EXTERIORS CASE STUDY
Even if hardy perennials and evergreens wilt under your care, you'll have heard of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. It's accepted as the gardening event of the year, the place to find new ideas and surround yourself with cutting-edge design. For the second year in a row, up-and-coming landscape designer Charlie Hawkes is creating a charity garden for the prestigious event.
Hawkes has had a varied career so far, having started out in a very different industry to the one in which he is now making his name. “It took me a while to get into it,” he admits. “I was good at maths at school so ended up doing economics at university. I thought I'd better get a job that related to my degree, so I got a place on a finance graduate scheme – and then had a midlife crisis aft er about a year.”
Hawkes quickly realised
