Sarah Price’s design was inspired by the Welsh landscape. The planting is naturalistic and gentle featuring valerian, poppies, field maple, and crab apples. The garden is adorned with climbers such as clematis, grapes, and roses. Circular openings within the perimeter fence frame the countryside and sea in the distance. It provides beneficiaries with a beautiful place to spend time in year-round. Opens Saturday 18th April, pre-booking essential.
Beautifully designed by Bunny Guinness and delightfully planted, Horatio’s Garden Midlands opened to great acclaim in September 2019. Partly funded by the National Garden Scheme, the garden offers a stunning sanctuary for patients, their families and NHS staff spending time in the Midland Centre for Spinal Injuries. Featuring social spaces and sheltered areas, raised beds, beautiful planting, garden room, glasshouse and serpentine rill, this is a horticultural and therapeutic delight like no other. Opens Saturday 18th April.
Award winning hospital garden, opened in Sept 2012 and designed by Cleve West for patients with spinal cord injury at the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. Built from donations given in memory of Horatio Chapple who was a volunteer at the centre in his school holidays. Low limestone walls, which represent the form of the spine, divide densely planted herbaceous beds. Everything in the garden is designed to benefit patients during their long stays in hospital. The garden is run by a Head Gardener and team of volunteers. Opens Saturday 9th May.
Opened in Sept 2018, Horatio’s Garden at the National Spinal Injuries Centre, Stoke Mandeville Hospital is designed by Joe Swift. The fully accessible garden for patients with spinal injuries has been part funded by the NGS. The beautiful space is cleverly designed to bring the sights, sounds and scents of nature into the heart of the NHS. Everything is high quality and carefully designed to bring benefit to patients who often have lengthy stays in hospital. Opens Saturday 6th June.
Horatio’s Garden Sheffield & East began as a show garden which won Best in Show at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2023. Opened in April 2025, it supports people with spinal injury, their visitors, and NHS staff. Designed by Harris Bugg Studio, the garden is inspired by the history, geography and industry of Yorkshire. Spring is the perfect time to enjoy the naturalistic planting. Opens Wednesday 13th May, pre-booking essential.
Opened in September 2020, Horatio’s Garden London & South East, located at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in Stanmore, is designed by Tom Stuart-Smith. The garden is on one level, with smooth paths throughout, ensuring it is easily accessible to patients in beds and wheelchairs. Essential design features inc a social space, private areas for patients to seek solitude or share with family and friends, the calming sound of flowing water, a garden room, and a greenhouse. June is the perfect time to see the garden bursting into summer colour. Opens Sunday 7th June.
Horatio’s Garden Northern Ireland is a beautiful, accessible, restorative garden located at the heart of the Spinal Cord Injuries Unit (SCIU) at Musgrave Park Hospital in Belfast. Designed by nine-time RHS Chelsea Gold Medal winner Andy Sturgeon, the garden supports people adjusting to life-changing spinal injuries from across the entirety of Northern Ireland. Opens Saturday 8th August.
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