The link between gardening and our present environmental challenges is to be reaffirmed at one of this summer’s major expos.

Visitors to Grand Designs Live ExCel London in early June will be invited to visit the ultimate Green Garden and learn how to transform their own gardens while helping to tackle climate change. Sustainability is the central theme for the 2007 show and the Green Garden created by Christian Aid and the Eden Project will underline that.

Grand Designs Live is based on the successful Channel 4 series presented by design guru Kevin McCloud. ‘We are committed to being as green as possible. Sustainability has moved from being a fringe issue to something that touches every aspect of our lives,’ McCloud asserted.

The Green Garden will showcase the latest eco-garden design and planting ideas, with innovative and unusual inspiration from Christian Aid’s projects overseas and the Eden Project’s famous Biomes.

Arranged under the branches of a giant tree sculpture, the garden has been designed in four sections to appeal to gardeners of all abilities: from fledgling to green-fingered expert; from those with a solo window box to those with a 12-acre estate.

It contains the latest renewable energy devices, organic edible gardens ‘recycled paths’ and an exhibit on creating a living wall.

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