Sustainability the key theme at Chelsea Flower Show
Medite Smartply’s Building the Future Garden
Sue Fisher talks about the delights of the show, and gives readers tips and tricks for their gardens this summer
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well as inspire, including the Blue Peter garden, Discover he annual Chelsea Flower Show is always packed Soil, and Metas’ Growing the Future that promoted with inspiration and this year was ‘greener’ than the importance of fungal networks. Edible gardening ever before, with sustainability being a key theme of was a big theme in gardens of all sizes, and the varied many gardens. Out of the crowd-pulling large show containers used in the Wild Kitchen Garden showed gardens, the coveted Best in Show award was won how even the smallest of spaces can look wonderful and by A Rewilding Britain Landscape, highlighting the provide a rich harvest too. importance of beavers in mitigating flooding and Of course, every garden was improving water quality. Okay, packed with luscious planting, so introducing beavers isn’t a The spectacular construction with many gardens themed garden-scale possibility, but using of the Medite Smartply’s to support wildlife and boost pretty native plants like sweet woodruff, foxglove, wild carrot Building the Future really drew biodiversity. Most spectacular all was the BBC Studios and honeysuckle, and natural the crowds. Made from waste of Our Green Planet and RHS materials to filter water and for from the timber industry, yet Bee Garden, with a sumptuous making charming features, certainly multi-coloured tapestry of is. Elsewhere, the spectacular stone-like in appearance, nectar and pollen-rich plants. construction of the Medite Lower-growing plants including salvias, geums, verbena, Smartply’s Building the Future really drew the crowds. Made from waste from the timber industry, yet stone-like geraniums, nepeta, and eryngium, woven between taller in appearance, this exterior MDF-like material was used and more structural plants like Euphorbia mellifera, multi-stemmed Euonymus, statuesque angelica, and to construct a huge cave-like structure with a waterfall foxglove spires. Inside the Great Pavilion was total plant cascading dramatically from the roof. The St Mungo’s heaven, with specialist nurseries showcasing a huge garden in cheerfully clashing colours reused material from previous shows. Other gardens aimed to educate as variety of plants, from agapanthus and delphiniums
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