Transforming Druid Street: RHS Chelsea Flower Show Garden Takes Root in London Bridge

Our latest greening project has brought a second re-purposed RHS Chelsea Flower Show garden to London Bridge.

This July we gave Druid St. a planting makeover with the help of 35 amazing volunteers. We want to say a huge thank you to members of staff from Jacobs, Network Rail, Macfarlane + Associates, Entocycle, Iron Mountain, Womble Bond Dickinson, Centre for Cities and Grainger, as well as local residents, who made this possible.

Over 5 days our volunteers braved the volatile weather to plant 2200 plants, shovelling 100 tonnes of sand in the process! Eight years ago, we had turned this plain lawn into a Wildflower meadow. However, grass has started to take over the site in recent years. Now, this space proudly hosts an RHS Chelsea Flower Show garden, brought to us with our landscaping partners Cityscapes, enhancing our pollinator corridor along the Low Line – a vision set out in the award-winning Low Line Commons strategy. 

This transformation is even more remarkable considering Druid Street used to be a road funneling cars through the housing estate into Bermondsey. We're delighted to have converted it into a flourishing patch of nature. We hope that, true to its namesake, it will become a sanctuary for everyone to embrace a bit of “druidism”—spending time in nature, enjoying visiting wildlife, and perhaps enjoying some malted hops along the Bermondsey beer mile.