Gardens (2025, 2026) - GardensDB ================================ Show gardens from 2025, 2026 in the GardensDB catalogue, newest first, with their show, designer, awards, sponsor, location and images. By default the two most recent years are shown. Filter with ?years= and a comma-separated list of years (e.g. ?years=2019,2026), or ?years=all for the complete catalogue. Years available: 2026, 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2019, 2015, 2011, 2007, 2006, 2005, 1901. 460 listed. - ['Recycled, Reused and Refilled' Sculptural Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/recycled-reused-and-refilled-sculptural-garden) - Bord Bia Bloom 2026 - Description: Repak's 'Recycled, Reused and Refilled' Sculptural Garden explores the narrative and possibilities that recycled materials can play in creating a beautiful garden. Constructed entirely from reusable, recycled or reclaimed materials, it highlights the versatility of using salvaged items in innovative garden design. Glass bottle sculptures positioned on metal rods reflect flowering plants, recycled timber cubes on metal support frames form bird nests, stacked bicycle wheels provide mature climbing... - Designer: James Purdy - Awards: Gold Medal - Sponsor: Repak - Location: Dublin, Ireland - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/5fed9b03-7501-405f-8bcc-f2ddb55ae33c/conversions/recycled---4-preview.webp) - [100 Sweet Summers](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/100-sweet-summers) - RHS Sandringham Flower Show 2026 - Description: The garden centres around an oak-framed cabin decorated with recycled wine bottles, collected from those shared with friends and family over many happy years. Surrounding the cabin are favourite flowers from their past, creating a colourful and nostalgic retreat where they can enjoy quiet moments and welcome visits from their grandchildren. Drawing on a craft she loved in her youth, the lady owner has created several macramé features for the cabin, including a swing for the grandchildren, a para... - Designer: Kitti Kovacs - Awards: Silver Gilt Medal, People's Choice Best Show Garden - Sponsor: QVC - Location: Sandringham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/d13a2d76-a6a0-490d-ab10-e285163696e5/conversions/9AA5A3A3-1D85-47FF-B204-E78F578F56F7_1_102_o-preview.webp) - [42 To be continued](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/42-to-be-continued) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2026 - Description: Outside has always been my safe place, where I go when I'm scared or sad, while books are my escape when life, the universe and everything is just too much. This food forest style border encompasses the darkness but also what helps me see the light. A jigsaw path leads through childhood memories of colour, bug hunting and eating fruit straight from the plant. A darker area with small seats shows the isolation of emetophobia, planting consists of cool coloured, culinary and medicinal species with... - Designer: Grace Wyatt - Awards: Silver Award - Location: The NEC, Birmingham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/d569d7f0-f1f4-4145-b369-4971a3a2dd68/conversions/PXL_20260617_162120618.MP-preview.webp) - [A Beltane Border](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/a-beltane-border) - RHS Malvern Spring Festival 2026 - Description: The border is inspired by a newer Beltane tradition of the Green Man and May Queen meeting to light the fire. It was an ancient tradition to light all fires in the home from the Beltane fire to bring luck for the coming year. The Green Man is represented by one side and has a more woodland feel, whilst the May Queen is represented by the other which has a more open and overtly floral nature. The two parts are joined by a low angular stone wall from which a charred timber seat is cantilevered and... - Designer: Lauren Taylor, Dominika Henzel - Awards: Silver Gilt Medal - Location: Malvern, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/b8f95493-c783-4abb-aff8-b1bf984de4a1/conversions/PXL_20260509_091545199-preview.webp) - [A Brush Became a Spade](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/a-brush-became-a-spade) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2026 - Description: Once upon a time, I worked as a painter and decorator. After years in that trade, I reached a point of self-doubt and change, and decided to retrain as a gardener. This border tells that personal story - the uncertainty of starting again, the learning process, and the confidence that has grown from it. The left-hand side reflects that earlier chapter, with softer, slightly unsettled planting and familiar tools from my previous career, suggesting a period of questioning and transition. A curved p... - Designer: Tom Brett - Awards: Gold Award - Location: The NEC, Birmingham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/2f3526c2-9009-443c-9ad3-fded194f858e/conversions/PXL_20260617_161115130.MP-preview.webp) - [A Celebration of Compost and