Chelsea Flower Show 2025: all 37 gardens and winners at this year's show

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• A first in the history of Chelsea, a genuine Karoo succulent garden from South Africa has been brought to the heart of London.

• The desert-like landscape is a collaboration between The Newt and its South African sister farm, Babylonstoren, whose botanists are experts in the native flora of the Karoo.

• Focusing on the beauty and resilience of indigenous succulents, the garden features rare specimens from 15 plant families, which are sadly under threat from both man and climate change.

• Plants are set among rock formations to evoke their natural habitiat, with a colour palette of earthy reds and browns to echo the hues of Karoo.

The creme de la crème of Chelsea, the Show Gardens demonstrate the most remarkable, showstopping garden designs full of wow factor.

Awards: Gold, RHS Chelsea Garden of the Year, People's Choice Best Show Garden

• Created as a place for quiet reflection, this harmonious garden features varying elevations to create a sense of depth. A distinctive use of stones is carefully arranged to interact with the plants.

• The garden is influenced by the traditional flower-arranging art of ikebana ('making flowers alive'), specifically the Ikenobo School.

• The planting includes trees commonly seen in the landscapes of Japanese satoyama (countryside).

• Hayley Skipper, chair of the judging panel, said, 'Overall, the garden is a masterclass. It is exquisitely detailed and delivers immersive, beautifully composed planting. Every viewpoint delivers exquisite compositions... It is an immaculate delight.'

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Awards: Gold, Best Construction for a Show Garden

• This urban forest garden is designed to support urban trees – essential allies in combating climate change.

• An innovative design, it's powered by AI technology. Sensors on the tree trunk monitor growth, sap flow, soil conditions, air quality, and weather patterns. AI analyses this data, spotting trends, providing actionable advice and predicting future conditions.

• Visitors can have one-on-one conversations with the trees through a web-based app, learning about what care is needed.

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Award: Gold

• Created for The Glasshouse, a pioneering social enterprise that supports women leaving prison with horticultural training, employment, and resettlement support.

• More than 75 per cent of the garden is dedicated to planting, with a bespoke colour palette of deep reds and pinks, symbolising feminine strength and resilience.

• The garden is centred around a translucent elliptical pavilion crafted from recycled acrylic. A stone rill weaves through the planting, leading to a still pool, while benches and moss-covered boulders offer tactile spaces for rest and reflection.

• It's the only large Show Garden designed by a woman at Chelsea this year.

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Award: Gold

• This garden highlights pioneer plants and how their seeds represent the potential for growth and optimism, drawing parallels with the potential held in young people.

• Screen-printed glass panels are woven throughout, conveying an artistic representation of seed dispersal.

• The planting colour palette is muted silvery greys and greens, with accents of colour.

Award: Silver Gilt

• Inspired by the Olive Houses in Mallorca and broader Mediterranean landscapes, the garden shows how thoughtfully designed spaces can play a crucial role in providing comfort and calm at the end of life.

• Large rocks create a strong sense of being grounded in nature, while sculptural benches and water bowls add to the garden’s sense of tranquillity and reflection.

• The sensory planting is drought-tolerant and includes soft silvers and olive greens from foliage and grasses, with vibrant blues, burnt oranges, and warm yellows.

• This garden marks Tom Hoblyn's 10th and final garden for the RHS Chelsea Flower Show.

Award: Silver Gilt

• A continuous, soft, fragile and precious sand dune landscape takes inspiration from the location of Hospitalfield Arts on the east coast of Scotland.

• At the heart of the design is an artist's studio and workspace nestled into the surrounding sandbanks. A dune pool collects rainwater from the building and surrounding garden.

• The resilient planting has a strong coastal and Mediterranean theme.

Just as showy, but smaller than the standard-size Show Garden. This newer category has been introduced after the RHS decided to scrap the Sanctuary Gardens.

Awards: Gold, Small Garden of the Year, Best Construction for a Small Garden

• It's inspired by a Norfolk colloquialism (slow you down), exploring the mental health benefits of living an unhurried lifestyle and spending time in nature.

• Gabions are filled with natural materials, representing coastal cliffs, while also providing habitats for wildlife.

• Liz Nicholson, chair of judges, praised designers Joe and Laura Carey for taking 'risks' with their design: 'The designers have created a habitat with a mood and atmosphere that is transportational and highly evocative of north Norfolk. This is a small space successfully capturing a bigger landscape that is rarely seen at RHS Chelsea Flower Show.'

Award: Gold

• A contemporary twist on an alpine garden, large stone column-like planters mimic traditional trough alpine displays, while calming mountain streams tumble throughout.

• Featured alpine species come from areas where the Red Cross has recently provided disaster relief, including Morocco, Turkey and the UK.

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Award: Gold

• Set in the near future, the garden depicts a scenario where climate threats are increasing by showcasing the common bean and other climate-resilient vegetables that help smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia enjoy healthy, nutritious diets and stable livelihoods.

• It features resilient planting in a pink, purple and white colour palette, while planting also spills over the roof of the building.

• Central to the climate-friendly design is a dip tank that makes up part of a system of rainwater harvesting.

Award: Gold

• Inspired by the impact of water on stone, the garden reflects the style and motifs of Boodles' jewellery.

• The colour palette works in harmony with the platinum-coloured steel of the water features and the zinc roof of the custom-designed pavilion.

• With lush greenery and a serene seating area, the domed pavilion roof channels rainwater into a circular rill at its base.

Award: Gold

• A modern family garden designed to withstand the unpredictable weather patterns of a changing climate.

• It showcases resilient 'future trees', like Zelkova serrata and Pinus mugo ‘Mughus’, which can endure drought, flooding, and rising temperatures.

• Walls are made from 3D printed material which produces less waste and CO2, while a steel water tank on the rear boundary wall collects rainwater runoff.

• The garden includes a family seating area for relaxation, with a cottage garden-style planting scheme.

Award: Gold

• A place for the Chelsea Pensioners to share or to enjoy quiet reflection.

• This woodland -style garden features striking trees for shelter, a world map table and vibrant planting at the boundaries to reflect the ceremonial life of the Pensioners, with a calmer and more textural planting to the centre, capturing their more private moments.

• Seating is upholstered in recycled Pensioners' scarlet uniforms.

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Awards: Silver Gilt, RHS Environmental Innovation Award

• The garden is inspired by the work of Pathway, a charity that supports people out of homelessnes.

• Interconnecting spaces create an open feel, while boulders intersect the first section of path, illustrating that the journey of an individual out of homelessness onto a happier life can often feature obstacles.

• The garden has been designed using only upcycled materials, including the mycelium wall, which is made from recycled waste material from previous RHS Shows.

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Award: Silver Gilt

• Statues serve as a solemn tribute to lives lost to HIV and the stigma that sadly persists.

• Water flows under a bridge, a covered gazebo offers a tranquil space for reflection, and hexagonal paving reflects a key chemical structure found within many HIV medications.

• Uplifting and inspirational words are etched around the garden.

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Award: Silver Gilt, People's Choice Best Small Show Garden

• This immersive, semi-wooded garden has a 'crazy paving' path through two main areas of planting, each conveying contrasting moods.

• It features tall river birch trees with delicate hanging branches, designed to look and feel like a comforting 'hug' – reflecting the affection often displayed by people with Down's syndrome.

• With naturalistic planting, there's a ground-level water pool with a hidden walkway just beneath the surface.

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