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
With your help the RHS has: • Supported hundreds of community projects Community Planting Day, Sheerwater Estate, Woking.
With your help the RHS has:
With your help the RHS has: 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 from Nant 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
Partner Garden benefits - shows • Tickets for shows deadline for Chelsea 26 April • Chelsea drinks – invites going out mid April • Other show deadlines on handout
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
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 Gardens A 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 Attention Restoration Theory – recovery of Biophilia – genetic response ‘directed attention’ through to nature and ‘greenness’ soft fascination Nature has a unique ability to provide restoration
Wellbeing Garden at RHS Garden Bridgewater
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
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 and movement plan The layout has been planned to optimise user experience, through interesting meandering paths, seamless links to the surrounding gardens and direct routes for members of staff. As the plan illustrates, there are infinite routes available, which will undoubtedly ensure an exciting journey, each and every • VISITOR ACCESS PLAN time visitors head through the Health and Wellbeing garden.
Lunch
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
RHS Wisley – Hilltop project update
RHS Wisley – Hilltop project update
RHS Wisley – Hilltop project update
RHS Wisley – Hilltop project update
RHS Wisley – Hilltop project update
RHS Wisley – Hilltop project update
RHS Wisley – Hilltop project update
RHS Wisley – Hilltop project update
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