This year’s trees at Chelsea at multi-stemmed and native, but not always alive <\/blockquote> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n<\/div>
This year\u2019s Chelsea trees, are, as a rule, multistemmed and native, including birches<\/a>, field maples and field elms, but they are not always alive. Tom Massey\u2019s garden for the Royal Entomological Society<\/a> turns huge chunks of oak into a dual-purpose sculpture and wildlife habitat<\/a>, while a downed birch tree fronts Cleve West\u2019<\/a>s garden, a fractured pipe poking from the mass of its roots in recognition of its realness (it was felled to make way for a reservoir by the nursery Crocus, and will return to the site as a home for wildlife after the show).<\/p>\n

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Chelsea is \u201crubbish\u201d this year, but for all the right reasons. Every designer is working hard on their environmental credentials and chipping away at their garden\u2019s carbon footprint in the process by sourcing hard landscaping from salvage and reclamation yards.<\/a> As a result, the hard landscaping comes rough and ready, be it reclaimed quarrying waste products used as paving on Tom Hoblyn\u2019s garden<\/a> for Boodles, or chunks of reclaimed concrete elevated as sculpture in Darren Hawkes\u2019 Samaritans\u2019 Listening Garden.<\/a> Sustainable paths take a more polished form in Harris Bugg Studio\u2019s Horatio\u2019s Garden<\/a>, where they have created a first: seamless terrazzo pathways that are both water permeable and cement-free, allowing wheelchairs and hospital beds easy passage.<\/p>\n

The edible is centre stage at Chelsea <\/blockquote> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n<\/div>
The cost of living crisis and the fears of our failing food security have also propelled grow-your-own<\/a> to the Chelsea frontlines once more, mainly in the form \u2018 edimentals<\/a>\u2019 like salad burnet and wild mustard that serve a dual purpose as ornamentals we can also eat. The Savills Garden by Mark Gregory<\/a> is putting edible centre stage placing a chef on site to cook lunch for a group of Chelsea pensioners every day of the show using produce harvested in situ. Whether it is medicinal herbs<\/a> or edible wild plants, the concept of the edible garden is moving beyond the confines of a vegetable bed and colonising ornamental borders.<\/p>\n
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Some sections of horticulture will scan the plant lists for the majority of the show gardens where uncultivated plants such as dandelions are given star billing and wonder \u201cis this really gardening\u201d? Indeed, Alan Titchmarsh already has broached the subject, writing in Country Life<\/em> this week, \u201cI do worry about the dangers of pandering to current trends<\/a> and allowing gardening to become predicated on a kind of laissez-faire<\/em> attitude to plants that eschews any kind of human interference under the assumption that Nature is best left to herself and any muscling in on our part is to be deplored\u201d. This is surely, though, the very debate we need right now: how do we garden<\/a> \u2013 and put on flower shows \u2013 amid a climate crisis we can no longer ignore?<\/p>\n
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