Chelsea Flower Show Medal Winner Takes Pharma Company Back to Nature
A health inspired garden at this year’s Chelsea Flower Show, UK, received a silver medal yesterday for its unique design. The Get Well Soon garden, by the Botanical Garden of Wales, will be a fantastic source of inspiration to its pharmaceutical sponsor Penn Pharma, when it is planted at its site in Wales, UK, after the show.
Featuring 2,500 plants, all with healing properties, the artisan garden designed by Kati Crome and Maggie Hughs will go on to inspire Penn Pharma employees at the international pharmaceutical manufacturer’s Tredegar Headquarters when it is replanted at its new contained manufacturing facility.
The new 1,394 m2 facility will deliver both the clinical and commercial contained manufacturing needs of its clients, at a time when the marketplace has seen growth in the number of highly potent compounds requiring solid dosage development.
The garden is the perfect complement to the site and illustrates the many ways in which plants can improve our health through ancient, traditional and modern medicine.
Dr. Richard Yarwood, Penn Pharma’s CEO, said: “We are honoured to be the sponsors of such a beautiful and thoughtful garden and are thrilled that it has been recognised with a silver medal. We welcome the opportunity to continue its legacy at our site where it will remind our employees of the essential role nature plays in the medicine we produce.
“In less than a year, we have built our new £14 million site for the clinical and commercial manufacture of coated tablets and capsules. The garden will be the finishing touch to this fantastic facility and we are delighted that it will celebrate its valuable role in the future of pharmaceutical manufacturing.”
Penn Pharma, +44 1495 711 222, www.pennpharm.com.