Inspo & ideas from RHS Hampton Court 2024. A Garden Festival in an iconic setting with plenty of places to rest your feet and soak up the atmosphere.
Walking from the station to the show takes you not just past the Hampton Court Palace, but through the golden gates into the restored Privy Garden. Although this is only one of the public entrances, I feel it is the most impressive. From the Privy Garden, visitors are directed through to the Great Fountain Garden. Walking between the avenues of Yew trees trained in the fashionable shape of a goosefoot, the Palace behind and the promise of RHS Hampton Court Garden Festival ahead is a delight. And, I might add, much less stressful than dodging the golf balls on the route to the exhibitors entrance!
RHS Hampton Court 2024 – The Plews View
What I’d like to do here is to give you a personal, Plews view, of some of the gardens and planting, nursery and trade stands that caught our eyes. A largely pictorial blog, With ideas to inspire you for your own garden.
How this article is set out: Firstly all the gardens and features are listed in in alphabetical in their categories for a quick reference for you. Then each category has a gallery of photos. And I’ve thrown in some interesting facts about the show too.
RHS Hampton Court 2024 – the Gardens List
It’s good to see so many smaller gardens as I sometimes think these are easier for many people to relate to and take away ideas from. Sometimes we can be overwhelmed by the sheer wow factor of the larger show gardens. Although having said that, it’s possible to walk through many of them, so you can get up close and be inspired.
RHS Feature Gardens and Installations
- Adventure within Garden
- Britain in Bloom 60th Anniversary
- Money Saving Garden
- Peat-free Garden
Show Gardens
- Explore Charleston Garden
- Garden of Renewal Nature’s Embrace
- Lion King Anniversary Garden
- Match Point Garden
- Oregon Garden
- Sounds of Adventure Garden
- The Lighthouse Garden
- The Way of Saint James
Get Started Gardens
- A Four Season Sanctuary
- Climate-Forward Garden
- Making Sense Garden
- Mediterranean Garden
- Moss Magic
Resilient Pocket Planting
- Buglife The B-Lines Garden
- Edible Garden at Berkley Castle
- Moonshadow Moth Garden
- Our forgotten Neighbours Growing Resilience with Food Forests
- Strive and Thrive
- The Ripple Effect Rain Garden
- University of Sheffield Beautifully Stressed Garden
- Wild Child Cornwall
- Winds of Change
All About Asteraceae
- A Reinvention of Yellow
- A Summer Haze
- A Walk Along the River
- Fabulous Foliage
- For the Birds
- Healing Power
- The Flower Power Field
And not forgetting –
- Festival of Roses
- Partner Gardens
- RHS Allotments
- School Bug Barrels
Inspo & Ideas from RHS Hampton Court 2024 – Pictures!
Not all of the gardens in detail but the bits that especially stood out for us and I feel might inspire you for your own garden.
Resilience was a key theme running through the gardens large and small. Sustainable planting, permeable surfaces, recycling of materials all played a part.
RHS Feature Gardens and Installations
Show Gardens
Get Started Gardens
Fun Facts about Hampton Court Show
The first Hampton Court show was held in 1990 – but it wasn’t RHS. The flower show was organised by Historic Royal Palaces (HRP) and Network Southeast. Hampton Court Palace is run by HRP. For the very first Hampton Court Show, Network Southeast laid on special trains from Waterloo and the railway porters wore carnations in their hats. (I remember that!)
But Network Southeast only supported the show until 1992. The successor was of course – the RHS. Which means that the first RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show was held in 1993. (Which is why 2023 was the 30th Anniversary)
A further change happened in 2019 with a renaming. Previously it had been the RHS Hampton Court Flower Show but it became the RHS Hampton Court Garden Festival.
Garden Festival rather than Flower Show helps to differentiate Hampton Court from the Royal Horticultural Society’s other large London show at Chelsea. But more to the point it incorporates the different ethos and atmosphere. Not only is there room for the gardens themselves to spread out but it enables them to offer the opportunity to walk through them. It does make a huge difference to the visitors’ experience when you can get up close.
Roses, roses and more roses! The Festival of Roses marquee makes the most of the fact that one of the nations’ favourite flowers is at its blooming peak in early July.
And talking of flowers – more flowers are sold per square mile at the show than anywhere else in the UK.
The show will be at Hampton Court in 2025, then 2027 and every other year after that.
Inspo & Ideas from RHS Hampton Court 2024 – More Pictures
These are the smaller gardens and displays
Resilient Pocket Planting
All About Asteraceae
More Gardens and Floral Displays
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eBooks – Summer Sale now on!
If you’d like to view previous years at RHS Hampton Court Flower Show this eBook is a convenient and pleasant way to do so, Click here for RHS Hampton Court vol 1 (vol 2 is in process)
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