The large crowds around Dan Pearson’s ambitious Chelsea flower show re-imagining of the grounds at Chatsworth House would be advised to enjoy his creation while they can: immediately after winning the award for best show garden Pearson said he might never return.
“There won’t be a next time. I really don’t think I will come back,” Pearson told the Guardian from amid his rock-strewn, naturalistic site, which includes 10 truckloads of stone shipped 160 miles from a quarry in Derbyshire. He then paused: “I might, you know. I’ve said that before.”
But it could be a while. Pearson’s Chatsworth Garden, an amalgamation and recreation of a rockery and trout stream at the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire’s estate, is his first appearance at Chelsea for 11 years, and he said it will be years before he thinks of trying again.
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