Life Under the Westway comprises two main narratives - an environmental story that brings Life Under the Westway, a motorway which enables 96,000 cars overhead everyday, and a social narrative highlighting the community's experiences and injustices by posing the question, “What’s life like under the Westway?”

A helix threads through the heart of Maxilla Gardens - embedding the historical, cultural and ecological essence of the space. The two meandering paths represent the interweaving intersectionality of society and environment - with the garden, in Ladbroke Grove, a juxtaposition to the brutal edifice of the motorway above as it blooms, thrives and flourishes.

Stories of past and present are symbolised through design and material choices, whilst mass planting offers glimpses of a nature-filled future of hope and change - despite the social and environmental challenges North Kensington continues to face.

Maxilla Gardens is situated in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, adjacent to the Westway, a significant elevated dual carriageway traversing North Kensington. Constructed between 1962 and 1970, the Westway dramatically altered the local landscape, displacing homes, disrupting communities as well as local ecology. Maxilla Gardens was one of the former streets demolished to make way for the Westway. Now a green open space owned by the Westway Trust, it had been underutilised and was in need of regeneration.

2022 saw Grow to Know make its debut at RHS Chelsea Flower Show with the Hands Off Mangrove garden, followed by the smallest ever RHS Chelsea Flower Show garden in 2023 with Closing the Green Gap - Life Under the Westway: Maxilla Gardens is an extension and evolution of Grow to Know's journey in engaging RHS Chelsea Flower Show, recognising the opportunity of the flower show to build bridges with the local community, accelerate action on more social and environmental challenges, locally and globally, whilst encouraging the redistribution resource, skills and knowledge.

Grow to Know takes the position that more access to nature, for everyone, can only be a good thing for both planet and people.