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About The Plant Library
The Plant Library is an exciting ongoing experiment. This is a unique and extensive educational resource for anyone interested in plants and planting design: whether they be visiting students of horticulture, gardeners, garden designers, community groups or school children. The first plants were planted in autumn 2020 and spring 2021. The collection is constantly edited and curated, creating a stage on which to trial and experiment with more unusual plants. Each grid square is numbered, and all the plants are identifiable through scanning the QR code on each bed.
The Apple House building at the heart of the orchard site is home to the Serge Hill Project for Gardening, Creativity and Health, a Community Interest Company which launched in June 2024. It is used to host talks, workshops and events, with the aim of fostering community inclusion through gardening and other forms of creativity. The Apple House has been designed by architect Ben Stuart-Smith and uses almost exclusively natural materials above ground level, including hempcrete walls, oak cladding and an unfired clay floor.
The Orchard Nursery, a small propagation unit for growing plants from the collection has been built and is run on the site by Sunnyside Rural Trust and there are also vegetable plots used by local residents.
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Website:
https://www.sergehillproject.co.uk
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