The Avanade 'Intelligent' Garden is RHS Chelsea’s first Show Garden with embedded AI showcasing cutting-edge technology for urban garden management. AI continuously monitors factors like soil moisture, pH, temperature, air quality, wind, and rainfall through a network of sensors. This data powers a dynamic digital model of the garden, revealing trends, tracking changes, and predicting future conditions, enabling proactive, resource-efficient care.
Visitors can explore this technology through an innovative pavilion made from sustainable mycelium panels and interact with the garden via a digital twin. Visitors can interact with the garden and ask questions like ‘How are you feeling?’ or ‘What do you need?’ – with responses coming directly from the Garden, based on live data feeds, to see how AI guides the Garden’s health.
The design is based on a forest garden concept, with a high degree of biodiversity. The trees and shrubs each have a productive use including Toona sinensis ‘Flamingo’, Zanthoxylum simulans, Cornus kousa, Rubus phoenicolasius and Lycium barbarum.
