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Sarah Eberle is an English garden designer.

Life and work

Eberle grew up in Dartmoor, Devon.[1] Her father, Sir James Eberle (1927–2018), was a British admiral.[2] She attended Thames Polytechnic, and qualified as a landscape architect in 1980.[3][4]

Eberle has won over 19 gold medals at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, the most of any exhibitor;[5][6] a gold medal in every category there is in the show.[7] Her Chelsea garden won 'Best in Show' in 2007 and 2017.[1] She has won six Hampton Court Gold medals and in 2022 she was made an RHS Iconic Horticultural Hero.[8]

Eberle is a member of Landscape Institute, the Society of Garden Designers and the Institute of Horticulture; she has an Honorary Doctorate in Design from Greenwich University.[1] She is an RHS Associate of Honour (2016) and is a member of the RHS council (2018–2023).[9][10] She was also named the British Association of Landscape Industries Grand Award winner in 2007. [11]

Eberle lives near Cole Henley, Whitchurch in Hampshire, with her husband, Robert Stevens, and three children.[12][11][13]

Show gardens

designs include:

  • Toy Garden (1998)[14]
  • For Whoever you are.... (2001)[14]
  • Estuary Garden (2002)[14]
  • Woodland Garden (2003)[14]
  • A Woman's Sanctuary (2004)[14]
  • Walking Barefoot (2006)[14]
  • 600 Days (2007)[14][15][16]
  • Breast Cancer Haven Garden (2015) [17]
  • Beyond Our Borders ((2015) [17]
  • Garden of Inspiration (2017)[18]
  • Changing Moves Changing Minds (2018)[19]
  • The Resilience Garden (2019)[20]
  • Psalm 23 (2021)[21]
  • Building the Future (2022)[22]

References

  1. ^ a b c Country Living "Chelsea Flower Show 2021 Sanctuary Garden profile: Bible Society – The Psalm 23 Garden", 29 Aug 2021
  2. ^ "Admiral Sir James Eberle: A copy of Admiral Jim's obit from the Daily Telegraph". HMS Cossack Association. 17 February 2017. Retrieved 30 July 2022.
  3. ^ Society of Garden Designers
  4. ^ University of Greenwich profile
  5. ^ Eberle profile, Richard Jackson Gardens
  6. ^ "The best garden designers and landscapers in Britain", Country Life 11 March 2022
  7. ^ "Sarah Eberle at Chelsea Flower Show: Gold win", 10 May 2016 The English Garden magazine.
  8. ^ "RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival to champion garden therapy", RHS.
  9. ^ British Council profile
  10. ^ RHS council
  11. ^ a b "Whitchurch gardener to put on display at Chelsea Flower Show" Bazingstoke Gazette, 12 May 2015
  12. ^ "The (Chelsea) show must go on", The Times 10 May 2009
  13. ^ BBC profile
  14. ^ a b c d e f g Hillier Landscapes
  15. ^ "The ten best RHS Chelsea Flower Show Gardens", 6 February 2022Gardens Illustrated]
  16. ^ "My Chelsea experience: Sarah Eberle", 19 May 2022
  17. ^ a b "Garden designer wins two gold medals at Chelsea" 19 May 2015, Basingstoke Gazette]
  18. ^ Garden of Inspiration, RHS
  19. ^ "British Council Garden at Chelsea" 21 May 2018, British Council
  20. ^ "Resilence Garden", Chelsea 2019
  21. ^ "Sarah Eberle on her Psalm 23 Garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show", Gardens Illustrated, 14 September 2021
  22. ^ "Building the Future", RHS 2022
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