There are 27 gardens at this year's Chelsea Flower Show including Feature Gardens, Show Gardens, Sanctuary Gardens, Artisan Gardens, Balcony Gardens and Container Gardens. But which design has won Gold, Best in Show and the People's Choice award?
Following a rigorous judging process, RHS judges awarded garden designers with medals on the official opening day. At this historic autumn show there really is something for everyone, with each garden – however big or small – providing inspiration and take-home ideas. We've compiled every single garden from the Chelsea Flower Show 2021 right here, and you can also see all the winners for each garden category. Please note, feature gardens, balcony and container gardens are not judged.
What medals are available? Gold, Silver-Gilt, Silver and Bronze.
What awards are up for grabs? Every category has a Best in Show and the Best Show Garden is particularly sought-after, there's also a Best Construction and the People's Choice Award; the latter of which is judged by the public.
CHELSEA FLOWER SHOW 2021 WINNERS:
Best Show Garden: Guangzhou China: Guangzhou Garden designed by Peter Chmiel with Chin-Jung Chen Best Construction Award (Show Garden): The Trailfinders’ 50th Anniversary Garden built by Stewart Landscape Construction Best Sanctuary Garden: Bible Society: The Psalm 23 Garden designed by Sarah Eberle Best Artisan Garden: The Blue Diamond Forge Garden designed by The Blue Diamond Group Team Best Construction Award (Artisan/Sanctuary Garden): Bible Society: The Psalm 23 Garden built by Landform Consultants Ltd.
People's Choice Award Best Artisan/Sanctuary Garden: The Parsley Box Garden designed by Alan Williams
People's Choice Award Best Show Garden: The Yeo Valley Organic Garden designed by Tom Massey.
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BBC One Show and RHS Garden of Hope
RHS/Sarah Cuttle
FEATURE GARDEN (not judged)
Designed by Arit Anderson, this garden illustrates how gardening and growing plants provides hope and joy, as we enjoy the fruits of our labour as our plants flourish and grow.
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RHS COP26 Garden
RHS/Neil Hepworth
FEATURE GARDEN (not judged)
Designed by Marie-Louise Agius, this garden demonstrates how gardens, plants and green spaces can play an integral part in protecting our planet and people and ensure a greener, more resilient future for us all.
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RHS Queen's Green Canopy Garden
RHS/Tim Sandall
FEATURE GARDEN (not judged)
Designed by David Dodd, this garden promotes a unique tree-planting initiative to mark the Queen's Platinum Jubilee in 2022. It delivers a powerful message on the importance of woodland and biodiversity.
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Bodmin Jail, 60° East: A Garden Between Continents
RHS/Neil Hepworth
SHOW GARDEN | Award: SILVER
Designed by Ekaterina Zasukhina with Carly Kershaw, this design is inspired by a garden in the heart of the metropolis of Yekaterinburg, Russia, which sits at the border between Europe and Asia. The garden brings the two continents together in a sweeping naturalistic composition evocative of the beauty of Russia’s ancient Ural Mountain landscapes; its peaks, forests, rivers and slopes.
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Guangzhou China: Guangzhou Garden
RHS/Neil Hepworth
SHOW GARDEN | Award: GOLD | Best Show Garden
Designed by Peter Chmiel with Chin-Jung Chen, this garden highlights how the health and wellbeing of people and the natural world can be sustained through integrated environmental systems.
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The Florence Nightingale Garden: A Celebration of Modern-Day Nursing
RHS/Neil Hepworth
SHOW GARDEN | Award: SILVER
Designed by Robert Myers, the Florence Nightingale Garden's theme is 'nurture through nature', inspired by the idea that the shortest road to recovery leads through a garden.
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The M&G Garden
RHS/Neil Hepworth
SHOW GARDEN | Award: GOLD
Designed by Charlotte Harris and Hugo Bugg, this garden is about forging beautiful, vital outdoor spaces in places we need them the most.
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The Trailfinders’ 50th Anniversary Garden
RHS/Neil Hepworth
SHOW GARDEN | Award: GOLD | Best Construction Award (Show Garden)
Designed by Jonathan Snow, this garden aims to capture the essence of Nepal and the wider Himalayan region through a representation of the culture, plants and landscape, specifically of the Himalayan foothills.
