Ringo Starr to Open 4head Garden of Dreams at Chelsea 2006

Rock star legend, Ringo Starr and Barbara Bach will officially open THE 4HEAD GARDEN OF DREAMS. Featuring over 7,000 plants, healing herbs and trees, the 4head Garden of Dreams is one of the largest exhibits on Main Avenue at this year's show. Sponsored by 4head, a natural treatment for headache, without pills, the Garden of Dreams is designed jointly by Gold medallist Marney Hall and Heather Yarrow, who will be making her debut at Chelsea. The 4head Garden provides a haven for wild life, and also features numerous medicinal plants.. It is designed to appeal to the human senses - reflecting the subtle power, possessed by plants, to affect our daily lives, health and wellbeing.The Garden will be home to native trees - oaks, ash, alders, lime - weighing in at 4.5 tons each. These will form the central structure of the woodland, sheltered by an entwined hedge of hawthorn, wild rose, hazel, dogwood, privet and wayfaring trees - providing nectar, nesting sites and berries for insects, birds and small mammals to feed on.A babbling brook emerges from the woodland and meanders through a sunlit glade to a pool and an island. This 'Island of Reflection' is home to a dreaming girl - one of the largest living sculptures ever shown at Chelsea. The Eden Project's artistic director, Sue Hill, with her brother Peter, have created the girl - who is over 4 metres long and clothed in a variety of grasses and plants.Across from the woodland and bordering the pool is a scented lawn, featuring even more plants and herbs renowned for their health properties, including mentha piperita (black peppermint), the herb from which levomenthol is derived from - the main medicinal constituent of 4head. Herbalists have used many of these plants for hundreds, if not thousands of years to help treat common everyday ailments such as headaches, insomnia and pain relief.
The Garden features a choice of paths - the woodland walk or the scented lawn. Both offer the visitor a chance to experience a sensory journey of relaxation. At the end of the woodland walk, an ancient stumpery, made of intertwined driftwood tree roots, stands at three metres (10ft) high and over two and half metres wide. Providing shelter and with a carpet of soft bracken, the stumpery invites visitors to rest, relax and dream.
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