See all 29 gardens at RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival
There are 29 inspiring gardens at this year's Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival, with take-home ideas on budget friendly gardening, resilient planting and sustainable practices.
Previously known as the Hampton Court Flower Show, the famous gardening event is back (2nd - 7th July 2024) offering a number of garden exhibits big and small. This year there are eight Show Gardens, five Get Started Gardens, four Feature Gardens, nine Pocket Planting gardens and three Show Features – so there's lots of inspiration to be had!
Minus the Feature Gardens and Show Features, the gardens undergo a rigorous judging process, in the same way as the Chelsea Flower Show, to determine who will be awarded either a Gold, Silver-Gilt, Silver or Bronze medal, as well as Best in Show.
Juliet Sargeant's Lion King Anniversary Garden has scooped three awards, alongside a Silver-Gilt medal, making it the most successful garden at this year's show.
Recap the Best In Show winners:
Best Show Garden: The Lion King Anniversary Garden
Best Get Started Garden: The Mediterraneo Garden
Best Resilient Pocket Planting: Winds of Change
Best Construction (Show Garden): Exodus Adventure Travels: The Sounds of Adventure Garden
Best Construction (Get Started Garden): The Mediterraneo Garden
RHS Environmental Innovation Award: The Lion King Anniversary Garden
And there's more: voting for the People's Choice Award is now open, so head to rhs.org.uk to vote for your favourite gardens.
Explore all the garden designs and winners below...
The Lion King Anniversary Garden designed by Juliet Sargeant
SHOW GARDEN
• Silver-gilt medal | Best in Show | RHS Environmental Innovation Award
Created to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Disney’s The Lion King in London's West End, this garden is inspired by the African landscapes where the story is set. The circle motif promotes balance and harmony, while a dry hedge offers a protected sanctuary for visitors to sit and reflect on their own journey through the 'Circle of Life'.
Exodus Adventure Travels: The Sounds of Adventure Garden designed by Nic Howard
SHOW GARDEN
• Silver-Gilt medal | Best Construction Award
Designed to engage all senses, a central building levitates above this garden with pollinator-friendly planting, while a watercourse streams throughout, supporting biodiversity.
The Explore Charleston Garden designed by Sadie May Stowell
SHOW GARDEN
• Silver medal
Celebrating the naturally biodiverse wild wetland areas of Charleston and traditional pocket gardens, this design features manicured hedges and symmetrical patterns, alongside the free-flowing beauty of Lowcountry grasses and flora.
Lancaster’s Garden of Renewal, Nature’s Embrace designed by Giada Francois
SHOW GARDEN
• Silver medal
With meandering pathways and secluded seating areas, this garden displays a vibrant tapestry of colours and textures, carefully arranged to evoke a sense of tranquillity and wonder. Biodiversity, sustainability and healing are key themes here.
The Lighthouse Garden designed by Tracy Harman and Tony Wagstaff
SHOW GARDEN
• Bronze medal
With a nautical theme, this colourful garden features planting and hard landscaping to stimulate the senses. It's been created for its forever home at The Lighthouse Child Development Centre in Essex, a facility that offers services for children and young people who have neurodevelopmental and neurodisability disorders.
Bond Landscape Design: Match Point designed by Oliver Bond
SHOW GARDEN
This design explores how a tennis court and clubhouse can be a subtle addition to a garden without compromising the landscape’s flora and fauna.
Oregon Garden designed by Sadie May Stowell
SHOW GARDEN
This garden depicts the natural beauty of the state of Oregon, with wildflower planting, natural crisp clear waterfalls and forest planting. A central water feature is surrounded by huge boulders, and stepping stones lead through and across the water.
The Way Of Saint James designed by Nilufer Danis
SHOW GARDEN
• Silver medal
This garden draws inspiration from St. James, the patron saint of Spain, and pilgrims’ journey to Santiago de Compostela. Central to this design is a pilgrim statue, water fountain and woodland planting.
The Mediterraneo Garden designed by Katerina Kantalis
GET STARTED GARDEN
• Gold medal | Best Get Started Garden | Best Construction Award
Inspired by the Mediterranean and the warmth and vibrancy of Greek landscapes, this garden is full of rustic charm, from terracotta pots and natural limestone features, to the practicality of permeable landscaping and gravel pathways.
A Four Season Sanctuary designed by Tim Jennings
GET STARTED GARDEN
• Silver-Gilt medal
Biodiversity is central to this garden, which combines modern design with traditional materials and naturalistic planting (including swathes of meadow grasses).
Moss Magic Garden designed by Bea Tann
GET STARTED GARDEN
• Silver medal
Harnessing the power of moss in an urban garden, a moss lawn encourages eco-friendly gardening, while sunken seating allows visitors to be immersed in the woodland-inspired planting.
The Climate-Forward Garden designed by Melanie Hick
GET STARTED GARDEN
• Silver-Gilt medal
Influenced by how Australian garden design has evolved to cope with the demands of harsh climate conditions like drought and flooding rains, this garden shows how to reduce water use and add more reclaimed materials within a beautiful space.
