"Message in a bottle" garden at RHS Hampton Court Palace 2021
Project Overview
In July 2021, FirstLight Landscaping Ltd constructed the Global Impact Garden: Message in a Bottle designed by Tracy Foster, at the RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival. This garden was awarded a Silver Medal.
Tracy describes the garden design this way: "This conceptual garden represents a discarded bottle floating towards the shore. Far from being a depressing piece of pollution, it has a bright and appealing garden growing inside it. Its message is simple – We can all take action to help prevent plastic pollution – whether in our own gardens, or in the vital urban green spaces in our towns and cities, and around our canals and rivers. Created from iron, the bottle contains a variety of plants selected for their vibrant colours and beauty to represent the positive message that we can all do something to help. Surrounding the bottle is a sea of flax plants – chosen for their graceful blue flowers and swaying seed heads, but also because they represent the huge number of plant species that are used to make natural alternatives to plastic."
Tracy describes the garden design this way: "This conceptual garden represents a discarded bottle floating towards the shore. Far from being a depressing piece of pollution, it has a bright and appealing garden growing inside it. Its message is simple – We can all take action to help prevent plastic pollution – whether in our own gardens, or in the vital urban green spaces in our towns and cities, and around our canals and rivers. Created from iron, the bottle contains a variety of plants selected for their vibrant colours and beauty to represent the positive message that we can all do something to help. Surrounding the bottle is a sea of flax plants – chosen for their graceful blue flowers and swaying seed heads, but also because they represent the huge number of plant species that are used to make natural alternatives to plastic."
