RHS CHELSEA
With this in mind award-winning
design duo Hugo Bugg and Charlotte
Harris have designed a communal
residential garden for show sponsor
M&G as they return to Main Avenue
with a design that promotes the
essential need to incorporate and
maintain beautiful, sustainable
green spaces within our growing
cities for the benefit of the planet
and people. The garden highlights
how communities and designers
are working together to address this
challenge by creating gardens in
neglected city spaces. Sustainability
is woven through the design of
‘The M&G Garden’ through the use
of repurposed materials, water
management techniques, permeable
surfaces and a planting palette
defined by resilient plants suitable
for the climatic challenges of urban
spaces.
The ‘Guangzhou China: Guangzhou
Garden’ by first time Show Garden
designers Peter Chmiel and Chin-
Jung Chen of Grant Associates
provides a similar narrative, a
city garden of the future that
balances the needs of both people
and wildlife whilst sustaining
the planet’s health, promoting a
move towards a new ‘ecological
civilization’. The garden features
a woodland dell to clean the air, a
pool to clean water and bamboo
structures which represent homes
for humans and wildlife.
With deforestation central to the
climate crisis ‘The Facebook Garden:
Growing the Future’ looks at the
benefits of increasing the UK’s tree
cover whilst highlighting the need
for better woodland management
in a changing climate. Using timber
in various forms, RHS Chelsea
gold medal winning designer
Joe Perkins hopes to showcase
timber’s renewable and sustainable
properties as it celebrates how
social media platforms help share
knowledge and empower others
to plant more trees and support
sustainable woodlands and timber
use.
Britain’s largest organic dairy
company, Yeo Valley hopes to
encourage the UK’s 27 million
gardeners to consider going organic
and put nature first. ‘The Yeo Valley
Organic Garden’ designed by award-
winning designer Tom Massey has
been created with sustainability
front and centre. Where possible the
plants for the garden will be grown
organically, while the carbon used
to create the wildlife-friendly Show
Garden will also be offset at Yeo
Valley’s farm in Somerset.
As the climate crisis continues to
escalate a number of global brands
and garden designers will use the
world’s most famous flower show
as a platform to encourage a future
where we live in harmony with
nature through urban design and
sustainable practices.
In just thirty years it is predicted
that a third of the world’s
population will live in cities.
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