These are the highest developments at RHS Hampton Courtroom 2024. They’re the concepts that I believe translate finest to actual gardens.
Many present gardens are created to stimulate debate or make a degree. They’re attractive. And stimulating debate and making a degree are each worthwhile.
However generally it may be laborious to see how a present backyard would work in our personal yard.
Nonetheless, even these which don’t look something like your backyard typically have concepts in them that you should use.
Raised beds are the brand new container gardening
It’s simpler to develop a bunch of crops in a raised mattress than it’s to take care of an entire load of pots. And with a brand new era of renting gardeners, a raised mattress can be moved, albeit with some effort.
So the raised mattress has been elevated from allotment staple to design development. This has been rising in recognition for just a few years, however was very a lot in proof at RHS Hampton Courtroom 2024.
On the Affiliation of the Skilled Landscapers backyard, there was a painted raised mattress, a corten metal raised mattress and a raised mattress pond.
![Raised beds at RHS Hampton Court 2024/](https://i0.wp.com/www.themiddlesizedgarden.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Canva-3.jpg?resize=400%2C600&ssl=1)
Raised beds at RHS Hampton Courtroom 2024. That is the Affiliation of Skilled Landscapers showcasing a raised mattress pond, a corten metal raised mattress and a painted raised mattress.
![Raised bed seating.](https://i0.wp.com/www.themiddlesizedgarden.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Canva-2.jpg?resize=400%2C600&ssl=1)
Painted raised beds with seating in-built. The Lighthouse Backyard by Tracy Harman and Tony Wagstaff.
Combined pavers, pebbles, gravel and brick
The patchwork paving impact is likely one of the most engaging developments of right now. It’s economical, as a result of you possibly can combine a less expensive and dearer laborious landscaping materials.
And it helps with run-off or flash flooding. When you pave over a complete again yard, then all rainwater goes into the drains. When 1000’s of homes do the identical, the drains fill in a short time in a storm, and that causes flash flooding.
When you combine pebbles, brick and gravel, then extra rain can seep into the bottom, serving to to forestall over-full drains.
![Mix pavers, bricks and gravel to make a patchwork path.](https://i0.wp.com/www.themiddlesizedgarden.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Canva-4.jpg?resize=400%2C600&ssl=1)
Combine pavers, bricks and gravel to make a patchwork path. This charming RHS Cash Saving Backyard by Anya Lautenbach and Jamie Butterworth is paved with upcycled bricks and stone from eBay and Allgreen.
Some of the lovely gardens at RHS Hampton Courtroom 2024 was the RHS Cash Saving Backyard by Anya Lautenbach and Jamie Butterworth. Anya’s guide The Money Saving Gardener was launched earlier this 12 months and she or he’s used lots of her tricks to create the backyard. (Please be aware that hyperlinks to Amazon are affiliate, see disclosure.)
Their potting shed (which was romantic and exquisite though not solely sensible for right now’s gardens) was manufactured from recycled picket boards.
And their patchwork path was produced from pavers purchased from eBay and Allgreen.
The small backyard has became a big courtyard
Once I first began the Middlesized Backyard, I used to say ‘bigger than a courtyard, smaller than an acre.’ However lots of right now’s smaller gardens are being became bigger courtyards.
It’s actually troublesome to get pure garden to develop in a typical small, shady city backyard. It will get worn away by footfall. You need to discover a house for a mower. It’s simply not life like.
![Whether you have a formal garden such as the Exploring Charleston garden by Sadie May Powell (top) or a more relaxed perennial planting as in Anya Lautenbach and Jamie Butterworth's RHS Money Saving Garden, then planting can replace either paving or lawn.](https://i0.wp.com/www.themiddlesizedgarden.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/canva-15.jpg?resize=400%2C600&ssl=1)
Whether or not you have got a proper backyard such because the Exploring Charleston backyard by Sadie Might Powell (prime) or a extra relaxed perennial planting as in Anya Lautenbach and Jamie Butterworth’s RHS Cash Saving Backyard, then planting can exchange both paving or garden.
