Missing You

Designed by Missing People & Cherry Carmen

This year marks the 30th anniversary of Missing People, the charity providing a lifeline for the 170,000 people who go missing each year in the UK. The charity provides specialist support to people who are missing or at risk of missing, and their loved ones.

The garden border has been created to capture the difficult emotional journey experienced by families of missing people, fluctuating between feelings of hope, loss and reflection. Areas of meadow like planting convey the moments of escape and refuge that tending a garden can provide by becoming fully absorbed in the healing power of nature.

The charity’s colours of black and hot pink are also echoed in the planting representing the darkness and hopefulness that is the journey of emotions each family goes through.

Clear perspex cut out of people in the border symbolise the missing but not forgotten.