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The Wild Things are at Chelsea
The CAF Giving Garden - Where the Wild Things Are is a celebration of the globally famous children’s book, Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak.
In the book the protagonist, Max, has been sent to bed without his supper for bad behaviour and, as he slips into sleep, he dreams that his bedroom has become a forest. The bed is the focal point in the garden and is planted with a camomile lawn, lavender and passiflora. These are all plants with sleep-inducing properties to suggest the dreamscape of the story.
Tiggy Salt, the garden designer, says it has been challenging but fun trying to identify the plants in the books. Irises have been selected to suggest the strong verticals at the foot of his bed, hostas to approximate the fat juicy tongue-like plants and some exuberant specimens such as banana, giant elephants' ear, flowering rhubarb, artichoke and angelica to anticipate the arrival of Wild Things who appear later in the tale.