THE INGHAMS WORKING WITH NATURE GARDEN | RHS HAMPTON COURT FESTIVAL 2023

PLACE | RHS Hampton Court Festival | 2023.

BUILD | Acacia gardens

DESIGN | This garden is designed to celebrate nature, and the feelings you get having spent time on holiday in the great outdoors. The garden takes inspiration from environments similar to locations guests can visit with Inghams, such as the Alps. Natural stone is used for gravel tracks; bench seating is created from large stone to allow a place to rest while hearing the sound of water from running streams, all while being surrounded by glade-inspired planting.

The garden invites visitors across stepping stone paving over a shallow creek designed to fill during periods of intense rainfall into the central space to pause with seating made from natural materials.

While seated, visitors are shaded by multi-stem trees and immersed in the planting around them. The fence design is inspired by the movement of water, made from similar willow to that which features in the garden, feeding into a circular use of materials.

In alignment with Inghams sustainability values, this garden is working with nature and not against it. The planting area is future-proofed for climate change by collecting rainwater in Bio- swales and filtering it through the planting. This creates cleaner waterways while reducing the need for additional watering, leaving more time to enjoy the garden.

The planting has a natural feel that is aimed to handle future changes to the UK climate, such as temporary periods of flooding and drought. The planting palette is loosely inspired by woodland and lower valley glades in Europe with flowering perennials and grasses providing a mix of texture and colour.

The Garden will be later reworked and installed permanently at Ark at Egwood, an intergenerational land-based day service for people of all ages, needs and abilities. Based upon 12 acres of land and woodland, ARK creates a safe, outdoor space, for people to relax, engage with others and improve their overall health and well-being.

Please feel free to contact us for commissions of a bespoke boulder bench.

BIG THANK YOU TO……

Inghams, Acacia Gardens, Bernhards Nursery, New Wood Trees, Jay Dave, All green, Landscape plus , Straight curve and Practically Brown

Plant list

Achillea 'Terracotta'

Alchemilla mollis

Alchemilla erythropoda

Asplenium scolopendrium

Astrantia major subsp. involucrata 'Shaggy'

Astrantia major 'Alba'

Astrantia major 'Venice'

Deschampsia cespitosa ‘Goldtau'

Digitalis ferruginea

Dryopteris affinis ‘Cristata'

Dryopteris erythrosora

Echinacea pallida

Echinacea purpurea 'magnus'

Echinops bannaticus

Eupatorium cannabinum

Euphorbia amygdaloides var. robbiae

Geranium 'Rozanne'

Geranium rectum 'Album'

Geranium 'Orion'

Gillenia trifoliata

Liriope muscari 'Big Blue’

Luzula nivea

Polypodium vulgare

Rudbeckia fulgida Viette's Little Suzy

Rudbeckia Fulgida Var. speciosa

Sarcococca confusa

Veronicastrum virginicum ‘Fascination'