Hampton Court Shorts (1/3) Lifestyle Gardens

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2018

⏱️ 5 minutes

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To mark the centenary of the first female suffrage in the UK, the RHS asked four female designers, all aged under 30, to create gardens to resonate with different lifestyles and reflect the owner's personality and way of life. It's the ideal category for visitors wanting ideas to create a garden at home that they can fall in love with, as Show Manager Gemma Lake and designer Lilly Gomm explain. For more info and useful links see www.rhs.org.uk/podcast

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0:00.0	Get your tickets for the greatest show in Earth at an RHS garden near you.
0:06.4	Where nature puts on an unforgettable performance of colour and fragrance to delight your senses.
0:13.2	Inspire your gardening adventures and entertain your own little stars.
0:17.4	Race you, let's go.
0:19.5	Catch Springs finest scenes while you can at an RHS garden near you.
0:24.0	Book tickets online for discounts.
0:26.1	Plus under fives go free and under 16s of five pounds.
0:31.6	I'm Catherine Potts-CDs, the head of show's development for the RHS, and you're listening
0:36.2	to exclusive sneak previews behind the
0:38.4	scenes at the biggest flower show on earth. We're celebrating gardening at its best in the height of
0:42.6	summer in the stunning setting of Hampton Court Palace. Today we're hearing all about the lifestyle
0:48.4	gardens. These are four gardens new to the show this year, all designed by women and they are
0:52.9	designed to suit the way you live today.
0:55.4	We've got a health and well-being garden, a garden that's an entertaining space, one that celebrates
1:00.1	style and design, and a fantastic family garden space.
1:05.1	Hi, I'm Gemma Lake. I'm the RHS Hampton Court Palace show manager.
1:08.9	We've got a new garden category this year. It's really
1:11.2	exciting. It's called Lifestyle Gardens. We have four gardens that have been designed by four
1:15.7	young female designers and they've each been given a mini brief looking at a different lifestyle
1:22.3	aspects. So for example, family gardens, entertaining or style design, and the other one is health and
1:29.0	well-being. And they've each taken that brief and created a really beautiful garden. It's a reasonable
1:34.6	sized one. It's an eight-by-eight, so it's a size that most people can relate to, and they've done
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