RHS Chelsea Flower Show - Sponsored by M&G Investments
Sustaining ExcellenceM&G is the proud sponsor of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show and after two successful years is now looking forward to the challenge for 2012.
We are delighted to be associated with this event that stands for excellence, inspiration and creativity. We are also pleased to support the UK’s leading horticultural charity, the RHS.
This sponsorship brings together two British institutions steeped in history and supports the ongoing success of the world’s greatest flower show.
'The M&G Garden' 2011, was designed by Bunny Guinness and encapsulated a belief in sustainable excellence. ‘The M&G Garden’ was a modern take on a traditional kitchen garden – a garden which you could both live with and live from, combining the practical with aesthetic and innovative garden design elements that can sustain and nurture the modern gardener.
The garden was a beautiful space in which to relax, as well as being a working plot to produce bountiful fruit, herbs, vegetables and cut flowers. Featuring raised beds built from willow and topped with cedar coping, cabbages and beans mingled with clematis and roses, whilst lavender and other herbs ensured a sweet fragrance. Large terracotta pots containing a variety of fruit trees were placed throughout the garden.
Traditional in spirit, the garden also embraced innovative features including an elegant glass platform. This ‘floating’ deck, a contemporary centrepiece to the garden, offered guests a different viewing dimension onto the garden’s near symmetrical paths and beds and the wider showground.
'The M&G Garden' 2011 was awarded a Silver Gilt by the Royal Horticultural Society.
After the show, 16 of the large raised beds and a large selection of plants from ‘The M&G Garden’ were donated to Christ Church CofE Primary School in South London. A selection of vegetables from the garden were also donated to the Royal Hospital.
For further information about our sponsorship and our garden, please visit our dedicated Chelsea Flower Show website.
Further information concerning the show can be found at the Royal Horticultural Society website.
Visit our dedicated Chelsea Flower Show website, where you can find more information about our sponsorship of the show, 'The M&G Garden' and its designer.
