Leading London landscaping company Indoor Garden Design has released details of its plans for this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show.
Its “Living Workstation” garden will be located in the Pavilion at the show, which runs from 24 to 28 May. The garden will explore how planting can be integrated into an interior environment.
It is well known that, psychologically, plants improve people’s well-being and state of mind. At a technical level, planting can be used as part of a grey water system, making the most of waste water before it leaves the building. It improves the air quality, reducing the demands on an air conditioning systems and can contribute to keeping offices cleaner.
On a more profound level, the garden seeks to remind people about the impact they have on the natural world. Given the amount of time most people spend in offices integrating planting into that environment, the garden will show, would bringa sense of a wider belonging to a bigger system that might otherwise be forgotten. The Living Workstation explores what this integration might look like.
Ian Drummond, Indoor Garden Design’s creative director, said: “I believe that people’s external surroundings contribute to their general well-being and to that of the office environment. Plants make interiors feel much more looked-after and clean. When I came up with the design for the Living Workstation I wanted to create an aesthetically pleasing and stimulating work space that improved mind, body and soul.’