Alternate options reminiscent of synthetic grass aren’t essentially both fascinating or sensible. Synthetic grass will be surprisingly excessive upkeep as a result of it’s important to clear away leaves, blossom, pet detritus and so on from it as they will stain. (When you go away them on a garden, every thing will simply decompose over time). Whereas a garden received’t want mowing in a drought, synthetic grass will nonetheless want washing or cleansing. There isn’t a floor on the earth which is ‘no upkeep’ so prior to installing any floor, be sure you’re pleased with the way you’re going to take care of it.
And, in fact, synthetic grass isn’t helpful to the setting and it often doesn’t drain nicely both.
The answer is the massive, absolutely planted courtyard. You may have paved areas the place you need to sit or eat, however you don’t pave all the space.
As an alternative, you enhance the planting, both in gravel, borders or raised beds. Plus you add at the very least one tree.
![The Mediterraneo Garden by Katarina Kantalis.](https://i0.wp.com/www.themiddlesizedgarden.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/canva-1-1.jpg?resize=400%2C600&ssl=1)
The Mediterraneo Backyard by Katarina Kantalis received Gold at RHS Hampton Courtroom 2024, together with Finest Get Began backyard and Finest Development.
Recycled sheds, pots and troughs at RHS Hampton Courtroom 2024
Recycling was a giant theme at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2024.
And this was taken up at RHS Hampton Courtroom 2024, particularly in Arit Anderson’s gorgeous RHS Peat Free backyard.
It was maybe probably the most lovely backyard on the present, however it isn’t judged as a result of it is likely one of the RHS’s personal gardens. There are a number of fairly recycled pots.
Her ‘pottering shed’ was manufactured from wooden with recycled home windows. They’re odd commonplace home windows, which you’ll most likely discover on eBay, Freecycle or Freegle.
Making a shed or greenhouse out of recycled objects wants an skilled stage of DIY expertise (see Garden Inspiration from a Medium Sized Garden for one more greenhouse manufactured from recycled home windows and bathe doorways).
![Arit Anderson's 'pottering shed' made from recycled doors and windows.](https://i0.wp.com/www.themiddlesizedgarden.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Canva-5.jpg?resize=400%2C600&ssl=1)
Arit Anderson’s ‘pottering shed’ produced from recycled doorways and home windows.
Or like backyard designer, Posy Gentles, you possibly can pay for some specialist work and do some your self. See What You Need to Build a Unique Shed.
Once I lined the recycling on the RHS Chelsea, some folks commented that recycled furnishings and pots can now be troublesome to seek out and costly. Or that they will by no means spot the bargains amongst what is commonly a pile of junk. They’re each affordable observations.
![Recycled pots and garden furniture in Arit Anderson's RHS Peat Free Garden.](https://i0.wp.com/www.themiddlesizedgarden.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Canva-6.jpg?resize=400%2C600&ssl=1)
Recycled pots, troughs and backyard furnishings in Arit Anderson’s RHS Peat Free Backyard.
There’s at all times a hyperlink between money and time. Individuals who get superb bargains from charity outlets and reclamation yards are those who typically pop in to verify what’s there. They ferret about for bargains, and can discover them – however most likely solely as soon as in each ten visits. When you get pleasure from this, it’s an excellent type of money-saving. However not everybody does get pleasure from this and that’s truthful sufficient. There are different methods of saving cash.
When you’re , listed below are 15 ways to transform your garden with upcycled junk.
And see Rustic Cottage Garden Ideas for Kathy Pickering’s progressive tips about recognizing a use for issues that associates are throwing away.
A clover garden – brief and formal however wildlife pleasant
This present backyard by the RHS group at Wisley demonstrated how you may be wildlife pleasant and nonetheless have a proper backyard.
