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Hampton Court Flower Show

As every good gardener knows, preparation is key. So dont leave booking your tickets to this year's wonderful Hampton Court Flower Show for much longer.

This year's show is more vibrant and colourful than ever, bursting with stunning yet achievable gardens and an abundance of ideas to take home.

What's new this year

• The Growing Tastes Area with three fruit and vegetable gardens inspired by Asian, Mediterranean and British cuisine with experts on hand to show the public how to grow exotic ingredients in your own garden
  
  
• Live demonstrations theatre, a delectable new destination giving you the opportunity to meet experts of the garden and kitchen world.
  
  
• A water feature with a difference - An exotic Thai Floating Market capturing all the sights and sounds of S.East Asia on market day. A chance to go shopping for authentic Thai enchantments on the peaceful waters of Hampton Court Long Water.
  
  
• Greener Gardens, featuring experts delivering talks and presenting studies on topics such as biodiversity, eco climate and sustainability.

Other features of the show

• Show gardens to push all the garden boundaries with exhilarating contributions from Dorset Cereals and Homebase interpretation of "Room with a View".
  
  
• Shopping - take home everything from state of the art garden furniture to a cutting from an old fashioned tea rose
  
  
• Free samples of Rachel Organics amazing range of dairy products outside Floral Marquees 3 and 4.

Price:

Ticket hotline: 0870 842 2234

Date & Time:

Open to RHS Members 8th - 9th of July

Open to all 10th - 13th July

8 – 12 July: 10am – 7:30pm (Afternoon entry from 3pm)

13 July: 10am – 5:30pm (Afternoon entry from 2:30 pm)

(The sell off is on 13 July, starting at 4:30pm)

Venue:

Hampton Court Palace
East Moseley
Surrey
KT8 9AU

Contact:

To book tickets visit www.rhs.org.uk/Hamptoncourt/

Or call 0870 247 1242 

RHS show information: 020 7649 1885

www.rhs.org.uk/flowershows