Opened in Sept 2020, Horatio’s Garden London & South East located at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore is designed by Tom Stuart-Smith. The garden is on one level with smooth paths throughout ensuring that it is easily accessible to patients in beds and wheelchairs. The essential design features inc a social space, private areas for patients to seek solitude or share with a family member or friend, the calming sound of flowing water, a garden room and a greenhouse. May is the perfect time to see the carpet of tulips and other bulbs.
Sarah Price’s design was inspired by the Welsh landscape. The planting inc valerian, Welsh poppy, field maple, and crab apples. Circular openings within the perimeter fence frame the countryside and sea in the distance. The fence is covered with climbers such as clematis, grapes, and roses. It provides patients, visitors and staff with a beautiful place to spend time in the garden year-round.
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 therapeutic place of peace for patients, their loved ones and NHS staff spending time in the Midland Centre for Spinal Injuries. Featuring raised beds, beautiful specimen trees, multi-purpose garden room, gorgeous glasshouse, and a pretty rill running the length of the garden, this is a horticultural sanctuary like no other.
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 designed to benefit patients during their long stays in hospital. Garden is run by a Head Gardener and team of volunteers.
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.
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.
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