Partner Gardens Meeting Welcome - RHS · Sir Nicholas Bacon, RHS President 28 March 2019. With your help the RHS has: Introduced nearly 40,000 schools (around 6 million young people)

Partner Gardens Meeting

Welcome

Sir Nicholas Bacon, RHS President

28 March 2019

With your help the RHS has:

Introduced nearly 40,000 schools (around 6 million young people) to gardening


• Supported hundreds of community projects

Community Planting Day, Sheerwater Estate, Woking.


Answered over 90,000 gardening questions annually via the RHS advice service

With your help the RHS does:

Raising funds for the future

Raising funds for the future

And, of course, a brand new RHS garden for 2020

RHS Garden Bridgewater

RHS team

• Tim Upson, Director of Horticulture

• Chris Moncrieff, Head of Horticultural Relations

• Helen Feary, Partner Gardens Manager

• Rebecca Wood, Garden Visits Editor

• Julie Hollobone, Editorial Projects Manager

• Janice Dench, Partner Gardens Administrator

• Ben Brace, Horticultural Projects Manager

Agenda

• Introduction

• Partner Gardens scheme update

• Let’s talk about slugs

• Break

• Wellbeing Gardening

• Introduction from Ben Brace

• Matt Keightley

• Lunch

• Open Forum

• Garden Tour

RHS Partner Garden scheme

• Now 207 gardens, 185 in the UK and 22 overseas

• 10 new this year fromNant y Bedd in the Brecons to Stowe, one of England’s great landscape gardens

• 5 year visit plan

• Important to RHS members, 54% claimed to visit in last year

• For 5%, PGs are main reason to join RHS and for 7% they are main reason to stay

Partner Garden benefits - shows

• Tickets for shows

deadline for Chelsea

26 April

• Chelsea drinks – invites

going out mid April

• Other show deadlines

on handout

Partner Garden benefits - shows

Gardeners’ Networking Days

National Campaigns

Wild About Gardens

• Mar- Oct half term

• Leaflets requested will be

sent out next week

• Sign up at

wildaboutgardens.org.uk

if you are creating a pond

this year

National Campaigns

RHS network benefits

The Garden and rhs.org.uk

The Garden

• Received by half a million members each month; more than 5 million copies a year

• Highest circulation gardening title in the UK

• Free editorial for Partner Gardens – from articles to news

• A page in The Garden costs advertisers about £4k

• Opportunities for promotion:- Out & About pages- Seasonal Scenes- News and articles

Out & About section

Seasonal Scenes section

Great images really help

Images unlock features

Stone House (Apr 2018)

Features: Timing matters

rhs.org.uk/partnergardens

Powerful images

Find a Partner Garden

Events publicity

Events search facility

Online features and news

Dedicated Partner Garden page

Social media opportunities

Getting in touch with us

What you help the RHS do

A short break

Wellbeing GardensA Conceptual Approach and Introduction

Ben Brace, RHS Horticultural Projects manager

Introduction

Wisley – Welcome Landscape, Hilltop Gardens and Play Garden

Introduction

Bridgewater – Wellbeing Garden and Frameyards, Learning Garden and integration

of community areas into wider masterplan

Wellbeing in Garden Design

Stress Reduction Theory – natural scenes are most restorative

Nature has a unique ability to provide restoration

Biophilia – genetic response to nature and ‘greenness’

Attention Restoration

Theory – recovery of ‘directed attention’ through

soft fascination

Wellbeing Garden at RHS Garden Bridgewater

• Extensive community consultation – 6 months +

• A working Therapeutic Horticulture Garden, with a

dedicated full time Therapeutic Horticulturist

• Designed to cater for a wide spectrum of user groups and

conditions

• Programmed space and use

• Social Prescribing in conjunction with local CCG and

Salford University – up to 75 people referred

Wellbeing Garden at RHS Garden Bridgewater

National Centre for Horticultural Science and Learning

New gardens

Wellbeing

Wellbeing Garden By Matt Keightley

We have an exceptional opportunity to inspire the nation

with the hill top development and provide a platform that will

encourage visitors to consider how gardens and gardening

can help improve general health and mental wellbeing.

What better way to move forward than to look back and

remember the reason Wisley was first acquired by the RHS,

to be used as a trials and testing facility. The results could

be ground breaking.

Health and Wellbeing garden plan

• VISITOR ACCESS PLAN

Visitor access and movement plan

The layout has been planned to optimise user experience, through interesting meandering paths, seamless links to the surrounding gardens and directroutes for members of staff. As the plan illustrates, there are infinite routes available, which will undoubtedly ensure an exciting journey, each and everytime visitors head through the Health and Wellbeing garden.

Open Forum

I’d like to ask about involvement in plant trials. We took part in

a couple but no longer seem to be in the loop

Open Forum

I’d be interested in asking a question about promotion of

Partner Gardens via RHS Social Media, including whether PG

‘feeds’ are monitored by RHS and reposted to the wider RHS

followers

Open Forum

Our garden is 25 minutes from Rosemoor and it would help if

there could be a more collective approach to the marketing of

Rosemoor. “Come to Rosemoor and spend time while in North

Devon visiting Castle Hill, Marwood , Hartland Abbey, Tapeley

etc”. We are happy to allow RHS members here for free and it

would seem only fair that you help us increase our footfall in

return

RHS Wisley

Hilltop project update

Sheila Das, Garden Manager

RHS Wisley – Hilltop project update

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Partner Gardens Meeting Welcome - RHS · Sir Nicholas Bacon, RHS President 28 March 2019. With your help the RHS has: Introduced nearly 40,000 schools (around 6 million young people)