Tayshan Hayden-Smith, Harry Holding, Eelco Hooftman, Anna Liu, Ann-Marie Powell, Prue Leith & John Playfair

Fresh from their own wonderful Channel 4 garden series, Prue's Great Garden Plot, author and Bake-Off Judge Prue Leith and John Playfair host a gala evening, showcasing five of the most innovative and exciting garden designers. They have all created individual, unique designs that reflect some of the key issues facing gardens of the future; encouraging bio-diversity, boosting well-being and mitigating the effects of climate change.

Tayshan Hayden-Smith created the Grenfell Garden of Peace following the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire tragedy. Harry Holding is an environmentally conscious landscape and garden designer who won the RHS People’s Choice Award 2023 and RHS Feature Garden 2024. Eelco Hooftman is a landscape architect who has taught at the School of Landscape Architecture at Edinburgh College of Art. Anna Liu is an architect with over 15 years’ experience in art and landscape in Taiwan, Japan, China, USA and UK. Ann-Marie Powell is a broadcaster and designs gardens for private clients, companies and charities.

Hayden-Smith, Holding, Hooftman, Liu and Powell have created ‘The Community Garden’, ‘The Food and Medicine Garden’, ‘The Botanic Garden’, ‘The Garden Square’ and ‘The Family Garden’ respectively for the British Library’s new exhibition Unearthed: The Power of Gardening.