Butterworth guided the selection so that the plants grew well together and made sense as a whole. <\/p>\n
On a practical level, they were carefully chosen to ensure the audience could clearly see the athletes and performers move through the space.<\/p>\n
He said: “The beauty and rugged Scottish landscape has inspired poets, artists and nature lovers and to bring a piece of that to the wider world last night was a highlight of my career as a plantsman. <\/p>\n
“It was the most challenging and thus most exciting horticultural installation I’ve been involved in.”<\/p>\n
Butterworth described the experience – and the challenge – as unique.<\/p>\n
He said: “As a gardener you don’t usually get to work with premier set designers, in a stadium on the world-stage. I felt galvanised watching the ceremony last night.<\/p>\n
“When the stage designer Amalie White said the whole garden had to be moved in two minutes flat, that just added to the fun.”<\/p>\n
The garden used ornamental grasses to provide a baseline texture and featured plants including Molinia, Sesleria, Calamgrostis, Agastache, Catanache, Perovskia, Sanguisorba, Selenium, Nepeta and resilient thistles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Butterworth guided the selection so that the plants grew well together and made sense as a whole. On…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":710054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-710053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/710054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}