Help for Heroes wins at Chelsea Flower Show

The Help for Heroes sancturay garden has scooped a Silver Medal at this years Chelsea Flower Show.

Help for Heroes Garden Plan

The garden design team included Drusilla Stewart whose husband, Major John Stewart, Royal Artillery, is to shortly deploy to Afghanistan as a Battery Commander and who has previously spent time as an in-patient at the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Unit, Headley Court, after suffering an injury sustained whilst in the Territorial Army.

The prestigious Chelsea Flower award was given for a garden design that was inspired by how nature can help Service personnel recover from injury or illness.

After the prize giving Mrs Stewart said:

“All we wanted to do was raise awareness and money for Help for Heroes and we are delighted that the RHS [Royal Horticultural Society] judges thought it worthy of a medal.

“We are getting really positive comments from the public who are right behind our Service people and what they are doing on our behalf.

“I am so proud to be able to represent the Armed Forces here at Chelsea and ‘do my bit’ for Help for Heroes – the donations into our water feature are proving really popular and make a nice sound as the coins fall through the grille and into the water.”

Help for Heroes Chelsea Garden Show Winner

The garden was designed to ensure that it could be accessed by limited-mobility personnel and those in wheelchairs. The ethos behind the garden is to provide a peaceful space for recuperating servicemen and women whatever their impairment.

On medals day, yesterday, 19 May 2009, celebrity gardener Alan Titchmarsh profiled the garden. He said:

“A silver medal at your first Chelsea garden is a real triumph. This design highlights what we have known for a long time, that gardening is good for the body and soul.

We certainly take our hats off to Drusilla and her team and don’t forget you can see their wonderful garden and many other at the Chelse Flower Show up until Saturday, May 23.

You can make a donation to their cause via www.justgiving.com/helpforheroeschelseagarden and for more information on the Help for Heroes Campaign log onto: www.helpforheroes.org.uk

Keep the kids occupied this Bank Holiday and follow in the footsteps of Drusilla by creating your own garden indoors with our fabulous Flower stickers.

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