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The Back to Nature Garden for RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival has been unveiled

First look at the RHS Back to Nature Garden.

Jennifer Ebert
By Jennifer Ebert
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The RHS Back to Nature Garden, co-designed by HRH The Duchess of Cambridge and Landscape Architects Andree Davies and Adam White, for this year’s RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival (1-7 July) has been unveiled today.

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The Garden continues to encourage families and communities to engage with nature and spend time in the great outdoors.

Back to Nature garden

The RHS Back to Nature Garden. Designed by HRH The Duchess of Cambridge with Andree Davies and Adam White. RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival 2019.
(Image credit: RHS / Joanna Kossak)

The design is inspired by the original garden at RHS Chelsea with many of the key features such as the waterfall, dens and hollow log returning, 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 support The Duchess of Cambridge’s work 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.

Back to Nature garden

(Image credit: RHS / Joanna Kossak)

Unlike the Back to Nature Garden that featured at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2019, this space features new elements including a pond, a hidden burrow, as well as the bee-friendly meadow that covers the hill.

These environments have been installed to enable children to develop skills for life through free play, building confidence, strength, creativity and resilience.

Back to Nature garden

(Image credit: RHS / Joanna Kossak)

Sue Biggs, RHS Director General, says: 'It’s wonderful this collaboration with HRH The Duchess of Cambridge continues and carries on inspiring families to get together and enjoy the great outdoors and get back to nature!

'The impact of the RHS Back to Nature Garden at Chelsea resulted in a record month for RHS Membership, with over 12,000 people joining us in May to support our charitable work and get outside gardening. This is incredibly positive and shows how powerful this collaboration is, really motivating people to garden, grow and access outside space and nature, which is good for their health and also for the environment and for wildlife.

Back to Nature garden

(Image credit: RHS / Joanna Kossak)

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'RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival has a much more laid back feeling than RHS Chelsea and two children up to age 16 can visit free per paying adult, so we hope lots of families will come and join in the fun, be inspired and then go home and garden together.'

And what's more, after the RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival, many of the plants, some of the trees, the hollow log, the dens and other key elements from the RHS Back to Nature Garden will go to their final destination, to be part of a new children’s garden, at RHS Garden Wisley, in Surrey.

Jennifer Ebert
Jennifer Ebert
Deputy Editor (Digital)

Jennifer is the Digital Editor at Homes & Gardens. Having worked in the interiors industry for a number of years, spanning many publications, she now hones her digital prowess on the 'best interiors website' in the world. Multi-skilled, Jennifer has worked in PR and marketing, and the occasional dabble in the social media, commercial and e-commerce space. Over the years, she has written about every area of the home, from compiling design houses from some of the best interior designers in the world to sourcing celebrity homes, reviewing appliances and even the odd news story or two.


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