Maggie S Oldham Garden Designer

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Maggie s oldham garden designer. Monday to friday 9am to 5pm. Maggies centre in oldham news. Garden designer rupert muldoon drew inspiration for the surrounding pennines to plant a textured ephemeral wilderness which is also ornamental and composed of highly scented flowers and shrubs.

Maggie s chief executive laura lee said a cancer diagnosis and treatment brings with it tough questions and difficult emotions which can leave many feeling isolated. Gardens are always evolving. Images by alex de rijke jasmin sohi jon cardwell tony barwel.

Supported on slender columns the building floats above a garden framed by pine birch and tulip poplar trees. They offer free. The garden offers open air rooms framed by pine and birch trees with a reflecting pool of rainwater discovered underneath the building.

This is the 21st centre in the 21 year history of maggie s the programme conceived by the writer artist and garden designer maggie keswick jencks when she was dying of cancer. A maggie s centre can be likened to a house. The programme of support that we will be offering.

Once we ve finished a project we like to stay involved to guide its development. Ours is a house full of surprises. For those who aren t aware of maggie s one of the uk s most high profile healthcare charities the idea was dreamed up by landscape designer maggie keswick jencks and her architect husband charles jencks after she was diagnosed with cancer in the dark days of the 1990s when the disease was usually regarded as terminal and treatment.

From a central oasis a tree grows up through the building bringing nature inside. The design of maggie s oldham is less about form and more about content. Completed in 2017 in oldham united kingdom.