Community](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/a-celebration-of-compost-and-community) - RHS Badminton Flower Show 2026 - Description: Celebrating the importance of good composting practices, this woodland-edged garden demonstrates how recycled green waste can enhance soil fertility and biodiversity. The designer developed an understanding of how decay sustains vitality in a shared ecosystem while volunteering with a community compost group. Drawing on this, all structural elements included in the border are made from felled or fallen wood, providing habitat for organisms that feed on decomposing organic matter. The planting ad... - Designer: Simon Deeves - Awards: Silver Gilt Medal - Location: Badminton, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/46688398-97ef-4a6c-8869-fb19f7faf3c9/conversions/PXL_20260708_073207340-preview.webp) - [A Corner of the Potter's Yard](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/a-corner-of-the-potters-yard) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2026 - Description: Inspired by the designer's family pottery, now long closed, this garden recreates a corner of the potter's yard, imagining this once curated space after years of abandonment. An aging display stand takes centre stage, pots overflowing with herbs and perennials. Climbers and trailing plants colonise the framework, showcasing scammony and nasturtiums. The surrounding planting reflects a wilder style, as if untouched for years, drought-tolerant and left to self-seed in the coarse grit substrate. A... - Designer: Mali Clements, Alison Clements - Awards: Gold Award - Location: The NEC, Birmingham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/569953b7-d467-4637-8b5b-754b1714e547/conversions/PXL_20260617_141915592-preview.webp) - [A Garden Between Stories](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/a-garden-between-stories) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2026 - Description: This garden explores how a small space can carry a sense of story - where memory, imagination and everyday life overlap. Inspired by family adventures that begin in the garden, the design reflects the anticipation of discovery and exploration, where movement through the space feels open-ended and imagination is free to wander. Planting is shaped into two distinct yet connected areas, reflecting a journey from familiar to the imagined. One side is rich and generous, rooted in the language of a tr... - Designer: Fabienne Maitland Robinson - Awards: Platinum Award - Location: The NEC, Birmingham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/7f7e270b-9a33-40fd-8f07-a12a1002c19e/conversions/PXL_20260617_164815027-preview.webp) - [A Garden For All](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/a-garden-for-all) - BBC Gardeners' World Spring Fair 2026 - Description: A Garden for All is inspired by my journey to reconnect with nature and community through gardening. It reflects a time when people lived more closely with the land, growing food, sharing knowledge, and caring for the world around them. Blending vegetables, flowers, and wildlife habitats, the garden shows that gardening is truly for everyone. Built with natural and repurposed materials, it works with nature through practices that support healthy soil, biodiversity, and resilience. Garden for All... - Designer: Helen Hutchings Cox - Awards: Silver Award - Sponsor: Readyhedge, Bradstone - Location: Beaulieu, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/47183326-b81e-44c6-8fde-b5a7bf3d7c50/conversions/PXL_20260503_124421452-preview.webp) - [A Garden in Pieces](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/a-garden-in-pieces) - RHS Badminton Flower Show 2026 - Description: A Garden in Pieces explores the role our private gardens play within a much larger living network. Set within three open metal cubes, the installation presents a series of small garden fragments, each one showing how planting, shelter, water and habitat can support wildlife in domestic spaces. Together, the cubes form part of a wider biodiverse jigsaw, reminding us that gardens do not exist in isolation. When connected through planting, shared habitats and wildlife-friendly boundaries, they beco... - Designer: Jamie Langlands - Location: Badminton, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/ffeb4286-6a31-4792-9288-3f15b9d0305d/conversions/PXL_20260708_111918470-preview.webp) - [A Garden of Many Hands](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/a-garden-of-many-hands) - BBC Gardeners' World Spring Fair 2026 - Description: The Garden of Many Hands is a spring woodland Beautiful Border inspired by an original New Forest folk tale, written by the people we support at Minstead Trust, imagining the origins of Furzey Gardens. The border tells a story of a garden created, lost, and renewed through shared care. The design will feature seasonally appropriate spring woodland planting in a harmonious palette of blues, purples, and whites, with occasional bright accents to highlight moments of hope and renewal. The