There's no denying it, us girls love to shop. For Rachel de Thame Hampton Court Palace Flower Show is the perfect excuse to go shopping "I love the opportunity to spend money. It's great to see something, fall in love with it and then buy it," she says.
She's been at it already and has purchased a child's bed, part of the display on The National Year of Reading Garden. "it's a metal bed for my youngest daughter," she says, "and when she's outgrown in I can plant it up with flowers."

Despite the rain Rachel was looking extremely elegant and graceful as she waited patiently to film her next slot for BBC Gardeners' World. But she'd still had time to look around the show. "I'm particularly interested in the Climate Change Dome, I think it will be popular, not least because people will hide from the rain in there. And I'm dying to get into the rose marquee."
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