The King’s Trust Garden: Seeding Success

The King’s Trust Garden: Seeding Success is inspired by volcanic environments, highlighting pioneer plants and how their seeds represent the potential for life, growth and optimism for the future and drawing parallels with the potential held in young people.

Screen-printed glass panels weave through the garden to convey an artistic representation of seed dispersal. Drifts of grasses and perennials are punctuated by low-growing sub-shrubs in muted silvery greys and greens with accents of colour. These flank basalt paths that culminate in an intimate, quiet space.

Tall Pinus nigra tower above the garden providing a high canopy for the understorey of Ostrya carpinifolia and Phillyrea angustifolia. Other key plants include; Papaver miyabeanum ‘Pacino’, Allium vinneale ‘Hair’, Hunnemannia fumariifolia, and Molopospermum peloponneseiacum.
 

At a glance

Who would use this garden?
Young people supported by The King’s Trust would use it as a social space.
Where is the garden set?
A sheltered location in southern UK, the garden references a volcanic environment but in a garden setting.
Who or what is the design inspiration for the garden?
The garden is inspired by pioneer plants and the need for climate adaptation and resilience. The design takes inspiration from volcanic landscapes where plants have developed strategies to grow and set seed successfully. Seeds are the potential in nature – they represent the future, the resilience of young people, and how they can thrive given the opportunity.
 

Garden legacy:

The garden will be redesigned to accommodate its final destination at Uxbridge College, West London where it will be used, developed and maintained by students enrolled on The King’s Trust programme and the local community.
 
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