The cascading gardens of Perronet House now contain plants from the RHS Hampton Court Palace flower show

Most guerrilla gardeners make use of neglected land and from time to time we make use of neglected plants too be they surplus, damaged or even a bit diseased. One place to find discarded plants is at a grand flower show - exhibitors bring more than they need to ensure only the best make it into their gardens and after the show some plants are discarded because the cost of removing them is too great. It’s all rather sad and embarrassing for them, but rich pickings for those who know where to look. So with all this in mind (and after having dispensed with the idea of protest stunts outside their shows) I wrote to the Royal Horticultural Society to see if I could make a garden entirely from discarded plants and materials from the Chelsea and Hampton Court Palace flower shows. They said yes.

The Recycled Garden

The drama of making this show garden is on another blog TheRecycledGarden.net, but once the show was over I had a great bounty of plants to distribute. Some went to a legitimate community garden in Brockwell Park, some to my first guerrilla gardens outside Perronet House, some to St Mathias primary school in Hackney, some to the guerrilla lavender field of Westminster Bridge Road, some to guerrilla gardening in Camden and some to my brother’s back garden in Herne Hill. If you have plants to spare please leave a note on the Community section of this website offering them to locals.

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Monarda 'Beauty of Cobham', Lavetera, Anthemis 'Sauce Hollandaise' from the RHS show in the Perronet House gardens.