![A formal but wildlife-friendly show garden at RHS Hampton Court 2024, designed by the team at RHS Wisley.](https://i0.wp.com/www.themiddlesizedgarden.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/canva-8-1.jpg?resize=400%2C600&ssl=1)
A proper however wildlife-friendly present backyard at RHS Hampton Courtroom 2024, designed by the group at RHS Wisley. The garden is brief and neat however permits clover to flower for pollinators.
The clover garden is especially attention-grabbing. Many individuals desire a neat garden. Lawns with a excessive proportion of dwarf clover in them are extra resilient to warmth and drought. And the clover can flower ‘beneath the mower’s blades.’ You may mow a neat garden and nonetheless have some clover for pollinators.
It’s not the neat striped garden of the the proper twentieth century backyard, however it isn’t ‘wild-looking’.
This present backyard additionally had a geometrical structure and sq. ‘pillars’ with bug motels in them and mini ponds on prime.
All of it reveals you can have formality and wildlife friendliness.
Add color with fences or furnishings
In a small backyard you possibly can create a huge impact with a colored wall or colored furnishings.
![A painted wall in Juliet Sargeant's award-winning Lion King Garden and brightly coloured outdoor kitchen equipment from the company Charlie.](https://i0.wp.com/www.themiddlesizedgarden.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/canva-9.jpg?resize=400%2C600&ssl=1)
A vibrant painted wall in Juliet Sargeant’s award-winning Lion King Backyard and brightly colored out of doors kitchen tools from the corporate Charlie.
![The Denman's Garden inspired by John Brookes.](https://i0.wp.com/www.themiddlesizedgarden.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Canva-10.jpg?resize=400%2C600&ssl=1)
The Denman’s Backyard impressed by John Brookes, one of many UK’s most influential historic backyard designers. This reveals how a boldly painted chair can add a pop of color to a small house.
Mark out the house with a ‘useless hedge’
Juliet Sargeant’s Lion King Anniversary Backyard received Finest in Present at RHS Hampton Courtroom 2024. And whereas most of us received’t cowl our gardens with dusty crimson soil or have three carved antelopes cantering throughout our borders, that is the most effective useless hedge I’ve seen thus far.
![Juliet Sargeant's Lion King Garden at RHS Hampton Court 2024.](https://i0.wp.com/www.themiddlesizedgarden.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/canva-11.jpg?resize=400%2C600&ssl=1)
This compact ‘useless hedge’ marks out the house in Juliet Sargeant’s Lion King Backyard at RHS Hampton Courtroom 2024.
The RSPB says that ‘a useless hedge is an upright construction of woody cuttings woven between vertical stakes.’ It’s primarily twigs and backyard clippings held in place by two rows of upright stakes. It’s a great way of disposing of backyard clippings and it creates habitat and shelter for wildlife.
I’ve seen useless hedges in present gardens and actual ones for just a few years now. However they’ve principally been very massive and would dominate a small or middle-sized backyard.
Juliet’s neat, low, curved useless hedges present {that a} useless hedge will be an financial, wildlife-friendly approach to divide up a smaller backyard.
Logs and planks are the brand new backyard decoration
As any backyard designer will inform you, vertical house is essential in a backyard. The attention travels upward, so it takes you longer to see every thing within the backyard. That may make it really feel larger or higher proportioned.
![Upright planks in Nature's Embrace by Giarda Francois.](https://i0.wp.com/www.themiddlesizedgarden.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Canva-12.jpg?resize=400%2C600&ssl=1)
Upright planks mark out an space for seating in Nature’s Embrace by Giarda Francois. This present backyard additionally has blended paving, pebbles and gravel.
Foliage is extra essential than flowers
This isn’t a brand new development – backyard designers have been speaking about what the suitable foliage can do to your backyard for many years.
However we beginner gardeners are at all times diverted by flowers. Not less than I’m.
![Heucheras from Plantagogo and begonias from Dibley's.](https://i0.wp.com/www.themiddlesizedgarden.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Canva-12-1.jpg?resize=400%2C600&ssl=1)
Heucheras from Plantagogo and begonias from Dibley’s.
