The RHS Hampton Court Flower Show Festival of Roses is a firm favourite with show-goers and is certainly always high on my list of priorities. The sumptuous smell when you enter the Rose Marquee is unequalled anywhere and the sight of all those wonderful blooms, brought to the peak of perfection for the show, is a rose lovers heaven.The exotic and playful win out at Hampton Court
Thursday, 08 July 2010 18:33
Sandy Felton reports from the RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show 2010.
Variety is certainly a key word in describing the gardens that visitors can expect at the RHS Hampton Court Flower Show and the 2010 show has variety in abundance. Set against the fabulous backdrop of Hampton Court Palace the site is perfect for an enjoyable and interesting day out where garden lovers can get together, be inspired and challenged by emerging trends and ideas.
One garden which is sure to attract a lot of attention at this year’s RHS Hampton Court Flower Show is the Girlguiding UK Centenary Garden, which has been designed by Philippa Pearson. The garden will reflect the period of planting at the start of the movement in the UK in 1909 and Philippa spent more than a few hours in the Royal Horticultural Society’s Lindley Library researching plants that were in cultivation in that period or earlier.
Designer Sadie May Stowell writes about her garden for Hampton Court and its important message about the predicament of our bees.
The world’s largest annual gardening show is renowned for providing a taste of the good life, with more ‘grow your own’ inspiration than any other. In recent years RHS Hampton Court has also gained a reputation for providing some of the world’s best conceptual gardens and the show itself, set against the backdrop of the magnificent Hampton Court Palace, is pure delight for gardeners.
