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THE THRILL of the show

In 2021, I spent almost a month at Hampton Court Palace, when I designed the RHS No Dig Allotment Demonstration Garden together with Charles Dowding (KG August 2021). What a fantastic experience! This year I was delighted to have been invited to speak at the Market Theatre, opposite the River Cottage Garden, giving talks about no-dig gardening and growing your own food and, most importantly, exploring this vibrant show.

It’s exciting to explore RHS shows before they are officially open to the public as final touches are made to the show gardens, plants watered so they look in the peak of health and the air of anticipation increases.

Press photographers, who will have

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