The Avanade ‘Intelligent’ Garden

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. 
 

At a glance

Who would use this garden?
The garden has been designed for research and testing and would be used by the research gardening team to test and develop the innovative AI integration in the garden.
Where is the garden set?
An urban location in London.
Who or what is the design inspiration for the garden?
Technology can play a key role in helping humans to preserve nature’s balance in the midst of the climate crisis. Our goal is to develop an AI tool that empowers gardeners, particularly those managing urban garden spaces like this one, by providing them with actionable insights to make sustainable, forward-thinking decisions for the garden’s long-term health.