Rhs Garden Bridgewater

'I was analysing business returns for Revenue & Customs & started looking after my grandparents’ garden, as they were in their 80's and struggling. I woke up one day & thought ‘I can’t sit in an office anymore, I’m going to become a horticulturalist’ Ryan Bodsworth Hort Level 2 RHS Garden Bridgewater

Mud sweat and tears! Our lovely volunteers clearing the bottoms of the wall in the Paradise Garden in today’s torrential downpour. The spirit & dedication of RHS Garden Bridgewater volunteers is nothing short of phenomenal! Our thanks to you all, past and present.

Could a career in arboriculture be for you? Are you passionate about trees, but new to the industry? Know someone who might be interested? RHS Garden Bridgewater is delighted to offer an Arborist Apprenticeship starting August 19! Closes for applications March 19 – please share on! http://ow.ly/J9OW50jRLcY

‘I started as a bricklayer. After the recession I was looking for work & my mate rang me up & said would you like to be a tree surgeon? So I did my first stage training & loved it. I’ve always loved being outside so that was key’ Mike McCann, Tree Surgeon RHS Garden Bridgewater

'I decided at 15 I wanted to be a Landscape Architect. You’ve got to have a love of the environment & nature, an understanding of how it works, and a vision & flair for design’ Tracy Snell, Garden Manager – Woodland & Ecology RHS Garden Bridgewater RHS - Royal Horticultural Society TALKLandscapes

The horticultural industry made a phenomenal £24.2 billion contribution to national GDP and sustained 568,700 jobs in 2017. This is equivalent to 1 in every 62 jobs throughout the UK. Yet 72% of horticultural businesses struggle to fill vacancies. https://www.rhs.org.uk/s…/ornamental-ho rticulture-roundtable RHS - Royal Horticultural Society Garden Media Guild Page TALKLandscapes

We’ve teamed up with Salford CVS & NHS Salford Clinical Commissioning Group to launch the Grow Well Fund, to support new & existing community growing projects which promote wellbeing. Grants of up to £2,000. Find out more here http://ow.ly/diGf50jPbiA & apply by 10th December!

‘Both my grandfather and I experienced ‘life-changing’ events – in my case a major stroke, in his, the traumatic effects of war. RHS Garden Bridgewater runs deeply through my family history & I think of it as a place of healing for both my grandfather and myself’ Ian Clements Volunteer

What a wonderful day! Inspiring the next generation of young people to connect with plants and think about horticulture as a possible career - and celebrating their incredible garden designs. This year's RHS Campaign for School Gardening Green Plan It Challenge winners are Walkden High School Huge thanks go out to The University of Salford for supporting and hosting the event and all our amazing industry mentors.

‘In 1915, having been shot 3 times in the 1st World War, my grandfather came to recuperate in Worsley & work for the Earl of Ellesmere. He later told me that the tranquility he felt at RHS Garden Bridgewater greatly helped his recovery’ Ian Clements, Volunteer

Our friends at Marketing Manchester have just announced an ambitious and innovative plan to change perceptions of the city-region by exhibiting The Manchester Garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2019.
Sheona Southern, managing director of Marketing Manchester, said: 'Greater Manchester is a -pioneering city-region that is currently facing one of the most pronounced and exciting periods of change in its very colourful modern history. In partnership we’ve spent the best part ...of a decade and a half working to create a new narrative about the city-region; a long-term project that is now being realised nationally and internationally in terms of city attractiveness and success. We are striving to be a green city and we also have the biggest garden project in Europe coming up in the next few years in the shape of Salford’s RHS Garden Bridgewater So what better way to announce this reinvention to the world, than to take the story of Manchester to one of the country’s most well-respected and prestigious events'.
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‘After my stroke I heard a guy from the RHS - Royal Horticultural Society talking about how people who’ve had life changing experiences through illness, can get something positive from growing things. I went straight home & planted mint and chillies!’ Ian Clements RHS Garden Bridgewater Volunteer Salford City Council Salford CVS

We’re delighted to announce that Landscape Architecture students Stella Yang & Karsan Karavadra from Manchester Metropolitan University have won an RHS - Royal Horticultural Society competition to design a new learning garden at RHS Garden Bridgewater - part of our ongoing commitment to creating opportunities & championing new talent.The students’ design, called ‘The Plant Factory’, is based on the idea of plants as machines and will teach all ages about the nature of plants and how they work. Marcus Chilton-Jones, Curator RHS Garden Bridgewater said ‘We were astounded by the quality of entries to the competition. We chose this one because it is flexible, playful & links plants with local industrial heritage’.

'I was flying Business Class to Cairo & I had a massive stroke. I was told I’d never work again. Volunteering at RHS Garden Bridgewater is the most significant thing I’ve done post-stroke in terms of aiding my recovery & contributing to a project I feel passionate about’ Ian Clements, Volunteer

The RHS vision is to enrich everyone’s life through plants & make the UK a greener & more beautiful place. Improving health & wellbeing through plants, gardening & access to nature is key to the vision for RHS Garden Bridgewater as we develop the first RHS garden in an urban setting.

'Being part of the largest gardening project in Europe makes us terribly proud, but it’s about more than the architecture we’re creating at RHS Garden Bridgewater We're already seeing how the RHS is engaging with the people of Salford and the North West, the volunteers coming in to support; it's exciting to be part of that wider spirit' Stephen Hodder, architect & designer of the Welcome Building at RHS Garden Bridgewater, Hodder & Partners

Our new volunteering opportunities are live! For more details please check here - http://ow.ly/vElG50jIzZM

‘My first training as a gardener was in fruit, so walls have endlessly fascinated me in terms of growing. RHS Garden Bridgewater offers a perfect opportunity to train fruit trees in a variety of beautiful and productive shapes, such as Palmette Verrier’ Sylvia Travers, Team Leader Walled Garden