There are six All About Plants gardens at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2024, including gardens from Urban Organic and BetongPark, Daniel Bristow and Sid Hill and Chris Hull.
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Introduced in 2022, the All About Plants gardens category champions the positive power of plants to improve livelihoods. Many are funded by the recent initiative, Project Giving Back, and highlight unusual and specialist plants and specialist growers.
Each garden has been designed in collaboration with a UK charity to reflect their individual causes.
RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2024: The All About Plants gardens
Planet Good Earth Garden
Designer: Betongpark and Urban Organic
Theme Edible and skateable landscapes
Sponsor: Project Giving Back supporting The Planet Good Earth CIC
Contractors Betongpark and Urban Organic.
Contact betongpark.co.uk; urban-organic.co.uk
Inspired by urban foraging and skating in city plazas, the Planet Good Earth garden is a collaboration between skatepark design experts Betongpark and city agriculturists Urban Organic. With a granite skate ramp at its heart to encourage physical activity, the garden will celebrate community spaces, and provide food for local people and habitats for wildlife when it is raelocated to Hay-on-Wye after the show. A canopy of fruit trees, including plums, apples and mulberries will be planted with soft fruits, perennials and climbers surrounding them. Everything will be underplanted with a groundcover of strawberries, mint, chamomile, salads and herbs. Other features include hydroponic grow towers and hanging mushroom sacks.
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Bowel Research UK Microbiome Garden
Sponsor: Project Giving Back supporting Bowel Research UK
Designer: Chris Hull and Sid Hill
This collaborative design from Chris Hull and Sid Hill champions the importance of the gut microbiome and the science that shows cultivating plants in ecologically rich environments fosters a diverse microbial community that promotes a healthy bowel and overall wellbeing. Their design features a serpentine charred-oak wall that will run through the space, and a hexagonal shelter looking out on a wildflower meadow full of edible plants, including Bistorta officinalis, Camassia quamash and Lupinus luteus, that offer a probiotic feast. “We are really excited about bringing a pioneering edible meadow to RHS Chelsea for the first time,” they say.
The garden will be relocated to the Schumacher College in Devon after the show.
The Size of Wales Garden
Sponsor: Project Giving Back supporting The Size of Wales
Designer: Daniel Bristow
Theme The diversity of flora in tropical forests.
Contractor Mark Wallinger.
Contact studiobristow.com
Dan Bristow’s design for the charity on a mission to sustain an area of tropical forest at least the size of Wales (two million hectares) uses 313 plant species to represent the number of different tree species that can occur in a single hectare of tropical forest, and aims to be one of the most biodiverse in Chelsea’s history. “The garden will immerse visitors in a detailed dream-like landscape featuring plant species that belong in our temperate climate here in the UK,” says Dan. “Floating discs of plants will be suspended above watery voids that represent the barrenness left after deforestation, while small roofs on gangly posts draw to mind the precariousness of our existence.” After the show, the garden will be relocated to Treborth Botanic Garden in North Wales.
The Pulp Friction: Growing Skills Garden
Sponsor: Project Giving Back supporting Pulp Friction CIC
Designer: Will Dutch & Tin-Tin Azure-Marxen, Dutch Landscape Architects LTD
This forest garden takes as its model the most productive organic system in Britain – deciduous woodland. It consists of trees and shrubs, with bushes below and a ground layer of perennials beneath. All the plants are edible or useful and work together to support each other via soil improvement and shelter from the elements.
The central feature of the garden is a hoop constructed from recycled fire hoses donated by Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service. The circle below represents a place where everyone can come together.
After the show, the garden will be relocated to Bestwood, Nottingham to be used as a community garden.
The Panathlon Joy Garden
Sponsor: Project Giving Back supporting The Panathlon Foundation
Designer: Penelope Walker
Award-winning garden designer Penelope Walker is working with Panathlon, the disability sports charity for young people, to create a colourful and uplifting garden that reflects how the charity inspires inclusion, enables accessibility and normalises difference. It will be the first wheelchair accessible All About Plants garden.
After the show, the garden will be relocated to the Marjorie McClure School in Chislehurst, a school for students aged 4-19 years old with complex medical needs and physical disabilities.
The Sue Ryder Grief Kind Garden
Sponsor: Project Giving Back supporting Sue Ryder
Designer: Katherine Holland
The Sue Ryder Grief Kind Garden designed by Katherine Holland will provide a peaceful sanctuary in which to be enveloped in the beauty of nature, while encouraging visitors to share their experiences of grief.
Katherine Holland previously collaborated with Sue Ryder at the RHS Hampton Court Garden Festival in 2022, winning an Silver Medal for the concept garden, “A Journey.” She will be drawing on her own experience of grief to emulate the type of green space she needed when she was bereaved. It will feature a range of sensory perennial plants and unusual specimen trees, including Heptacodium miconioides, Rhamnus asplenifolia and a multi-stemmed form of Tilia henryana.
Following the show, the garden will be relocated to Sue Ryder’s St John Hospice in Bedford. The garden takes inspiration from the area’s history in lace production, using some of the organic shapes from the famous Midlands ‘Bud’ lace to create the designs for the planting borders and the York stone paving.
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