During June and July I helped garden designer Jayne Thomas build her Hampton Court Flower Show garden Celebration & Jubilation, one of the 'Summer Gardens' at this years RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show 2012 .
It was a great experience, hard work, but very interesting to learn the ropes of sourcing and selecting the plants and getting the garden from the plot of bare mud to the finished show garden.
The beginning, on Monday 18th June, we arrived to an oblong cut out of the turf marking the spot of our garden plot. Sized to the finished garden plan, we set to marking out the centre and the key elements of the design, namely a central, circular area which will become a hard surface for a seat and surrounded by 'swathes of patriotic planting'.
The design taking shape - the circular shape and path in prepared with a bed of scalpings surrounded by a cemented edging of sandstone bricks. And in the back ground, the gazebo to protect us from the rain, that never seemed to stop!
A view of the finished garden, finally in a rare moment of sun during the show!!
The reflecting water pools looked great surrounded by grasses and Iris.
In the centre of the garden a beautiful 'Jubilee' seat made by Gaze Burvill that attracted lots of enquiries.
The garden during the show, with the bunting flying and what seemed like millions of people all asking questions and interested in the garden. We got lots of comments about how pretty the planting was in the garden which was great after all the hard work to build it, especially given the challenges of our English summer weather we had to contend with too!
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