Conceived as an enclosed garden for its RHS Chelsea Flower Show participation, the garden takes a new shape in its final iteration at OmVed Gardens. Here, it grows outside the pavilion and the space that was previously occupied by it becomes a refuge bubble from where to learn more about seed saving, host dinner and events and enjoy waterproof views of the pond and its verdant surroundings, designed by landscape architect Paul Gazerwitz.

OmVed Gardens' curvilinear forms, shapes and meandering path symbolises the seasons and the continuum of life and aims to encourage an exploration and discovery of the symbiotic relationship to plants and our health, both physically and mentally.

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The Kitchen Garden features OmVed's signature circular planters, where our Urban Growing team cultivates a variety of vegetables for food and the purposes of seed saving. Vicky Chown, OmVed’s Head of Urban Growing and Sonia Rego, The Seed Saving Network manager, have highlighted ten plants from the kitchen garden that we recommend saving seed from because of their performance, nutritional benefits, or flavour.

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Spread out throughout the flower meadow and the pond, there is a carefully curated collection of wild and native plants selected for their ecological importance such as hawthorn, blackthorn and elder. Sadly, many of these plants are considered weeds but by demonstrating their intrinsic value, we hope to encourage people to plant and cherish these as a legacy for future generations.