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Sarah Eberle

Sarah Eberle is an English chartered landscape architect, garden designer and fellow of the Landscape Institute and the Society of Garden Designers. She is noted for winning many Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) gold medals and has been named one of the three most influential figures in the landscape industry.

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Sarah Eberle MBE is an English chartered landscape architect, garden designer and fellow of the Landscape Institute and the Society of Garden Designers. She is noted for winning many Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) gold medals and has been named one of the three most influential figures in the landscape industry.

Life and work

Eberle grew up in Dartmoor, Devon.1 Her father, Sir James Eberle (1927–2018), was a British admiral.2 She attended Thames Polytechnic, and qualified as a landscape architect in 1980.345

Eberle has won more gold medals at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show than any other exhibitor;6 and a gold medal in every category there is in the show.7 Her Chelsea garden won 'Best in Show' in 2007 and 2017.1 She has won six Hampton Court Gold medals and in 2022 she was made an RHS Iconic Horticultural Hero.8

Eberle is a fellow of the Landscape Institute,9 and of the Society of Garden Designers and the Institute of Horticulture; she has an Honorary Doctorate in Design from Greenwich University.1 She is an RHS Associate of Honour (2016) and was a member of the RHS council (2018–2023).1011 She was also named the British Association of Landscape Industries Grand Award winner in 2007 12 and the Society of Gardeners Community Space award winner in 2014.1314

In 2026, Eberle received a gold medal and the Garden of the Year award for her show garden 'On the Edge' which was designed to launch CPRE's campaign to highlight the overlooked countryside at the edge of our towns and cities. 13

Eberle lives near Cole Henley, Whitchurch in Hampshire, with her husband, Robert Stevens, and three children.151216

Show gardens

designs include:

  • Toy Garden (1998)17
  • For Whoever you are.... (2001)17
  • Estuary Garden (2002)17
  • Woodland Garden (2003)17
  • A Woman's Sanctuary (2004)17
  • Walking Barefoot (2006)17
  • 600 Days (2007)171819
  • Breast Cancer Haven Garden (2015) 20
  • Beyond Our Borders ((2015) 20
  • Garden of Inspiration (2017)21
  • Changing Moves Changing Minds (2018)22
  • The Resilience Garden (2019)23
  • Psalm 23 (2021)24
  • Building the Future (2022)25
  • Campaign to Protect Rural England (2026)26
References

References

  1. Country Living "Chelsea Flower Show 2021 Sanctuary Garden profile: Bible Society – The Psalm 23 Garden", 29 Aug 2021
  2. "Admiral Sir James Eberle: A copy of Admiral Jim's obit from the Daily Telegraph". HMS Cossack Association. 17 February 2017. Retrieved 30 July 2022.
  3. Society of Garden Designers
  4. University of Greenwich profile
  5. "Sarah Eberle FSGLD". sgld.org.uk. Retrieved 2026-05-23.
  6. Eberle profile, Richard Jackson Gardens
  7. "Sarah Eberle at Chelsea Flower Show: Gold win", 10 May 2016 The English Garden magazine.
  8. "RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival to champion garden therapy", RHS.
  9. "Fellow FLI – The Landscape Institute". Retrieved 2026-05-23.
  10. British Council profile
  11. RHS council
  12. "Whitchurch gardener to put on display at Chelsea Flower Show" Bazingstoke Gazette, 12 May 2015
  13. "The Campaign to Protect Rural England Garden: 'On the Edge'". www.rhs.org.uk. Retrieved 2026-05-23.
  14. "Gibbon's Rent Project Wins SGD Award for Best Design for Community Space | Architecture Foundation". architecturefoundation.org.uk. Retrieved 2026-05-23.
  15. "The (Chelsea) show must go on", The Times 10 May 2009
  16. BBC profile
  17. Hillier Landscapes
  18. "The ten best RHS Chelsea Flower Show Gardens", 6 February 2022Gardens Illustrated]
  19. "My Chelsea experience: Sarah Eberle", 19 May 2022
  20. "Garden designer wins two gold medals at Chelsea" 19 May 2015, Basingstoke Gazette]
  21. Garden of Inspiration, RHS
  22. "British Council Garden at Chelsea" 21 May 2018, British Council
  23. "Resilence Garden", Chelsea 2019
  24. "Sarah Eberle on her Psalm 23 Garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show", Gardens Illustrated, 14 September 2021
  25. "Building the Future", RHS 2022
  26. "Sarah Eberle wins top prize at Chelsea Flower Show" 19 May 2026