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Homes & Property | Gardening Dear gentle reader, if you’ve already binged part one of Bridgerton season 3 (guilty) then luckily there’s more of Penelope Featherington’s story to tide you over. Netflix is bringing a Bridgerton-themed garden to the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2024. Created by garden designer Holly Johnston, ‘The Bridgerton Garden’ will communicate the sensory journey of Penelope ( played by Nicola Coughlan ) blooming from ballroom wallflower to romantic heroine .

A garden is a fitting tie-in for the big budget glossy period drama, where characters spend a lot of time having sigh-heavy and erotically charged moments in manicured formal landscapes. Johnston, already a fan, immediately had some ideas how to distil the series into a living garden. “I love the show,” says Johnston.



“It’s very indulgent. It shows a very colourful, over-the-top world that’s not historically accurate, but rejects that in the most fabulous way.” Bridgerton plays fast and loose with period details, blowing up the Regency fashions to epic glittery proportions and upending the era’s colonial realities with diverse casting.

This freed Johnston from the constraints of producing a carbon copy of the set with her Chelsea interpretation. “I wanted to create something that had a sense of heritage design. My biggest goal will be for it to sense of place and not feel like it’s just been built,” she says.

“But I also didn’t want to create something that was an exact re.

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