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RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show

July 9 – 14^th

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3–8 July, 2012

This year’s stunning central feature focused on community gardening, highlighting how gardening can bring people together and improve communal spaces. The new Low Cost/High Impact gardens showed what can be achieved with a realistic budget and size of plot, and the new show garden category World of Gardens wowed visitors. The Floral Marquee and Plant Village were brimming with the UK’s premier plant nurseries and experts, and the Hampton Court Grapevine Theatre featured celebrities and live TV.

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New at Hampton Court for 2012

New, exciting features at this year's RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show

A brief history of the show

Key facts

Area of showground: 34 acres
Number of days to put show up: 21
Number of days to take show down: 10
Exhibitors at first show: 265
Exhibitors last year: 600

For the early Hampton Court flower shows, Network Southeast laid on a special train from Waterloo, and the railway porters all wore carnations in their hats. From its humble beginnings, it is now the world's largest flower show. Famous for celebrating the rose, The British Rose Festival was introduced at the second show in 1991 and visitors can now enjoy new introductions and prize winners in the Rose Marquee.