Tatton Park Diary 2010

Well, it’s raining...so it must be Tatton build week. The ‘Kaleidoscope’ build is starting on the Tatton site, while the ‘Inspiration and Me’ construction continues at the Northop workshop.

The wall sections that have already been made are propped against trees behind the garden site so that we can paint them white. The eight white panels surrounding the trees already make an intriguing installation and we soon attract a crowd.....of sheep.

The main concern for this year is that ‘Kaleidoscope is a square garden and has to be exact in its measurements and its placing within the site the RHS has given us.

We also have to make sure that the corner walls are perfectly in place so that the mirrored panels fit when they arrive on Wednesday. Note to Peter – can we do a curvy garden next year please? (you can ‘tweak’ those without anyone noticing).

The first corner goes in place early evening on Tuesday.  It takes four people to carry it and lower it into the holes that have already been dug. We then have to make sure that the other corners are perfectly lined up and perfectly level with each other.

Satisfied with corner one, we are working out the measurements for the second corner when we realise that the site is sloped!  The question now is do we raise the front corners or do we dig down 20cm (heavy clay) and lower the back ones?