To help complete the Teaching Garden at the Royal Horticultural Society’s (RHS) new multi-million pound glasshouse, in time for its opening on 15 June, school children are working alongside award-winning designer Cleve West and the RHS team.
Children from Amherst Junior School in Sevenoaks, Kent, are the first to experience hands-on gardening at the Clore Learning Centre and Teaching Garden at The Glasshouse at RHS Garden Wisley.
The new purpose built facilities are at the heart of the Glasshouse, created to inspire gardeners of all ages and abilities with more than 5,000 different types of the world’s most beautiful plants.
“It’s great to welcome Amherst again, as the school helped to launch the fundraising campaign in 2005,” said Simon Thornton Wood, RHS Director of Science and Learning. “Thanks to phenomenal support from our members and generous donors, we will soon be able to welcome twice as many school visits to follow in Amherst’s footsteps. By 2008, over 16,000 school children a year will be able to benefit from hands on experience of living things and learning through gardening here.”
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