RHS Tatton – opening day

By Editor on July 21, 2022

The opening day of The Royal Horticultural Show 2022 at Tatton brought thousands of passionate gardeners to Tatton Park.

The Cotton Traders Greener Future Garden was deemed the 2022 Best Garden.

***RHS Flower Show – Tatton Park 2022. Best Garden award winner Lynn Cordall from south Manchester with RHS Director Helena Pettit***

Manchester based Lynn Cordall who re-trained as a garden designer after a career in fashion, has created a city centre garden imagined as a space for a retiring couple who enjoy the countryside.

With planting that aims to attract wildlife into their urban dwelling all year round, the garden features stinging nettles, Urtica dioica, essential food for the caterpillars of red admiral, painted lady, comma and tortoiseshell butterflies.

The Greener Front Garden also featured sustainable solutions such as permeable surfaces to help with water run-off during heavy downpours and a rain chain that flows into a small pond that can provide watering to the adjacent planting beds.

The garden also won the Best Construction for a Garden trophy.