However simply have a look at the foliage on Dibley’s begonias at RHS Hampton Courtroom 2024. They’re primarily too tender for UK winters, however will fortunately remodel a sheltered courtyard in summer season.
Or the heucheras from Plantagogo. These are so vibrant and fantastically formed – they might nearly be the hardy equal of begonias.
Your guttering is a part of your backyard
Water resilience has been a theme in any respect the backyard reveals this 12 months.
I’m undecided how straightforward it truly is, however I noticed a planting of succulents in an Alitex greenhouse gutter, designed by the RHS Wisley group. I presume in the event that they’ve planted succulents in an actively used gutter, then it have to be attainable.
![Succulents planted in the guttering on an Alitex greenhouse in A Jungle For Two by the RHS Wisley gardening team.](https://i0.wp.com/www.themiddlesizedgarden.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Canva-14-1.jpg?resize=400%2C600&ssl=1)
Succulents planted within the guttering on an Alitex greenhouse in A Jungle For Two by the RHS Wisley gardening group.
Extra critically, Arit Anderson’s RHS Peat Free backyard had a sequence hanging from the shed guttering. Water trickles down the chain and right into a water tank to be used within the backyard.
The water tank in flip conducts water to a container pond.
And the overflow from the container pond goes to small ‘rain backyard’ which solely fills at time of heavy rain.
This can be a great way of utilizing rain water moderately than faucet water. And, as soon as once more, it helps with flash flooding as much less water rushes into the primary drainage system in heavy rain.
If you wish to see how this works in actual life, there’s an identical set-up utilizing rainwater from the gutter to fill a pond, then having a rain backyard overflow in A Small Wildlife Friendly Garden.
Pin to recollect finest backyard developments from RHS Hampton Courtroom 2024
And do be a part of us. See here for a free weekly email with more gardening tips, ideas and inspiration.
These are the highest developments at RHS Hampton Courtroom 2024. They’re the concepts that I believe translate finest to actual gardens.
Many present gardens are created to stimulate debate or make a degree. They’re attractive. And stimulating debate and making a degree are each worthwhile.
However generally it may be laborious to see how a present backyard would work in our personal yard.
Nonetheless, even these which don’t look something like your backyard typically have concepts in them that you should use.
Raised beds are the brand new container gardening
It’s simpler to develop a bunch of crops in a raised mattress than it’s to take care of an entire load of pots. And with a brand new era of renting gardeners, a raised mattress can be moved, albeit with some effort.
So the raised mattress has been elevated from allotment staple to design development. This has been rising in recognition for just a few years, however was very a lot in proof at RHS Hampton Courtroom 2024.
On the Affiliation of the Skilled Landscapers backyard, there was a painted raised mattress, a corten metal raised mattress and a raised mattress pond.
![Raised beds at RHS Hampton Court 2024/](https://i0.wp.com/www.themiddlesizedgarden.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Canva-3.jpg?resize=400%2C600&ssl=1)
Raised beds at RHS Hampton Courtroom 2024. That is the Affiliation of Skilled Landscapers showcasing a raised mattress pond, a corten metal raised mattress and a painted raised mattress.
![Raised bed seating.](https://i0.wp.com/www.themiddlesizedgarden.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Canva-2.jpg?resize=400%2C600&ssl=1)
Painted raised beds with seating in-built. The Lighthouse Backyard by Tracy Harman and Tony Wagstaff.
Combined pavers, pebbles, gravel and brick
The patchwork paving impact is likely one of the most engaging developments of right now. It’s economical, as a result of you possibly can combine a less expensive and dearer laborious landscaping materials.
And it helps with run-off or flash flooding. When you pave over a complete again yard, then all rainwater goes into the drains. When 1000’s of homes do the identical, the drains fill in a short time in a storm, and that causes flash flooding.
