Planet-friendly gardening at the RHS Tatton

The RHS is encouraging visitors to its Flower Show Tatton Park to start planet-friendly gardening this summer.

The BBC’s Sow, Grow and Show garden, created by broadcaster Joe Swift, garden will include a vegetable patch and cut flower garden as well as grasses and perennials.

A designated competition table will feature cut flower displays and weird and wonderful vegetables of all shapes and sizes.

Family friendly activities will encourage younger visitors to get their hands dirty in Homestead – where they can learn about the natural environment with Earth’s Riches, a display that explores the wonders of soil and how to create the perfect compost from waste food.

Discover cleverly accessible wildlife-friendly planting schemes with Community Borders, made by local gardeners and groups who have a passion for gardening and sharing their own ideas such as Widnes and District Horticultural Society and Elswick in Bloom. And the Greener Front Garden category is back with practical designs for turning small or uninspiring outdoor spaces into uplifting and sustainable plots that will be the envy of your neighbours.

The Practical Gardening Theatre will offer advice from established names such as David Domoney and big veg grower Gerald Stratford, to emerging names who are encouraging younger gardeners to go green with their tips on social media including Sinead Fenton of Aweside Farm.

Foodies will love the Taste of Tatton with talks and cooking demonstrations led by Mark Diacono and appearances by leading chefs including Adam Reid, Great British Menu Winner and Head Chef at The Midland hotel in Manchester.

The wonderful world of flowers comes to life in The Flower School with florists and cut flower growers offering their creative and sustainable design tips for making the perfect hand-tie bouquet or decorative arrangement and a Floral Forest will entice visitors into an immersive installation of trees.

Further garden designs include the RHS and BBC regional radio competition, with three amateur gardeners recreating their own personal vision of what the North West means to them – a lockside garden in Chester, the Wirral coastline and a local park in Lancashire all provide inspiration for easy to achieve planet friendly gardens at home. And the next generation of talented horticulturalists will share their future visions in the RHS Young Designers showcase.

RHS Flower Show Tatton Park takes place from 20 to 24 July 2022, tickets available from rhs.org.uk/tatton

RHS Flower Show Tatton Park 20 – 24 July 2022
20 July: RHS members, 10am – 5pm
21 – 24 July: General admission, 10am – 5pm
To book tickets visit www.rhs.org.uk/tatton

About the RHS
The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) was founded in 1804 and is the UK’s largest gardening charity.

The RHS vision is to enrich everyone’s life through plants, and make the UK a greener and more beautiful place via its inspirational gardens and shows, science research and advisory, extensive library collections and far-reaching education and community programmes. With over 600,000 members the RHS also shares its horticultural knowledge and expertise with millions of people every year through its website and publications.

In 2021, the RHS launched its Sustainability Strategy, committing to be net positive for nature and people by 2030. The supporting RHS Planet-Friendly Gardening Campaign will continue to harness the power of the UK’s 30 million gardeners to help tackle the climate and biodiversity crisis.

The RHS is solely funded by its members, visitors and supporters.

For more information visit www.rhs.org.uk