At the heart of the garden stands a dramatic 4.5m-high sculpture made by Adrian Gray from 12 tonnes of Welsh granite, with one rock balanced on another to evoke a vertiginous cliff face. It represents the courage needed to overcome fear and take on a personal challenge.

Around it, the garden is designed as an intriguing landscape filled with opportunities for discovery. An eccentric timber bothy, overlooks a sunken garden rich in textured greenery.

Taking subtle inspiration from the Celtic landscape and character of Aberdyfi in north Wales, the garden reflects the idea at the heart of The Outward Bound Trust: with the right challenge and support, ‘I can’t' can become ‘I can’.

Planting explores the resilience and adaptability of plants, using contrasting microclimates to show how different species respond to varying conditions.

Rusty brown and cream flowers echo the patina of the granite and are scattered through free-draining slate scree, contrasting with a floriferous, moisture-retentive Camassia meadow. Behind the bothy, woodland planting brings together textured greenery with vivid sky-blue flowers.

Key plants include Hydrangea scandens , the soft pink Camassia leichtlinii ‘Sweet Candle’ , Camassia leichtlinii 'Sacajawea' , Iris ‘Kent Pride’ , Digitalis parviflora and Metasequoia glyptostroboides (dawn redwood).

Award of Garden Merit Plants for Pollinators

Digitalis parviflora Jacq.

Metasequoia glyptostroboides

Camassia leichtlinii 'Sacajawea' (v)

Iris 'Kent Pride' (TB)

Camassia leichtlinii 'Sweet Candle'

Plants suppliers: Majestic Trees, Practicality Brown, Kelways Nursery, Hare Spring Cottage Plants, Kevock Garden Plants, New Wood Trees, Crûg Farm Plants

Walling and feature rocks from Welsh Slate and reclaimed granite from Caradon Stone.

The garden encourages experimentation with microclimates as a way to increase biodiversity and respond to a changing climate. By observing how plants adapt to different conditions, gardeners can learn which plants thrive in their own spaces and become more adventurous in what they grow.

Juliet Sargeant has been a garden designer for 30 years and describes her approach as ‘narrative garden design’. She sees gardens as both rich sensory experiences and places that can tell stories, convey messages and engage the mind through meaning, metaphor, questions and playfulness.

Her connection to this garden is personal. As a child, she found a sense of connection through playing in the landscape, along with endless inspiration for her developing creativity. It is this positive potential of connecting with nature that continues to inspire her work.

Outward Bound is a UK-wide outdoor education charity working with around 25,000 young people aged 10 and over each year. Through nature-based adventure, young people are supported to step up to physical and personal challenges, discovering greater confidence, independence and self-belief.

The garden brings that belief to life through landscape, planting and creativity, celebrating challenge, nature and adventure, and encouraging young people to discover what they are capable of.

Outward Bound has its headquarters and three centres in the Lake District, alongside centres at Loch Eil in the Scottish Highlands and Aberdyfi in Wales. Aberdyfi was its first centre and the birthplace of Outward Bound in the UK, giving the garden a particularly strong connection to the Welsh landscape.

After the show, The Outward Bound Garden: Anything is Possible will be relocated to the Outward Bound Centre in Aberdyfi, north Wales, where it is due to open in summer 2027.

There it will become a quiet space within the centre’s grounds, designed for individuals and small groups to prepare for an outing or to rest and reflect after an adventure in the landscape. Its permanent home will root the garden in the place where Outward Bound’s UK story began more than 85 years ago.