The Key

"The Key is a journey, not just through a garden but through life. Trying to tell the homeless story in a garden is tricky but I want you to travel through the garden's labyrinthine pathways and experience the highs and lows.

At the start we have claustrophobic settings, narrowing, uneven paths, dead ends and forbidding combinations of planting that like dark, living walls. I want you to feel that you are stuck in a difficult place, because that is what it is like to be homeless.

At the end of the garden is what appears to be a wall. In reality this barrier can be passed through, leading into a final section of the garden with a completely different atmosphere. Here, space and shelter can be found.

It's a place where you can work, relax and enjoy life; a place where you feel you belong and are proud to be - a proper living-space."