Gardens live on
After being enjoyed by 157,000 visitors and reaching millions more through the media, many of the gardens, and elements within the gardens, at the 2008 RHS Chelsea Flower Show will carry on living after the show ends. Here are a few examples of what the future holds for some of the gardens.
Show gardens
Brett Landscaping in association with Geoffrey Whiten: Real Life by Brett
This garden will go on to be seen at the RHS Flower Show at Tatton Park, and any materials that cannot be reused at the show in July, will be recycled.
Cadogan Estates: A Cadogan Garden
All of the plants from this garden are being recycled in the gardens of the Cadogan Estate.
Cancer Research UK: The Cancer Research UK Garden
The entire garden is being recycled. Designer Andy Sturgeon, will use some plants for future gardens and the rest will go to a recycled plant garden.
Clare Agnew Design: The Reflective Garden
Some plants will be put on sale for charity for the Norfolk Churches Trust. The remaining plants are owned by Crocus, to whom they will be returned at the end of the show and grown on.
Daylesford Organic: Summer Solstice
Daylesford Organic plans to relocate the garden to its premises in Gloucestershire.
Diarmuid Gavin Designs: The Café Garden
This garden has been bought in its entirety for a marketing suite in a complex in Portugal. The garden will be used on the development to promote the site while building takes place.
Fleming’s Nurseries: Fleming’s and Trailfinder’s Australian Garden presented by Melbourne, Victoria
The garden will be sold on in Spain.
Simply Italian: Ocean to a Garden
The columns from this garden have already been sold, and the remaining elements of the garden will be offered for sale after the show. Anything that is not sold will be incorporated into future gardens.
Leeds City Council, Parks And Countryside: The Largest Room in the House
The garden will be relocated after the show to Leeds City Garden.
Marshalls plc: The Marshalls Garden That Kids Really Want!
The garden will be reconstructed at one of the Marshalls Garden & Driveway Display Centres.
Marshalls’ 2007 Sustainability Garden is now situated at Marhalls Garden & Driveway Display Centre at Enfield, along with the 2006 Gold Medal winning garden, Anna’s Sanctuary in the Shade.
QVC: The QVC Garden
Half of the plants in the garden will be donated to the garden charity Thrive, which is based in Battersea Park; the rest of the plants will be reused. The paving, water features and building materials will be recycled.
Savills Plc: The Savills Garden
Components of the garden will be used in other private gardens. For example the hedges are being used in a private garden in Chelsea and the perennial planting and paving is being recycled in other projects. Elements from the 2007 garden are used in this year’s show garden.
Studio Lasso: Garden in the Silver Moonlight
The garden will be offered for sale, to be relocated after the show.
Small gardens
AW Gardening Services And Conway Landscapes: The Good Gifts Garden
The sand from this garden will be returned to Frinton beach and the rest of the garden will be offered for sale in its entirety on eBay, with proceeds going to set up school gardens in Africa.
Barry Mayled Homes And Gardens: The Sky at Night
The garden will be offered for sale after the show, and the proceeds will go to the charities Diabetes UK and Support with Scoliosis.
Chessington Garden Centre: Mist-placed
The Mist-placed garden is going to be re-sited at Chessington Garden Centre. It will become a feature within the plantarea to showcase garden design possibilities and planting ideas for shady gardens.
Dorset Cereals: The Dorset Cereals Edible Playground
The garden will be dismantled and given to a primary school in Dorset as part of the Dorset Cereal scheme to encourage schools to establish their very own edible playground.
Earthly Garden Designs: Motor Neurone Disease – Shetland Croft House Garden
The plants from this garden will be going back to Nottingham Trent University for the students to look after.
Elysium Garden & Landscape Design: The Pemberton Greenish Recess Garden
The garden will be offered for sale.
Growing Ambition: The Simmons & Simmons Garden – A Journey to Work
At the end of the show the plants and hard landscaping will be sold, and the proceeds will go to Simmons & Simmons’ charity of the year, the Royal National Institute for the Blind.
L K Bennett: The L K Bennett Garden
The garden will be sold off by Clifton Nursery at the end of the show.
New Ground Landscapes: A Welcome Sight
The plants and hard landscaping will be reused in other designs.
Outer Spaces: Green Living
The plants and hard landscaping will be reused in other designs.
River And Rowing Museum: River and Rowing Museum: Ratty’s Refuge
The garden will be moved to the River and Rowing Museum site at Henley-on-Thames, where it will compliment the museum’s permanent exhibition on The Wind in the Willows. It will reinforce the museum’s involvement in current issues of sustainability, river ecology and wildlife.
St Joseph’s Hospice: The Way Forward
After Chelsea, the garden will be relocated to its permanent home at St Joseph’s Hospice in Hackney, where it will be enjoyed by patients, visitors and staff.
The Children’s Society: The Children’s Society Garden
The garden will be offered for sale after show to be relocated in a permanent site.
Urbanware: The Quilted Velvet Garden
The garden will be recreated at other flower shows across the country, before being finally relocated to the Quilted Velvet head office in Prudhoe in Northumberland.