Sarah Eberle is an English garden designer.
Life and work
Eberle grew up in Dartmoor, Devon.
[''Country Living]
"Chelsea Flower Show 2021 Sanctuary Garden profile: Bible Society – The Psalm 23 Garden", 29 Aug 2021 Her father,
Sir James Eberle (1927–2018), was a British admiral.
She attended
Thames Polytechnic
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, and qualified as a landscape architect in 1980.
Eberle has won over 19 gold medals at the
RHS Chelsea Flower Show
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, the most of any exhibitor; a gold medal in every category there is in the show. Her Chelsea garden won 'Best in Show' in 2007 and 2017.
[ She has won six ]Hampton Court
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Gold medals and in 2022 she was made an RHS Iconic Horticultural Hero.
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
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.[ She is an RHS Associate of Honour (2016) and is a member of the RHS council (2018–2023). She was also named the British Association of Landscape Industries Grand Award winner in 2007. ][
Eberle lives near ]Cole Henley
Cole Henley is a hamlet in the Basingstoke and Deane district of Hampshire, England. Its nearest town is Whitchurch, which lies approximately south-east from the hamlet, just off the A34 road.
Governance
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, Whitchurch in Hampshire, with her husband, Robert Stevens, and three children.["Whitchurch gardener to put on display at Chelsea Flower Show"]
''Bazingstoke Gazette'', 12 May 2015
Show gardens
designs include:
*Toy Garden (1998)[
*For Whoever you are.... (2001)][
*Estuary Garden (2002)][
*Woodland Garden (2003)][
*A Woman's Sanctuary (2004)][
*Walking Barefoot (2006)][Hillier Landscapes]
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*600 Days (2007)[
*Breast Cancer Haven Garden (2015) ]["Garden designer wins two gold medals at Chelsea"]
19 May 2015, ''Basingstoke Gazette'']
*Beyond Our Borders ((2015) [
*Garden of Inspiration (2017)
*Changing Moves Changing Minds (2018)
*The Resilience Garden (2019)
*Psalm 23 (2021)
*Building the Future (2022)"Building the Future"]
RHS 2022
References
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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
People from Whitchurch, Hampshire
English gardeners
Alumni of the University of Greenwich