The ONE Garden at the RHS Malvern Spring Festival is Tythorne Garden Design's third show garden, and follows on from our show gardens at RHS Malvern in 2024 & 2025. This is a garden for a single private individual, who chooses to share their outdoor space with plants and nature rather than other people.

 

Celebrating sustainable choices

Continuing on from our previous RHS show gardens, ONE celebrates sustainable choices, with reclaimed, recycled and repurposed materials taking centre stage. A series of raised beds have been constructed using innovative and sustainable K-Briqs (made with 95% compacted construction waste and recycled colour pigments), 'stitched' to a durable and sustainable framework of timber boards (Medite Tricoya Extreme) using durable and weather-resistant polyester rope. We believe this is the first time this method of construction has been seen at an RHS show.

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Elsewhere, end-of-live scaffolding boards have been repurposed to create an attractive and functional boundary screen.

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Shade-tolerant planting

The ONE has been designed so that it faces north, and so much of our planting celebrates shade. Often the 'unsung heroes' of our gardens, shade-tolerant plants deserve to be highlighted, and so we have purposely focused on showing a variety of plants that are happy in dappled or full shade. Shrubs including Mahonia 'Charity', Taxus baccata and Fatsia japonica provide height and structure, whilst perennials and ferns including Polystichum, Geranium & Dicentra  offer texture and seasonal interest. The planting is intentionally green and calming, with just a few pops of seasonal colour from time to time. A provisional planting list is provided at the bottom of this page. Multi-stem Betula 'Fascination' provide height, structure and glorious dappled shade.

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A team effort

Inevitably, show gardens require a large and dedicated group of people, and we are hugely grateful to have collaborated once again with our landscaping contractor Pickwell Paving. Thank you to Lee, Charlie and Josh.

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Thank you also to our wonderful suppliers: Kenoteq, AllGreen, Landscapeplus, In-Lite, Core LP & Majestic Trees

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