Apprentices at the Eden Project in Cornwall have been grant Best in Show for their business deal stand at this year ’s Cornwall Garden Society Spring Flower Show at the Royal Cornwall Showground in Wadebridge ( April 1 – 2 ) .
The squad of four prentice were set the challenge of make a show garden around the root of food and choose to replicate an idyllic residential area garden complete with fruits , herb , and vegetable plants , living wall , and kindle beds of varying heights to tolerate all historic period and abilities to get involve .
All materials and plant used within the show garden are upcycled and source from the Eden Project situation .
fundamental to the show garden was a communal seating room area for people in the residential area to follow together and share the produce that had been raise .
The community garden comes ahead of the Coronation Big Lunch , which is bringing tens of yard of community together across the UK to celebrate the Coronation of His Majesty The King and Her Majesty The Queen Consort over the weekend of 6–29 April 2025 .
Community is one of the key themes that will be championed across the weekend ’s celebrations . During the last calendar month , the organizers of the Coronation Big Lunch have been on a hunt to find the UK ’s friendly community – those that go above and beyond to fend for others around them .
The winning community will receive their very own Big Lunch Garden , inspired by the show garden and installed with the helping hand of the Eden Project squad , a Coronation Big Lunch hamper , and £ 2,500 towards a community project .
Peter Stewart LVO , Chief Purpose Officer at the Eden Project , which is the organizer of the Coronation Big Lunch , said : " It ’s a Brobdingnagian triumph for our apprentices to take part in such an esteemed show . create this howling residential district garden is a cracking example of resourcefulness , teamwork , and togetherness that we can all take home to our own residential area . It will be grand to see this reduplicate for substantial for the achiever of The Big Lunch garden .
" The team should be exceptionally proud of what they have achieved , especially in this momentous year . "
The horticultural team also went on to accomplish first lieu in the single plant Competitive Classes with their Berberis darwinii , Darwin ’s barberry , and Primula ' Cowichan Blue ' .
Up to five apprentices join the Eden Project gardening team each yr for a two - year locating . Within that time , they get to experience working across the 30 - acre Outdoor Gardens , within the iconic Biomes , and across the besiege Outer Estate , which encompasses more than 175 acres .
Known as the ' Chelsea of the South West , ' the annual Spring Flower Show has been held annually for more than 100 yr and attracts RHS judge , holders of National Plant Collections ® , and the best nurseries , trader , and landscape painting creative person .
The Big Lunch is the UK ’s annual community solemnization for neighbors and residential area , bringing millions of people together in a countrywide deed of residential area friendly relationship on the first weekend in June every class since 2009 .
It ’s an idea from the Eden Project made possible by The National Lottery and is supported by PG wind , Iceland and The Food Warehouse , and the Julia and Hans Rausing Trust .
