New for 2008
The Hampton Court Palace Flower Show offers an abundance of ideas to take home. With edible delights to help you grow your own, a host of gardening products to purchase, and fun activities for children, all the family can soak up the great outdoors and be inspired at this feast of a show.
Highlights at the show
Hampton Court Palace Flower Show offers a wealth of activities to get children gardening; Growing Tastes Three distinct inspirational features about growing, and cooking an array of fruit and vegetables from the Mediterranean, Asia and Britian.
The Climate Change Dome The Met Office teamed up with RHS Garden Wisley and presented climate change and its effects on gardening in the future.
Thai Floating Market The Tourism Authority of Thailand presented this colourful spectacle, with an electric mix of colour and Thai produce along The Long Water.
Family Weekend A variety of features and fun activities on July 12 & 13 including the very first RHS Scarecrow Competition.
The Gardens
Show Gardens | Water Gardens | Small Gardens | Conceptual Gardens | Inspiring Spaces
Daily Mail Pavilion
Set in a wine estate in southern England, this interpretation of idyllic life in the country begins with a beautiful, rustic English vineyard.
Further major attractions
Floral Marquees, plant plots & new plants
Festival of Roses Marquee
Plant Heritage Marquee
International Language of Flowers, Floral Art Competition Marquee
Growing your own
Inspirational ideas for growing and cooking fruit and vegetablesThe Hampton Court Palace Flower Show was filled to the brim with inspirational ideas for growing and cooking fruit and vegetables at home.
New Covent Garden Food Co Growing Tastes Marquee in partnership with New Covent Garden Food Company
This included the RHS Summer Fruit and Vegetable Competition.
Growing Tastes Kitchen Garden
International cuisine was conjured up by renowned designer Michael Balston, who worked with the team at RHS Garden Wisley to display three fruit and vegetable gardens inspired by Asian, Mediterranean and traditional British cuisine.
View a plan of the garden: Download an Adobe Acrobat pdf (287KB)
Michale Balston Growing Tastes Cookery Theatre in partnership with NS&I
The live demonstrations theatre was a delicious new destination where experts from the garden world worked alongside maestros from the kitchen to bring the ‘plot to plate’ thinking to life.
Chefs in the Growing Tastes Cookery Theatre demonstrated an array of Asian, Mediterreanean and traditional British cuisine to reflect the produce grown in the kitchen garden.
Demonstration & talks timetable: Download an Adobe Acrobat pdf (64KB)
