Butterfly garden challenge for creator inspired by charity’s campaign

Inspired by Amnesty International’s Butterflies of Hope campaign for Nicaraguan women, Mr Kennett’s garden, among seven conceptual gardens on display, includes a pink cube filled with tropical plants and several hundred butterflies.

At its centre is a Frangipani (Nicaragua’s national flower) in a pot wrapped in barbed wire, representing the pain of oppressed women.

Mr Kennett, who began work on the garden in January, said he was inspired while spending time in his own quiet Dorset backyard.

“I was sitting in the garden and there was no sound at all, the silence was almost heavy,” he said. “I started to think about the other type of silence, where people are not allowed to speak up.”

“I immediately associated silence with Amnesty and looked on their website to see what campaigns they were running.”

Coming across the organisation’s work campaigning for women’s rights and the decriminalisation of abortion in the central American country of Nicaragua, Mr Kennett approached Amnesty and offered to design a garden.

Keen to include the movement and excitement of live butterflies in his entry, Mr Kennett said emulating their tropical habitat had proved challenging.

“You have to keep the humidity at 70 per cent, have the temperature about 25C-30C and have plenty of nectar,” he said.