About the garden
Our garden’s core mission is to support urban trees— they filter air pollution, cool cities, support wildlife, and boost community wellbeing. Yet, they face immense challenges particularly from climate stress.
- 30% of urban trees die in their first year
- 50% of urban tress don’t survive beyond 10 years
- 50 years for a tree to reach its ecological peak
- 16 years on average to reach carbon neutrality
Technology can be a partner for urban tree caretakers
To preserve and enhance the benefits of urban trees, cities must implement resilient planting strategies, prioritize species diversity, and invest in maintenance and protection efforts. Technology can be a partner for good to help solve these problems.
The garden is equipped with sensors that track tree health—monitoring growth, sap flow, soil conditions, air quality, and weather patterns. AI analyses this data, spotting trends and predicting future conditions to provide simple, actionable advice.
You can talk to the trees! Through this web-based app, visitors can have one-on-one conversations with the trees, learning what specific care they need and how they are faring. Trees will even alert their custodians if they anticipate issues like over- or under-watering. Rather than relying on automated irrigation systems or robotic gardeners, trees are empowered to provide insights that enable human custodians to make sustainable, resource-efficient decisions.
Our goal is to empower urban tree caretakers with a tool that delivers actionable insights, supporting sustainable, long-term decision-making for the health of the urban forest.
This garden is an experiment, but we hope it sparks a new conversation about the future of urban tree care. By combining nature and technology, we can give trees a better chance to thrive in our cities and provide their caretakers, whether it's school children with a new tree in their playground or developers with thousands of trees across a new housing estate, with better understanding of the needs of the trees.. Our urban trees are vitally important and should be here for generations to come.