The RHS Sandringham Flower Show comes to Norfolk for the first time in July — and Foras is making sure the county rises to the occasion. The Head for Flowers display garden is a genuine celebration of local craftsmanship, Bronze Age heritage, and the finest horticultural and creative talent Norfolk has to offer.
Foras, the Stow Bridge-based water feature, garden accessory and tile & flagstone specialists, will present Head for Flowers: a display garden drawing inspiration from Norfolk’s Bronze Age heritage, its rose-growing legacy, and the skills of some of the county’s most respected makers, growers and designers.
Sculptor Jasmine Bradbury casting at Cockpit Studios | www.jasminebradbury.com | Photography: DGS Media
Built from the Ground Up by Local Talent
Every element of the Head for Flowers garden has been created by Norfolk’s finest. The garden’s lifestyle building was designed and constructed by Grocott & Murfit, award-winning Norfolk master builders. Plants and trees come from Rachael’s Plant Outlet, with feature planting by garden designer Chris Deakin. Sculptures were designed by Norfolk sculptor Jasmine Bradbury and developed by Foras from her original drawings.
The result is a space that feels rooted in place, contemporary in design, but unmistakably Norfolk in character and history.
- Grocott & Murfit
Lifestyle building design & construction · Norfolk master builders
- Chris Deakin
Feature planting & garden design
- Rachael’s Plant Outlet
Plants & trees
- Jasmine Bradbury
Sculptor — Head for Flowers mar, Line and Limb and inward shape figures
- Peter Beales Roses
Rose varieties for the Head for Flowers sculpture
The Foras stand at RHS Sandringham Flower Show, built by Norfolk builders Grocott & Murfit
The Dutch Gable Garden Room
At the heart of the display is a striking garden building created in partnership with Grocott & Murfit, designed by their in-house architectural designer Molly Sutton, who trained under renowned architect Charles Holland. The building celebrates the historic Dutch influence that helped shape Norfolk — much of the county lies below sea level, and for centuries Dutch engineers worked alongside local communities to build the dikes and sluice systems that protect the landscape.
The structure reinterprets the traditional Dutch gable in a contemporary garden setting. A sweeping arched roof canopy with a movable canvas sail allows the space to adapt to the weather. Mechanical louvred panels on either side can open to invite in light and air, or close to protect against changing conditions. Foras-curated wall and floor tiles, chosen for their sympathetic texture, shape and colour, complete the interior.
The interior showcases eight running water features, sculpture, a bar and seating — a flexible outdoor living space that blends architectural heritage with modern design.
Echoes of Sea Henge
In front of the garden building stands a homage to one of Norfolk’s most extraordinary ancient monuments: Sea Henge. Discovered in 1998 on Holme Beach, Sea Henge was a 4,000-year-old Bronze Age timber circle — 55 oak posts surrounding an upturned tree stump, emerging from the sands as if surfacing from time itself.
The Foras sculpture Line and Limb, based on an original drawing by Jasmine Bradbury, echoes this powerful history, framed by upright solid stone posts referencing the original circle. It is a moment of stillness and balance, a reminder that Norfolk has always known how to mark the land with meaning.
Two sculptures ‘Line and Limb’ and ‘Inward Shape’
Inward Shape
Alongside Line and Limb in the garden stands a third sculpture, also based on an original drawing by Jasmine Bradbury: Inward Shape. Where Line and Limb reaches outward — a figure in motion, arms extended — Inward shape turns within. The figure folds quietly into itself, a posture of stillness and self-containment that invites the viewer to pause and reflect.
Together the two pieces create a dialogue at the heart of the garden: movement and rest, outward energy and inner calm. Both carry the same rich, organic texture that characterises Bradbury’s work that recall ancient forms, the marks of hands, and the shapes and rhythms found in Norfolk’s Bronze Age artefacts.
The fused glass Foras water feature takes pride of place at the front of the stand.
Water in Motion
Eight Foras water features are woven through the design, each crafted from a different material — slate, sandstone, glass, marble and acrylic — each bringing its own texture, sound and movement to the garden. Among them is the Bliss, sculpted from natural sandstone whose layered texture echoes the distinctive striped cliffs of Hunstanton, where sandstone formations have shaped Norfolk’s coastline for millions of years.
The centrepiece is the Shard Font: a unique fused glass bowl filled with rippling water, set against a powder-coated curved steel column. Having debuted at RHS Chelsea alongside the Head for Flowers sculpture, the Shard Font makes its return to Foras at Sandringham — Norfolk excellence coming home.
The Wheel of Fortune
Adding an element of interactivity and fun, the garden features the Wheel of Foras Fortune, where visitors can spin to win prizes and discounts — and make donations to Grocott & Murfit’s ‘Building Norfolk’ Community Interest Company. Building Norfolk aims to help local families in difficulty access essential services such as counselling and educational support, changing lives for the better.
The Foras stand at RHS Sandringham Flower Show, where the new sculpture greets visitors at the forefront
A Stage for the County
For Foras, the show is an opportunity not just to exhibit, but to celebrate. Head for Flowers brings together horticulture, local history, meaningful sculpture, and outdoor living design in a single space, and makes the case that Norfolk’s creative and craft industries are as deserving of a national stage as any in the country.
Remember to “Head for Flowers” at RHS Sandringham and experience Norfolk’s creativity in full bloom.
Read about Foras at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026