Teaching Garden

The outdoor Teaching Garden, where both children and adults will be able to learn, has been designed by Cleve West.

Cleve has worked closely with the RHS Education Department to ensure the Teaching Garden, an outdoor classroom, works as a curriculum resource for teachers and children. Exciting features include:

• A central hexagonal teaching area.
• The not-so-ordinary garden shed, with environmentally-sustainable features, such as a green roof and reclaimed timber.
• Wind turbine and solar panels to demonstrate how energy is harvested.
• A fruit and veg area, so children can get actively involved in growing healthy food.
• Compost heaps to demonstrate how integral recycling is within a garden.
• Minibeast towers, a pond and a variety of habitats to help children learn about the teeming life that exists in gardens.

The garden measures 23.95 x 13.85m (78.5 x 45ft).

‘It is a subtle garden,’ says Cleve. ‘The space can be seen as an ordinary garden, but with areas that children can explore and relate to their curriculum. It is about science, art and drama as well as gardens.’

Find out more

Proposed plant list (56KB Adobe Acrobat pdf document)

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