When you combine pebbles, brick and gravel, then extra rain can seep into the bottom, serving to to forestall over-full drains.
![Mix pavers, bricks and gravel to make a patchwork path.](https://i0.wp.com/www.themiddlesizedgarden.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Canva-4.jpg?resize=400%2C600&ssl=1)
Combine pavers, bricks and gravel to make a patchwork path. This charming RHS Cash Saving Backyard by Anya Lautenbach and Jamie Butterworth is paved with upcycled bricks and stone from eBay and Allgreen.
Some of the lovely gardens at RHS Hampton Courtroom 2024 was the RHS Cash Saving Backyard by Anya Lautenbach and Jamie Butterworth. Anya’s guide The Money Saving Gardener was launched earlier this 12 months and she or he’s used lots of her tricks to create the backyard. (Please be aware that hyperlinks to Amazon are affiliate, see disclosure.)
Their potting shed (which was romantic and exquisite though not solely sensible for right now’s gardens) was manufactured from recycled picket boards.
And their patchwork path was produced from pavers purchased from eBay and Allgreen.
The small backyard has became a big courtyard
Once I first began the Middlesized Backyard, I used to say ‘bigger than a courtyard, smaller than an acre.’ However lots of right now’s smaller gardens are being became bigger courtyards.
It’s actually troublesome to get pure garden to develop in a typical small, shady city backyard. It will get worn away by footfall. You need to discover a house for a mower. It’s simply not life like.
![Whether you have a formal garden such as the Exploring Charleston garden by Sadie May Powell (top) or a more relaxed perennial planting as in Anya Lautenbach and Jamie Butterworth's RHS Money Saving Garden, then planting can replace either paving or lawn.](https://i0.wp.com/www.themiddlesizedgarden.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/canva-15.jpg?resize=400%2C600&ssl=1)
Whether or not you have got a proper backyard such because the Exploring Charleston backyard by Sadie Might Powell (prime) or a extra relaxed perennial planting as in Anya Lautenbach and Jamie Butterworth’s RHS Cash Saving Backyard, then planting can exchange both paving or garden.
Alternate options reminiscent of synthetic grass aren’t essentially both fascinating or sensible. Synthetic grass will be surprisingly excessive upkeep as a result of it’s important to clear away leaves, blossom, pet detritus and so on from it as they will stain. (When you go away them on a garden, every thing will simply decompose over time). Whereas a garden received’t want mowing in a drought, synthetic grass will nonetheless want washing or cleansing. There isn’t a floor on the earth which is ‘no upkeep’ so prior to installing any floor, be sure you’re pleased with the way you’re going to take care of it.
And, in fact, synthetic grass isn’t helpful to the setting and it often doesn’t drain nicely both.
The answer is the massive, absolutely planted courtyard. You may have paved areas the place you need to sit or eat, however you don’t pave all the space.
As an alternative, you enhance the planting, both in gravel, borders or raised beds. Plus you add at the very least one tree.
![The Mediterraneo Garden by Katarina Kantalis.](https://i0.wp.com/www.themiddlesizedgarden.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/canva-1-1.jpg?resize=400%2C600&ssl=1)
The Mediterraneo Backyard by Katarina Kantalis received Gold at RHS Hampton Courtroom 2024, together with Finest Get Began backyard and Finest Development.
Recycled sheds, pots and troughs at RHS Hampton Courtroom 2024
Recycling was a giant theme at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2024.
And this was taken up at RHS Hampton Courtroom 2024, particularly in Arit Anderson’s gorgeous RHS Peat Free backyard.
It was maybe probably the most lovely backyard on the present, however it isn’t judged as a result of it is likely one of the RHS’s personal gardens. There are a number of fairly recycled pots.
Her ‘pottering shed’ was manufactured from wooden with recycled home windows. They’re odd commonplace home windows, which you’ll most likely discover on eBay, Freecycle or Freegle.
