Growing Ideas: Highlights from RHS Hampton Court

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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This week, we're coming to you from the stunning RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival 2025; the UK’s most spectacular summer celebration of all things green, growing, and gloriously garden-inspired! Join us as we dive into the cutting-edge sustainability solutions, and thought-provoking exhibits that reveal how gardening connects us to nature, to each other, and to ourselves. We explore the Healer’s Hollow, where ancient plant-based healing traditions are brought back to life, and visit Surrey County Council’s visionary garden, which imagines a greener, more sustainable urban future. Along the way, we hear from passionate exhibitors and garden designers about how we can support endangered garden wildlife—and they share their top tips for keeping your garden thriving, even in this summer’s scorching heat. Hosts: Guy Barter, Mellissa Mabbitt, Tom Howard Contributors: Jude Yeo, Emily Grayshaw, Lilly Gomm, Coralie Thomas, Adrian Thomas, Alan Partridge, Helen Currie, Tom Pilgrim, Laura Strand, Sam Stark-Kemp, Henry T Pope Links: Visit RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival RHS Healers Hollow Garden RSPB and RHS Swift Garden Surrey County Council: Reclaiming spaces, creating healthy streets garden Hot Pocket, City Pocket Planting Garden Teucer Wilson: Green the Gap Garden, City Pocket Planting Welcoming Wildlife, City Pocket Planting Garden

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0:00.0	I'm walking down the path in my garden and I have a suggestion for you and how you could help with global warming.
0:09.0	With a large lawn I found a simple way of making a big difference.
0:13.0	I sold my ride on mower and bought a top of the range Cress robotic lawnmower.
0:19.0	It runs off rechargeable batteries and uses cutting-edge technology to mow and maintain a lawn this size.
0:25.6	The petrol mower has gone, and with it, the emissions.
0:29.6	I actually don't know why I didn't sell the right on sooner.
0:32.6	With the Cress robotic lawn mower, the lawn is actually looking better.
0:36.6	The tiny grass cuttings fall into the grass roots, helping to fertilise the grass.
0:41.6	And the family doesn't have to put up with the noise and fumes from the ride on.
0:45.8	And I've freed up more of my time to spend with them and in the garden.
0:50.1	It's an easy step.
0:52.0	And you could also be making that change today.
0:55.2	Ask for Cress in your local garden machinery dealer, or visit cress.com.
1:05.2	Hello and a very warm welcome to the RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival 2025,
1:15.6	the UK's most spectacular summer celebration of all things green, growing and gloriously garden-inspired.
1:21.6	For 35 years, the historic grounds of Hampton Court Palace steeped in Tudor history have been
1:29.3	transformed into a horticultural wonderland full of visionary garden design and dazzling floral
1:34.7	displays.
1:36.7	We'll be exploring cutting-edge sustainability solutions and thought-provoking exhibits that explore
1:42.0	the powerful ways gardening connects us to nature,
1:45.5	to each other and to ourselves.
1:47.2	I'm Guy Bart, Chief Horticulturalist at the RHS, and in this very special festival edition
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