"a symphony of movement and colour"

The Hummingbird Haven

RHS Hampton Court Garden Festival
1st-6th July 2025

This border celebrates the connection that evolved between hummingbirds and Lamiaceae plants such as Salvia and Monarda. Featuring a curated selection of their favoured nectar-rich orange and red blooms, the planting creates an inviting habitat inspired by these fascinating pollinators.

Enjoy a vibrant, immersive space with life-size origami hummingbirds darting between flowers. The oval shape and curves of the bed are inspired by their elegant flight patterns.

Plants are chosen that attract these birds by providing nectar-rich flowers, shelter, and nesting materials such as downy leaves and grass heads. Iridescent foliage and swaying grasses evoke the hummingbirds’ eye-catching plumage and acrobatic flight.

Shadwell Williams Design Studio and Price Adams Studio are delighted to have been selected to be part of a collaboration between the London College of Garden Design (LCGD) and the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS).

Seven borders designed by graduates of the LCGD will make up the 'For the Love of Lamiaceae' exhibit at the world-famous RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival.

The Team

Ali Shadwell-Williams
Garden Designer

Based in California, Ali is lucky enough to see hummingbirds feeding from the Salvia in her garden.

A trained horticulturalist and garden designer, Ali runs Shadwell Williams Design Studio. Her passion is creating beautiful gardens and landscapes with a strong focus on wildlife and biodiversity.

Yvonne Price
Garden Designer

The first person that Yvonne met when she was studying at the London College of Graden Design was Ali. They bonded over their common interest in conservation.

The lead of Price Adams Studio, Yvonne worked as a horticultural lecturer before moving into garden design. Working out of Essex, Yvonne aims to incorporate sustainability and intelligent design.

Taro's Origami Studio

Taro’s Origami Studio is a space dedicated to the art and expression of origami folding. With locations all over the world, including Tokyo and Brooklyn, their mission is to create an environment where freedom of expression is encouraged through origami folding.

"The endless flow of creativity is in each of us."

London College of Garden Design

Ali and Yvonne both trained at the London College of Design, completing their Garden Design Diploma. This covered design theory, planting, hard landscaping, technical drawing and CAD.

Taught by world-leading, experienced designers in small groups, the LCGD offers inspirational garden design training and life-changing career opportunities.

For the Love of Lamiaceae

Lamiaceae is a huge plant family, made up of over 7000 species. Often known as the mint family or the dead-nettle family, it is spread all over the world and includes some real stars of horticulture, including lavendar and rosemary.

A family is a taxonomical term, which describes how different living things are related. Humans, for example, are part of Hominidae family - more commonly known as the great apes. A family is sub-divided into genera (singular is genus), which are then further split into different species. For example, rosemary is in the family Lamiaceae, genus Salvia and the species is rosmarinus. Its name in Botanical Latin is Salvia rosmarinus.

Read more about this fascinating family of plants here or, even better, visit us at the RHS Hampton Court Garden Festival.