Blue Diamond Garden Centres wins RHS Childrens Choice Award
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The Blue Diamond Garden
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National Trust Beauty with BD's Jill Kerr, Joanne Harris and Andy Jasper of the NT
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Joe Swift and Monty Don introduce the BBC highlights from the Blue Diamond Garden
Blue Diamond Garden Centres with the National Trust has won the RHS Children's Choice award at RHS Chelsea with a garden designed by Ann-Marie Powell. The garden was presented also with a silver gilt medal.
Nine London primary schools were invited to the world’s most famous horticultural event and decided to award the first ever RHS Children’s Choice Award to The Octavia Hill Garden by Blue Diamond with the National Trust, on the opening day of the show.
Conceptually located on an urban brownfield site the plant-filled urban community wildlife garden is designed to stimulate physical, mental, and social wellbeing. The garden increases urban-biodiversity and encourages visitors to feel they are part of nature by making intimate connections with plants and wildlife.
After the show the garden will be relocated to Blue Diamond’s Bridgemere Gardens.
Blue Diamond will be bringing over 200 garden centre staff to the show to see the garden, which has the specific aim of lifting the group's profile with the gardening public.
The group had a second exhibit in the Great Pavillion, where Joanna Harris launched a new Fryer’s Rose, National Trust Beauty. This perpetual flowering rose has been bred specifically for its drought resistance and disease tolerance. The Plant was named by Joanne Harris, the author of the 1999 novel, Chocolat.
In parallel with Chelsea Blue Diamond Garden Centres have launched a National Trust Chelsea Plant Collection, with plants from or inspired by the garden, so people can re-create the ‘Chelsea look’ at home