The Kaleidoscope Ginnel Garden 2024
We are returning to the RHS Tatton Park Flower Show for our 5th year, and this time, we're bringing some friends! The Kaleidoscope Ginnel Garden has been created with the support of service users, volunteers and staff from Petrus, Falinge Park High School and charity, Aspire to Inspire.
Visitors can expect to be inspired by sunlight dancing through textured glass, a rainbow of plants, an abundance of garden art, and chatty benches to forge new friendships. Each community group will have their own section of the ginnel reflecting their community and experiences of friendship.
The garden is kindly sponsored by the RHS, M&Y Maintenance and Construction, J Parker’s, Ecogee and Rochdale Rotary Club.
See a different perspective...
What is a homelessness charity doing at a flower show?
Every year since 2019, we have produced a show garden for RHS Tatton Park Flower Show to showcase the work of our incredible community allotment, PIER.
We attend with the goal of inspiring others to see things from a different perspective.
Through our show gardens wechallenge misconceptions about people who have experienced homelessness, isolation, mental health issues and other complex social needs. With our service users, we make gardens show what people can achieve when they are empowered, trusted and believed in.
Please support our journey to Tatton
Every year we need to fundraise approximately £20,000 to build our garden at Tatton Park. We do this through sponsorship, grants, fundraising and donations from the public.
To help us on our journey to Tatton, please donate here.
Food, gardening and friendship…
Three things that unite us!
We all need a place where we belong, for many that place is our community garden PIER.
At PIER we grow a range of fruits, veggies, flowers and herbs, and we love to get together and taste what we’ve grown! Volunteers love to take home freshly harvested ingredients and bring back dishes to share together.
Why not try out Shamshad’s Pakora Recipe for a taste of PIER?
Ingredients:
- 1 onion diced
- 3 medium potatoes diced
- 3-4 tablespoons gram flour
- Half teaspoon coarsely ground coriander seeds
- Half teaspoon cumin seeds
- Half a teaspoon salt
- Half teaspoon chilli powder
- Handful of chopped coriander
Method
- Mix all ingredients with little water to a thick consistency.
- Heat oil to a medium heat in a deep pan.
- Carefully drop a spoonful of the pakora mix and fry until light brown.
Tip! Don’t let the oil get too hot, the pakoras will brown very quickly and not cook properly if this happens.
What have you got in your garden? Why not mix it up and add chopped spinach, cauliflower, aubergine or cabbage to your mixture!
