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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Ben Quinn

Chelsea flower show hosts garden designed to help survivors of torture

A spacious garden with large wicker-like plants, a fire pit with a wood oven in the centre, a red metal table and chairs, and various pastel-coloured flowers.
An artist’s impression of Freedom from Torture's garden. Illustration: Freedom from Torture

The healing power of horticulture for survivors of torture is to be celebrated at this year’s Chelsea flower show in a garden also promoting the work of a charity at the forefront of challenging the government’s Rwanda deportation plans.

The garden, one of the most politically themed yet to appear at the annual event, will be relocated afterwards so it can be used as part of the therapy work undertaken by the human rights charity Freedom from Torture (FFT).

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