St Mungo’s Putting Down Roots Garden: An urban pocket park embodies the ethos of St Mungo’s which helps people recovering from homelessness to gain confidence and grow their skills, and to rebuild their lives through gardening. It aims to inspire children to lead active, healthy lives. The Place2Be Securing Tomorrow Garden: Designed by Jamie Butterworth on his first Chelsea Flower Show, this garden is intended to promote the importance of children’s mental health, and offer a safe space where children can take time and talk.Īlder Hey Urban Foraging Station Garden: A landscape that weaves together young and old, green and urban, play and learning, and Alder Hey Children’s Hospital with its community. Morris’s first pattern Trellis inspires the garden layout and pathways, while his Willow Boughs pattern is reflected in the design of the pavilion and water channels. Garden: The garden re-imagines two of Morris’s iconic patterns. ![]() The Boodles Travel Garden: This sanctuary garden harnesses the positive power of nature to nurture and heal while embracing themes from the 1962 travels of Anthony Wainwright, grandfather of the current chairman of Boodles. The Chelsea Flower Show is back in its May slot for the first time since 2019, after being cancelled in 2020 and moved to September for 2021 due to the pandemic. ![]() It is covered on both sides with an assortment of native British-grown tree branches with connecting inner shelves arranged with 70 terracotta pots planted with lily of the valley, one of the monarch's favourite plants.Īnother installation aims to transport visitors to one of the Queen's favourite places, with a canopy of flowers including fresh delphiniums, emulating the colours and planting of the Scottish landscape near the royal family's Balmoral Castle estate in Aberdeenshire. The show also features gardens by Meta on plants and fungi in woodland ecosystems, a Notting Hill-set exhibit that features a deforested mangrove sculpture highlighting global deforestation and racial injustice and an ice block highlighting global warming.Ī floral display with the profile of the Queen in Platinum Jubilee purple marks her 70-year reign. By Lauren Chelsea Flower Show has returned to its traditional May slot with gardens focusing on wildlife, wellbeing and floral displays to mark the Platinum Jubilee.Ĭelebrities and members of the royal family were today getting a first look at the Royal Horticultural Society's showpiece event on Monday, before it opens to members of the public as the centrepieces battle for gardening’s most coveted title.Īmong the show gardens is a recreation of a beaver wetland, complete with a beaver lodge, dam, streams and natural wildflower planting.
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