The Society of Garden + Landscape Designers (SGLD) will present Beautiful Biodiversity at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show - an installation that reflects the Society’s commitment to environmentally responsible garden design while demonstrating how wildlife-friendly gardens can also be elegant and beautifully composed.
Designed by SGLD Members Bo Cook MSGLD and Eliza Gray MSGLD, the garden shows how carefully chosen plants, layered habitats and contemporary materials can combine to create spaces that support wildlife while remaining visually refined.
A palette of pale pinks, cool blues and delicate whites sits alongside zinc planters, limestone and reclaimed timber to prove that beauty and biodiversity can work hand in hand.
But the ideas behind the garden are not just for show. The designers hope that visitors will take inspiration from the installation and apply the same principles in their own gardens - however small.
The key to encouraging wildlife into your garden say Eliza and Bo is to create layers of different habitats that connect with one another.
Think vertically as well as horizontally. Trees, shrubs, herbaceous plants, groundcover and bulbs all provide different shelter and food sources for wildlife helping to create a network of habitats from ground level up into the canopy.
