RHS Chelsea 2025 Horatio's Garden by Bunny Guinness
We were thrilled to be asked to contribute our metalwork skills to the 2025 garden design for Horatio's Garden at RHS Chelsea Flower Show, by 6 time gold medal-winning and local garden designer Bunny Guinness. Previous gold medal and best in show winners - Horatio's Garden Charity returned to it's usual spot on Cross Way - CW312 with designer Bunny Guinness at the helm.
Based just up the road from us in Peterborough, Bunny is famous across the gardening world for her stunning gardens, journalism and radio work, and we were thrilled when she asked The Gardeners Forge to help bring her vision for the garden design to life. The design includes a stunning mix of native cottage garden planting in raised beds leading to the vaulted canopy with arched supports filled with scented jasmine that she entrusted to us.
After chatting to Bunny in February, we set out making prototypes to test different design ideas, and after the three of us had selected the best version, we began constructing the final piece that would be taking centre stage at Chelsea in May.
The final design is a lightweight, airy structure made from strong, high-tensile steel wire that allows adequate space for the jasmine planted in mossed root balls to be inserted into the structure and woven up into the vaulted canopy. This gives structural support for the delicately scented flowers, creating a stunning natural ceiling.
The piece looks wonderful in Bunny's completed Horatio's Chelsea Garden and creates a beautiful green architectural feature we'd love to see in more gardens.
