A Rewilding Britain Landscape
The garden shows a rewilding beaver habitat in the south west of England. A brook flows beneath a west-country crafted dry-stone wall, under a woodland edge of hawthorn, elder, viburnum, hazel and field maple. Beavers have entered the landscape and built a lodge and a dam which has altered the water course and created the first large pool in the garden.
The lodge, built around a white willow (salix alba) is the beavers’ family home and within it are several chambers and even a swimming pool for their young kits to learn to swim before they leave the lodge for the first time.
Below the dam, made entirely of beaver-gnawed sticks, there is evidence of the beavers’ activities: a beaver feeding station with “chop-sticks” that have had all their bark nibbled off; felled trunks, that are either decaying or regenerating; beaver “chips”, left where they have chewed away the wood in the felling process; a muddy canal made by the mammals as they pull logs and materials to and from different dams; and beaver footprints in the muddy banks of the stream.
Awarded RHS Best Show Garden 2022









Photos by Jason Ingram
Film by Vovi Studio
Links
Download Plant List (PDF), Soundscape List (PDF) and Press Release (PDF)
See RHS Chelsea Garden Guide (PDF)
Watch Adam & Lulu receive RHS Best Show Garden 2022! (BBC, 43min 50sec)
Pre-show Press Release (PDF)
Team
Urquhart & Hunt, urquharthunt.com @urquhart_hunt
Rewilding Britain, rewildingbritain.org.uk @rewildingb
Landscape Associate, landscapeassociates.co.uk @lalandscapes
Water Artisans, waterartisans.com @waterartisans
Leaf Creative Plant Centre, leafcreative.co.uk @leafcreativeuk
Wetland Plants, wetland-plants.co.uk
Press
Chelsea Flower Show 2022: A Rewilding Britain Landscape Awarded Best in Show, Country Living, 24th May 2022
Beaver-themed rewilding garden wins Chelsea flower show top prize, Guardian, 24th May 2022
Rewilding garden evoking beaver wetland wins top prize at Chelsea Flower Show, Evening Standard, 24th may 2022
