Sarah Eberle
Sarah Eberle is an English garden designer.
Life and work
[edit]Eberle grew up in Dartmoor, Devon.[1] Her father, Sir James Eberle (1927–2018), was a British admiral.[2] She attended Thames Polytechnic, and qualified as a landscape architect in 1980.[3][4]
Eberle has won over 19 gold medals at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, the most of any exhibitor;[5][6] a gold medal in every category there is in the show.[7] Her Chelsea garden won 'Best in Show' in 2007 and 2017.[1] She has won six Hampton Court Gold medals and in 2022 she was made an RHS Iconic Horticultural Hero.[8]
Eberle is a member of Landscape Institute, the Society of Garden Designers and the Institute of Horticulture; she has an Honorary Doctorate in Design from Greenwich University.[1] She is an RHS Associate of Honour (2016) and is a member of the RHS council (2018–2023).[9][10] She was also named the British Association of Landscape Industries Grand Award winner in 2007. [11]
Eberle lives near Cole Henley, Whitchurch in Hampshire, with her husband, Robert Stevens, and three children.[12][11][13]
Show gardens
[edit]designs include:
- Toy Garden (1998)[14]
- For Whoever you are.... (2001)[14]
- Estuary Garden (2002)[14]
- Woodland Garden (2003)[14]
- A Woman's Sanctuary (2004)[14]
- Walking Barefoot (2006)[14]
- 600 Days (2007)[14][15][16]
- Breast Cancer Haven Garden (2015) [17]
- Beyond Our Borders ((2015) [17]
- Garden of Inspiration (2017)[18]
- Changing Moves Changing Minds (2018)[19]
- The Resilience Garden (2019)[20]
- Psalm 23 (2021)[21]
- Building the Future (2022)[22]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Country Living "Chelsea Flower Show 2021 Sanctuary Garden profile: Bible Society – The Psalm 23 Garden", 29 Aug 2021
- ^ "Admiral Sir James Eberle: A copy of Admiral Jim's obit from the Daily Telegraph". HMS Cossack Association. 17 February 2017. Retrieved 30 July 2022.
- ^ Society of Garden Designers
- ^ University of Greenwich profile
- ^ Eberle profile, Richard Jackson Gardens
- ^ "The best garden designers and landscapers in Britain", Country Life 11 March 2022
- ^ "Sarah Eberle at Chelsea Flower Show: Gold win", 10 May 2016 The English Garden magazine.
- ^ "RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival to champion garden therapy", RHS.
- ^ British Council profile
- ^ RHS council
- ^ a b "Whitchurch gardener to put on display at Chelsea Flower Show" Bazingstoke Gazette, 12 May 2015
- ^ "The (Chelsea) show must go on", The Times 10 May 2009
- ^ BBC profile
- ^ a b c d e f g Hillier Landscapes
- ^ "The ten best RHS Chelsea Flower Show Gardens", 6 February 2022Gardens Illustrated]
- ^ "My Chelsea experience: Sarah Eberle", 19 May 2022
- ^ a b "Garden designer wins two gold medals at Chelsea" 19 May 2015, Basingstoke Gazette]
- ^ Garden of Inspiration, RHS
- ^ "British Council Garden at Chelsea" 21 May 2018, British Council
- ^ "Resilence Garden", Chelsea 2019
- ^ "Sarah Eberle on her Psalm 23 Garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show", Gardens Illustrated, 14 September 2021
- ^ "Building the Future", RHS 2022