Hampton Court Palace Flower Show ep. 4 2018
Joe Swift, Jo Whiley and team continue their tour of the RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show. Toby Buckland reveals his top al fresco design tips, Adam Frost takes a look around a garden with its own bar, Frances Tophill shows how to create impressive summer containers, and Arit Anderson enjoys the outdoor life in a Scandinavian-inspired garden.
Also joining them tonight is Carol Klein, who finds out about new varieties of hydrangeas, Juliet Sargeant explores the importance of grasses and seed heads, Mark Lane looks at a perennial favourite, rose, and Nick Bailey speaks to one of the leading garden designers of our time, Piet Oudolf, who has been named the RHS Horticultural Hero of 2018.
The Hampton Court Palace Flower Show is the largest flower show in the world. The Show is held in early July, and run by the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) at Hampton Court Palace in southwest London. The show features show gardens, floral marquees and pavilions, talks and demonstrations. Erected on the north and south sides of the Long Water in Hampton Court Park, it is the second major national show after the Chelsea Flower Show but has a different character, focusing more on environmental issues, growing your own food and vegetables and cookery, while also offering opportunities to buy gardening accessories, plants and flowers.
The Hampton Court Palace Flower Show was the brainchild of the management consultant Adrian Boyd, who saw an opportunity to connect two organisations facing times of uncertainty in a joint venture. The Department of the Environment had been dismembered in the 1980s, and one of the cuttings was Historic Royal Palaces, which found itself looking for ways of increasing revenue and attracting a larger audience.
Similarly, Network SouthEast, one of the temporary aggregations thrown up by the pre-privatisation of British Rail, was looking for ways of making its rail services more profitable. Boyd's idea was that Network Southeast should sponsor a flower show at Hampton Court, and provide the public transport to Hampton Court railway station. At the time the RHS Shows Department was working on four new events for 1993, in Birmingham, Harrogate, Wembley, and Glasgow.
Also joining them tonight is Carol Klein, who finds out about new varieties of hydrangeas, Juliet Sargeant explores the importance of grasses and seed heads, Mark Lane looks at a perennial favourite, rose, and Nick Bailey speaks to one of the leading garden designers of our time, Piet Oudolf, who has been named the RHS Horticultural Hero of 2018.
Hampton Court Palace Flower Show ep. 4 2018
The Hampton Court Palace Flower Show is the largest flower show in the world. The Show is held in early July, and run by the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) at Hampton Court Palace in southwest London. The show features show gardens, floral marquees and pavilions, talks and demonstrations. Erected on the north and south sides of the Long Water in Hampton Court Park, it is the second major national show after the Chelsea Flower Show but has a different character, focusing more on environmental issues, growing your own food and vegetables and cookery, while also offering opportunities to buy gardening accessories, plants and flowers.
The Hampton Court Palace Flower Show was the brainchild of the management consultant Adrian Boyd, who saw an opportunity to connect two organisations facing times of uncertainty in a joint venture. The Department of the Environment had been dismembered in the 1980s, and one of the cuttings was Historic Royal Palaces, which found itself looking for ways of increasing revenue and attracting a larger audience.
Similarly, Network SouthEast, one of the temporary aggregations thrown up by the pre-privatisation of British Rail, was looking for ways of making its rail services more profitable. Boyd's idea was that Network Southeast should sponsor a flower show at Hampton Court, and provide the public transport to Hampton Court railway station. At the time the RHS Shows Department was working on four new events for 1993, in Birmingham, Harrogate, Wembley, and Glasgow.
