The Royal Horticultural Society is returning to the parklands of Cardiff Castle with a show that is ready to dazzle the Welsh capital with charming show gardens, beautiful displays of spring flowers and a host of fun activities for gardeners of all ages to enjoy.
History of the show
The RHS Spring Flower Show, Cardiff is in its fourth magnificent year.
The show was first held in 2005 and formed part of Cardiff’s celebratory centenary year as a city, as well as its 50th anniversary as the capital of Wales.
The show was officially opened by HRH The Princess Royal.
Prior to its return to the capital in 2005, the RHS last held a flower show in Cardiff in 1920.
Inscapes
Inscapes Environmental Garden
Gardens play an important role in environmental issues. Inscapes Environmental Garden promotes awareness of the environmental benefits of wildlife. As a garden it creates a space for relaxing in a tranquil space. There’s a wildness about this garden, a windswept space that captures the natural essence.
The main feature of the garden is a naturally-fed spring that creates a habitat for marginal plants such as juncus and marsh marigolds (Caltha palustris), as well as shallow water aquatics and bog plants. A wildflower meadow of common vetch, oxeye daisies and red campion give a uncultivated feel to the space. Ferns, such as Dryopteris affinis and Athyrium filix-femina, as well as some rarer species such as Thelypteris palustris and Blechnum spicant provide excellent habitats for wildlife and could also be used in a damp woodland garden.
It’s an interesting effect based on the premise that with the decline of natural habitats and the increase in consciousness to embrace and sustain environmental biodiversity, we now have a supply and demand scenario that could be played out in gardens across the nation.
Elements of this garden would easily transfer to a woodland garden or gardeners could create a similar effect with careful use of trees such as Betula pendula, planted as a copse here, true English Bluebells and a range of suitable wildflowers.