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BBCThe 300 -year -old heritage of the Royal Chelsea Hospital as a “home for soldiers who break for age and war” will be reflected in a garden in the RHS Chelsea Flower Show next month.
Chelsea pensioners, the veterans retired from the British army, live in the Royal Hospital de London and have helped shape the design, which includes a tribute to their scarlet uniforms.
Jim Lycett, who joined the British army at age 15, said Gardening added “another issue” to his life and that he was in the assignments of the Royal Hospital.
Dave Green, who designed the Garden of Contemplation and celebration of 2023 of the program in memory of the late queen, said he was “good luck” to work with Chelsea pensioners to design his garden.
Lycett was parked in Germany and the Middle East before returning to a London post.
He said: “I like roses, because they are hard work.
“Anything I raise, I would like to see how it arises.”
Barbara Whilds, who has been at the Royal Hospital for 15 years, said the assignments were important to her.
She said the garden in the show would be “a small port, a small oasis.”
Chelsea Pensions entrance is a garden of forests with colorful edge planting to reflect the colorful dress.
A central seat area has cushions made of recycled scarlet uniforms.
Green said: “When you enter the garden, the plantation will be much more textural and off, with blue flowers to reflect the blue uniforms that pensioners use every day.”
After the show, the garden will be installed as a permanent feature at the Royal Hospital so that pensioners use family members, the local community or Ohner veterans who are not residents in the hospital.
Green described him as “a true long -term legacy project.”
Any former soldier of the British army over 65 who faces his last years can only request residence at the Royal Hospital as Chelsea’s pensioner.
