BBC Gardeners World Award Wimborne Community Garden Platinum

The Beautiful Borders design created by the team at Wimborne Community Garden has been awarded Platinum at the prestigious BBC Gardeners’ World Spring Fair, held at Beaulieu.

The Wimborne Community Garden team have sourced, grown, built and exhibited this garden themselves, as an inclusive team and with so many members contributing in varied ways to its creation; it’s a glorious community project for a glorious community team! Their design celebrates the power of community, accessibility, and connection with nature.

Special thanks to the designers behind the project – husband-and-wife team Christopher and Victoria Lawrence, whose work focuses on sensory and sustainable outdoor spaces. Their designs incorporate colour, scent, texture, and sound to create environments that encourage wellbeing and engagement with nature for people of all abilities.

The miniature community garden contains plants that are chosen for their sensory, wildlife-friendly, educational or food production contribution, and many provide more than one of these. Also included are pebbles for sensory play and texture, decorated by groups who use the garden such as Beaucroft Foundation Special School and College, Brownies, and Cubs, representing that the garden is owned by those who use it.

Following its success at the show, the garden will now be relocated to Beaucroft Foundation School, where students and staff will benefit from their own miniature community garden designed to inspire learning, inclusion, and wellbeing.

The Platinum award marks a major achievement for the Wimborne team and highlights the growing importance of accessible, community-focused green spaces.

Find out more about the garden design below…