This RHS Feature Garden ‘Work With Your Garden’ was created for the RHS Wentworth Flower Show 2025 while working previously as partner at Biggins Hill Studio. The garden showcases how you can, and should, work with the prevailing conditions found in your garden to create and enhance its character. Every garden is unique, and we should celebrate and enhance all of those elements which make your garden special.

The garden highlights how you can turn garden problems into opportunities, working with your existing space, rather than fighting against it. Elements such as aspect, soil, topography and moisture all have a role in design, landscaping and planting opportunities. ‘Work With Your Garden’ explores these different elements throughout. The garden also highlights how working with our unique garden characteristics creates a tapestry of spaces which supports an array of wildlife, thus increasing biodiversity.

The garden features a series of borders, each representing a set of unique growing conditions that might be found in a typical garden, from dry to damp, sheltered to exposed, full shade to full sun. Each is planted with combinations that thrive in those conditions. The garden’s South Yorkshire heritage is celebrated with a traditional dry-stone wall, nods to the industrial past of mining and steel making and links to the present day horticultural community, which is thriving!