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First Chelsea garden to be inspired by sporting team
Seeds of success
BRITAIN’S national sailing team, Skandia
Team GBR, has inspired a gold medal-win-
ning garden designer to create a Chelsea
Flower Show garden in its honour.
Hillier, which has won 62 consecutive gold
medals at Chelsea, is launching a ‘Sail for
Gold’ garden, designed to celebrate the
achievements of Britain’s most successful
sporting team. Created by Andrew McIndoe,
Hillier’s Deputy Managing Director and
Chelsea garden designer, hopes are high that
this garden will gain him his 18th consecu-
tive gold at the world famous garden show-
case.
Skandia Team GBR’s sailors compete in
the Olympic and Paralympic sailing classes
and top the world in terms of medals. Sailing
is also tipped to be Britain’s best hope for
Olympic success this year, with the sailors
bringing home more medals for the country
than any other sport for the past two Games.
The garden uses salt-washed timber, stone,
glass, water and sails with grasses and
coastal plants planted in drifts and waves.
Features include circular paving in tones of
gold, silver and bronze inspired by sailing
and Chelsea medals.
Movement and sound are introduced into
the garden with water cascading down a
spectacular glass sail sculpture. Skandia
Team GBR’s patriotic colours will also be
incorporated into the garden, with the use of
red floribunda roses, frothy white spiraeas
and blue ceanothus, against a backdrop of
brightly painted beach huts.
Andrew McIndoe, who travelled to
Wild about the Lefkas experience
Portugal in 2007 to see Skandia Team GBR
competing at the World Championships in
Cascais, commented: “The great advantage
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Iain Percy, who won Olympic gold in 2000
and who competes in the Star class, the old- ing success in Britain is the fact that we have opened at Chelsea, much the same as we do attend the RHS Chelsea Flower Show Press
est class in Olympic competition, comment- a really tight team behind the scenes, sup- for our top regattas. Day on Monday 19 May.
ed: “It’s an honour for Skandia Team GBR to porting each and every one of us in our quest “I’m looking forward to seeing the garden The RHS Chelsea Flower Show is held at
be associated with Hillier, one of the most for medals at the Games. I know that Hillier in its full glory!” Royal Hospital, Chelsea, London SW3 and is
renowned gardens competing at the Chelsea has a lot of people behind the scenes working Before the sailors who have been selected open to the public from 20-24 May. You can
Flower Show. month in and month out to ensure the garden to represent Great Britain at the forthcoming visit the ‘Sail for Gold’ Garden at GPD14,
One of the well-known secrets to our sail- performs on the day, looking great when it’s Olympic Games leave for China, they will the Monument site in the Great Pavilion.
Pair get ISAF Youth Worlds nod
THE RYA’s team to compete at this sum- respectively in the 15-strong fleet, selec- Canada, Glover won Hobie 16 gold with
mer’s 2008 Volvo Youth Sailing ISAF tors felt Ellis and Glover had done just his brother Richard while Ellis took boys’
World Championships in Denmark is com- enough over the course of both events to 29er bronze with Rob Partridge.
plete after James Ellis and Andrew Glover earn selection. The 2008 Volvo Youth Sailing ISAF
earned the nod for the final Team GBR RYA Youth Racing Manager Simon World Championships get underway in
berth in the SL16 catamaran class. Wergan said: “The nomination for the Arhus, Denmark on Thursday 10 July and
The pair, both medallists at last year’s SL16 spot for this year’s ISAF Youth closes on Saturday 19 July.
ISAF Youth Worlds, learned they had been Worlds has been very carefully considered
selected for their second successive and the selectors have been very impressed RYA TEAM GBR SQUAD FOR 2008,
Championships following their second- by the standards and determination YOUTH SAILING ISAF WORLD
placed showing at the Carnac Eurocat demonstrated by all three crews. CHAMPIONSHIPS, ARHUS,
event, France (30 April - 4 May). “We have three strong SL16 teams and it DENMARK (10-19 JULY):
Plymouth’s Ellis, 17, and 16-year-old is very encouraging to see the group work- 29er:
Glover from Weymouth went into the ing so well together and inevitably pushing Boys: James Peters / Ed Fitzgerald
extended trials event at Carnac having fin- each other to perform. Girls: Frances Peters / Claire Lasko
ished second to Adam Butler and Gilly “Although it was felt that James and RS:X:
Sutcliffe at the RYA Youth National Andy had done enough at Pwllheli and Boy: Jacob Brubert
Championships and Trials at Pwllheli Carnac to be selected for the Youth Worlds Girl: Izzy Hamilton
Sailing Club last month. team we are very keen to keep all three Laser Standard:
But having once again claimed silver in boats training together as a group in prepa- Stuart Godwin
France, with the other British crews Youth ration for the SL16 World Championships Laser Radial:
Andrew Glover and James Ellis (right) at the Nationals bronze medallists Sebastian in La Baule, France in August where there Chloe Martin
RYA Youth National Championships and Trials Greber/Nikki Boniface and are valuable World medals to be won.” SL16:
Picture: Richard Langdon/Ocean Images Butler/Sutcliffe finishing third and eighth At the 2007 ISAF Youth Worlds in
James Ellis / Andrew Glover
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