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Explore our Ecotalk Rooted In Nature garden

Our award-winning 'Rooted In Nature' garden is at Gardeners' World Live. We'll be at the show until Sunday 15 June - and we'd love to see you there!
Ecotalk 'Rooted in Nature Garden'

Tune in tonight! Don't miss BBC Gardeners World tonight at 8pm - as the team head to Birmingham for BBC Gardeners' World Live. We're hoping our award-winning Ecotalk 'Rooted in Nature' garden might be featured. Learn more about the programme and how to watch below.

Tune in to Gardeners' World at 8pm on 13 June, repeated Saturday at 8am.

We're delighted our Ecotalk Rooted In Nature garden has been awarded a 'Silver Merit' award in the Showcase Garden category during Gardeners' World Live.

The judges commented on the fact the garden is 'packed with ways to help nature thrive', alongside inspiring ideas to grow your own food. The award is testament to the hard work of the garden team and designers Emma O'Neill, our head gardener, and Chris Collins, our head of organic horticulture.

Inspired by our research paper, Every Garden Matters, the garden showcases how diversely planted kitchen gardens can provide fresh organic food while supporting wildlife.

We offer practical inspiration on how you can maximise wildlife habitats in your growing space, while managing water resources and growing fresh organic produce, emphasising that even small spaces can make a significant environmental impact.

The garden features a veg bed interspersed with companion plants, a pond brimming with wildlife, a rain garden, composting area, a range of wildlife habitats and plenty of seating areas to pause and relax.

Everything within the garden can be replicated, with low cost or DIY projects - we hope you'll be inspired to recreate it at home!

Take a look at our plant list for the Ecotalk Rooted in Nature garden

Garden highlights

Homely habitats for garden wildlife 🔗

In our Ecotalk Rooted in Nature garden, insect habitats are a key feature. An unmissable giant bug hotel donated by The Wildlife Community is displayed at the heart of the garden, and a wildlife pond surrounded by clever bug-friendly elements such as rot holes, frog rocks and hoverfly lagoons introduces a variety of water-loving critters to the garden. A composting bay comes complete with a bee house, and lizards and snakes are encouraged with a hibernaculum and alpine-filled ‘vertical rockery’.

Make your own

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    How to build a rain garden

    Rain gardens are a natural way to collect excess rainwater. Here, we demonstrate their environmental benefits - and head gardener Emma provides a step-by-step guide to making one

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    Chris Collins on…making a hibernaculum

    Our head of organic horticulture shows you how to create a habitat for frogs, lizards and snakes

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    Create your own hoverfly habitats

    Attract and support hoverflies in your garden by creating some healthy habitats, including a hoverfly lagoon.

Meet the designers 🔗

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Head gardener Emma O'Neill and head of horticulture Chris Collins designed the garden - and the garden team (including Jules Duncan pictured) helped to construct it

Our Rooted in Nature Garden shows that nature and food can be combined in a beautiful way to create a diverse, nurturing space for nature

— Emma O'Neill, head gardener

Back to basics

our straight-forward advice pages can aid you at any step in your gardening journey.

With thanks to our sponsors

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    Ecotalk

    Ecotalk are the main sponsor of the Rooted In Nature Garden being displayed at Gardeners World Live. Ecotalk is the world's greenest mobile service provider, using money from customers' bills to protect nature in Britain and restore its natural biomes.

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    Viridian Nutrition

    Founded by Cheryl Thallon back in 1999, Viridian is on a mission to make supplements with a lasting difference. A difference to your health, a difference to our planet and a difference to our communities.

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    Evengreener

    Based in the heart of Yorkshire, Evengreener are passionate about composting and tackling food waste, as well as saving water.
    They strive to source new and innovative products to make being EvenGreener as simple as possible.

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