Queen Elizabeth II Garden on Gardeners’ World

I’m not, but I will and report back.

Give it a chance. It’s early days and I really think they’ve visited too soon.
No doubt there will be return visits.

Just watched a lady showing Carol Klein how they take cuttings of a plant!!

It will probably look stunning in a few years time. Needs time to develop, but I thought too it would be different.
However, when it was new I saw Alnwick Castle new Waterfall and garden. Lots of advertising and hype but I was so disappointed, basically not much to see no doubt it's magnificent now.
Look forward to seeing the New QE11 garden in a few years time.

Yes it did seem disappointing and rather boring atm. It has to mature, however, and could be lovely in a few years time when I hope they return so we can enjoy it.g

The head gardener did say they'd planted to give things time to mature rather than cram plants in like Chelsea flower show for the opening.
All the different bulbs were lovely. Probably more "all year round" than the prairie plantings like those round the Olympic stadium, which are stunning but only from midsummer.

I quite enjoyed it in bits. That lovely man who sang to his cuttings in the huge greenhouse. Also sadly advice on hotter drier weather planting.

I remember visiting the newly established RHS Bridgewater a few years ago. It was in its infancy. Now it is really starting to mature and looks amazing. I imagine it will continue to improve. I think the same will happen to the Queen Elizabeth garden.

We visited Alnwick Castle Gardensat different times of the year in 2021 and again in 2022. It is fabulous. All new horticultural projects take their time to get going. We have a country park near us that was a former open cast coal mine. In its infancy it was nothing to look at. Now it is a truly beautiful, diverse environment. Nature doesn’t stand still.

I assumed it would have looked better to someone in front of it rather than on camera. They obvs wanted the publicity ahead of opening. I liked the mass planting of pre-scattered bulbs. Had no idea Regents Park was so large.

I was wondering what would take over from the spring bulbs ?
I have those little tulips in my border , they are a lovely spring flower , nice alone but I have Alliums and other things already taking over ,
I do agree it’s better than throwing the entire flora at it , but it is a bit bare

These tulips are great for spreading

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I think the head garden said that alliums would follow and presumably other herbaceous plants will soon make an appearance.

Where is it?

It’s in London’s Regent Park.

Just another ‘plug’ for up here in the NE.
Alnwick gardens now has the biggest collection of cherry blossom trees in the World!

It was like they had planted lots of bulbs on a beach.

It might look better in the summer.

They are glorious, Georgesgran, and the swings in the orchard are fun.

As Mr. Brown would have said, it has great capabilities for improvement.
I thought it looked lovely and it will only get better with time.
The way they decided to use the old concrete for the Mediterranean planting was interesting. I'd love to go up to London to see it, but travelling from the North East means staying in London which I'd prefer not to do.

midgey

It’s in London’s Regent Park.

I love Regent's Park! Maybe I'll see it one day...

Looked a bit bare but it is very early days

It is a new garden and as someone said not a show garden like Chelsea. There were thousands of perennials being planted but if you are going to grow them in poor soil that will be free draining the plants have to be grown hard so no use putting big lush plants in as they would not survive. In Beth Chatto’s dry garden in Essex, the plants have to be robust and look after themselves and be able to put down long roots to get through periods of drought. Young plants are proven to be the best bet and these used in the Queen’s Garden were being propagated to grow well in the fairly harsh environment, not like the pampered ones you get at garden centres. .

Yes it will look wonderful once the plants are established but for gardeners the programme was very interesting as we are all have to change the way we garden in future years. I have a very free draining soil and, as I cannot afford to water all summer. I have had to give up growing lots of the old favouites.

Cressy

I remember visiting the newly established RHS Bridgewater a few years ago. It was in its infancy. Now it is really starting to mature and looks amazing. I imagine it will continue to improve. I think the same will happen to the Queen Elizabeth garden.

I also visited Bridgewater about 5 years ago, it was rather bare. Your post reminded me that I must go back and see the difference.
I enjoyed the GW episode on the Queen Elizabeth garden and look forward to following the developments when I’m in London. Such a lovely idea, especially as it’s made use of the old nursery site and greenhouse structures.