For the first time, the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) and BBC One’s Saturday Kitchen have teamed-up at RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show 2017, with a garden to promote innovative, cost-efficient ways of growing fresh food at home.
Award-winning garden designer, Juliet Sargeant, who won Gold at RHS Chelsea Flower Show last year, has created the RHS Kitchen Garden packed with simple and creative growing ideas and inspiration for visitors and viewers to take home to their own gardens and communities.
Juliet said: “Through this new partnership at the world’s largest flower show, we want to demonstrate to people, communities and organisations that it can be easy, cheap and fun to grow what you eat at home, in public spaces, at work, in fact anywhere you like!
“Many people can be put off, especially if they have limited space, because they don’t expect an edible garden to be visually appealing. So we also want to show that growing food can be done in a beautiful, contemporary and stylish way.”
The 324m2 garden will feature vegetables like lettuce, chives and beetroot, edible flowers like lavender and nasturtiums, herbs including rosemary and thyme, fruits including gooseberry and blackcurrant and trees such as Silver birch and Juneberry.
Small plant pots containing recipes for drinks and dishes such as pizza, stir-fry, Pimms and herbal tea will run along shelves, raised beds will contain lush fruit and vegetables and herbs will grow on living walls. An aquaponics system, where plants receive nourishment from fish, will also feature in the garden.
“Our main aim of the RHS Kitchen Garden is to inspire and provide ideas to people who may not think they have the space, skills, time or money to invest in growing food at home, or in their community”, added Juliet, “I want to show that anyone can grow food anywhere!”
BBC One’s Saturday Kitchen – made by Cactus TV – launched the partnership on 6 May and will broadcast live from the RHS Kitchen Garden at the show on Saturday 8 July. In addition, Cactus will produce a spin-off series called ‘Kitchen Garden Live with the Hairy Bikers’, which will broadcast on BBC One at 11am from Monday 3 to Friday 7 July.
Si King and Dave Myers – aka The Hairy Bikers – said: “We are thrilled to be presenting a week of live telly from the RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show. It’s gonna have everything we love: beautiful flowers and amazing gardens, delicious food, entertaining celeb guests and crowds of enthusiastic visitors that we can have a laugh with. We can’t wait!”
Amanda Ross, CEO of Cactus TV and executive producer of Saturday Kitchen said: “We’re thrilled we’ve forged this exciting new association with the RHS to produce a week of LIVE shows – with the Hairy Bikers from Monday to Friday, and then Matt Tebbutt taking Saturday Kitchen Live out of the studio for the first time in our 11 year run. BBC1 viewers will be able to tune in for a sunny, summery, seasonal treat. It’ll be a feast of fabulous food and entertaining chat, against the beautiful setting of the RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show.”
The RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show, supported by Viking Cruises, will run from 4 – 9 July with an exclusive Preview Evening held on Monday 3 July.
For further information or to buy tickets, please visit the RHS website at www.rhs.org.uk/hamptoncourt.
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