Southport Flower Show 2007

The theme for this year's show is 'Music'. From the start, my idea was for music to be the driving force behind the garden concept. This ended up being taken literally as the water feature within the open water area at the front of the garden is powered directly by music making the water dance! This technical piece of wizardry was created by Paul Marshall from BingBangBong.

Paul has been fascinated by the effect of sound on different substances for years; this collaborative project with Andy offers the opportunity to put into practise a long term design to make water dance using only sound. The phenomenon is called cymatics. The water 'dances' to a specially composed soundtrack. This soundtrack is designed to bring out a range of patterns and dynamics in the water.

 

Andy receiving his winner's cheque by Diarmuid Gavin

To see more photographs of the garden, click here. The garden was made possible by the following companies. Click here to find out more details:

MG Landscapes
Bing Bang Bong
FeONIC plc
Eden Creative Spaces
House of Marbles
Dyofix
Fagan-Bird Interior Design
Barry Marshall Designs Ltd.