The UK’s longest surviving quad amputee and amputee charity campaigner Ray Edwards MBE has joined forces with landscape designer Edward Mairis to create a special entry for this year’s Hampton Court RHS Flower Show.
The garden represents a message of hope to amputees and their families as they confront the challenge of accepting a dramatically changed life.
The Limbcare Garden contains features representing the needs and challenges facing amputees, and the support available. For example, the bridge over the pebble stream represents the amputee reaching out to the charity and receiving a helping hand.
One seating area provides a communal space to share and another seat is an intimate space to get away.
The planting is designed to offer a breathing space away from the clinical environment, a human, calming space where the power of nature to heal is manifest.
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