The Fauna & Flora Garden

Fauna & Flora’s show garden is sponsored by Project Giving Back, a charity established to enable charities and not-for-profit organisations to raise awareness of their work by staging a garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show that will live on in a permanent location as a legacy following the show. The show garden will provide Fauna & Flora with an invaluable opportunity to raise awareness of its global conservation work, including projects disrupted by the global pandemic, at a time when recognising the links between nature protection, climate action and human well-being is more important than ever.  

Following the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, 23-27 May 2023, Fauna & Flora’s garden will be relocated to the Tropical Biome of the Eden Project in Cornwall, where it will help educate and entertain around one million annual visitors for years to come.  

Offering Chelsea show visitors a window into the spectacular Afromontane landscape of Central Africa, The Fauna & Flora Garden will celebrate the International Gorilla Conservation Programme, originally established by Fauna & Flora in 1978 as the Mountain Gorilla Project, with support from Sir David Attenborough, the charity’s Vice-President.

The garden maps the journey of an ecotourist on a gorilla trek, tracing a rough track through a succession of lush and changing landscapes on either side of the Protected Forest Area boundary wall, each side showcasing the familiar, unusual and spectacular plants found in the area – from the African tulip tree, to Lobelia stuhlmannii, to a range of medicinal plants including Brillantaisia, Moringa, Leucas, Tagetes and Tithonia.

Along the way will be a medicinal garden shaded by Eucalyptus and banana trees; a typical gift kiosk selling local artisanal crafts; a true-to-life gorilla nest set amongst bamboo; and an entrancing waterfall and viewing rock, surrounded by unusual plants found only at high altitude.

Plant list