As RHS Chelsea Flower Show kicks off for RHS members from Tuesday, the gardens are mostly finished, with royalty visiting on Monday.
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But we can now share a first look at the gardens in the show, from the main show gardens through to the All About Plants Gardens.
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Feast your eyes on the below, and make your plants for your visit to RHS Chelsea Flower Show next week.
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RHS and Radio 2 Dog Garden
designed by Monty Don
Read our full guide to Monty Don's RHS and Radio 2 Dog Garden
The RHS and Radio 2 Dog Garden celebrates the nation's love of dogs and the gardens we share with them. Jamie Butterworth of Form Plants is leading on creating the garden at the show. It will find its forever home at Battersea Dogs Home just across the river from the Chelsea Flower Show site after the show has finished.
There is an area focusing on raising awareness of certain plants that are toxic to dogs (this section won't be being relocated after the show). As it's an RHS garden, this one won't be judged.
The Avanade 'Intelligent' Garden
designed by Tom Massey with Je Ahn
built by The Outdoor Room
Read our full guide to The Avanade Garden designed by Tom Massey and Je Ahn
The Avanade Garden uses AI technology to feed data back to the owner about conditions in the garden, making it easier for people to garden more sustainably. There is a digital twin of the garden for visitors to access via QR code to see the future. It will become a community garden in London after the show and a test-bed for this sort of development.
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The Glasshouse Garden
designed by Jo Thompson
supported by Project Giving Back
Read our full guide to The Glasshouse Garden designed by Jo Thompson
This garden celebrates the transformative effect of second chances through horticulture, inspired by the work of Glasshouse Botanics. Glasshouse Botanics help to provide a sense of purpose for women approaching the end of their prison sentences.
Discover more about Glasshouse Botanics
Hospitalfield Arts Garden
by Nigel Dunnett
supported by Project Giving Back
built by Landform Consultants
Read our full guide to the Hospitalfield Arts Garden
Professor of planting Nigel Dunnett returns to Chelsea Flower Show for the first time this year since 2017. The garden reflects the coastal location of Hospitalfield Arts in Arbroath and mirrors the sand dune environment, with all planting established in sand.
After the show, the garden will be relocated to a primary school close to Hospitalfield.
The Hospice UK: Garden of Compassion
designed by Tom Hoblyn
supported by Project Giving Back
built by Mark Whyman Landscapes
Read our full guide to the Hospice UK: Garden of Compassion
This garden draws climate and planting parallells between County Durham and the mountainous areas of the Mediterranean. It is designed to demonstrate how spaces can play a role in providing comfort and calm at the end of life.
The King's Trust Garden: Seeding Success
designed by Joe Perkins
supported by Project Giving Back
built by Landscaping Consultants
Read our guide to The King's Trust Garden
Inspired by a volcanic environment, this garden highlights how seeds represent the potential for life growth and optimism for the future, drawing parallels with young people. Screen printed glass panels weave through the garden and represent seed dispersal.
The Down's Syndrome Scotland Garden
by Duncan Hall and Nick Burton
supported by Project Giving Back
built by Kate Gould Gardens
Read our guide to the Down's Syndrome Scotland Garden
This is Duncan Hall and Nick Burton's first ever Chelsea Show Garden, featuring work by artist Francis Priest. The garden highlights misconceptions that people with Down's Syndrome face.
The garden is inspired by Duncan Hall's nephew Liam, and features a crazy paving path with a feature building with decorative tiles.
London Square Chelsea Pensioners Garden
designed by Dave Green
supported by London Square
A spot for our much-loved Chelsea Pensioners to relax in, this garden designed by Dave Green will feature planting that reflects the ceremonial life and stories of the Pensioners.
The Garden of the Future
designed by Matthew Butler and Josh Parker
built by Acacia Gardens
Read our guide to the Garden of the Future
Making the RHS Chelsea Flower Show debut, designers Josh Parker and Matthew Butler feature climate-resilient ornamentals, crops and edible plants in order to demonstrate how to harness innovation when it comes to the climate.
This garden is sponsored by Bill and Melinda Gates foundation and is inspired by scientists, researchers, farmers and more developing and implementing innovative approaches for adapting to a warming world.
British Red Cross Here for Humanity garden
designed by John Warland and Tom Bannister
Read our guide to the British Red Cross: 'Here for Humanity Garden'
The garden has been inspired by Henri Dunant, the founder and first volunteer of the Red Cross Movement and the countless volunteers who have since worked for the charity. Designed by six-times RHS Gold Medal winner, John Warland alongside Tom Bannister, who received a Gold Medal and was awarded Best in Class at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2024, it is a contemporary twist on an alpine garden.
Tackle HIV Challenging Stigma Garden
designed by Manoj Malde
built by JJH Landscapes
Read our guide to the Tackle HIV Challenging Stigma Garden
RHS Chelsea Flower Show regular Manoj Malde is famous for having got married at the show. This year, he's designing this garden for Viiv Healthcare, inspired by the advances in science and the power of the HIV community to tackle stigma.
The garden will be relocated to Calthorpe Community Gardens in Kings Cross.
Discover more about Manoj Malde
Addleshaw Goddard: Freedom to Flourish Garden
designed by Joe and Laura Carey
built by The Outdoor Room
supported by Addleshaw Goddard
This garden from Joe and Laura Carey will embrace nature's call for an unhurried pace of life. It looks to the mental health benefits of slowing down and having an unhurried lifestyle.
