Our build for Horatio’s Garden at RHS Chelsea with designer Bunny Guinness
- Victoria Bullett
- May 18
- 2 min read
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.
Every year over 100,000 visitors flock to The RHS Chelsea Flower show, to shop, explore and enjoy the breath-taking show gardens created by incredibly talented designers, nurseries and organisations, and this year previous gold medal and best in show winners - Horatio's Garden Charity returns to RHS Chelsea in it's usual spot on Cross Way - CW312, in collaboration with Country Living Magazine.
The Charity creates stunning accessible gardens at NHS spinal injury centres and aims to improve the well-being of spinal injury patients with beautiful, relaxing gardens. This year's RHS Chelsea, Horatio's Garden has been designed by award-winning British Chartered Landscape Architect, Bunny Guinness.
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. Bunny's design includes a stunning mix of native cottage garden planting in raised beds leading to the central piece, a vaulted canopy with arched supports filled with scented jasmine. And it was this central piece 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.
If you've been inspired by Chelsea or have your own grand ideas for metal supports, arches, or trellis, why not get in touch and find out how we can bring your vision to life?
