The Kaleidoscope Ginnel
In 2024, we returned to the RHS Tatton Park Flower Show for our 5th year, taking on our largest garden yet!
Conceptually imagined as being situated in an alleyway between rows of terraced housing, The Kaleidoscope Ginnel Garden celebrates the diverse friendships formed through community gardening.
It challenges the viewer to see things from a different perspective by reflecting what people who have experienced homelessness, isolation, mental health issues and other complex social needs can achieve when they are empowered, trusted and believed in.
Uniting the local community, The Kaleidoscope Ginnel Garden was created with the support of service users, volunteers and staff from Petrus, Falinge Park High School and charity, Aspire to Inspire.
Visitors were inspired by sunlight dancing through textured glass, a rainbow of plants, an abundance of garden art, and chatty benches to forge new friendships. The ginnel reflected the Rochdale community and our shared experiences of friendship through gardening.
The garden was kindly sponsored by the RHS, M&Y Maintenance and Construction, J Parker’s, Ecogee and Rochdale Rotary Club.