James Purefoy 🇺🇦 RNLI Chris Beardshaw Thank you James and Gina for being part of our photocall! 🙏

We were thrilled to launch the RNLI Garden at this year's #RHSChelsea . The Gold Medal Chris Beardshaw design is now part of the BBC/RHS People's Choice Award. If you think it's a worthy winner then cast your vote by 7pm tonight: rnli.social/vote

My good pal Chris Beardshaw won a Gold Medal for his RNLI Garden at this year's #RHSChelsea . The garden is part of the BBC/RHS People's Choice Award so do check it out and cast your vote before 7pm tonight: rnli.social/vote

📢 VOTING OPEN for #BBCPeoplesChoiceAward

Help us to win the public’s favourite #RHSChelsea garden. Each vote is a way of saying thank you to our amazing lifesaving volunteers. Let’s show them our appreciation!

Only 24 hours to vote 👉rnli.social/vote

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Plant for real and as though it’ll be there forever - every plant is nursed, preened, and carefully faced to thrive with roots tickled and leaves dusted to create the perfect quiet, reflective RNLI garden. #RNLIatChelsea #ProjectGivingBack #RHSChelsea

New Forest Green Oak (originally used in lifeboat construction), deployed here in the RNLI Chelsea garden as a sheltered arcade, creates rippled shadows on copper. #RNLIatChelsea #ProjectGivingBack #RHSChelsea

Its genuinely humbling to work with a brilliant team of friends, horticulturalists and professionals to craft the RNLI Chelsea garden - the attention to detail, unbridled energy and focus brings a joy that radiates. #RNLIatChelsea #ProjectGivingBack #RHSChelsea

After months of designs and exploration our collaboration with the wonderful team Whichford Pottery arrived in the RNLI Chelsea garden- inspired by classical vases and decorated in coral and floral motifs in the form of the lifeboat hull #RNLIatChelsea #ProjectGivimgBack

It’s a delight to play with the maritime tones and honey sweet fragrance of Melianthus in the RNLI garden at Chelsea #RNLIatChelsea #ProjectGivingBack #RHSChelsea

Saltwater oxidised copper sheet and Purbeck stone hint at a maritime influence - resilient and robust as structure in the RNLI Chelsea garden. #RNLIatChelsea #RHSChelsea #ProjectGivingBack

Just occasionally nature and design narrative seem inextricably linked - the perennial hand of support offered without compromise by RNLI crews and this extraordinary multistem tree holding a wave eroded stone seemed to me to be one of those occasions #RNLIatChelsea

Purbeck stone, a beautiful material local to the RNLI HQ was laid down 100million years ago under placid seas - the perfect material expression for inclusion as path under the loggia in the Chelsea garden #RNLIatChelsea #RHSChelsea #ProjectGivingBack

Elm was originally used in the construction of RNLI lifeboats so it seemed the perfect opportunity to delight at the distinctive bark and emergent foliage of resistant elm species by using them in the The RHS Chelsea garden #RNLIatChelsea #ProjectGivingBack #RHSChelsea

We are well into the build for Chelsea flower show - here’s a little review on our RNLI garden progress - hedge and loggia frame progressing #RNLIatChelsea #RHSChelsea #ProjectGivingBack

We’re catching up with Chris Beardshaw as he checks on the plants being grown for our glorious garden at #RHSChelsea May 2022 by KelwaysGardenCentre We’re sourcing items as locally as possible: sowing sustainability into the scheme.

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I am excited and honoured to be returning to @the_rhs Chelsea Flower Show this May with a garden for the RNLI Garden supported by Project Giving Back. We would love you to follow the journey of #RNLIatChelsea

A tabletop game by Amy Shelton for children to create their very own garden from flowers collected from the rooftop garden ⁦GOSHCharity⁩ designed by Chris Beardshaw⁩ to accompany the recently completed Bedside Florilegium - ready to pack up & send to ⁦GOSH Arts⁩

It is this slow stripping away of habitat diversity that I think my fellow farmers and land managers find hardest to understand or do anything about

Sometimes lack of thought, or legitimately about bigger machines or loss of staff or simply gradually pursuing ‘efficiency’

I'm delighted to start the new year with my images being used to illustrate a feature on beautiful Wollerton Old Hall Garden Old Hall Garden, in the latest edition of The English Garden. The fascinating and informative article has been written by Chris Beardshaw.

The English Garden Garden Media Guild

Plant of the Day //
Morning showers enliven Dahlia Lady Kate. Such variety and vibrancy in this family that collecting can become habitual. instagr.am/p/CDJ-y9dA6x8/