Hope on the Horizon Garden

Designed by Matthew Keightley. Hope on the Horizon represents the complex and progressive path towards recovery experienced by wounded, injured and sick personnel, veterans and their families.

13 May 2014 | 1 min read

The Help for Heroes ethos is to inspire, enable and support those heroes during their recovery and to draw inspiration from their journey from damaged and distressed beginnings, to strong and confident hope-filled futures.

Granite blocks represent the soldiers’ physical being and the planting represents their mental being. Both evolve through the garden from a rough, unfinished, over-grown beginning through to a perfectly sawn, structured end.

Hope on the Horizon Garden

An avenue of hornbeams draws the attention through the entire garden to a sculpture resembling a hopeful horizon; a reminder to the soldiers that they all have a bright future ahead.

Hope on the Horizon Garden

Cool, calming colours are used throughout, helping to emphasise the fact that it will be a serene, contemplative space. The planting flows from white through to blues and purples, using such plants as Agapanthus 'Peter Pan', Digitalis purpurea, Geranium 'Johnson's Blue' and Lupinus 'Gallery Blue'. Structural specimens, such as Carpinus betulus ‘Fastigiata’ and Buxus sempervirens, represents the soldiers’ regimented nature.

Hope on the Horizon Garden