RHS Urban

I'm a keen gardener so I was super excited to see the new Urban show the Royal Horticultural Society brought to Manchester in April. I've been a frequent visitor to RHS gardens and shows - Chelsea, Tatton, Bridgewater, Bodnant. With a very different vibe to the other shows the focus at RHS Urban was on house plants, small urban scapes and balcony spaces. Inside the cavernous industrial Manchester setting of Mayfield Depot we were treated to blossoming towers of flowers, tall forest trees, suspended orchids, seedling sprout farms, mossariums, mushrooms grown in hanging macrame in abundance. I even spotted Tine Tempah down by the Gin bar! I hope the show will return in the future and we can look forward to some more big ideas work from the RHS.

RHS URBAN | EMILY HAUCK KARIKA NOVA

clockwise from the top left: inspirational bathroom ideas by blue diamond, slightly ironic sign about low light tolerant plants - as everything was indoors (unique to this show) however inspiring it was actually quite difficult to see the colours and textures of the plants in such low lighting, absolutely loved this project mushroom space by caley brothers complete with mushroom macrame, textural immersion floral installation by hannah clark founder of the bud and pot, art piece part of the mayfield botanical pattern book exhibition, orchid display, moss and life cycle designed by marcin ruta and claire page founders of moss clerks.