My Chelsea Experience
An Aussie plant addicts’ travels in the U.K. By Tyler Howard (October 2022) My name is Tyler Howard and I’m a 26-year-old horticulturist from Sydney. In 2019 I was the recipient of a BBM Global Footprints Scholarship, to take me to the UK and France and gain insight into how their horticultural industries work. As much as I love Australian gardens, I have always been enamoured by the English garden and its floriferous, classic and natural charm. For the first placement on my tour of duty, I was to work on one of the show gardens at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. Jumping into the deep end, there was an immediate air of adrenaline, as there’s only a couple of weeks for the build it all must go to plan (if not better). Joe Perkins, the designer I was volunteering for, was busy coordinating the landscaping crew as well as other tasks relating to the development of the garden, but still had time for many a good chat. The garden was sponsored by Meta and was called The Meta Garden: Growi...
