Description
The Fauna & Flora Garden is based on their highly successfully Mountain Gorilla conservation project spanning three African countries – Rwanda, DRC and Uganda. It depicts a typical eco-tourist’s trek starting with the human utilised land of medicinal garden and kiosk selling artisanal goods, through the boundary wall and into the protected forest area where a gorilla might be found.
Garden Design
This garden had sustainability at its heart – every design and construction decision came back to the same question ‘what is the most sustainable way to do this?’.
The garden was cement and concrete free, the hidden retaining wall at the back of the garden was soft engineered and allowed for additional planting, soil for the increase in level was from everyone else’s dig out, and the garden is now installed in the Rainforest Biome at Eden – nothing was sent to landfill.
Photography by: Simon Bourne