The Arthritis Research UK Garden
Exhibitor: Arthritis Research
Designer: Chris Beardshaw
This garden is designed to reflect the personal journey of someone diagnosed with arthritis, from early confusion to the ability to manage their pain. The garden is split into three key areas: the Veiled Garden, a shaded woodland garden; the Lucid Garden, an open formal garden (designed to reflect “the wide range of information Arthritis Research UK provides to people with arthritis”) ; and the Radiant Garden, where there are warm, vibrant colours of pink, oranges, purples and blues.
B&Q Sentebale ‘Forget Me Not’ Garden
Exhibitor: B&Q Sentebale
Designer: Jinny Blom
This garden was inspired by Prince Harry’s charity Sentebale, which supports vulnerable children in the African country Lesotho (the word ‘”Sentebale” means “Forget me not” in Sesotho, the language spoken there). The garden is intended to evoke the landscape and culture of Lesotho, featuring round houses, muted colours and mountainous plants.
East Village Garden
Exhibitor: Delancey
Designer: Michael Balston and Marie-Louise Agius
Inspired by the birth of London’s newest neighbourhood, the Olympic East Village, this garden evokes the sustainable regeneration of an urban area. It includes many herbs and herbaceous plants not usually exhibited at Chelsea.
The Brewin Dolphin Garden
Exhibitor: Brewin Dolphin
Designer: Robert Myers
With heavy use of stone, timber and water, this garden is intended to be a calm private space to relax in. The garden will also promote the use of UK plants, demonstrating how they can be used ornamentally
Trailfinders Australian Garden presented by Flemings
Exhibitor: Fleming’s Nurseries
Designer: Phillip Johnson
The award-winning garden designer Phillip Johnson is behind this “off the grid” Australian-themed garden, which will showcase sustainable landscaping within an urban environment. It will be entirely reliant for energy on solar panels, while water will be taken and filtered from surrounding sites. The building materials will also be locally-sourced, or reclaimed.
The Homebase Garden
Exhibitor: Homebase
Designer: Adam Frost
A “modern family garden”, designed to allow a small family to garden, entertain and enjoy themselves, but also encouraging wildlife to thrive.
The Wasteland
Exhibitor: Kate Gould Gardens
Designer: Kate Gould
Created from a forgotten piece of ground, and re-using waste industrial products such as corrugated steel panels, this garden is intended to demonstate that beautiful gardens can be built without sourcing new materials. The planting largely features white, blue, and maroon flowers.
The Laurent-Perrier Garden
Exhibitor: Laurent-Perrier
Designer: Ulf Nordfjell
Described as a “contemporary take on a romantic garden”, the Laurent-Perrier garden brings together classic French and English garden styles. It features basic materials such as stone and wood, and perennials in pinks, blues, oranges, yellows and whites.
M&G Centenary Garden
Exhibitor: M&G investments
Designer: Roger Platts
Designed to mark the Chelsea Flower Show’s centenary anniversary this year, this garden evokes trends and themes from gardens past and present. Shrubs popular in the 1900s and classic British design elements will mix with modern plant varieties. The exhibitor says that the window sculpture in the corner frames the garden for visitors, but by drawing visitors’ eyes towards a traditional-looking wall and gate, “also gives the impression of looking back at a century-old Chelsea garden”.
RBC Blue Water Roof Garden
Exhibitor: Royal Bank of Canada
Designer: Professor Nigel Dunnett and the Landscape Agency
The Royal Bank of Canada is showing an urban rooftop garden for the third time in a row. In keeping with the bank’s Blue Water Project, which aims to help protect fresh water, it will focus on how city dwellers can create a garden which supports biodiversity and protects natural resources. Features include “living walls” that do not require irrigation and a wetland area which captures rain.
The SeeAbility Garden
Exhibitor: SeeAbility and Coutts
Designer: Darren Hawkes
The first Flower Show garden designed by Darren Hawkes, this garden aims to show how the world can still be enjoyed by people with limited vision. it features bright, clearly contrasting plants that can be distinguished more easily by partially-sighted people, and an installation of stainless steel balls cascading with water that is designed to stimulate other senses.
Stockton Drilling as Nature Intended Garden
Exhibitor: Stockton Drilling Ltd
Designer: Jamie Dunstan
Intended to promote the use of natural materials and traditional craft, this garden will feature pants such as winter barley (used within the brewing industry) and taxus (used in the treatment of cancer).
Transformation
Exhibitor: Stoke-on-Trent Garden Partnership
Designer: The Landscape Team, Stoke-on-Trent City Council
The story of Stoke-on-Trent’s journey from industrial power to contemporary city will be told in this garden, which also celebrates the city’s links with Lidice, a Czech village nearly destroyed during the Second World War. A key feature will be thousands of ceramic flowers made by local children.
The Daily Telegraph Garden
Exhibitor: The Daily Telegraph
Designer: Christoper Bradley-Hole
The English landscape, the Japanese approach to gardens and modern abstract art are all influences on this year’s Telegraph garden. It will depict the English landscape using subtle tones, suggestive of a misty day, and emphasise the dangers that our native trees and shrubs face.
The Fera Garden: Stop the Spread
Exhibitor: the Food and Environment Research Agency
Designer: Jo Thompson
This beautiful sunken garden will be scattered with occasional shocking elements; such as dead trees, and a pool with an island that holds just a single sapling. It is intended to warn of the threat that diseases, pests and invasive species pose to British trees and plants.
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