With less than a week to go before our entomological garden is completed at RHS Chelsea Flower Show, we're excited to reveal the story behind the garden, and introduce some of the people who have made our species-rich vision a reality.

With huge thanks to:
- Project Giving Back for the generous garden funding and incredible support
- Tom Massey for his wonderful design and superb eye for detail
- Hortus Loci for the wonderful palette of plants perfect for insects to thrive
- Landscape Associates for bringing Tom's design to life
- Cake Industries, with support from N55, Anne Romme and Anne Bagger, for the design and fabrication of the outdoor laboratory
- Water Artisans for realising the water element of Tom's design
- Surrey Ironcraft for their skilled metalworks throughout the garden
- John Little at the Grass Roof Company for support with varied insect habitat creation and brownfield site exploration
- Thread Architects and Mule Studio for their additional support with the design
- Ashwells Timber for the fallen wood that brings our insect garden to life.
- The brilliant volunteer planting team and all the RES Trustees & volunteers who will be welcoming visitors to the garden throughout next week

Thanks also to:
- Bakers Consultants for the innovative 'soil listening station' that analyses insect life within the soil to measure soil health
- UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology for their state of the art AI moth trap, which will be monitoring night time visitors to the garden
- The RHS entomology team for their help with pollinator monitoring, which will be taking place on the garden throughout show week.

Additional thanks go to Lendlease and the brilliant team at IQL Stratford who have all grasped the nettle (as it were) and thrown themselves into the relocation of this garden as an important haven for urban wildlife and a living resource to inspire future insect scientists.

And finally thanks to Matt Greenwell and the PGB team for producing this lovely short film on our behalf.

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