The John
Deere garden celebrating 100 years of tractors has been awarded a Silver Gilt
medal at RHS Chatsworth Flower Show.
Designed
by Elspeth Stockwell and Jo Fairfax, the garden features a striking ring of 100
golden tractors rising above upright grasses that represent fields of crops and
meadow style planting portraying the rural landscape.
The
charred oak circular seating and backdrop hint at farm buildings dotted across
the countryside. Nature looks on as tractors cultivate the fields.
Elspeth
Stockwell is a qualified horticulturist and medal-winning garden designer.
Artist and sculptor Jo Fairfax develops lighting and sculptural installations
and his work has won many awards. Both designers live in the East Midlands,
near to John Deere’s UK & Ireland headquarters at Langar, Nottingham.
This
year is a special anniversary for John Deere as the company marks 100 years of
selling tractors. Blacksmith John Deere founded the company that bears his name
in 1837, in Illinois, when he invented a new type of plough but it was 1918
before the company moved into the tractor business.
A
century of tractor innovation has followed, including the launch in 1963 of the
company’s first lawn tractor, the 7hp 110, drawing on the experience and
technology of its larger agricultural cousins.
John
Deere has grown to become one of the world’s leading manufacturers of
agricultural, turf and lawn & garden equipment, its ethos firmly rooted in
its founder’s core values of integrity, quality, commitment and innovation.
