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RHS Community Garden 2018

At the heart of this garden was a need to bring a community together through the power of plants. The Sheerwater estate was scheduled for regeneration, meaning neighbours and friends would be moved apart, and being one of the few boroughs not to have an area to grow plants on their high street, a communal garden was seen as a fitting idea.

Woking Borough Council and Surrey County Council, working with the Royal Horticultural Society, identified two underloved and disused areas within this social housing area where an invited competition would be run, with the selected design to be built on the two sites.

Nick’s winning design entitled ‘Taking Stock’, was a reference to the inevitable residential disruption that was to come, but also a play on the type of garden required - creating a series of stock beds, in a designed community garden setting, with plants which could be easily divided, grown-on, and then sold as a community enterprise.

As the garden too would eventually need relocating, the skills learnt by the community would ensure all the plants could be moved to their new home.

The garden also went on to win the ‘Woking In Bloom’ award for 2019.

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At the heart of this garden was a need to bring a community together through the power of plants. The Sheerwater estate was scheduled for regeneration, meaning neighbours and friends would be moved apart, and being one of the few boroughs not to have an area to grow plants on their high street, a communal garden was seen as a fitting idea.

Woking Borough Council and Surrey County Council, working with the Royal Horticultural Society, identified two underloved and disused areas within this social housing area where an invited competition would be run, with the selected design to be built on the two sites.

Nick’s winning design entitled ‘Taking Stock’, was a reference to the inevitable residential disruption that was to come, but also a play on the type of garden required - creating a series of stock beds, in a designed community garden setting, with plants which could be easily divided, grown-on, and then sold as a community enterprise.

As the garden too would eventually need relocating, the skills learnt by the community would ensure all the plants could be moved to their new home.

The garden also went on to win the ‘Woking In Bloom’ award for 2019.

Location: Sheerwater

Client: RHS Wisley, Woking Borough Council, Surrey County Council

Status: Completed

Project: Charity, Community garden

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Location: Sheerwater

Client: RHS Wisley, Woking Borough Council, Surrey County Council

Status: Completed

Project: Charity, Community garden

Photos: Joanna Kossak, Nick Keenan

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