Making a shed or greenhouse out of recycled objects wants an skilled stage of DIY expertise (see Garden Inspiration from a Medium Sized Garden for one more greenhouse manufactured from recycled home windows and bathe doorways).
![Arit Anderson's 'pottering shed' made from recycled doors and windows.](https://i0.wp.com/www.themiddlesizedgarden.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Canva-5.jpg?resize=400%2C600&ssl=1)
Arit Anderson’s ‘pottering shed’ produced from recycled doorways and home windows.
Or like backyard designer, Posy Gentles, you possibly can pay for some specialist work and do some your self. See What You Need to Build a Unique Shed.
Once I lined the recycling on the RHS Chelsea, some folks commented that recycled furnishings and pots can now be troublesome to seek out and costly. Or that they will by no means spot the bargains amongst what is commonly a pile of junk. They’re each affordable observations.
![Recycled pots and garden furniture in Arit Anderson's RHS Peat Free Garden.](https://i0.wp.com/www.themiddlesizedgarden.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Canva-6.jpg?resize=400%2C600&ssl=1)
Recycled pots, troughs and backyard furnishings in Arit Anderson’s RHS Peat Free Backyard.
There’s at all times a hyperlink between money and time. Individuals who get superb bargains from charity outlets and reclamation yards are those who typically pop in to verify what’s there. They ferret about for bargains, and can discover them – however most likely solely as soon as in each ten visits. When you get pleasure from this, it’s an excellent type of money-saving. However not everybody does get pleasure from this and that’s truthful sufficient. There are different methods of saving cash.
When you’re , listed below are 15 ways to transform your garden with upcycled junk.
And see Rustic Cottage Garden Ideas for Kathy Pickering’s progressive tips about recognizing a use for issues that associates are throwing away.
A clover garden – brief and formal however wildlife pleasant
This present backyard by the RHS group at Wisley demonstrated how you may be wildlife pleasant and nonetheless have a proper backyard.
![A formal but wildlife-friendly show garden at RHS Hampton Court 2024, designed by the team at RHS Wisley.](https://i0.wp.com/www.themiddlesizedgarden.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/canva-8-1.jpg?resize=400%2C600&ssl=1)
A proper however wildlife-friendly present backyard at RHS Hampton Courtroom 2024, designed by the group at RHS Wisley. The garden is brief and neat however permits clover to flower for pollinators.
The clover garden is especially attention-grabbing. Many individuals desire a neat garden. Lawns with a excessive proportion of dwarf clover in them are extra resilient to warmth and drought. And the clover can flower ‘beneath the mower’s blades.’ You may mow a neat garden and nonetheless have some clover for pollinators.
It’s not the neat striped garden of the the proper twentieth century backyard, however it isn’t ‘wild-looking’.
This present backyard additionally had a geometrical structure and sq. ‘pillars’ with bug motels in them and mini ponds on prime.
All of it reveals you can have formality and wildlife friendliness.
Add color with fences or furnishings
In a small backyard you possibly can create a huge impact with a colored wall or colored furnishings.
![A painted wall in Juliet Sargeant's award-winning Lion King Garden and brightly coloured outdoor kitchen equipment from the company Charlie.](https://i0.wp.com/www.themiddlesizedgarden.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/canva-9.jpg?resize=400%2C600&ssl=1)
A vibrant painted wall in Juliet Sargeant’s award-winning Lion King Backyard and brightly colored out of doors kitchen tools from the corporate Charlie.
![The Denman's Garden inspired by John Brookes.](https://i0.wp.com/www.themiddlesizedgarden.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Canva-10.jpg?resize=400%2C600&ssl=1)
The Denman’s Backyard impressed by John Brookes, one of many UK’s most influential historic backyard designers. This reveals how a boldly painted chair can add a pop of color to a small house.
Mark out the house with a ‘useless hedge’
Juliet Sargeant’s Lion King Anniversary Backyard received Finest in Present at RHS Hampton Courtroom 2024. And whereas most of us received’t cowl our gardens with dusty crimson soil or have three carved antelopes cantering throughout our borders, that is the most effective useless hedge I’ve seen thus far.
