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.
Life and work Eberle grew up in Dartmoor, Devon.Country Living "Chelsea Flower Show 2021 Sanctuary Garden profile: Bible Society – The Psalm 23 Garden", 29 Aug 2021 Her father, Sir James Eberle (1927–2018), was a British admiral. She attended Thames Polytechnic, and qualified as a landscape architect in 1980.Society of Garden DesignersUniversity of Greenwich profile
Eberle has won more gold medals at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show than any other exhibitor;Eberle profile, Richard Jackson Gardens and a gold medal in every category there is in the show."Sarah Eberle at Chelsea Flower Show: Gold win", 10 May 2016 The English Garden magazine. Her Chelsea garden won 'Best in Show' in 2007 and 2017. She has won six Hampton Court Gold medals and in 2022 she was made an RHS Iconic Horticultural Hero."RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival to champion garden therapy", RHS.
Eberle is a fellow of the Landscape Institute, and of the Society of Garden Designers and the Institute of Horticulture; she has an Honorary Doctorate in Design from Greenwich University. She is an RHS Associate of Honour (2016) and was a member of the RHS council (2018–2023).British Council profileRHS council She was also named the British Association of Landscape Industries Grand Award winner in 2007 and the Society of Gardeners Community Space award winner in 2014.
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.
Eberle lives near Cole Henley, Whitchurch in Hampshire, with her husband, Robert Stevens, and three children."The (Chelsea) show must go on", The Times 10 May 2009"Whitchurch gardener to put on display at Chelsea Flower Show" Bazingstoke Gazette, 12 May 2015BBC profile
Show gardens designs include: Toy Garden (1998) For Whoever you are.... (2001) Estuary Garden (2002) Woodland Garden (2003) A Woman's Sanctuary (2004) Walking Barefoot (2006)Hillier Landscapes 600 Days (2007)"The ten best RHS Chelsea Flower Show Gardens", 6 February 2022Gardens Illustrated]"My Chelsea experience: Sarah Eberle", 19 May 2022 Breast Cancer Haven Garden (2015)"Garden designer wins two gold medals at Chelsea" 19 May 2015, Basingstoke Gazette] Beyond Our Borders ((2015) Garden of Inspiration (2017)Garden of Inspiration, RHS Changing Moves Changing Minds (2018)"British Council Garden at Chelsea" 21 May 2018, British Council The Resilience Garden (2019)"Resilence Garden", Chelsea 2019 Psalm 23 (2021)"Sarah Eberle on her Psalm 23 Garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show", Gardens Illustrated, 14 September 2021 Building the Future (2022)"Building the Future", RHS 2022 Campaign to Protect Rural England (2026)"Sarah Eberle wins top prize at Chelsea Flower Show" 19 May 2026
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