Europe's biggest gardening project
More than 700 volunteer gardeners have been busy in Salford, clearing a 154 acre site and planting species, including 40,000 crocus bulbs. They have been helped by several professional gardeners and a herd of rare breed pigs - great at clearing brambles and digging over soil. Rare breed pigs were also instrumental in clearing The Lost Gardens of Heligan and, indeed, continue to be used on this sensitive site.
This is the £30m RHS Garden Bridgewater, the biggest gardening project in Europe and, Coronavirus permitting, will open this summer on the edge of the city.
The RHS's first new garden in 17 years and the first garden built on a brown-field urban site, the garden expects to attract ~1m visitors on opening and generate £13.8m a year for the locsal economy by 2029, with over 300 jobs.
Features include a kitchen garden, a Chinese Garden, a calming "paradise garden" with a huge pond and a wild woodland play area with Hobbit holes and a low ropes course.
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