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The Yeo Valley Organic Garden
RHS/Neil Hepworth
SHOW GARDEN | Award: GOLD
Designed by Tom Massey and supported by Sarah Mead, Creative Director at Yeo Valley Organic, this garden has been designed to nurture soil biodiversity and support pollinators, demonstrating how we can work with nature to benefit us all.
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Bible Society: The Psalm 23 Garden
RHS/Sarah Cuttle
SANCTUARY GARDEN | Award: GOLD | Best Sanctuary Garden | Best Construction Award (Artisan/Sanctuary Garden)
Designed by Sarah Eberle, this garden – inspired by the landscape of Dartmoor where Sarah grew up – represents a spiritual oasis within an urban setting, a place of escape to re-engage with nature and to strengthen mental health and wellbeing.
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Finding Our Way: An NHS Tribute Garden
RHS/Sarah Cuttle
SANCTUARY GARDEN | Award: SILVER
Designed by Naomi Ferrett-Cohen, this garden is a tribute to the efforts of the thousands working in the NHS, not only nurses and doctors, but also physiotherapists, pharmacists, porters, technicians, and other unseen and unsung staff. ‘Finding Our Way’ is a space in which to reflect on the events of the pandemic.
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Finnish Soul Garden - A Nordic Heritage Seaside Garden
RHS/Sarah Cuttle
SANCTUARY GARDEN | Award: SILVER-GILT
Designed by Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry of Finland, this garden celebrates the International Year of Plant Health (IYPH). The garden hopes to promote traditional ways we can live in harmony with our natural environment to protect it.
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The Boodles Secret Garden
RHS/Sarah Cuttle
SANCTUARY GARDEN | Award: SILVER-GILT
Designed by Thomas Hoblyn, this garden was inspired by the well-loved children’s story by Frances Hodgson- Burnett. It's a contemporary interpretation of the journey to an enchanted, life-changing sanctuary.
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The Calm of Bangkok
RHS/Sarah Cuttle
SANCTUARY GARDEN | Award: SILVER-GILT
Designed by Mr Tawatchai Sakdikul and Miss Ploytabtim Suksang, this garden aims to represent the two sides of Bangkok – colourful, busy and sleepless yet culturally rich, peaceful, delicate – and bring them together through this minimal, modern garden that explores the variety of the city’s spirit and energy.
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The Parsley Box Garden
RHS/Sarah Cuttle
SANCTUARY GARDEN | Award: SILVER | People's Choice Award for Best Artisan/Sanctuary Garden
Designed by Alan Williams, this garden is inspired by the celebrated Nordic restaurant Noma, and focuses on conserving nature’s bounty through fermentation and preservation. The garden seeks to champion and empower the over 60s and challenge the out-dated stereotypes of ageing.
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The Blue Diamond Forge Garden
RHS/Tim Sandall
ARTISAN GARDEN | Award: SILVER | Best Artisan Garden
Designed by The Blue Diamond Group Team, this garden takes inspiration from a National Trust owned forge located in Branscombe, Devon. It hopes to demonstrate how heritage and traditions have been retained whilst simultaneously embracing modern needs without losing its artisan qualities.
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Guide Dogs' 90th Anniversary Garden
RHS/Tim Sandall
ARTISAN GARDEN | Award: SILVER
Designed by Adam Woolcott & Jonathan Smith, the garden illustrates the journey of somebody with sight loss and celebrates 90 years of Guide Dogs for the Blind Association.
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The Landform Balcony Garden
RHS/Sarah Cuttle
BALCONY GARDEN (not judged)
Designed by Nicola Hale and inspired by early modernist architecture, the Landform Balcony Garden seeks to create a place for the homeowner to relax and entertain.
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Arcadia
RHS/Sarah Cuttle
BALCONY GARDEN (not judged)
Designed by Martha Krempel, this balcony garden is about pure escape, with a swaying daybed, lush planting and subtropical leaves.
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Balcony of Blooms
RHS/Sarah Cuttle
BALCONY GARDEN (not judged)
Designed by Alexandra Noble, this balcony garden aims to champion that small spaces can be productive, practical and enchanting. It features a continuous green edge planted with herbs for culinary use as well as blooms which are beneficial to pollinators.