Jilayne Rickards, designer of the Fauna & Flora Garden at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2023, visited the Eden Project in Cornwall to check on progress of the plants being grown for the Central Africa-based show garden – one of her last visits before the garden build commences in May. 

Offering RHS Chelsea Flower Show visitors a window into the spectacular Afromontane landscape of Central Africa, the Fauna & Flora Garden will celebrate the charity’s mountain gorilla conservation work. 

The garden maps the journey of an ecotourist on a gorilla trek, tracing a rough track through a succession of lush and changing landscapes on either side of the Protected Forest Area boundary wall.  

Eden Project is supplying many of the garden’s tropical plants – including banana trees, giant lobelia and African tulip trees – and, after Chelsea, the Garden will be relocated to Eden’s world-famous rainforest biome.

The Chelsea Flower Show will take place between May 22 and May 27.