Climate change gardening at RHS Hampton Court Garden Festival
The environment, climate change, water and plastic waste were common themes running through this year’s show gardens. Having just written a book on climate change gardening, I was keen to see what the designers had done on these topics.
The garden that really got to grips with water and climate change was Thames Water Flourishing Future Garden that showed how gardens could cope with increasingly unpredictable weather, drier summers and wetter winters. There were features such as permeable paving, contrasting drought-friendly and moisture-loving borders and a central rainfall pavilion with ornamental rain chains that directed water into a wetland area.
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