RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival

In July 2024, I created a pocket garden called Strive and Thrive with my Ssh Scapes colleagues for the RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival, for which we received a silver-gilt medal. The concept was based around a meteor hitting the earth and creating undulating terrain with troughs and mounds, soil filled with with rubble and debris and then imagining the planting that would thrive in these low fertile and difficult conditions that varied from very dry to wet and boggy. We used a low carbon and sustainable approach to our constructed elements, making our own meteor using low carbon alternatives to cement and used hazel bean poles and twigs to craft our sculptural birds nests. The whole garden was relocated to a residential girls home in West London immediately after the show, transforming their back garden from a lifeless patch of grass and concrete to a colourful and diverse haven where they could retreat and relax.