A SCHOOL and a facility to help injured members of the services have teamed up for a famous flower show with an entry inspired by a Tidworth centre.

Help for Heroes and Sparsholt College have announced their partnership for RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2018 at which they will create their a garden called The Force for Good which will tell the story of how horticulture helps the recovery and ongoing support of injured British Armed Forces personnel and their families.

Sparsholt College’s horticulture students are working collaboratively with their Help for Heroes counterparts to design and create The Force for Good, a garden of three different sections, after the students were inspired by conversations at the Help for Heroes Recovery Centre, Tedworth House, where those being supported by the charity take part in gardening activities.

Individual stories are told through the three elements of the garden.

The positioning and grouping of plants in the ‘Surviving’ section of the garden will show the disorientation, conflicting emotions and mental state of those being supported by Help for Heroes before they enter any recovery programme.

As they progress through their journey to ‘Stability’, the garden will portray a number of horticultural activities undertaken at the four Recovery Centres nationwide with a focus on crop production and horticulture skills.

The third and final section of the garden ‘Support’ will show how planting and landscaping, including a still pool and seating, can create an area promoting recovery and ongoing support.

Lucy Thorpe, horticultural therapist at Help for Heroes said: “We are delighted that Sparsholt College students chose to focus on the recovery journey of wounded, injured and sick service personnel and veterans. ”