RHS Back to Nature Garden

Hampton Court Garden Festival 2019 saw me planting up two show gardens including the RHS Back to Nature Garden, throughout the two weeks before the show opened. Co-designed by HRH The Duchess of Cambridge, Adam White and Andrée Davies of Davies White Landscape Architects, the design was inspired by the original RHS Garden featured at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2019.

Many of the key features such as the waterfall, dens and hollow log returned to Hampton Court, alongside new elements including a wildflower meadow, rolling hill and summer planting.

As with the original RHS Back to Nature Garden, this garden aims to highlight how time spent in natural environments can help in building the foundations for positive physical and mental wellbeing that last through childhood and over a lifetime. These environments enable children to develop skills for life through active play, building confidence, strength, creativity and resilience.

In addition to the physical and mental health benefits of being in nature, spending quality time with parents and carers outside has a valuable impact on children’s early development.

As the garden was an RHS Feature Garden it was not judged.