horticultural heritage, Jo Thompson, designing for the Food and Environment Research Agency, will create a garden, called ‘Stop the Spread’, that communicates the threat faced by British trees and plants from pests, diseases and invasive species.
Victory’ campaign during the war – expect to see lots of potatoes and poppies. Schools in London and the south are concentrating their efforts on the patio-pot and hanging-basket revolution of the 1970s. For the contemporary garden, schools in Hertfordshire and East Anglia will be growing the latest and most up-to-date varieties of flowers and vegetables. The design reflects modern, suburban gardening with key features such as raised beds,
recycling, environmental responsibility, and GYO.
Hillier Nurseries
‘Stop the Spread’: designer Jo Thompson for Fera APL members Adam Frost and Landform
Consultants are working together on this year’s Homebase garden. ‘Sowing the Seeds of Change’ is a modern family garden designed to provide a small family with space to enjoy an everyday connection with nature and their food. A place where people can garden, play and cook together, it is also a sustainable space featuring a wildlife corridor.
Miracle Gro’wers garden through the century Scotts Miracle Gro’wers, in association with The Sun, are marking the Chelsea centenary by using four garden sites in the Great Pavilion to demonstrate to visitors how the plants we grow in our gardens have gradually evolved. School children will be growing all the plants which have been selected to show how, over the last century, plant breeders have improved the blooms of flowers and the size and flavour of vegetables to fit with the changing British garden. Schools in Devon, Wales and the West Country
have been growing plants for a formal Edwardian garden (circa 1913). Children in the Midlands and further north have been growing plants for the 1940s’ ‘Dig for
As the most successful exhibitor in the 100-year history of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, Hillier Nurseries will be back again in the Great Pavilion with new plants, exciting fresh talent in the staging team, and a stunning garden exhibit on the theme of risk. The nursery participated in the early Chelsea
‘Sowing the Seeds of Change’: designer Adam Frost and Landform Consultants for Homebase
shows before the war, with their record-breaking run of 67 Chelsea Golds to date starting when the show moved to its present site after WWII. The design of the Hillier exhibit has moved away
from a single large garden to a series of garden rooms from which visitors can take inspiration for their own plots. All stock comes from Hillier’s hardy plant and container tree nurseries, which means that the plants visitors see at Chelsea can be found in Hillier-supplied garden centres countrywide. The theme of Hillier’s exhibit this year, sponsored by Beazley the specialist Lloyd’s
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