RHS Flower Show Tatton Park 2024 - This Garden Isn’t Finished Without You

Winner of an RHS Gold Medal, Best in Show and the RHS Environmental Innovation Award

“This Garden Isn’t Finished Without You” sponsored by The Methodist Church - Our return to RHS Flower Show Tatton Park 2024 has been a huge success where our garden grabbed multiple awards, including Best in Show.

This garden was designed to create a communal space where everyone is welcome to flourish. The floorplan of the garden is abstracted from a typical Methodist Church to show that church can be anywhere - here, now, in this garden, and is above all a community. Bright, colourful, and diverse planting creates a marvellous display inspired by the diversity of people - each beautiful and unique and even more beautiful when working together. Cork walls wrap the boundary of the garden to create a soft and textural sanctuary whilst large Fig trees provide shelter. Large woven willow sculptures with three distinct forms symbolise how we are all uniquely made in the image of God. All of this is centred around an open table where people can come together to encounter each other.

The garden showcases the vision and values of the Methodist Church, specifically the commitment to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion. The design of the garden celebrates diversity and community and enables the Church to engage with visitors on the subject of their own uniqueness. Visitors have been able to offer a creative response to the garden, which as these responses are incorporated each day of the show, symbolise how communities change and flourish as diverse people can fully participate in them.

The garden also showcases the Methodist Church’s commitment to environmental sustainability and achieving Net Zero by 2030.

The garden will reach its final resting place at Mobberly Methodist Church on the Knutsford circuit - Less than 5 miles from the showground helping us to meet our ambitious sustainability goals and supporting local communities.