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Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival2016Summer and City garden highlights

Take a closer a look at a few highlights from the Summer and City Garden categories.

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A pool reflects the importance of hydration for bowel health.

The Bowel Disease UK Garden by Andrew Fisher Tomlin & Dan Bowyer, Best Summer Garden

  • The Bowel Disease UK Garden belongs to a young Crohn’s sufferer and keen gardener.
  • A pool reflects the importance of hydration for bowel health.
  • It demonstrates how rare but hardy exotic plants, can be planted alongside more familiar UK garden plants.
  • The garden is located in a warm city microclimate
  • The Lavender Garden depicts rows of lavenders in a field.
  • Inspired by the scent and romance of lavenders grown at a dairy farm on the South Downs National Park.
  • A circular walkway leads to a hut where dried lavender is stored.
  • A natural combination of wild planting and trees, give this garden a tranquil quality.
  • This CCLA: A Summer Retreat garden is inspired by the ethos of the Arts and Crafts Movement.
  • A raised bespoke summerhouse serves as a place to relax and reflect and offers another perspective to the garden.
  • The garden embraces the values of simplicity, elegance, style and craftsmanship.
  • The planting is influenced by the naturalistic style, with freedom of growth within the borders.
  • The Drought Garden is inspired by the 40th anniversary of one of the most famous droughts of 1976.
  • Many of the plants have been chosen to attract wildlife, particularly bees and butterflies.
  • The seating area is reached by crossing a dried river bed framed by olive trees.
  • The garden is a sunny refuge from city life.
  • Streetscape’s summer in Sussex garden aims to show what can be achieved in a small urban space.
  • Inspiration has been taken from the South Downs, its walks, rivers, flora and craftsmen.
  • Two reflective channels of water frame the planting and seating areas.
  • Flint sculptures at the end of the water act as focal points framed by multi-stemmed birch trees.

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