How to translate the show garden look into a small garden, a middle-sized back yard or a difficult garden corner. Or just enjoy seeing the gardens! Be inspired by 10 top ideas from the show gardens at RHS Hampton Court Garden Festival.
For more RHS shows: https://www.rhs.org.uk/shows-events
0:00 Welcome
0:51 Charlie’s Courtyard Garden designed by Jane Scott Moncreiff
0:57 The Ability Garden by Tony Wagstaff and Ben Wincott
1:09 Cultivate London in the allotment part of the show
1:16 The Punk Rockery Garden by Amanda Grimes
1:20 Get Up and Grow Garden by Lucy Hutchings
1:30 Manicured lawns and borders are being replaced by naturalistic planting and paths.
1:35 Garden for a Green Future by Jamie Butterworth. The plants in the foreground are Helianthus salicifolius.
1:39 The blue flowers are Aster frikarti ‘Monch’
1:44 Blue flowers include Salvia pratensis (Meadow sage)
2:15 (and elsewhere) Hardy’s Cottage Garden Plants suppliers of perennial plants online and from the nursery: https://www.youtube.com/user/HardysCottageGarden
2:31 RHS Garden for a Green Future by Jamie Butterworth
2:36 RHS Iconic Horticultural Hero Garden by Tom Stuart-Smith
3:21 Know where your plants come from – buy local if possible
The Independent Plant Nurseries Guide (UK) http://independentplantnurseriesguide.uk/
The British Plant Nursery Guide: http://britishplantnurseryguide.co.uk/
3:42 Border from the RHS Iconic Horticultural Hero Garden. The tall spiky plants are Perovskia ‘Blue Spire’
3:53 The purple plant far right is probably Salvia ‘Dear Anja’ or Salvia ‘Amethyst’
4:08 The Sunnyside Rural Trust https://www.sunnysideruraltrust.org.uk/
4:34 Why you benefit from buying locally grown plants or plants from specialist nurseries
5:03 ‘Natural’ looking paths instead of hard landscaping
5:24 Adapting the ‘natural path’ look to a small garden
5:35 No lawn or re-wild your lawn
6:22 The Viking Friluftsliv Garden by Will Williams
6:47 Multi-stemmed trees and shrubs to create light and planting space at ground level
6:59 The Viking Friluftsliv Garden
7:08 The Communication Garden by Amelia Bouquet
7:40 Mix patterns when laying pavers and terraces
8:03 APL A Place to Meet Again Garden by Mike Long
8:10 Long narrow ponds to save space
8:17 The Communication Garden
8:46 Recycle, upcycle and re-use – don’t waste anything
8:52 The Bird and Blend Tea Co garden
8:55 The Land Gardeners – Climate Compost
9:08 Mike Long Garden Design: https://www.mikelonggardendesign.com/
10:34 The Punk Rockery Garden is designed by Amanda Grimes
11:06 Outdoor kitchens are at the top of the luxury shopping list
11:21 The video with Dan Cooper’s outdoor kitchen tips is here: https://youtu.be/SSG9B8Em0Mk
11:22 Kitchen by Canopies & Kitchens
11:28 No Dig/No Till goes mainstream
11:34
11:47 How No Dig Works for Flower Borders, interview with Charles Dowding: https://youtu.be/MqfFOdup8Wc
Stephanie Hafferty No Dig Home: https://nodighome.com/blog-posts/
12:00 Mix vegetables with flowers
12:05 Get Up And Grow Garden by Lucy Hutchings https://www.shegrowsveg.com/
12:17 Video about edible flowers with Tanya of Lovely Greens: https://youtu.be/nOr_Sqj7pDc
12:34 Friends of Ascott Allotments
12:51 The Punk Rockery by Amanda Grimes
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30 Comments
Good morning, wow a wealth of information pack in your video,appreciate all the resources.
Clover is becoming popular for lawns in Ontario Canada
Thank you, lovely video. I’d really appreciate a video on garden focal points for small spaces- I love your topiary with the lavender around it, but I only have a narrow corridor of a garden and at the moment it’s quite hard to stop the eye wander to the garden fence at the end of the garden. Thank you!
Int'resting, as per ux! 🌿
I like be the ideas here. Reused, recycled and sustainable gardening are all ideas we should be taking into the future. Great video! Thank you 💜
Anybody know what the blackish purple salvia is at 6:10? It's gorgeous!
Great points, have a look at more gardens from Hampton Court and interesting tips on YouTube Bunny Guinness RHS HAmpton court Show gardens Part 1.
Mike Long APL Garden – LOVE IT!
Oooh, brilliant. Thank you for this.
Great vlog as always. Really appreciate the time and thought you put into keeping us all up to date
I just love that misty blue-purple flower planting with Russian sage and coneflowers, Salvia, Definitely will try that here.
Good message to buy local
Great examples! Thanks
Another wonderful and insightful YouTube post. So many helpful tips that I plan to use in my garden in the US. Thank you!
Thank you so much♥️
I adore a good lawn and am willing to put the work in just to look at that sea of green and feel instantly calm. Lying down on a lawn, or even just grounding to mother earth by sitting with bare feet and hands is so beneficial for our health. I am just about finished landscaping my garden, and I have left an area of lawn that I will allow to grow wild, because this will in effect be a bunny room for my indoor free-roaming bunnies, somewhere they can come out to for some fresh air, a good run and a nibble on dandelions etc.
I used no-dig to create my front lawn in November 2020; even though most people say you shouldnt grow grass in the winter, but mine started growing within 2 weeks of seeding and I am very happy with it. It was a lovely and easy way of getting a lush soil to plant in.
Fabulous video. Thank you so much. DA (Vancouver, WA)
Any chance you know what plant it is at the 5:30 mark? The purple looking one.
My husband looked out at our back garden one day and asked, "Didn't we use to have grass?" Indeed there had been grass, but I had created beds for small trees and roses, some herbs and vegetables,, plus a center patch of pine bark chips for 2 chaises. In the front,, I had also started to build beds for camellias, daylilies, plumbago, daffodils, agapanthus, and hydrangeas, with large beds of ground cover under the trees. My husband didn't say anything, but I could tell he was catching on. Since he refused to do yard work, he couldn't complain. In fact he liked the new garden. I even gave my cousin a book called "Requiem for a Lawnmover." My campaign against grass had begun. Now in Austin, Texas, I have no grass. I do have flowers and passersby who tell me how much they love the garden I created. The bees and butterflies are happy too.
Compliments! The research and writing process for your video scripts must be immense!
This was great !! Love your videos! This one was one of favorites. What a great group of gardens, ideas and gardeners to dig into. Speaking of multi-stemmed shrubs new Vitex on the block flipside is great from all angles 😉 THANK YOU LOVE WATCHING
Have to agree with other comment your voice is very calming…what a great teacher .
Thank you Alexandra, great ideas for recycling and re purposing.
If you are gardening in the humid south you can not plant the plants so close. This would grow mold….
Pronounce Friluftsliv like this: Free Lufts (as in tufts with an L)-Live (as in give withe a L). Then you are almost right//A swede
I believe Woman called Ester Deans pioneered the No Dig Garden in Australia
Watching this a bit late in the day, just looking forward to spring and keep going into the garden to peer at the borders to look for signs of life. Love all of your videos, very cheering in gloomy Colchester
Another fabulous video. You strike the perfect balance between information, inspiration and making it all relatable and accessible! Thank you!
New subscriber! I’m binge watching your videos and loving them ❤️ I’ve moved house and got a medium sized garden (1/4 acre) and I haven’t looked after a garden before so need lots of tips! At the moment it’s very badly maintained lawn. 😱