planting... - Awards: Platinum Award - Sponsor: Readyhedge, Bradstone - Location: Beaulieu, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/83e9f7c0-2630-4752-ba77-59ce767e0ee1/conversions/PXL_20260503_123711032.MP-preview.webp) - [A Garden Out of Time](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/a-garden-out-of-time) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2026 - Description: For me gardens are places to escape and as a child they were somewhere I could truly be alone. I would get lost in worlds at the bottom of the garden, places that were just as real to me as the 'normal' world. Places that existed out of time but still linger in my memory like a story that can't be forgotten. As a child I knew that gnomes existed and probably fairies, trolls and pixies too. The contrast of bolder and more delicate white flowers reminds us that magic can be inspired by the sometim... - Designer: Robert Harris - Awards: Gold Award - Location: The NEC, Birmingham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/59fb00e9-4e04-480e-9712-053fc678b332/conversions/PXL_20260617_164527002-preview.webp) - [A Garden Where Kindness Blooms](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/a-garden-where-kindness-blooms) - Fukuoka Flower Show 2026 - Description: The "Garden Where Kindness Sproutes" is a space where you can experience touching and feeling nature, and gently cultivate empathy and compassion for life. The thatched roof hut, local trees, and grassland flowers create a space where you can experience the beauty of the scenery in harmony with nature. The thatched roof base is a base for children's little adventures.Children learn through play and exploration, interacting with nature. We designed paths that offer new discoveries just by strolli... - Designer: Hiromi Fujii - Location: Fukuoka, Japan - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/3e88929f-32b1-4d4a-a15f-f73e0a0c6ecf/conversions/gdn_e-preview.webp) - [A Journey to Wellness](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/a-journey-to-wellness) - BBC Gardeners' World Spring Fair 2026 - Designer: Stacy Blake, Ethan Dodman - Awards: Platinum Award - Sponsor: Bradstone - Location: Beaulieu, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/fc92b20c-13db-45e9-8786-57674a2528ce/conversions/PXL_20260503_143523737-preview.webp) - [A Little Garden of Shared Knowledge sponsored by Viking](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/a-little-garden-of-shared-knowledge-sponsored-by-viking) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026 - Description: This garden has been thoughtfully designed for a well-travelled, retired creative couple with a deep passion for horticulture and the arts. Serving as both a private sanctuary and a welcoming space for friends and family, it offers an environment where gardening techniques, travel experiences and family traditions are shared. The space encourages nurturing, with a curated selection of flowers, herbs, vegetables and fruit arranged within a compact layout. Drawing on insights from previous gardens... - Designer: Katerina Kantalis - Awards: Gold Medal, Best Balcony & Container Garden - Sponsor: Viking - Location: London, United Kingdom - 360 tour: [interactive 360 tour](https://gardensdb.com/360-tours/613747c4-ff03-4c68-9c4d-0be370928f53) - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/77c40f6c-5256-4089-84d4-5dac2a428588/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [A Living Story of Transformation](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/a-living-story-of-transformation) - RHS Sandringham Flower Show 2026 - Description: This garden tells the story of transformation. Inspired by the butterfly lifecycle, it reflects how young people can grow in confidence, wellbeing and purpose through the simple act of cultivating plants. At the centre stands the Papillon Tree, a nearly three-metre high sculpture made from reclaimed timber. Like the students who inspired this garden, the materials have been reshaped and given new life. As you walk around the garden, notice how the planting evolves, from early growth to mature pl... - Location: Sandringham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/5490e832-9f19-458b-8b14-76562ad1c27d/conversions/PXL_20260722_174702504-preview.webp) - [A Message in Bloom](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/a-message-in-bloom) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2026 - Description: The garden design is inspired by the journey of my teenage daughter toward love and self-acceptance through a period of adversity, a journey familiar to many young people her age. The aim of the design is to create an uplifting garden which holds hidden meaning, through the selection of plants from Floriography (the Victorian secret language of flowers) many of which also have healing properties. A path of thyme symbolising a journey of courage and strength passes through a scheme of plants symb... - Designer: Sarah Elsley - Awards: Silver Merit Award - Location: The