You can unsubscribe from Highgrove emails at any time by clicking the link in the email you receive. Following concerns that she was absent from the coverage of RHS Chelsea Flower Show, Rachel De Thame's illness was revealed in.

Vice President of wild flower charity Plantlife and a keen supporter of Perennial – the gardeners’ charity and Flowers from the Farm - the network for the UK’s cut flower growers. On Friday 8th May the National Garden Scheme will launch Gardens and Health Week championing and demonstrating the benefits of gardens to everyone’s health and wellbeing. The author of three gardening books, Rachel is a gardening columnist on the Sunday Times and The Garden Magazine for the RHS, and regularly writes for BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine. On arrival, one of HRH The Prince of Wales’s expert garden guides will lead you in groups on a 75-minute garden tour, offering a rare insight into the life of The Prince, and these extraordinary gardens blossoming for the new season. Rachel de Thame's top colourful plants for a summer garden. There are also films by National Garden Scheme garden owners demonstrating the benefits of gardens to their health, such as Amanda Goode whose garden helped her overcome the loss of her daughter and granddaughter, Alan Clements whose garden helped him recover from life-threatening spinal injuries, Alison Jordan and Chris Lane whose gardens help them cope with Parkinsons, and two generations of GPs whose garden brings them solace in these testing times. Whether you are an armchair gardener, allotmenteer, amateur gardener or blessed with green fingers, hopefully you will find something here to dib your dibber in. From modelling work Rachel moved on to TV adverts and then into television starring as Lady Igraine in the 1998 series Merlin. How to grow Lupin You can grow Lupins in either a sunny or partially shaded part of the garden that has good drainage. An avid gardener since childhood, Rachel trained at The English Gardening School and has been a regular presenter on BBC2’s Gardeners’ World since 1999. The De Thame family live in West London with a second home in the Cotswolds. Having Rachel on board will, raise the profile of our gardens, encourage more people to discover the pleasures of visiting gardens and help us champion the health benefits of gardens.”, For more information please contact Vicky Flynn, Communications Manager [email protected]  / 07980 135909 or George Plumptre, CEO, [email protected], Sign up to hear more about gardens, events and our Her passion for plants and enthusiasm for the promotion of gardens for health and wellbeing, fit seamlessly with our work at the National Garden Scheme. At the beginning of 2020 Rachel de Thame joined the National Garden Scheme as an Ambassador. Fascinated by plants since childhood, Gardeners' World presenter and journalist, Rachel brings her expertise and experience to talk about the healing power of gardens and gardening. Drama was to be the next career move for Rachel and she took a course at Southgate college. All profits from the sale of Highgrove products, garden tours and events are donated to The Prince of Wales's Charitable Fund.

The use of mobile phones, cameras, binoculars and all forms of recording equipment are prohibited on the Highgrove Estate for security reasons. — Rachel de Thame (@RacheldeThame) May 8, 2019. She reports from all the major RHS Flower Shows and has contributed to many other gardening programmes for both the BBC and ITV. At this special event you’ll enjoy an exclusive talk with Rachel de Thame followed by a delicious Champagne Afternoon Tea and guided tour of the Royal Gardens at Highgrove.