Chelsea Flower Show garden relocated to city site

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Designer Nicola Oakey received a silver gilt medal at the Chelsea Flower Show for highlighting the plight of the UK songbird in her show garden called the Songbird Survival Garden.
The design was inspired by the movement and perspective of a bird, foraging for food and water while moving between points of safety and shelter.
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At the centre of the garden is the Birdhouse Den, made from reclaimed materials. It includes six hand-crafted metalwork motifs of at-risk UK songbirds.
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A group of volunteers helped put the plants in the garden, which was disassembled after the show and brought to the site on Wednesday. The show garden measured 6m by 8m (19.6ft by 26.2ft), but the space at Bransholme is double that, so the plants were spread out.
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Sarah Weichardt from the charity said the garden would bring groups of people together, giving them a chance to try something new, meet others, and feel part of the community. "We want this space to be something the whole neighbourhood can be proud of," she said.
Image source, Neigbourhood Network Hull
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This is what the outdoor space used to look like. Organisers said the area was described as a "concrete jungle" by many and was not used at all by the local community.
Before the garden could be installed, the area had to be cleared and levelled. New paths were laid, and additional drainage was put in.

Emma Petrie

BBC News

Jake Zuckerman

BBC News

1 June 2025

A Chelsea Flower Show garden has been relocated to a community centre in Hull.

The Songbird Survival Garden won a silver gilt medal at the show and has been reconstructed with the help of volunteers at the Neighbourhood Network's centre on Goodhart Road, Bransholme.

The garden is part of a wider project at the site to overhaul the existing outdoor space for the local community.

Lucy Carew, manager of the Neighbourhood Network said she hoped the project would "put Bransholme on the map".

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