This lecture will form part of an evening visit to Sheffield General Cemetery as part of the Friends of the Botanical Gardens 40 year celebrations. Due to limited capacity, the event will be open to Friends only and will be ticketed; tickets will be on sale later in the year - details will be published in due course.

Sheffield landscape designer Ollie Pike was asked by the Bible Society to build a show garden for them at the Tatton Flower Show in 2023. Ollie designed and built the Psalm 27 Garden which won a silver medal in the RHS Young Designer of the Year award category.

Following the show, the garden was relocated to Sheffield and it is now flourishing in the grounds of Sheffield General Cemetery; participants attending the evening will be given a tour and an overview of the planting, and will hear Ollie’s experiences when designing a show garden and working on other landscape projects

Ollie studied for his BA and MLA in Landscape Architecture at the University of Sheffield and lived and worked in Sheffield until last year when he relocated his home and practice to West Yorkshire. After qualifying he spent two years working with Harris Bugg Studio (designers of the Chelsea garden which is relocating to the Northern General Hospital in Sheffield - see our talk on 22 October) and has led a number of projects in the UK and Europe, including Geneva and Berlin.

He has been named as one of Garden Illustrated magazine’s ‘22 Ones to Watch in 2024´ and is currently contemplating a second show garden at Tatton Park this summer.

Pike Studio’s website

Pike Studio on Instagram

The Psalm 27 Garden - image by Alexander Baker