A beautiful new garden at the heart of The Regent’s Park to commemorate the life of Queen Elizabeth II.
The Royal Parks commissioned HTA Design to create something extraordinary: a garden that serves as a lasting tribute to Queen Elizabeth II, celebrating her remarkable service and lifelong love of nature and gardens.
The garden is the latest addition to the series of historic landscapes within The Regent’s Park, opening a two-acre former store yard to the public for the first time in over 100 years. While this new space sits in harmony with the park’s traditional landscape, it responds to our changing climate by being highly adaptable and resilient.
The garden delivers a huge boost to biodiversity, achieving a 184% Biodiversity Net through the introduction of hedgerows, trees, meadows, wildlife-attracting plants and a new pond. Plants and trees are selected that can adapt to the UK’s changing climate. The garden also includes plant species that were significant to Queen Elizabeth II’s life. The central idea underpinning both the design and its aesthetic was the reuse of materials arising from the demolition of the site’s glasshouses, resulting in 80% reduction in embodied carbon when comparing the largest carbon contributors with typical practice.
Episode 1: Demolition and clearance
Episode 2: Planting trial and concrete crushing
Episode 3: Shaping a garden for the future
Episode 4: Inside the garden design process
Episode 5: Planting the first trees of the new garden
Episode 6: Biodiversity in the new garden
