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The Homebase garden is a modern family garden that has been designed with a small

family in mind, providing them with a space to enjoy an everyday connection with their food

and with nature. The garden provides much for the family-somewhere they can garden, relax and entertain whilst also providing a habitat to encourage wildlife. The garden aims to provide an environment to help a younger generation understand the natural world. It will be a sustainable space, providing a wildlife corridor as well as a place where people can be together, garden together and cook together-

all helping to create great memories.

The planting will be developed to demonstrate a specific way of gardening, showing how

edibles can be inter planted with ornamentals to provide a beautiful space. The garden is

wrapped on two sides with cratagus hedging, which not only provides great seasonal interest

but a superb habitat for a range of wildlife.

This will be Homebase’s 4th appearance at RHS Chelsea.In 2012, The ‘Homebase

Teenage Cancer Trust Garden’, designed by Joe Swift was awarded a Gold medal. In 2011,

Homebase’s ‘Cornish Memories’ Garden, designed by Tom Hoblyn was awarded a Silver

Gilt medal. In 2010, the Foreign & Colonial Investments Garden, designed by Tom Hoblyn

was awarded a Silver Gilt medal.

The Homebase Garden

‘Sowing the seeds of Change’

Site MA20

Designer Adam Frost

www.homebase.co.uk