Small Show Garden
Gold Medal
Gold Medal
The London Square Chelsea Pensioners Garden
Designed by Dave Green
Photo: GardensDB
About this garden
The story
Working with the Royal Hospital Chelsea, home of the Chelsea Pensioners, London Square aims to reflect the 300-year-old heritage of “a home for soldiers broken by age and war.” The garden is a place for the Pensioners to share or to enjoy quiet reflection.
A woodland space, filled with striking trees offers a sheltered, accessible central space with seating upholstered in recycled Pensioners’ scarlet uniforms and a world map table creating an immersive, natural environment to encourage the Pensioners, their families and visiting veterans to come together away from public view.
Vibrant planting to the garden boundaries reflects the ceremonial life of the Pensioners, with calmer and more textural planting to the centre capturing their more private moments.
Award
Recognition
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Gold MedalRHS
The people behind it
Designer
Planting
Plant list
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Actaea 'Brunette'
Actaea pachypoda 'Misty Blue'
Alchemilla erythropoda
Alchemilla mollis
Alliaria petiolata
Amentotaxus assamica
Angelica archangelica
Anthriscus sylvestris
Aquilegia vulgaris 'Black Barlow'
Aquilegia vulgaris
Aquilegia vulgaris 'Nivea'
Aruncus dioicus
Asarum caudatum
Astrantia 'Roma'
Astrantia major 'Sparkling Stars'
Blechnum spicant
Briza media
Brunnera macrophylla 'Jack Frost'
Calamagrostis x acutiflora 'Karl Foerster'
Carex divulsa Schkuhr
Cenolophium denudatum
Deschampsia caespitosa
Deschampsia flexuosa
Digitalis lutea
Digitalis purpurea
Digitalis purpurea 'Alba'
Dodecatheon meadia
Dryopteris affinis
Dryopteris atrata
Dryopteris erythrosora
Dryopteris filix-mas
Epimedium pinnatum subsp. colchicum
Euphorbia amygdaloides 'Robbiae'
Euphorbia schillingii
Farfugium japonicum
Fragaria vesca
Galium odoratum
Geranium phaeum
Geranium phaeum 'Wendy's Blush'
Geranium sylvaticum 'Ice Blue'
Geum rivale
Geum urbanum
Gillenia trifoliata
Hakonechloa macra
Helleborus foetidus
Hosta 'Blue Mouse Ears'
Hosta 'Devon Green'
Hosta 'Halcyon'
Iris sibirica 'Persimon'
Iris sibirica 'White Swirl'
Kirengeshoma palmata
Lilium martagon 'Pink Morning'
Lilium martagon 'Snowy Morning'
Lilium martagon 'Hansonii'
Liriope muscari 'Big Blue'
Luzula nivea
Melica uniflora 'Alba'
Mertensia virginica
Myosotis sylvatica
Myrrhis odorata
Nectoscordum siculum
Pachysandra terminalis 'Green Carpet'
Paeonia emodi
Polygonatum x hybridum
Polygonatum verticillatum
Polypodium vulgare
Polystichum polyblepharum
Primula japonica 'Postford White'
Ranunculus acris 'Citrinus'
Rodgersia aesculifolia
Saruma henryi
Selaginella kraussiana
Silene dioica
Smyrnium perfoliatum
Tellima grandiflora
Thalictrum aquilegiifolium 'Splendide'
Thalictrum 'Black Stockings'
Tiarella cordifolia
Uvularia grandiflora
Valeriana officinalis
Viola odorata
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Suppliers 2
Sponsor 1
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