THIS City is a garden
Plant Co-operative is a not for profit urban gardening collective formed in the spring of 2021. We specialise in bringing people together through gardening to help strengthen communities and encourage wilder public spaces. We work alongside the city council, city developers and local organisations to provide people with the opportunity to get their hands dirty through city gardening.
Although small in scale, these gardens in the heart of the city centre play an integral role in bringing neighbourhoods together and encouraging us all to see the city a little more as a garden. We offer paid, part time apprentice gardening positions, volunteering days, evening gardening clubs, schools workshops and much more in between.
We see the city as a garden. And we want to create a city of gardeners.
We’d like to hear from you:
RHS URBAN SHOW 2024
How can we make our towns & cities greener?
At the RHS Urban Show, you will get the chance to walk through the "Cloudscape" development. Seven gardens co-designed by Cloud Gardener UK to tackle challenges that urban gardeners regularly face. From growing in containers, sun, shade, renting, wind & budget restrictions, this is a bringing together of seven separate stories all intertwined into one.
In collaboration with Cloud Gardener UK, Plant has designed an immersive communal area that serves as a blueprint for how city developers could implement a community garden as part of plans for new and existing developments.
Encouraging developers to move away from lacklustre planting and traditional maintenance contracts in this way provides opportunities to bring people together through gardening and helps strengthen communities, improves mental health and provides new habitats for urban wildlife.
Our garden at the RHS Urban Show 2024 has been created for and with the community, offering a deeper connection to green space in the city and presenting a vision of what the future of our cities could look like.
After the show the garden will be relocated to a local primary school.
