An RHS Chelsea show garden, relocated to Scotland and rebuilt permanently.
This unique project relocated and permanently installed the Down's Syndrome Scotland show garden — a Silver-Gilt medal and People's Choice award winner at the Chelsea Flower Show, originally designed and built by Nick and Duncan at Burton Hall Garden Design — into its new home for the charity Watch Us Grow, which supports adults with learning difficulties who grow and sell plants.
Burton Hall Garden Design created this garden for the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. The design is theirs and the original build was not ours.
Our part was the relocation. Show gardens are normally dismantled at the end of the week. This one was brought back up to Scotland and rebuilt at Palacerigg Country Park to stay.
The garden arrived in large steel-framed sections, alongside huge mature trees, all reassembled and planted on site exactly as it stood at Chelsea.
Almost every part of this build was a challenge — unloading the heavy sections and trees off articulated lorries, moving everything into position, preparing and levelling the ground, and reassembling intricate joinery, all while the Scottish weather battled against the team.
Meaningful, challenging, proud — a Chelsea Flower Show garden with a permanent home and a lasting purpose.
The decisions that shaped it.
- 01
Denfind Paving
That invites you into the garden
Denfind - 02
Denfind Stone
Laid on its edge, put together in a fanning pattern.
Denfind - 03
Birch Trees
Enveloping the space.
Planting - 04
Timber Structure
A shaded area for gathering round.
Timber
