Urban growth: Hampton Court Palace flower show – in pictures

A visitor looks at a display in the Floral Marquee Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images

Designer Tony Smith tends to his garden, called 'Possession' Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images

A musician plays in the Azorean garden, in the World of Gardens section Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images

A worker lays hay among the flowers in a display framed by a large photographic backdrop Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images

A wrecked car, rubble and rubbish fill one of the Chris Beardshaw-designed Urban Oasis gardens Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images

Visitors walk though Beardshaw's Urban Oasis garden Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images

Metal sculptures of daisies Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images

Double yellow lines form a bench in the Edible Bus Stop's Riot of Colour garden Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images

A London taxi, overgrown with flowers, forms part of the Edible Bus Stop's Riot of Colour garden Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images

Stone steps inlaid with messages form a bridge at the Bridge Over Troubled Water garden Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images

Fayed Al Subehat of the Jordanian Tourist Board stands in the Discover Jordan garden Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images

Floral sculptures of a horse and a cow Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images

Art student Harry Hurlock paints a Russian doll sculpture in the Russian Museum garden Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images

Butterflies rest in the window of Las Mariposas (Hopes of a Nicaraguan Girl), a conceptual garden in support of Amnesty International Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images

The Countess of Wessex stands on the the Bournemouth Borough Council's A Victorian Fantasy garden Photograph: Ray Tang/Rex Features