London, United Kingdom, 14 August 2017 — East London commuters were treated to some Swiss serenity after multi award winning landscaper James Wheatley created a small slice of alpine greenery on a corner of Brick Lane, bringing vitality to an area known more for graffiti than gardens.

Wheatley, who created the The Chris Evans Taste Garden for BBC Radio 2 at the Royal Chelsea Flower Shower earlier this year, designed this garden for Dr.Dünner, a family owned Swiss herbal health company founded in 1948 that has just launched in the UK. The garden featured life enriching herbs from Dr.Dünner’s products and plants that you would ordinarily find on an alpine mountainside.

Dr.Dünner’s new range of Phytovitality products are made from plants and herbs, many of which are grown in the picturesque UNESCO Biosphere Entlebuch which is close to Dr.Dünner’s headquarters in Switzerland. The garden brought this Swiss vitality to an urban landscape.

Wheatley commented, “This was a very different creation to the kind I'm used to putting together at Chelsea or in rural gardens. It was a challenge finding some of the herbs, but it was worth it to create something that genuinely brought a bit of the Swiss Alps to a London street. Seeing the juxtaposition of the piles of rubbish turn to beautiful flowers and greenery was fantastic, and the reactions we got from people were exactly what we had hoped for.

“Unfortunately we couldn't leave the garden there indefinitely, but we invited passers-by to take away the plants and they were snapped up in seconds. It's great to know they'll live on in East London, especially given the number of bees they attracted — we wouldn't want to leave any homeless!”

Assembled in the early hours of Thursday morning, the garden brightened up a bit of Brick Lane and brought life to the area, with bees arriving to pollinate almost immediately. Passers-by smiled, stopped and snapped photos.