nurturing nature in the city
RHS Hampton Court 2023
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The Place:
RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival is set to showcase glorious gardens, fabulous floral displays and this year Viriditas are creating a garden for the Get Started category at the festival.
The Brief:
The Get Started category at the festival gives us a 30sqm space and free reign to create a garden that inspires us and guests at the festival.
We’ve built our brief around the garden’s destination after the festival, the LaSwap Sixth Form in Camden.
The brief is to inspire a love of nature in the students. Many inner city students do not have their own gardens and multiple studies show that young people are more disconnected from nature than ever. We will use affordable, and where possible, reclaimed materials to create a space that is appealing to wildlife and also a haven for the students. The pollinator-friendly planting palette should be easy to maintain so that the children can manage it themselves, igniting their passion for gardening!
The Design:
Nurturing Nature in the City will create a haven for wildlife in the urban environment as well as students at the LaSwap Six Form Consortium when it reaches it’s final destination.
The garden will be created using affordable, and largely, reclaimed materials. Packed full of pollinator-friendly planting it will be easily maintained by amateur gardeners, igniting their passion for gardening and the profusion of wildlife that still makes its home in the city!
Taking inspiration from inner city green developments along disused urban railways such as the High Line in NYC and Parkland Walk in Highgate the garden distils the ideas from these enormous projects into a space where schools or even home gardeners could replicate something similar using waste and reclaimed materials on a budget.
The feeling of being in a wild space is evoked using stone, water and earth within an urban inner-city environment.
The 25 Square meters of garden will be brimming with opportunities for wildlife including multiple habitats: gabion walls, mini wildflower strips, pollinator planting, ponds and nest pockets wrapped around a central seating area for people to enjoy the diversity of life that can thrive in a small space.
Reclaimed and waste materials reign supreme: reclaimed sleepers and scaff boards, crushed stone is used for the seating areas, waste stone off cuts from our local quarry are used for the facing stones in the gabion walls and waste materials are used to fill the centre of the gabions.
RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival is set to showcase glorious gardens, fabulous floral displays and this year Viriditas are creating a garden for the Get Started category at the festival.
The Brief:
The Get Started category at the festival gives us a 30sqm space and free reign to create a garden that inspires us and guests at the festival.
We’ve built our brief around the garden’s destination after the festival, the LaSwap Sixth Form in Camden.
The brief is to inspire a love of nature in the students. Many inner city students do not have their own gardens and multiple studies show that young people are more disconnected from nature than ever. We will use affordable, and where possible, reclaimed materials to create a space that is appealing to wildlife and also a haven for the students. The pollinator-friendly planting palette should be easy to maintain so that the children can manage it themselves, igniting their passion for gardening!
The Design:
Nurturing Nature in the City will create a haven for wildlife in the urban environment as well as students at the LaSwap Six Form Consortium when it reaches it’s final destination.
The garden will be created using affordable, and largely, reclaimed materials. Packed full of pollinator-friendly planting it will be easily maintained by amateur gardeners, igniting their passion for gardening and the profusion of wildlife that still makes its home in the city!
Taking inspiration from inner city green developments along disused urban railways such as the High Line in NYC and Parkland Walk in Highgate the garden distils the ideas from these enormous projects into a space where schools or even home gardeners could replicate something similar using waste and reclaimed materials on a budget.
The feeling of being in a wild space is evoked using stone, water and earth within an urban inner-city environment.
The 25 Square meters of garden will be brimming with opportunities for wildlife including multiple habitats: gabion walls, mini wildflower strips, pollinator planting, ponds and nest pockets wrapped around a central seating area for people to enjoy the diversity of life that can thrive in a small space.
Reclaimed and waste materials reign supreme: reclaimed sleepers and scaff boards, crushed stone is used for the seating areas, waste stone off cuts from our local quarry are used for the facing stones in the gabion walls and waste materials are used to fill the centre of the gabions.
| PROJECT |
RHS Hampton Court 2023 |
| DURATION |
Summer 2023 |
| STATUS | Build Phase |