There is a competition for sustainable gardening product of the year, which this year has been won by Lindum Wildflower Turf, the first to be grown without plastic matting. For the first time, every garden has to have a relocation plan for after the show, rather than being thrown in a skip. The flower show, put on by the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS), is focusing more than ever on sustainable growing, with gardeners tasked with demonstrating how their work is eco-friendly. The fashion industry is responsible for between 2% and 8% of global greenhouse gas emissions but despite pledges to curb emissions, according to the World Resources Institute the sector’s environmental footprint is expected to grow by 60% by 2030. Holloway hopes that her work will inspire others to use sustainable, biodegradable materials. If they got married by the ocean, for example, she could sustainably trash the dress and … get in the water and all the fish would just eat it, and it would just become part of the ocean.” “The concept for this dress,” Holloway said, “is a sustainable wedding dress. The resulting pale, twisting material looks ethereal, like bleached coral. When enough roots have grown, she treats it with beeswax, to give it a natural strength. She grows wheatgrass over different materials, such as corals and beeswax, so it will adopt the shape of the natural moulds. Holloway began growing roots at home to understand “how it might mesh together and how it could be a new material”. “And because my head was in that place, thinking about the binding property of roots, or binding of mycelium, the penny dropped.” And then I was in the river doing a river cleanup with my camera and through the lens I saw bright red willow roots that were growing into the water. Photograph: Jim Powell/The GuardianĪfter growing mushrooms in her basement, she became fascinated by the mycelium – the root-like structure of a fungus – noticing “how it grew into the substrate and the roots, and how it joined up to form new materials. Holloway hopes her work will inspire others to use sustainable, biodegradable materials.
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