“I’m totally delighted that we’ve tracked it down it’s one of my favourite woodland plants,” says Harris who found the Boehmeria platanifolia cultivar on a visit to de Hessenhof last year. Acer and birch trees provide dappled light over woodland planting that includes Aruncus ‘Horatio’, the intriguing Polygonatum x hybridum ‘Betberg’ and Boehmeria platanifolia Lushan. As always with this duo’s gardens, the planting will dazzle. Surprisingly, this is the first Main Avenue show garden at Chelsea that puts wheelchair accessibility at the forefront of the design. A new permeable, cement-free terrazzo paving, created using crushed waste, has been developed for the garden. “It’s very important that the garden is at different layers and levels, too, so that patients can experience the garden and see the plants and wildlife from lower down,” adds Bugg, who says that the biggest technical challenge was to create seamless paths that allow chairs and beds to move easily around the space. One of the main messages from patients, who are often stuck on wards for months at a time with little privacy, was the need for “a place to escape to that was beautiful and natural”. Speaking to the patients (as well as to their families, NHS staff and the head gardeners who then maintain each of the charity’s gardens) was a key part of the design process. His work has continued and each garden has radically transformed the lives of the patients who are adjusting to life-changing spinal injuries. It will be the eighth garden for the charity, founded by Dr Olivia Chapple, whose son Horatio was raising funds to create the very first spinal-centre garden before he was killed in a polar-bear attack in 2011. “It was really important for it to be patient-led and meticulous, because it’s a garden that’s stopping off at Chelsea on the way to Sheffield,” says Charlotte Harris, who, along with Hugo Bugg, has created a design for Horatio’s Garden that will find its final home at Sheffield’s Princess Royal Spinal Cord Injuries Centre.
Horatio’s Garden by Charlotte Harris and Hugo Bugg All of the plants have been grown in women-led independent nurseries.Īlso making its debut is the Children’s Picnic at Chelsea – an initiative from the new RHS director general Clare Matterson that will see 100 schoolchildren from some of the most disadvantaged areas of London attend the show on May 22, with the aim of igniting a passion for plants in a new generation.
Headline sponsor The Newt is bringing a reimagining of its Somerset immersive bee experience, the Beezantium, to Chelsea to highlight the plight of these insects, and its beehive structure will be surrounded by nectar-rich planting.Īround the Monument, designer Pollyanna Wilkinson is highlighting women in horticulture, with a beautiful Plankbridge shepherd’s hut that will be surrounded by crowd-pleasing borders packed with cottage-garden plants circled with woven willow. The hugely popular Balcony and Container Gardens and Houseplant Studios also return for another year. Some themes from the past couple of years continue to dominate the Main Avenue gardens – a focus on naturalistic planting, rewilding and biodiversity-boosting schemes and several show gardens nod to abandoned spaces, too, where nature has been left to its own devices, complete with dead trees.Īnd just as many employ reclaimed materials – including Darren Hawkes, who has repurposed 85 per cent of his materials from salvage, searching demolition sites, scrapyards and farmyards for his Samaritans’ Listening Garden.
When the Chelsea Flower Show opens on May 22, it will be after one of the most challenging growing seasons for nurseries and designers, with a long, cold winter followed by a very wet, cool spring, not to mention several weeks of mud-bath conditions at the Royal Hospital Chelsea site.īut the growers, exhibitors and teams behind the scenes are a resilient bunch, and it’s safe to say that the show gardens and the displays in the Great Pavilion will be as beguiling as ever when the show opens.
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There is no official dress code the advice from the RHS is to check the weather forecast and wear suitable clothing and footwear. Prices start from £37.85 for RHS members, or £48.85 for non-members. How do I get tickets?īook via the RHS website.
It is open to the public from May 23 to 27 (Tuesday 23rd and Wednesday 24th are RHS members’ days).
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