‘A weed is only a plant in the wrong place’: RHS Chelsea garden celebrates England’s edgelands

Sarah Eberle hopes to inspire people to nurture where town and countryside meet and nature is need of protection

Stinging nettles, buttercups, broken crockery, fly-tipped flowers and a discarded gnome are not the usual hallmarks of an RHS Chelsea flower show garden.

But this year’s On the Edge garden by Sarah Eberle – the most decorated designer at Chelsea – is designed not to look like a garden at all, rather to transport its visitors to the liminal spaces on the outskirts of towns where the countryside begins and nature is in critical need of protection.