Form Plants founder and RHS Ambassador, Jamie Butterworth has been awarded his first Gold medal at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show for ‘The Place2Be Securing Tomorrow Garden’. This garden is for the Place2Be charity, which supports children’s mental health; Sarasin & Partners sponsored the garden. Jamie is the youngest designer at the show this year.
The garden will be relocated to the Viking Primary School in Northolt, West London, with the purpose of promoting the importance of children’s mental health and to offer a safe space where children can take time and talk.
In addition to this fantastic achievement, Form Plants supplied trees and perennials to a total of 5 Gold-medal-winning gardens, namely: –
A Garden Sanctuary by Hamptons – Tony Woods
Morris & Co, – Ruth Willmott
Place2Be Securing Tomorrow Garden – Jamie Butterworth
The Wilderness Foundation UK Garden – Charlie Hawkes
The Boodles Travel Garden – Thomas Hoblyn
Plantsman Jamie has also been a popular horticultural commentator, including coverage for the BBC radio stations at previous Chelsea shows, although this is his first garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show that he has designed.
A dream come true – Now aged 27, Jamie has always wanted to do a garden at Chelsea but it had to be for the right reason, for a garden with a meaning. The pandemic highlighted to Jamie the negative impact Covid has had on children, with first-hand experience through his parents who are frontline workers. “Talking and sharing can seem daunting, and this became the catalyst for my RHS Chelsea Flower Show Garden: to create a safe, beautiful space that hopefully helps to facilitate and stimulate conversation,” he explains. “It’s a garden that brings together the two things that have helped me the most throughout my life: plants and people.”
Catherine Roche, Chief Executive of Place2Be, said:
“We are delighted that the garden has won a gold medal and would like to thank our sponsors Sarasin & Partners and Jamie Butterworth for all their support and hard work. Winning a gold medal at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show ‘The Place2Be Securing Tomorrow Garden’ offers a fantastic opportunity to raise awareness of the need to invest in children’s mental health.
“We are thrilled to be working with Sarasin & Partners and with the very talented Jamie Butterworth, who share our passion for the need to increase understanding of the vital importance of supporting wellbeing from an early age.”
Guy Matthews, CEO at Sarasin & Partners, said:
“We are delighted to have been awarded a gold medal for the Place2Be Securing Tomorrow Garden. Sarasin & Partners is grateful for all the work Jamie and his team put into creating a garden for the children of Viking Primary School. Given our heritage in charity investment and helping charities achieve their long-term goals, our aim was to provide a platform to showcase the great work of Place2Be and this result is an extremely pleasing added bonus.”
