Chelsea Flower Show 2024: all 35 gardens and winners at this year's show

Show Garden | Award: Gold | Best Show Garden

Offering a place of solace and reflection for those affected by a muscle wasting condition, this design – inspired by the ancient Japanese practice of Shinrin-yoku – aims to show how an immersive yet accessible garden can offer a place of refuge. More than 40 trees envelope the garden, creating a forest-like atmosphere, while sculptural flint walls provide a sheltered space.

Ula was the winner of the Young Designer of the Year at the RHS Tatton Flower Show in 2017, and now she's just scooped a Best in Show award for her first Show Garden at Chelsea.

Show Garden | Award: Bronze

With windswept pine trees and a complementary pink, orange, yellow, purple and green planting scheme, this garden has been designed as a peaceful, sensory space to support stroke recovery. The concept and material choices (it's been designed without any plastic or any concrete) have all been inspired by the designer’s own experience of surviving a stroke and the stories of people who have been affected by a stroke.

Show Garden | Award: Gold

This garden celebrates the significance of urban 'pocket parks' in London and other cities, which are often connected with historic churchyards. The tranquil space serves as a sanctuary for urban dwellers and city wildlife, and nature evidently takes centre stage with a biodiverse planting scheme. It forms the basis of a restored, accessible garden at St James’s, where some 300,000 people from all walks of life seek tranquillity and inspiration each year.

Reflecting on his gold medal win, Robert said: 'We've created this rather ginormous structure, [I was] a bit worried that the judges might think it was just all a bit too much, but what a relief.'

Show Garden | Award: Silver-Gilt | Best Construction Award

Reminiscent of the flooded base of a rejuvenated quarry landscape, this garden takes inspiration from the AIDS: Monolith advert and the landscape of North Wales. An interesting feature is the water level in the garden which rises and falls, revealing a monolith slate stepping stone which creates a bridge to the 2030 vision of no new HIV cases.

Show Garden | Award: Silver-Gilt

This garden seeks to capture an autistic person's everyday experience of the world, and highlights a strategy called 'masking' – a potentially draining process which involves consciously or unconsciously hiding autistic characteristics in order to fit in. Key to the design are walls of cork used to create a series of spaces dedicated to different types of social interaction.

Show Garden | Award: Silver-Gilt | People's Choice Award (Show Garden)

Conceptually located on an urban brownfield site, this plant-filled community wildlife garden is designed to stimulate physical, mental and social wellbeing. It's inspired by pioneering social reformer Octavia Hill (1838–1912), a founder of the National Trust, who believed that ‘the healthy gift of air and the joy of plants and flowers’ were vital in everyone’s life.

Gardeners' World star Monty Don praised Ann-Marie's 'fabulous' garden, saying: 'It's a garden that just hums with life and colour and exuberance. And of all the gardens here at Chelsea this year, this has the most colour. It just is celebrating that, whether it is through the marvellous mixture of the alliums and irises, or as you move down, there's an area there of peach colours and apricots and coppers, which are amongst my favourite plants.'

Read more: Chelsea Flower Show People’s Choice Award winners announced

Show Garden | Award: Gold

With a focus on sustainable water management, this clever garden features a colourful array of plant species designed to deal with varying amounts of rainfall. At the centre of the design is a rainwater-harvesting pavilion – the structure harvests every drop of rainfall, filtering and storing this precious resource, while also slowing flow and providing shade.

Read more: Tom Massey's tips for a water-wise garden

The smaller Sanctuary Gardens explore both modern and more traditional garden concepts, with a focus on the calming and uplifting benefits we can get from our very own private green spaces.

Sanctuary Garden | Award: Silver

Presenting lots of take-home ideas, this garden has been designed to help reduce flood risk and to recover quickly after periods of heavy rainfall. Highlights include dense planting to slow the flow, large tanks doubling as ornamental ponds which store water for later use, and a central swale.

Sanctuary Garden | Award: Silver-Gilt

Filled with vibrant acers and moss-covered stone, this garden showcases the beauty of the natural world. Central to this design is a beautiful waterfall, tumbling into a pool, which fills the space with the calming sound of water. To the side is a building, camouflaged into the structure, with stairs sweeping around the water feature to a driveway.

Sanctuary Garden | Award: Silver

Inspired by wallflower-like character Penelope Featherington in Bridgerton, this secretive and secluded garden features a moongate which leads to an ornate water feature, a sunken seating area in the heart of the garden, and climbing wisteria in a nod to the Netflix series.

Read more: The Bridgerton Garden unveiled

Sanctuary Garden | Award: Silver

A place of peace and hope, this space is a therapeutic garden for survivors of torture. Sculptural streams of willow divide the space and provides an organic place of sanctuary, while naturalistic planting stimulates happier memories of home.

Sanctuary Garden | Award: Gold

Aiming to bring joy, hope and escapism through nature for children undergoing cancer treatment, this garden is filled with circular raised beds made from perforated clay blocks. It offers sensory experiences through soft-touch plants, fragrant herbs and vibrant mosses.

Sanctuary Garden | Award: Gold | Best Sanctuary Garden

Telling the story of a global dermatological partnership which supports Burmese healthcare workers treating patients with skin conditions, this garden features textures such as bark, plants, moss and lichen to illustrate the skin diseases affecting people supported by the charity. All of the plants in this garden are found in Myanmar and grow happily in the UK.

Sanctuary Garden | Award: Silver-Gilt

An immersive outdoor space ideal for families to relax and unwind, this garden design features a shaded seating area and a communal dining area which is zoned by a limestone and steel pergola. The corten steel waterfall creates a calming environment.

Sanctuary Garden | Award: Silver-Gilt | Best Construction Award

A celebration of the 200th anniversary of the National Gallery, this garden takes inspiration from paintings at the gallery with an ‘art in nature’ theme. This is brought to life with a planting scheme, topiary, sculptural metal arches and water features which represent aspects of specific art movements, including Pointillism and Impressionism.

The Balcony Gardens provide much-needed inspiration to renters and urban dwellers on how to utilise your small outdoor space.

Balcony Garden | Award: Silver-Gilt | People's Choice Award (Balcony and Container Gardens)

A balcony designed for relaxation and contemplation, a shaded seating area with scented flowers and a simple colour palette create a calming, uncluttered and practical space for reflection. There's a soft evergreen planting scheme with muted tones of pinks and burgundy.