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| Set against the majestic backdrop of Hampton Court Palace, this
flower show is the perfect day out for all the family looking to soak up the great outdoors.
Combining
inspiration, innovation, quality and creativity
the show features a spectacular collection of show
gardens, horticultural exhibitors and gardening
accessories. |
The world’s largest annual gardening show is renowned for providing a taste of the good life, with more “grow your own” inspiration than any other UK event and an abundance of green initiatives and topical features. In recent years it has gained a reputation for providing some of the world’s best conceptual gardens.
This year the 21st Hampton Court Palace Flower Show will look unlike any other, with a new layout. For the first time the Floral Marquee will be on the North side of the showground as a dramatic 225m long feature with over 90 stunning displays.
On the South side of the canal the popular grow your own theme will be even bigger, with a major, Home Grown feature. The Gardens Illustrated marquee is another new highlight where plant and gardening accessories will be combined in gorgeous displays.
Hampton Court Palace Flower Show offers over 600 shopping opportunities, ideas for growing in small spaces or large gardens, features bursting with fruit and vegetables, a Cookery Theatre and traditional, modern and contemporary ideas. For 2010 a Shakespearean theme will provide entertaining, and quintessentially British, gardens.
The show is also a popular destination to enjoy and purchase hundreds of varieties of the nation’s favourite flower in the Festival of Roses, which is also the launch pad for the Rose of the Year.
Finally, the vast setting of the Hampton Court Palace Flower Show, which encircles the Long Water canal, has the Palace as its backdrop, and is surrounded by acres of park land, makes it the perfect place to escape and find everything you need to make the best of your life outdoors.
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| Hampton Court Palace, East
Molesey, Surrey. KT8 9AU |
| Opening times: |
| July
6th -10th: 10am - 7.30pm |
| July
11th: 10am - 5.30pm sell off 16.30 |
Book
Tickets |
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Join the
RHS |
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| Getting
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| Rail |
| Nearest
Train Station: Hampton Court |
| Hampton
Court and Kingston stations are approximately 30
minutes from London Waterloo, with frequent
trains. The showground is a 15 minute walk or
short ferry ride (£1.80 single*) from Hampton
Court station, or a 30 minute cruise from Kingston
station (£4.70 single, £6.20 return*). |
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| Tube
& bus |
| Take
the District Line to Richmond tube station, then
the R68 bus from Richmond to Hampton Court. |
| London
General buses operate Route 718, a direct route
from Central London to Hampton Court, from Tuesday
6 to Sunday 11 July. Buses run from Victoria train
station (Hudson’s Place, east side of the
station) from 9.15am each day. The last bus leaves
Hampton Court at 7.30pm. |
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| Driving
directions |
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Central London, take the A3 and then the A308.
From the M25, use junction 11. On the approach to
Hampton Court Palace, please ignore your satellite
navigation systems and follow the temporary road
signs. |
| We
recommend using the park & ride facility for
car parking, which is located on the A3050, for
visitors arriving from the M25 (see below for
further details). Parking at the showground is
available on the A308 Hampton Court Road. |
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| Parking |
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| We
recommend using the park & ride facility, Apps
Court Farm (Red car park) on the A3050, for
visitors arriving from the M25 (use Junction 11).
Frequent courtesy buses run all day between this
facility and Hampton Court station; the showground
is a 15 minute walk or short ferry ride from
Hampton Court station. |
| Parking
at the showground is available at the Stud Gate
car park (Black car park) on the A308 Hampton
Court Road, and the Hampton Court Green car park
(Green car park) opposite Hampton Court Palace. |
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RHS Hampton Court
Palace Flower Show 2009. "A Beekeeper's Garden" Show
Garden by South Lakes Hotels in partnership with Damson Design. The
garden is inspired by a sketch of an apiary in the victorian garden
writer Shirley Hibberd's journal, which sits within a garden of
flowers, herbs and vegetables which are attractive to bees. For more pictures like this Click
Here.
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RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show 2009. 'A Desert's Delight' Show
Garden designed by Jack Dunckley. A relief from the blazing, arid
heat of the desert which surrounds it, this calming and tranquil
oasis is lush with exotic planting from around the world and the
sound of trickling water soothes the mind and cools the atmosphere.
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Sponsored by Bradstone, Breezehouse and Selcroft Printing. For more pictures like this Click
Here.
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RHS Hampton Court
Palace Flower Show 2009. "Teenage Sanctuary" small garden
by 12 Garden Design. For more pictures like this Click
Here. |
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