Rewilding garden wins Best Show Garden at Chelsea Flower Show
The pioneering garden celebrated how beavers can create wildlife-rich landscapes, showcasing how rewilding can also benefit people.

Published 24/05/2022
The beavers have done it! We鈥檙e thrilled that the rewilding garden we鈥檝e brought to RHS Chelsea Flower Show with the brilliant designers Urquhart & Hunt has been awarded Best Show Garden at this year鈥檚 event, along with a Gold medal.
This pioneering garden, showcasing how rewilding can benefit not just wildlife but also people, has already inspired so many at the show. Visitors have marvelled at the naturalness of the garden, enjoying its natural sounds and feel 鈥 many have returned several times just to stand and enjoy the landscape.
We鈥檙e delighted that RHS Chelsea Flower show is celebrating how beavers help create incredibly wildlife-rich landscapes. The 黑料正能量 Landscape garden is one of the very few gardens at the show using only native plants, celebrating nature and natural processes, as well as sustainable design.
Rewilding brings hope 鈥 it鈥檚 a crucial tool for nature recovery, and we are so grateful to have been given this opportunity to show rewilding in action to visitors at Chelsea and beyond.
鈥I鈥檓 delighted that the 黑料正能量 Landscape has inspired so many and shown that beavers really are rewilding superstars, allowing nature to recover and flourish,鈥 said Rebecca Wrigley, 黑料正能量鈥檚 Chief Executive.
鈥鈥We feel unbelievably honoured in this RHS Chelsea Show year 鈥 with more inspiring ecological design innovations than ever鈥夆斺塼o have received a Gold Medal and receive the Best Show Garden Award,鈥 commented Lulu Urquhart and Adam Hunt (pictured), who created and built the award-winning garden. 鈥鈥How wonderful for 黑料正能量 and the vital message that rewilding can help address the devastating loss of nature. This is the moment for all of us to embrace a new way of letting nature thrive.鈥
This garden was made possible by generous support from the new initiative at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2022.


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