RHS Flower Show at Tatton Park

The RHS Flower Show at Tatton Park is set to be another great success with over 300 delicately-created displays and garden features.

And once again local organisations, including Reaseheath College and Cheshire Gardens of Distinction, have dug deep into their wealth of talent and skills to create potentially award-winning designs.

The five-day event begins at Tatton Park tomorrow, Wednesday 22nd July and runs until 26th July, and organisers are anticipating attendance figures to top 80,000.

Sustainability and greening the grey parts of Britain are the main themes of the show with a message that too many gardens – front and back – are being concreted over.

Garden designers, students and volunteers have been busy for several days preparing their displays which are situated in 29 themed gardens across the site.

The team from Reaseheath College, Nantwich, are putting the finishing touches to their displays, one of them using old bottles to emphasise the sustainability message.

And Tatton Park's own garden team are looking east for their inspiration. The park is famous for its Japanese garden – but it's China that provides the theme for the team entry this year.

The 'Mother of Gardens' showcases the great botanical gift China has given the world.
Gardens would be very different places otherwise and Tatton's is no exception.

The team have produced a Chinese house with dove tree, bamboo, hibiscus, kiwi fruit and buddleia and it is certain to be an eye-catching attraction for the show's many visitors.

The staff from Connecting Cheshire are also creating their own exhibit, drawing on the organisations work delivering fibre optic broadband to homes across Cheshire for their design theme, while aspiring young designers are putting their talents on show.

RHS Show manager Chris Hulewicz, said: "The RHS Flower Show at Tatton Park is known for its inclusive and supportive approach to gardening and landscape design.

"With all of these clever designs, as well as an array of allotments and Grow Your Own exhibits on display, we hope visitors will leave the show motivated to turn their own patch of grey Britain green.

"Tatton Park is wonderful. We are surrounded by this landscape of trees and this really adds to the vista."

In addition to the many professionally designed displays, there are also entries from schools and charities.

The BBC is covering the show with live broadcasts and a number of celebrity gardeners and designers will be attending.

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