How AI may help gardens of the future

Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Help is at hand, says RHS Chelsea Flower Show gold-medallist Tom Massey, who will be designing a garden that harnesses the power of Artificial Intelligence at next year’s event. “Up-skilling people, giving them more advice, more insights and more data about their gardens can allow them to be more sustainable, to garden and grow in a way that will be better for the planet and help us combat the effects of climate change.” He predicts that AI development for gardens will not take long. In Google search you get an AI overview, so AI is here in our lives already, and I don’t think it’s going to be that long before there are systems available to gardeners that utilise a similar technology to what we are designing for Chelsea, and allow those systems to be implemented in residential homes.” He hopes that AI won’t encourage gardeners to become lazier, but does believe it will give them more time, using an analogy of analogue tools versus power tools. “I struggle to see where AI can support that, even in the near future.” The RHS will use AI to help build a knowledge bank of cultivated plants for specific uses, such as pollination, pollution capture and water management, as it launches a new five-year programme of work to commence in 2025.