RHS CHELSEA FLOWER SHOW 2021

This year’s Show Garden is a celebration of the NHS and the relentless work to provide care and support during the COVID pandemic. Not just nurses and doctors, but physios, pharmacists, porters, technicians, and other unseen and unsung staff who keep the health service running. It recognises the collaboration between UK University researchers and NHS staff to find new treatments and vaccines for COVID.

The garden creates an immersive experience with the beautiful hard-wood canopy, rills and pools. The water starts its exploration through a series of rills and pools, representing the collective efforts of those working together in the NHS and universities. Warm earthy, apricot tones run through the planting, anchored by Acer griseum, Rosa ‘Phyllis Bide’ and Rosa glauca. The collaboration of planting, hard-landscaping and the gentle sound of water provides a safe space for reflection and contemplation, bringing optimism and hope of a brighter future.

The message of the garden is that even in the testing times of isolation and lockdown due to COVID, we are all – from NHS workers, to the general public, to those at risk and shielding – united by a common aim to support each other to get through it all.

 

 

Finding Our Way: An NHS Tribute Garden – Chelsea 2021

Photos by Dawn Jee

Finding Our Way: An NHS Tribute Garden

Press Day

Finding Our Way: An NHS Tribute Garden

Press Coverage

Finding Our Way: An NHS Tribute Garden

The Garden Build

With Burnham Landscaping Ltd and Nature Redesigned

Finding Our Way: An NHS Tribute Garden


As Featured In

The garden has been featured by the below publications, broadcasters & events.


Plant List

Downloads
Finding Our Way brochure
Finding Our Way plant list

Achillea Walter Funcke 
Agastache Alabaster 
Agastache foeniculum Black Adder 
Agastache Red Fortune
Bulbinella ‘Sunset Orange’ 
Campanula lactiflora 
Carex oshimensis Evergold 
Coreopsis Moonbeam 
Dahlia Black Narcissus 
Dahlia David Howard 
Dahlia Mango Madness 
Dahlia Sam Hopkins 
Echinacea Eccentric 
Echinacea pallida 
Erigeron Karvinskianus Profusion 
Erigeron Lavendar Lady 
Galtonia ‘Candicans’
Geranium All Summer Joy R31
Helianthus salicifolius 
Knautia macedonica 
Miscanthus Sinensis Morning Light
Panicum Squaw 
Pennisetum Hameln 
Pennisetun Skyrocket 
Persicaria amplexicaulis Firedance 
Phlomis russeliana 
Rudbeckia nitida Herbstonne 
Salvia guarantica Amino 
Salvia uliginosa 
Schizachyrium scoparium ‘Blue Heaven’ 
Sedum Jose Aubergine 
Stipa arundinacea 
Stipa gigantea

Naomi is an inspiring and thoughtful designer, and a delight to work with. Her design for our 2018 RHS Chelsea Flower Show garden won an amazing Silver Gilt medal and presented an amazing message about stigma for those living with HIV.

JOHN FRATER, OXFORD UNIVERSITY

Please get in touch by calling Naomi on 01273 381512

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