July 2024
RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival
A garden for the RHS Hub Designed by Julia Wates and Lauren Munton
The garden was created with curved enclosures to envelop the visitor with plants and tactile seating to encourage pause, calm and rest. Planting was designed to include swaying grasses and perennials that move freely in the breeze.
July 2023
A Feast for the Senses
Sensory Pocket garden at RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival
With a focus on taste and sight, the pocket was designed to carry the senses on a trip through the colour spectrum.
Ornamentals and edibles combine in rivers of colour to catch the eye. But also, the carefully selected planting scheme utilises plants with a dual purpose, paying tribute to the rich history of edible plants and their culinary or medicinal uses, and ability to excite the sense of taste.
Moreover, the space-efficient, high-density polyculture planting of perennial edibles results in increased soil fertility and soil microbes whilst acting as an organic protection against weeds, pests and diseases.
Design: Lauren Munton, John Tolman, Deborah Anderson
August 2023
Relocation of the Sensory pocket garden to Kentish Town City Farm
A Feast for the Senses is recreated as a new Sensory Garden at Kentish Town City Farm, the UK’s 1st City Farm, founded in 1972.
The Farm provides opportunities for educational and therapeutic horticultural projects and is a tranquil space allowing visitors to the Farm to relax and explore the sensory benefits of horticulture and for children to learn about wildlife & growing food.
In keeping with the Farm’s ethos of inclusiveness and community participation, local volunteers and children were involved in the construction and planting of the new garden in a Permablitz planting session.
Relocation of our RHS Hampton Court pocket garden to Kentish Town City Farm
We were so proud that our Sensory garden was relocated to such a vibrant location that benefits the community. In the past, plants in flower show gardens would be discarded after the show rather than benefit another site. The RHS is now actively encouraging relocation which we applaud. With this new garden we hope to encourage visitors to consider plants as multi-sensory, and inspire them in the creation of their own planting schemes that awaken the senses.
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