Flower Show 2010

Port Eliot Flower Show

2010 will see an eclectic and colourful new area added to the festival – The Flower Show, in the Orangery gardens – curated and designed by internationally acclaimed production designer, Michael Howells.
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Mary Keen

Mary is a writer, lecturer and internationally celebrated garden designer. Her daughter, the poet Alice Oswald, has recorded five of her poems — ‘Snowdrop’, ‘Narcissus’, ‘Rambling Rose’, ‘Primrose’, ‘Yellow Iris’ — from her collection Weeds and Wildflowers, for Mary to play between talking about raising more rarified versions of the same flowers, in a performance entitled ‘Growing Alice Oswald’s Flowers (Not the Weeds)’.
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Kitty Arden

Kitty is a renaissance woman of considerable talent and flair: she designs the packaging for chocolatier, Prestat; has her own range of cushions, jigsaws and tapestries; arranges flowers for royal occasions, parties and the likes of Dior and Galliano, and recently for Chelsea Flower Show winner, Crocus’ Tea at the Dorchester. She’ll be demonstrating flower arranging for a bullfight, accompanied by a Spanish classical guitarist.
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Tim Smit

Tim Smit CBE, co-founder and visionary driving force behind the Eden Project – Britain’s most groundbreaking horticultural creation and visitor attraction dubbed “the eighth wonder of the world” – will be bringing his inifinite energy, expertise and charisma to a special event at Port Eliot’s inaugural Flower Show.
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Todd Longstaffe-Gowan

Todd Longstaffe-Gowan is a landscape architect, designer and historian. He is advisor for Historic Royal Palaces and has designed gardens for Hampton Court and Kensington Palace, as well as overseeing a variety of acclaimed projects across the globe, such as the Boboli Gardens in Florence. He’ll be presenting ‘Enchanted Groves: ephemeral indoor gardening in Regency London' as part of the new Port Eliot Flower Show area.
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Stephen Jones

Stephen Jones

Millinery maestro Stephen Jones is a leading light in the fashion world, having created hats for Christian Dior, John Galliano and Marc Jacobs amongst many others. He was awarded the Outstanding Achievement Award at the British Fashion Awards in 2009, and will be creating one-off hats for festival-goers in the Walled Garden’s new Fashion Tent, doing an event with US Vogue’s Sarah Mower and running a special floral hat-trimming workshop at the Flower Show.
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