This week marks the beginning of the RHS's latest show, RHS Wentworth Woodhouse, which runs from 16 to 20 July in Wentworth, Rotherham.
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This is the first time we've seen an RHS show in Wentworth, and is one of the main changes announced to the roster of RHS shows in April 2024. In the changes, the RHS announced that after 2024, RHS Tatton Park will return to the site every three years, and instead there will be shows at Wentworth Woodhouse in 2025 and one at Sandringham Estate, the private country retreat of King Charles and Queen Camilla in 2026 before Tatton returns.
RHS Wentworth Woodhouse is brand new to Yorkshire and presents a series of gardens intended to connect to the local area's roots.
What to expect at RHS Wentworth Woodhouse
Taking place in the grand stately home grounds of Wentworth Woodhouse, in Wentworth, the show aims to bring the best of British and international horticulture to the space, and focusing on themes of wellbeing, sustainability and the beauty of gardening.
As well as a series of feature gardens and show gardens, the show will host the Young Designer Gardens, a showcase that has launched the careers of many established garden designers working today.
There will be a Floral Marquee, housing 52 growers and nurseries as well as long borders, where community groups and colleges will create small gardens with the theme of 'Make a Statement'.
Events at the show include demos and entertainment hosted by experts throughout the week.
To time with Wentworth Woodhouse, Harkness Roses has launched a brand new rose, RSPB RazzleBEEdazzle! The rose has been named through a competition open to supporters of the charity. It will appeal to pollinators, from bumblebees and solitary bees to hoverflies and beetles.
Medals
Medals are announced as usual at this week's Wentworth Woodhouse, with gold medals going to RNIB Legacy Garden, the Hazelwood Barn garden and Drakkars Drift.
Voting in The People's Choice Award
As with at RHS Chelsea Flower Show you can vote for your favourite garden in the categories Show Gardens, Young Designer Gardens and Long Borders. Voting opens from 10am on Wednesday 16 July and closes at midday on Friday 18 July. Winners for all the categories will be announced at 4pm on Friday 18 July. Feature Gardens can not be voted for.
The gardens at RHS Wentworth Woodhouse
RHS Feature Gardens
RHS Teenage Dirt Park
RHS Teenage Dirt Park, a Feature Garden by Rachel Platt, creates a planted green space inspired by the young people of BMX Rotherham, part of Rotherham’s Children’s Capital of Culture 2025. The garden showcases a horticultural collaboration that is functional, sustainable and engaging. A bold community garden that contains a central structure of dirt tracks for rollers, jumps and berm turns is situated next to resilient meadow planting that is low maintenance with bold, contrasting, colourful plants.
RHS Miner's Garden
To honour the history of the Fitzwilliam family ownership of the Wentworth Woodhouse estate and a once thriving mining industry, the RHS Miner’s Garden by Chris Myers recreates a time where miners and their families lived in tight-knit communities. The garden uses allotment-style planting to represent a garden’s ability to feed a family, with a natural fringe of wild native trees and wildflowers bordering the garden. Old-fashioned cut flower varieties and bedding plants will be used to transport visitors to a garden of the past.
RHS Work With Your Garden
The RHS Work With Your Garden represents a versatile garden that explores how planting archetypes, from full sun to shade, soil, changes in topography and moisture can be worked with to create a beautiful garden at home. Tackling many of the features and challenges found in gardens across the country, the design will use an unorthodox planting style where plants are chosen based on local nursery availability, continuing into the build where plants will be set out organically rather than strictly following a planting plan.
The RHS Rhubarb by Candlelight
The RHS Rhubarb by Candlelight installation by Jordan Lister transports visitors into Rhubarb Triangle Forcing Sheds, where perennial planting inspired by rhubarb-tones will sparkle under candlelight and the creaking sound rhubarb makes as it grows will be recreated. The sensory delight will be constructed within the chapel at Wentworth Woodhouse and pays homage to the West Yorkshire rhubarb industry.
Show Gardens
The Greenfingers Charity Together Garden
Medal: Silver-Gilt
The Greenfingers Charity Together Garden by Phil Hirst and Jo Charlton is intended as a private space for parents whose child is in a hospice. Small, intricate plant details distract the attention of visitors while helping them feel supported and cared for. A predominantly green planting palette with muted flower colours creates a soothing effect.
The Macmillan Legacy of a Lifetime Garden
Medal: Silver
The Macmillan Legacy of a Lifetime Garden by Pandora Ryan features a still water pool flanked by three chequerboard paths symbolising life’s journey and the challenges of navigating a cancer diagnosis. Visitors can release seeds into the garden to symbolise nurturing future generations.
An RNIB Legacy Garden
Medal: Gold
An RNIB Legacy Garden by Paul Hervey-Brooks explores living with sight loss, allowing visitors to experience a garden through someone who has lost their sight. Incorporating texture, form, colour and sound, the garden uses highly scented plants in contrasting colours to create an immersive place of safety, beauty and comfort.
Urban Pollinators
Urban Pollinators by Richard Browning employs a loose and irregular planting pattern to create a natural garden filled with mixed perennials to attract depleting pollinators.
Hazlewood Barn
Medal: Gold
Hazlewood Barn | Reimagined by Bestall & Co by Lee Bestall aims to give a second life to reclaimed materials, creating a landscape that is designed to cope in a changing Yorkshire climate.
Garden Whispers
Medal: Silver-gilt
Resembling a pathway into a modern art museum, Garden Whispers by Hyeyoung Choi and Yungil Choi blurs the lines between nature, art and architecture. Four well-shaped specimen trees underplanted with a diverse mix of summer-flowering perennial plants grouped by colour families will create a painting resembling what lies in store for visitors attending the fictional exhibition.
Young Designers Gardens
Drakkars Drift
Medal: Gold
Drakkars Drift by Luke Coleman draws inspiration from the striking basalt columns of Fingal’s Cave on the uninhabited island of Staffa, Scotland. The garden features Scandinavian themes and a vibrant, “moisture meadow” scheme that weaves statement specimens into a resilient, wildlife-friendly tapestry that evolves through the seasons.
The Dune Garden
Medal: Silver-gilt
The Dune Garden by Jacopo Ducato Ruggeri takes from the wild, resilient beauty of Fire Island and its legacy as a queer refuge. The planting responds to the site’s contrasts: soft grasses, primroses and wild roses meet bristly thistles and the needled forms of pine, beneath which a mosaic of sea heath spreads.
A Potted History: Echoes of Rockingham
Medal: Silver-gilt
Honouring the rich heritage of ceramic making at Wentworth Woodhouse and across Yorkshire’s Rockingham Pottery, A Potted History: Echoes of Rockingham by Sam Dryell contains soft Crataegus blooms, woven textures of herbaceous colour and the gentle sweep of Yorkshire hedgerows. The garden aims to paint a picture through planting to celebrate this area’s cherished artistry.
