RHS City Spaces: Cloudscape

RHS City Spaces: Cloudscape

How can we make our towns & cities greener?

At the RHS Urban Show, you will get the chance to walk through the "Cloudscape" development. Seven gardens designed to tackle challenges that urban gardens regularly face. From growing in containers, sun, shade, renting, wind & budget restrictions. Seven separate stories all intertwined into one.

In order to bring the vision to life, I have co-designed all seven spaces. The four balconies face North, East, South, or West & are co-designed with students from Manchester Metropolitan University as part of the Rise Program. Students with no horticultural experience ranging from courses like law, interior design & architecture. However, they are connected by their passion to green up our towns & cities.

Notcutts Garden Centre has co-designed a shade loving renters courtyard garden to showcase what you can do in a small shady space.

With the help of North West In Bloom, I will be showcasing how developers could create an allotment in their developments to help build a community and improve greenspace.


Finally, the Cloudscape communal garden with the planting designed by Plant Manchester to show developers how they can improve their communal greenspaces.


I believe the way we make our towns & cities greener is by encouraging more young people into gardening, horticultural retail focusing in on small space gardeners, & reaching across the aisle to developers/ local authorities to make sure that everyone benefits for improved greenspace. People all across the city, working together as one.


Stayed tuned, as over the next 2 weeks, I will be sharing more about each individual garden & the fascinating people & stories behind each one.

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