![Juliet Sargeant's Lion King Garden at RHS Hampton Court 2024.](https://i0.wp.com/www.themiddlesizedgarden.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/canva-11.jpg?resize=400%2C600&ssl=1)
This compact ‘useless hedge’ marks out the house in Juliet Sargeant’s Lion King Backyard at RHS Hampton Courtroom 2024.
The RSPB says that ‘a useless hedge is an upright construction of woody cuttings woven between vertical stakes.’ It’s primarily twigs and backyard clippings held in place by two rows of upright stakes. It’s a great way of disposing of backyard clippings and it creates habitat and shelter for wildlife.
I’ve seen useless hedges in present gardens and actual ones for just a few years now. However they’ve principally been very massive and would dominate a small or middle-sized backyard.
Juliet’s neat, low, curved useless hedges present {that a} useless hedge will be an financial, wildlife-friendly approach to divide up a smaller backyard.
Logs and planks are the brand new backyard decoration
As any backyard designer will inform you, vertical house is essential in a backyard. The attention travels upward, so it takes you longer to see every thing within the backyard. That may make it really feel larger or higher proportioned.
![Upright planks in Nature's Embrace by Giarda Francois.](https://i0.wp.com/www.themiddlesizedgarden.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Canva-12.jpg?resize=400%2C600&ssl=1)
Upright planks mark out an space for seating in Nature’s Embrace by Giarda Francois. This present backyard additionally has blended paving, pebbles and gravel.
Foliage is extra essential than flowers
This isn’t a brand new development – backyard designers have been speaking about what the suitable foliage can do to your backyard for many years.
However we beginner gardeners are at all times diverted by flowers. Not less than I’m.
![Heucheras from Plantagogo and begonias from Dibley's.](https://i0.wp.com/www.themiddlesizedgarden.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Canva-12-1.jpg?resize=400%2C600&ssl=1)
Heucheras from Plantagogo and begonias from Dibley’s.
However simply have a look at the foliage on Dibley’s begonias at RHS Hampton Courtroom 2024. They’re primarily too tender for UK winters, however will fortunately remodel a sheltered courtyard in summer season.
Or the heucheras from Plantagogo. These are so vibrant and fantastically formed – they might nearly be the hardy equal of begonias.
Your guttering is a part of your backyard
Water resilience has been a theme in any respect the backyard reveals this 12 months.
I’m undecided how straightforward it truly is, however I noticed a planting of succulents in an Alitex greenhouse gutter, designed by the RHS Wisley group. I presume in the event that they’ve planted succulents in an actively used gutter, then it have to be attainable.
![Succulents planted in the guttering on an Alitex greenhouse in A Jungle For Two by the RHS Wisley gardening team.](https://i0.wp.com/www.themiddlesizedgarden.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Canva-14-1.jpg?resize=400%2C600&ssl=1)
Succulents planted within the guttering on an Alitex greenhouse in A Jungle For Two by the RHS Wisley gardening group.
Extra critically, Arit Anderson’s RHS Peat Free backyard had a sequence hanging from the shed guttering. Water trickles down the chain and right into a water tank to be used within the backyard.
The water tank in flip conducts water to a container pond.
And the overflow from the container pond goes to small ‘rain backyard’ which solely fills at time of heavy rain.
This can be a great way of utilizing rain water moderately than faucet water. And, as soon as once more, it helps with flash flooding as much less water rushes into the primary drainage system in heavy rain.
If you wish to see how this works in actual life, there’s an identical set-up utilizing rainwater from the gutter to fill a pond, then having a rain backyard overflow in A Small Wildlife Friendly Garden.
Pin to recollect finest backyard developments from RHS Hampton Courtroom 2024
And do be a part of us. See here for a free weekly email with more gardening tips, ideas and inspiration.