The Pulp Friction Growing Skills Garden
Working with and alongside Pulp Friction we designed an All About Plants garden for RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2024 sponsored by Project Giving Back.
Pulp Friction are an amazing organisation based in Nottingham offering people with learning disabilities and autism an opportunity to get into work. They support their members to develop their social, independence and work readiness skills through individual development programs designed with their members to reflect each individual’s hopes, dreams and aspirations.
About the garden
The garden reflects Pulp Friction's mission to challenge perceptions of people with learning disabilities and demonstrates the power of inclusivity through gardening.
Inspired by the smoothie bar bikes that founded Pulp Friction, where a static bike powers the blender, the garden is formed around centrifugal forces with colours and textures of edible planting spread throughout the garden, spun from the centre. This symbolises the connection between Pulp Friction and its wider community. The central space itself represents a place where everyone can come together to foster diversity, inclusion and equality surrounded by vibrant edible planting.
Every plant species in the garden is edible, medicinal or beneficial to wildlife, and all of the hard landscaping materials are recycled or reclaimed. Pulp Friction members have grown the plants and hand-crafter other elements with support of local craftspeople.
Photos below by Britt Willoughby
