A rather belated 'thank you' to all who voted the Girlguiding UK Centenary Garden at Hampton Court Show the People's Choice Award Best Show Garden! I'm still walking on roses and beaming with joy, one month on

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The 32nd All Saints Kettering Rainbows delivered their flower display to Hampton Court - it survived the rough ride very well in the van!

All the Rainbows were really delighted to be having a day off school to go and visit the flower show

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Anna from 6th Teddington Guides' sunflower growing story:

Volunteers were needed to grow sunflowers which might be good enough to go to the Hampton Court Flower Show.  Mum said we could volunteer as we plant lots of seeds anyway.
 
We took the seeds away with us during the Easter Holidays and planted them in the little pots.  We put them on the window sill to sunbathe and gave them lots to drink.  After the school holidays we brought them home and put them in Mum's mini greenhouse.  Only two of the six seeds germinated.  I kept them in the mini greenhouse to protect them from frosts and slugs!
 
When they had grown quite abit Mum gave me some bigger pots.  It was tricky changing them into the bigger pots trying not to spoil them. We put them outside and watered them every day. Mum's friend came to water them when we went away at half term!
 
It looks like they will have lots of flowers on them.  They aren't really tall like the ones we usually grow.  Mum explained that's because they are dwarf sunflowers. I really hope they will be in the Show

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Opening week at Hampton Court Palace Flower Show and visitors are loving the garden! It's great to hear the positive response and see the garden come alive with people walking through it. Guiding volunteers are on hand to give more information to visitors and to answer questions - and we've had quite a range asked

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Girlguiding UK invited Units across the country to grow a container of flowers for the Hampton Court Flower Show.  The girls had to come up with ideas and the more unusual the container the better.

The 3rd and 4th Newport Pagnell Brownies wanted something really unusual to plant their flowers in, and after a discussion with the Brownies it was decided that they would plant up a toilet, cistern and wash basin!

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The grounds around the magnificent Crystal Palace Exhibition Centre in South London was where the guiding movement began in September 1909. In their Centenary year, it only seemed right to have something relating to this great occasion in the show garden celebrating 100 years of guiding at Hampton Court. On Monday, Rob Moorhouse a clever blacksmith based in the Lake District, turned up with a Crystal Palace inspired archway strapped onto his trailer and hey presto, one archway is now standing rather grandly in position at the entrance to the garden

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The 2nd Worcester Brownies have grown some amazing sunflowers for the Girlguiding UK Hampton Court Garden.  The Brownies planted the seeds and they were all looked after in one place, with weekly photos taken to Brownie meetings so the girls could see their progress.
 
The sunflowers are now 165cm tall and still growing!!

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Rainbows, Brownies and Guides across the country planted sunflower seeds a few weeks ago with the hope that their flower will be included in Girlguiding UK's Hampton Court Garden.  As the girls start to report back on their progress it seems there has been varying levels of success

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