The National Botanic Garden of Wales is really pleased to be hosting a Silver Award winner from this year’s Chelsea Flower Show.

A Child’s Garden in Wales will be with us until the late summer of 2012 and is sited in the slip garden of the Double Walled Garden. It evokes a child’s garden in the South Wales coalfields, set in 1947, just after the end of the Second World War.

At this time, Britain is still short of food because of the war and people were being encouraged to ‘grow your own’. So little gardens like this sprung up everywhere. There wasn’t much money to make these so everyone had to ‘make do and mend’.

So almost everything in this little garden has been made out of something else, includiong the pit pony stable that has been turned into a shed. It’s full of great ideas of how to recycle – follow this link to find out what they are.

A Child’s Garden in Wales was:

Designed by Ysgol Bryn Castell & Heronsbridge School Horticulture Students with Anthea Guthrie

Built by Anthea Guthrie Garden Design

Sponsored by Waterloo Foundation, Fiskars, Hartley Botanic, Bulldog Tools