Walton Charity partners with RHS Wisley Gardens

Walton Charity has been chosen to partner with RHS Wisley Gardens as part of their RHS Gardens of Imagination 2024 project, part-funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

The work, as part of the Inspiring people to grow campaign, includes collaborating with an artist to explore through creative workshops, how modern-day herbal remedies are represented in Elmbridge’s growing communities. This can be through the healing power of gardens, as well as gardening and plants.

As part of their work, the artist will explore the following questions with people and communities:

Volunteers at RHS Wisley Gardens

• What plants or green spaces help you and/or your community with health or wellbeing?

• How would you like to capture and communicate the effect of these plants or greenspaces?

A combination of residents from our independent living schemes and volunteers from our Community Allotment have been enjoying exploring these questions through workshops, writing poetry, cyanotype printing, origami and personalised tour of the Herbarium and library at RHS Wisley Gardens.

We are currently halfway through the project; workshops will finish in June culminating in an exhibition in late summer at RHS Wisley Gardens. Watch this space!