The landscape of North Norfolk is its inspiration, with natural materials that represent cliffs and habitats for wildlife. Plants included are Oenothera odorata ‘Apricot Delight’, Baptisia australis and Hesperis matronalis.
Killik & Co Futureproof Garden
designed by Baz Grainger
built by Landform Consultants
Designer Baz Grainger returns this year to work with Killik & Co on this RHS Chelsea Garden for 2025. The Futureproof Garden offers a glimpse at 25 years into the future and is designed to withstand unpredictable weather patterns.
This modern family garden features resilient trees such as Zelkova serrata and Pinus mugo ‘Mughus’ and is inspired by rainscaping techniques.
The Pathway Garden
designed by Robert Beaudin and Allon Hoskin
Supported by Project Giving Back
built by Modular Garden Limited
Allon Hoskin and Robert Beaudin of Modular have designed a garden for Pathway, the charity that supports people who have experienced homelessness to access inclusive health care. Expect boulders intersecting around a path, as well as a pergola and a water feature. The garden will be designed using only upcycled materials. The garden will be going to Derriford Hospital, Plymouth after the show.
The Boodles Raindance Garden
designed by Catherine MacDonald
built by Gadd Brothers Trees and Landsapes
Read our guide to the Boodles Raindance Garden
Catherine MacDonald is designing the Boodles Raindance Garden, celebrating the Boodles jewellery collection. The design draws heavily on the styles and motifs of the collection with circular paving pads, featuring etched concentric circles, lead the visitor to a platinum coloured Raindance pavilion
complete with domed roof that channels rainwater to a circular rill at its base.
The Cha no Niwa - Japanese Tea Garden
designed by Kazuyuki Ishihara
Regular Chelsea Show Garden designer Kazuyuki Ishihara's garden for 2025 features a traditional Japanese tea house among maples. Stones are key to the design and which also takes inspiration from the traditional flower arranging art of ikebana. '
Expect plants that include Acer palmatum, Enkianthus perulatus, Iris, Sedum, Hornbeam and Pachysandra terminalis.
Discover more about Kazuyuki Ishihara.
Children with Cancer UK 'A Place to Be...' garden
designed by Ros Coutts-Harwood and Tom Clarke
built by Big Fish Landscapes
Read our guide to the Children With Cancer UK 'A Place to Be...'
First time RHS Chelsea designer Ros Coutts-Harwood teams up with Tom Clarke on this garden, which offers a space for children to be carefree, happy, refreshed and grounded by the natural world. It will feature a monorail, a pool and a path to a reflective refuge, called the Nest.
The colour scheme is deep pinks and burgundy, from Rosa ‘Emma Bridgewater’, Allium ‘Forelock’, and Lysimachia atropurpurea ‘Beaujolais’. Splashes of white from Digitalis purpurea ‘Pam's Choice’.
All About Plants gardens
The Seawilding Garden, designed by Ryan McMahon
Showcasing rare native plants and the work to restore them
Designer Ryan McMahon
Sponsor Project Giving Back for Seawilding
Contractor Frogheath Landscapes
Plants Kelways Plants, Moss Clerks, New Wood Trees
Relocating to A community garden at Ardfern, on the west coast of Scotland
“I wanted to bring [rare] plants into the garden and tell the story of how we can help restore them,” says designer Ryan McMahon of his garden, which highlights the work by charity Seawilding to restore seagrass to the oceans.
Read more about the garden here
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The Songbird Survival Garden, designed by Nicola Oakey
A garden highlighting simple ways to help songbirds
Designers Nicola Oakey
Sponsor Project Giving Back for SongBird Survival
Contractor Crowton Rowarth
Plants Hardy’s Cottage Garden Plants
Relocating to The Neighbourhood Network, Hull
Having become fascinated with the birds in her garden during lockdown, designer Nicola Oakey was shocked to discover that their numbers in the UK have halved in just two generations. Her first Chelsea garden aims to inspire gardeners to make small changes to introduce the three elements – shelter, food and water – that birds need.
Read more about the garden here
The ADHD Foundation Garden, designed by Kate Terry
A garden to challenge preconceptions about neurodiversity
Designer Katy Terry
Sponsor Project Giving Back for The ADHD Foundation
Contractor PC Landscapes
Plants Form Plants, Hardy’s Cottage Garden Plants
Relocating to The University of Liverpool
“Thinking differently about thinking differently was what I always had in mind when I designed the garden,” says Chelsea first-timer Katy Terry, who hopes her garden will encourage visitors to rethink their preconceptions of neurodiversity. Central to her design is a striking ‘swing’ tree (Carpinus betulus), with a gravity-defying curved stem, from which are suspended five steel-mesh umbrella sculptures by David Begbie.
Read more about the garden here
The Wildlife Trusts British Rainforest Garden, designed by Zoe Claymore
An evocation within a garden setting of the temperate rainforests that once covered one-fifth of the British Isles
Designer Zoe Claymore
Sponsor Project Giving Back supported by Aviva for Wildlife Trusts
Contractor Frogheath
Plants Highland Moss, How Green Nursery, Kevock Garden Plants, Lincolnshire Pond Plants, New Wood Trees, Rymer Trees and Hedging, Stone Lane Gardens
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“Somebody standing in the garden will feel moisture in the air, they will hear water and smell moss,” says designer Zoe Claymore of her British Rainforest Garden, with its backdrop of a large fern wall and waterfall that has been inspired by the Dart Valley in Devon.