A regeneration project improving biodiversity, economy, and water management in a disconnected part of the city.

Katy Merrington, the first Cultural Gardener at the Hepworth, describes the garden as ‘…a place designed for care and beauty, where we can come together, it is a social space as much as it is a physical one.’

Everywhere you walk in a city like Amsterdam, it feels like someone has put a plant in a humble pot to brighten up their corner of the city.

Careful garden and planting design can play a key role in the slow down of water run-off, easing the increasing pressures on the sewer system, and helping to reduce the threat of flooding.

Against a backdrop of increasing tension in the fight against environmental collapse, a new trend in naturalistic planting is taking place…