil and sequesters carbon, signalling that renewal has already begun.​ As visitors move through the space, early coloniser species emerge, pine seedlings break through the ground, bug hotels drive resilience and the landscapes becomes increasingly layered and evolved. 

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At the heart of the garden sits a handcrafted bench that rises from a rough, charred base into vibrant native hardwood, a physical expression of renewal. Positioned beside a simple water bowl set within a golden ratio spiral, the space invites pause and reflection on nature’s quiet resilience. The garden is not a finished landscape, but a living system, shaped by disturbance, resilience, recovery and renewal.

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