The Making Sense Garden designed by Flora Scouarnec and Victoria Pease-Cox
GET STARTED GARDEN
• Silver medal
With a sensory theme (designed specifically for people with smell and taste disorders in mind), this garden is divided into two levels, with multi-stemmed trees and a secluded sunken area.
RHS Britain in Bloom 60th Anniversary: Gardening for People and Planet designed by Jon and James Wheatley
FEATURE GARDEN
Designed by father and son duo, Jon and James Wheatley, this garden celebrates the positive impacts of community gardening, encapsulating the last 60 years of Bloom, from its inception in the 1960s, to the current day.
RHS Money-Saving Garden designed by Anya Lautenbach and Jamie Butterworth
FEATURE GARDEN
Showing how to grow plants for free (from propagation to repurposing), this budget-friendly garden also demonstrates how nurturing plants is good for your health and wellbeing, and the planet.
RHS Peat-Free Garden designed by Arit Anderson
FEATURE GARDEN
Full of colour and texture, naturalistic planting mimics an untouched peatland before transitioning into a domestic garden with shaded and sun-loving borders and beds. There's also a greenhouse with upcycled windows and two large water butts collecting rainwater.
RHS Adventure Within Garden designed by Freddie Strickland
FEATURE GARDEN
Encouraging adventure, exploration and curiosity through two different zones, contrasting scales and atmosphere, the objects found in this garden gently play with a sense of scale, encouraging a shift in perceptions of the surrounding environment.
Buglife: The B–Lines Garden designed by Hayley Herridge
POCKET PLANTING
• Gold medal
Bursting with wildflowers and ornamentals, this pollinator patch promotes ‘B-Lines’, a network of ‘insect pathways’ stretching across the UK that, in time, will provide corridors of nectar-rich habitat for bees and other pollinators.
The Edible Garden at Berkeley Castle designed by Becky Box
POCKET PLANTING
• Silver medal
Inspired by Berkeley Castle in South Gloucestershire, this plot features a gravel herb garden, with various edible plants and trees. The gravel feature is made from crushed brick and whelk shells – a sustainable alternative to quarried gravel.
The Moonshadow Moth Garden designed by Sarah Mayfield
POCKET PLANTING
• Silver-Gilt medal
This garden plot explores the theme of resilience with a day-to-night garden that supports and celebrates the unsung nocturnal heroes of pollination: moths.
Our Forgotten Neighbours: Growing Resilience with Food Forests designed by Marina Lindl
POCKET PLANTING
• Gold medal
This pocket garden – inspired by the charity, Our Forgotten Neighbours, which provides healthy, nutritious meals to those who cannot afford them – is a compact food forest with multi-layered, edible plants providing wholesome, nutrient-rich food to a community.
Strive and Thrive designed by Ssh Scapes
POCKET PLANTING
• Silver-Gilt medal
Imagining the aftermath of a catastrophic meteor strike, this plot features a vibrant array of colourful plants to bring back the pollinators, birds and wildlife to heal the land.
University of Sheffield: Beautifully Stressed Garden designed by Xun Xie, Jingwen Liu, Awika Butnark, Andrew McMaster
POCKET PLANTING
• Silver medal
This garden celebrates the resilience of plants that adapt to stressful environments, with a lively mix of plants arranged naturalistically – to suggest self-sown annuals and perennials have colonised the space.
Wild Child Cornwall designed by Victoria Jane Cucknell
POCKET PLANTING
• Silver-Gilt medal
A colourful space with strong three-dimensional qualities, this tiny garden features a series of sculptural live willow forms sitting among wildly planted sensory, edible and textural plants.
Winds of Change designed by James Miller, Marko Yau and Saachi Parasrampuria
POCKET PLANTING
• Gold medal | Best Resilient Pocket Planting
This climate resilient coastal pocket includes found objects used as sculptural elements that’s been sourced ethically from the shoreline of Jaywick in Essex.
The Ripple Effect Rain Garden designed by Sarah Cotterill, Wild Atlantic Gardens
POCKET PLANTING
• Silver medal
Inspired by the designer’s experience as a water engineer and the growing challenge of managing extremes of rainfall, this plot seeks to inspire homeowners to future-proof their gardens, by capturing and using rainwater to prevent the negative effects of stormwater run-off.
Denmans Garden: Room Outside designed by Gwendolyn van Paasschen and Jonathan Arnold
SHOW FEATURES
Award-winning Denmans Garden is the former home and garden of the late John Brookes MBE, regarded as one of Britain’s most influential landscape designers and garden design authors. The famous garden features dry riverbeds, gravel gardens and unusual plants, so this RHS Hampton design offers a snapshot of John's contemporary country garden.
Furzey Gardens – Reflective Waters of Inclusivity designed by Andrew Bentley
SHOW FEATURES
This garden represents the peaceful lake and waterfall area at Furzey Gardens, an RHS Partner garden which is tended and maintained by people with learning disabilities. The waters are surrounded by informal planting which includes hostas, ligularia and ferns.
Formal Gardening for Wildlife designed by RHS Garden Wisley horticulturists
SHOW FEATURES
Showcasing a blend of formality and relaxed modern cottage-style planting, this garden displays all the creative ways that wildlife can be encouraged into the most formal of gardens.
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