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Partner Gardens Meeting
Welcome
Sir Nicholas Bacon, RHS President
28 March 2019
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With your help the RHS has:
Introduced nearly 40,000 schools (around 6 million young people) to gardening
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With your help the RHS has:
• Supported hundreds of community projects
Community Planting Day, Sheerwater Estate, Woking.
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With your help the RHS has:
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With your help the RHS has:
Answered over 90,000 gardening questions annually via the RHS advice service
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With your help the RHS does:
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Raising funds for the future
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Raising funds for the future
And, of course, a brand new RHS garden for 2020
RHS Garden Bridgewater
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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
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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
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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
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Partner Garden benefits - shows
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• Tickets for shows
deadline for Chelsea
26 April
• Chelsea drinks – invites
going out mid April
• Other show deadlines
on handout
Partner Garden benefits - shows
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Gardeners’ Networking Days
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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
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National Campaigns
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RHS network benefits
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The Garden and rhs.org.uk
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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
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Out & About section
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Out & About section
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Seasonal Scenes section
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Great images really help
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Images unlock features
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Stone House (Apr 2018)
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Features: Timing matters
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rhs.org.uk/partnergardens
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Powerful images
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Find a Partner Garden
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Events publicity
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Events search facility
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Online features and news
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Dedicated Partner Garden page
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Social media opportunities
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Getting in touch with us
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What you help the RHS do
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A short break
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Wellbeing GardensA Conceptual Approach and Introduction
Ben Brace, RHS Horticultural Projects manager
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Introduction
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Wisley – Welcome Landscape, Hilltop Gardens and Play Garden
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Introduction
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Bridgewater – Wellbeing Garden and Frameyards, Learning Garden and integration
of community areas into wider masterplan
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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
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Wellbeing Garden at RHS Garden Bridgewater
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• 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
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National Centre for Horticultural Science and Learning
New gardens
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Wellbeing
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Wellbeing Garden By Matt Keightley
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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.
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Health and Wellbeing garden plan
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• 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.
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Lunch
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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
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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
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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
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RHS Wisley
Hilltop project update
Sheila Das, Garden Manager
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RHS Wisley – Hilltop project update
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RHS Wisley – Hilltop project update
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RHS Wisley – Hilltop project update
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RHS Wisley – Hilltop project update
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RHS Wisley – Hilltop project update
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RHS Wisley – Hilltop project update
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RHS Wisley – Hilltop project update
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RHS Wisley – Hilltop project update
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RHS Wisley – Hilltop project update