Designer and BBC gardening broadcaster Juliet Sargeant is teaming up with Disney to create The Lion King Anniversary Garden at next month’s RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival to mark 25 years of the award-winning West End musical. The show garden will be filled with vibrant, drought-tolerant flowers and dusty red soil planted with grasses reflecting Pride Lands, and hopefully spark creative ideas on how to add drama and a sense of theatre to your own outdoor space. “It’s a great opportunity to give people ideas for their own gardens, particularly people who’ve got sunny plots with sandy or free-draining soil and struggle to keep moisture in their gardens,” says Sargeant.
“It’s also quite a theatrical space with drama and impact.” Here, she offers some tips to add drama to your own garden. Use bright fabrics “We often think about colour as coming from the plant, but for additional impact – and at times of the year when the garden isn’t flowering so much – use outdoor fabrics.
“There are many more outdoor (weather-resistant) fabrics to choose from, with a complete range of prices. Think about adding colour and usefulness with outdoor fabrics. I see no reason why you can’t have hangings and drape things around your garden to give extra colour and impact.
“I probably wouldn’t drape outdoor fabric under trees, where they are going to get mucky, but they will be fine in an indoor/outdoor courtyard space.” Blend colours Consider the colour of .
