Landscape & Urban Design Issue 25 2017 | Page 4

New Gardens announced for 2017 RHS Chelsea Flower Show • ‘BBC Radio 2 Feel Good Gardens’ Category announced for 2017 RHS Chelsea Flower Show • New RHS Chelsea content to demonstrate that gardens are the best place to escape and indulge your senses • Garden designers are Sarah Raven, James Alexander-Sinclair, Jon Wheatley, Matt Keightley and design duo Kate Savill and Tamara Bridge B BC Radio 2 and the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) today announce the ‘BBC Radio 2 Feel Good Gardens’ at the 2017 world famous RHS Chelsea Flower Show, sponsored by M&G Investments. Gardens provide havens to calm the body, relax the mind and make us feel better. The gardens will uplift the senses and encourage people to lose themselves amongst a feast of sights, scents, sounds, flavours and textures to make you feel happier, calmer and generally better about the world. The five gardens will show how plants can enrich and indulge one of the five senses – touch, taste, smell, sight and sound. The gardens will also celebrate BBC Radio 2’s fiftieth anniversary and are named after different BBC Radio 2 Presenters. 4 Landscape & Urban Design