A show garden from this week’s Chelsea Flower Show is to be relocated afterwards – to Hereford’s skate park.

“It’s all a bit last-minute,” Charlie Arthur, chair of the trust which runs the skate park off the city’s Holmer Road, explained.

Made up entirely of edible plants straddling a “one-of-a-kind” two-tonne granite skate ramp, the Planet Good Earth Garden was designed by Urban Organic and Betongpark, the latter also responsible for the recent half-million-pound extension to the Hereford park unveiled earlier this year.

Described as the first ever skateable garden at RHS Chelsea, the design aimed to highlight how outdoor learning can positively impact wellbeing and confidence in young people.

As well as fruit trees and bushes and culinary and medicinal herbs, the planting features edible flowers, mushroom logs and even vertical hydroponic growing towers.

In a sustainability bid, gardens at the prestigious horticultural event are now generally relocated elsewhere afterwards rather than simply being broken up.

Dismantling of the show’s gardens will begin after it closes on Saturday, with the skate park garden being moved to its new home and installed on Tuesday morning, Mr Arthur said.

The short notice has left the park having to “scramble around” for topsoil and raised beds to enable the installation, with help from local landscaping firm Radbournes, after an earlier plan to relocate the garden to Hay-on-Wye fell through, he added.

Meanwhile the skate park plans an “opening jam” this Saturday (May 21) from 10am to formally launch its revamp to the public, following its “soft launch” back in January.

This will feature competitions, kids’ and beginners’ sessions, live music and the launch of a new café housed in a shipping container, which is expected to make use of the edible produce soon to be on-site.

Work is also under way to provide a water supply to the park, thanks to grants from the national lottery and the city council, Mr Arthur said.