Kate Middleton’s Garden Pays Tribute to Princess Diana in the Most Beautiful Way

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From House Beautiful

Every year since 1913, the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) has held The Chelsea Flower Show on the grounds of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, London. One of the most buzzed-about exhibits this year is a Back to Nature garden designed by none other than the Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, with the help of landscape architects Andree Davies and Adam White.

According to the RHS, Kate's creation is a woodland garden "inspired by childhood memories and with families in mind" as a retreat from the busy world where visitors could play, learn, discover, and create memories from May 21 to May 25. At the center of the garden is a gorgeous, high platform tree house "clad in stag horn oak," swinging seat, waterfall, and stream.

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👀 We invite you to take a sneak peek at The Duchess of Cambridge’s #RHSChelsea ‘Back to Nature’ Garden! The woodland wilderness garden aims to get people back to nature, and highlight the benefits of the natural world on our mental and physical wellbeing. Speaking ahead of @The_RHS garden unveiling, The Duchess of Cambridge said: “In recent years I have focussed much of my work on the early years, and how instrumental they are for outcomes later in life. I believe that spending time outdoors when we are young can play a role in laying the foundations for children to become happy, healthy adults.” Some features of the #ChelseaFlowerShow garden include: 1. A swing seat hanging below the garden’s centrepiece, a high platform tree house, encouraging creative play and discovery for all generations. 2. The high platform tree house is inspired by a bird or animal nest and provides a wonderful place to retreat and look out through the trees. The treehouse is made from chestnut, with hazel, stag horn oak and larch nest cladding. 3/4. The garden is aiming to inspire interaction with the natural environment through its multi-sensory, green and blue plant scheme. The garden will be filled with incredible edibles, plants for craft activities, forest scents and a diverse range of plants, shrubs and trees of different heights and textures. The garden forms part of Her Royal Highness’s ongoing work on early childhood development and her mission to support efforts that give every child the best possible start in life. The Duchess has committed to making early childhood development the focus of her work in the years to come, and believes that providing children with the opportunity to spend time outdoors can play an important role.

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Wild trees and shrubs and a cool calm color palette of green and blue make this garden a relaxing and calming space, while the planting includes edible produce, plants for craft activities, food for wildlife and nectar to attract pollinators. A playful pathway bordered with beautiful foliage textures weaves through the garden, around the rocks and stepping stones. - Royal Horticultural Society

While the description alone is enough to draw crowds, Country Living UK pointed out another special touch within the garden, that was definitely no accident considering Kate was using memories and family to inspire her design. Amongst the flowers in the space, you can see forget-me-not flowers, a favorite or Princess Diana's, adding extra blue to her color scheme. Can you spot them behind the photo of her on the swing? Looks like Kate was on the same page as her sister-in-law, who alluded to Princess Diana with the same flower in an Instagram post on Mother's Day.

I am most definitely crying.

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