The Fire and Iron Garden – Whirling Butterflies
Showcasing Fire and Iron’s artists, this garden illustrates how sculptures might look in both vast landscapes and intimate settings. A play on scale gives the impression that a magnificent world is spread out before the viewer; the sculptures are scaled to achieve this illusion, with planting designed to suggest a foreground leading into the far distance.
Natural, native planting at the front of the garden reflects Fire and Iron’s Surrey home. Beyond this, carpeted mounds represent fantasy fields, and a distant gateway leads back to reality.
Whirling Butterflies is a collaboration between Fire and Iron and Castle Gardens, two businesses based just south of Hampton Court. Lucy Quinnell’s Fire and Iron is the world’s leading art metalwork gallery, where Nick Rôbin’s Castle Gardens is restoring the ten acre medieval grounds. Lucy and Nick share a passion for organic gardening and protecting the natural environment. Many of the plants for this garden have been grown at Fire and Iron or at Nick’s own nursery, Bonsai UK.