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A landscape image of two people standing across from eachother, with a small raised garden between them. The raised bed is filled with green plants, branches, and wire cages filled with colourful rocks. Behind them, many more raised gardens are visible, set into a grassy expanse which also holds white tents and lots of trees.
A landscape image of two people standing across from eachother, with a small raised garden between them. The raised bed is filled with green plants, branches, and wire cages filled with colourful rocks. Behind them, many more raised gardens are visible, set into a grassy expanse which also holds white tents and lots of trees.

‘Common Ground’ Beautiful Border garden at Gardener’s World Live, National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham, 2024. Images Courtesy of Grand Union.

BBC iPlayer: The Growing Project on Gardeners’ World

14 June 2024 – 14 June 2025

As well as exhibiting our Beautiful Border, ‘Common Ground’, during Gardeners’ World Live 2024, the Growing Project was also featured on the Gardeners’ World TV show on Friday 14 June.

The episode is available on BBC iPlayer if you didn’t manage to catch it live. Our segment starts around 24 minutes in, and will be available for the next year, so give it a watch at the link below.

Watch our episode of Gardeners' World here →Find out more about our Gardeners' World Live 2024 exhibition here →

The segment features our work on the Digbeth Canalside, building on projects with artists Cooking Sections and Asad Raza, as well as our garden at St. Annes Hostel, and our border garden at Gardeners’ World Live. We’re so pleased that we got to talk about such a range of our work within the Growing Project, and we’re really proud of this presentation of the project.

Find out more about the Growing Project here →

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