PREPARATIONS are going well for Kingston Maurward's showcase garden entry at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in May which is involving a 100-strong team of students and staff.

The entry, celebrating Dorset horticulture at the UK’s most prestigious flower show, has been boosted thanks to Poundbury Gardens which is supplying a selection of shrubs and herbaceous perennials for The Space Within Garden.

Designed by Michelle Brown, the garden takes inspiration from the gardens of the French Riviera, combining styles from Europe and Dorset.

While horticultural students have been developing design ideas and potting up and growing the plant deliveries, those studying wildlife and conservation are constructing a sanctuary wall using reclaimed timber from Kingston Maurward’s 750-acre estate and platform structures are being built by the welding, fabrication and blacksmithing department.

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In keeping with the project’s zero waste philosophy, Mike Burks, managing director of The Gardens Group, is supplying around 30 varieties of plants and recycled pots that have been brought back to the garden centres by customers.

This support forms part of the garden centre’s initiative to undertake 15 community planting projects in celebration of its 15th anniversary.

The Space Within Garden will be among 12 sanctuary gardens on show at Chelsea which is on from May 24-28.