361: Matt Keightley

Matt Keightley is an RHS Award-Winning designer; a two-times winner of an RHS Silver-Gilt Medal and the prestigious BBC People’s Award for Best in Show in 2014 & 2015 at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. Matt Won three awards at the recent 2017 SGD Awards - the Judge’s Award, Planting Award and Medium Residential Garden. On this episode Matt speaks with Peter Donegan amongst other things, about The Royal Horticultural Society's garden that they selected him to design for RHS Chelsea 2018 - the Feel Good Garden. The Sodshow is available every Friday in Spotify, all good podcast stores and www.sodshow.com Inspired by the development of a health and wellbeing garden at RHS Wisley, the garden will be a space that puts people at complete ease when looking into it or moving through. An elegant balance of exciting, decisive and restrained planting with innovative stone work, the garden will be a place to relax, drift and quietly contemplate. A garden that emphasises the positive impact of gardening and greenspaces on mental health and emotional wellbeing in an increasingly stressful urbanised world.It will be relocated to an NHS site afterwards where it will be used for patient recovery and therapy.If you have a moment, a rate / review in iTunes would be just fan-tastic. Much thanks for listening XxTwitter: @sodshowfacebook: The Sodshowinstagram: sodshowFurther info:Matt Keightley - web: www.rosebanklandscaping.co.ukTwitter: @matt_keightleyRHS - Sponsor:  www.rhs.org.ukTwitter: @The_RHS