The brightly coloured borders at a world-famous Sussex garden have helped inspire a new collection of homeware from the National Trust.
Nymans at Handcross, a 20th century garden created around a house and ruins looked after by the NT, was created by Ludwig Messel from plants collected from around the world and today features an exotic South African flower border.
It's one of three gardens that provided ideas for Laura Joynson, the organisation's new designer, for the bright watercolour designs of dense clusters of flowers and willowy seedheads on the Floribunda collection, which includes tea towels, fabric placemats, plates and cushions.
She also took inspiration from the Arts & Crafts garden Hidcote, in Gloucestershire, and Sissinghurst, the Kent castle transformed in the 1930s by the poet and writer Vita Sackville-West and her husband Harold Nicholson, a diplomat and author, who planted the famous colourful and vibrant garden.
Laura, who worked for designer Paul Smith, said: “Gardens are an essential part of enjoying the summer months and I wanted to capture the happy feeling you get when visiting one of the Trust’s gardens on a warm, sunny summer’s day.”
The Floribunda collection is in NT shops and on its website: shop.nationaltrust.org.uk
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