RHS Work With Your Garden

At a glance

Who would use this garden?
This garden is for everyone and provides inspiration and a learning opportunity for all those visiting the show, whether you’re new to gardening or already know your space well.
Where is the garden set?
This garden represents many of the features and challenges which can be found in gardens across the county.

The Garden

We shouldn’t fight against our garden, we should work with it and this RHS Feature Garden showcases how you can work with your space to create a happy and healthy garden. The layout of the garden is inspired by the rays of the sun, flooding out into the open from a central shaded circle. Subtle links to our industrial past link the garden firmly to Yorkshire. Visitors can walk freely through the garden, moving through planting archetypes, from full sun to shade. Explore how elements such as aspect, soil, changes in topography or moisture can be worked with to create a beautiful garden at home.

The garden links closely to Biggins Hill Studio, who strive to bring horticulture and design together, creating unique gardens working with their inherent qualities.

Planting

Plants will showcase the theme of the garden, to work with what you have and what is available to you. Plants supplied by Cliff Bank Nursery and Barcham Trees.

Key plants include: Aralia cordata (Japanese spikenard), Echinacea pallida (pale purple coneflower), Allium ‘Lavender bubbles’, Dahlia merckii, Sesleria ‘Summer skies’ (moor grass).

Garden legacy

The garden will be relocated to Crigglestone St James Primary CE School, based in Crigglestone, Wakefield and will form part of their new sensory garden, being designed by Biggins Hill Studio. Some of the plants will be re-located to Star House in Featherstone, Wakefield. This is a respite care home for children and is also being re-designed to enhance the existing gardens.