Kate Middleton will design a garden at the famous Chelsea Garden Show

Kensington Palace announced something new the Duchess of Cambridge was doing this year as she made her first official engagement for 2019.

Kate Middleton will design a garden at the world famous Chelsea Flower Show this year.

The announcement came today as the Duchess of Cambridge, 37, made a visit to a community garden in Islington, north London, that also marked her first official engagement for the year.

The Chelsea show is the world’s best-known flower event and has been supported by the royal family for many years.

The aim of Kate’s involvement was to encourage children and families to embrace nature through her garden, which will be designed as a woodland, with wild plants and natural materials.

She has been working on it over the past three months and will continue to do so right up until the show in May.

The duchess’s garden is called the “RHS Back to Nature Garden” and has been designed in collaboration with award-winning landscape architects Andree Davies and Adam White, of Davies White Landscape Architects.

A beaming Kate Middleton arrives at the community gardens.

The duchess and a young fan.

The RHS said Kate’s garden “has been inspired by childhood memories that are triggered by the natural world, as well as special moments that will be created and treasured by families now and in the future”.

A Kensington Palace spokeswoman said: “The garden seeks to recapture for adults the sense of wonder and magic that they enjoyed as children, in addition to kindling excitement and a passion for nature in future generations.

“Wild planting and natural materials will be used to recreate a woodland wilderness where children and adults alike can feel closer to the great outdoors.”

Kate told young fans at King Henry’s Walk Garden today that her children Charlotte and George would be jealous of the pizza she was making with them after she had looked at the community gardening project.

One child even asked her if the Queen ate pizza.

“Has the Queen ever had pizza?” 8-year-old Nadirah inquired, but Kate didn’t have an answer.

“You know, that’s such a good question. I don’t know,” the royal responded. “I don’t know. Maybe next time I see her, shall I ask?”

George and Charlotte wil be so jealous of me making pizza with you, says Kate. pic.twitter.com/OUvTH31m3I

— Rebecca English (@RE_DailyMail) January 15, 2019

Duchess of Cambridge quizzes schoolchildren about whether their friends all like gardening. "Have they ever tried it? 'Cause that's the thing, if you haven't tried it you don't know how cool it is" #gardening pic.twitter.com/U5VKVlfIPc

— Hannah Furness (@Hannah_Furness) January 15, 2019

Kate will design a garden that features at the Chelsea Garden Show in May.

The children told Kate they loved working outside.

Kate told the children Prince George and Princess Charolotte would be jealous of their pizzas.

As they made the pizza Kate asked: “Do you like being outside, learning outside?

“I think that’s where George and Charlotte would love to be learning outside of the classroom. It’s still fun inside, but it’s much better outside.”

The duchess was gifted honey, picture and bird feeders from the kids, telling one: “I’m going to go put that in the garden and hopefully the birds will come.”

After discussing the merits of learning inside and outside she asked the children what they preferred - and was met by cries of “outside”.

Encouraging them to head outside, she told them: “If you haven’t tried it, you don’t know how cool it is.”

As well as pizza making, she took part in planting workshops and learned how to make bird feeders.

-with The Sun