Rooted in Resilience
David Negus
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About the garden - Medium garden
Rooted in Resilience is a symbolic garden inspired by the emotional and physical journey of people living with multiple myeloma, a rare and incurable blood cancer. The design guides visitors through contrasting spaces reflecting diagnosis, treatment, recovery and ongoing resilience, while allowing freedom of choice in how the journey is experienced.
Visitors begin in a narrow, hospital-inspired corridor that opens into a ‘waiting room’ space. From there, they may enter a welcoming social garden celebrating connection and support or continue through a woodland setting toward a sculptural ‘blood-drop pod’, or into a remission garden leading to a quiet reflection pool.
Subtle shifts in planting, materials and light guide movement, with woodland giving way to resilient gravel planting. Together these transitions create a hopeful landscape that honours courage, connection, and the quiet resilience of those living with myeloma.
About the designer
David Negus
David Negus is an award-winning garden designer based in Suffolk, England. His business, Studio Stour, was born from a love of place, craft, and design. It reflects David’s background in architecture and 3D visualisation, shaped by his lifelong connection to gardens and the natural world.
What began as The 3D Gardener — a one-man studio blending planting design with immersive visuals — has grown into a more purposeful practice: one that champions reclaimed materials, biodiversity, and landscape-led thinking. This is David’s second Bloom Show Garden. He won Best Medium Show Garden for the European Commission’s ‘Renewed Blooms’ Garden last year.
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