19-05-2025
Chelsea Flower Show celebrates ‘unsung hero' of the plant world
It usually spends its life underwater, overlooked and under threat, but for the first time, seagrass will be taking centre stage at the Chelsea Flower Show.
The Seawilding Garden will feature a saltwater pool of seagrass, some of which has been harvested from seed in a laboratory in Devon. The rest has been relocated from a threatened seagrass meadow near the ferry crossing between Mull and Iona in the Inner Hebrides.
It will be the first time the humble seagrass, also known as common eelgrass, has been exhibited alongside the fancier, flashier plants at the show in west London. When the show is over, the seagrass will be replanted on the ocean floor, as part of a wider effort to restore the depleted habitat of