NEC, Birmingham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/075e0a95-2dce-489a-9263-b023a593c9d6/conversions/PXL_20260617_180411475-preview.webp) - [A Moment for Myself](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/a-moment-for-myself) - Bord Bia Bloom 2026 - Description: This is a calm garden retreat where soft planting, natural materials, and still water provide space to pause, slow down, and reconnect with nature. Created by first time Bloom Show Garden designers, Kakha Gigauri and Michael O'Connor, it reflects the growing movement to design restorative landscapes that support wellbeing. A simple timber pergola provides a sheltered place to pause, while a reflective water bowl offers a quiet focal point. Natural materials such as timber, stone, and gravel are... - Designer: Kakha Gigauri, Michael O'Connor - Awards: Bronze Medal - Location: Dublin, Ireland - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/cd16f9f1-dbb1-4348-8841-dde6e4cb55de/conversions/A-Moment-for-Myself---1-preview.webp) - [A Moment to Breathe](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/a-moment-to-breathe) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2026 - Description: You have just bought your first home with a small garden. When you move in, the garden is bare, nothing but concrete slabs and grass but, after months of work, it's been transformed into a beautiful ornamental garden. One evening, you sit down on a bench in the garden. Planting either side envelopes you. The sun dips in the west but the last rays of the day warm your face and turn the grasses golden. Floral scents hang in the air conjuring memories of past holidays. Your eyes rest as they float... - Designer: Chris Kelleher - Awards: Silver Merit Award - Location: The NEC, Birmingham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/b4aad68f-bd65-4561-8dcf-05096fd83233/conversions/PXL_20260617_161618787.MP-preview.webp) - [A Place for Play](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/a-place-for-play) - Royal Windsor Flower Show 2026 - Description: For generations, the natural world has been both playground and classroom, encouraging a timeless connection through exploration, measured risk and joyful discovery. The border is designed with a dual purpose; to be a small-world, scaled play space within nature and in addition, a concept that can evolve and expand into life-sized reality. It celebrates the vital role of plants in play - within a snug, immersive setting, grasses become wind instruments, herbs inspire magical potions, foraged twi... - Designer: Victoria Stanton - Awards: 1st Place - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/ecc123f6-d91d-420b-b83b-5f5766ffaab9/conversions/PXL_20260606_133357976.MP-preview.webp) - [A Sculptor's Sanctuary](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/a-sculptors-sanctuary) - RHS Badminton Flower Show 2026 - Description: A romantic, elegant sculptor's retreat with a soft feminine theme. Showcasing dreamy, limited edition original bronze, rust and stone sculptures, the studio is a perfect nature integrated space for artistic creation, contemplation and creative freedom. An abundance of dainty flowers and elegant sculptures creates a tranquil, nurturing and beautiful space. Laura Jane will create a new figurative sculpture during the show, sculpting in clay on a wire armature and explaining the wider process of mo... - Sponsor: Malvern Garden Buildings - Location: Badminton, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/3e8ce236-479b-49f0-a484-5fa4f04e244d/conversions/PXL_20260708_160348270-preview.webp) - [A shared fairytale](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/a-shared-fairytale) - BBC Gardeners' World Spring Fair 2026 - Description: Once upon a time, a blank patch of grass and a group of ordinary people shared an extraordinary dream. Through teamwork and community spirit, they created an abundant garden open to all, where work was shared and friendships grew. In this magical place, loneliness faded, generations learned from one another, and new possibilities took root. Once upon a time there was a blank patch of grass and a group of ordinary people with an extraordinary dream. Using the potion of teamwork and the spirit of... - Awards: Platinum Award - Sponsor: Bradstone, Readyhedge - Location: Beaulieu, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/5be50fe8-9351-419a-b3de-1846d2b79b36/conversions/PXL_20260503_123639192-preview.webp) - [A Space For Her](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/a-space-for-her) - RHS Badminton Flower Show 2026 - Description: The garden explores the quiet journey of building confidence in a world where many girls and young women face pressure from social media and unrealistic expectations. Designed through the lens of a young woman's experience, the garden creates a supportive environment while remaining a space that welcomes everyone. Inspired by the ripple effect, the design reflects how confidence can grow gradually and spread outwards through connection, reflection and supportive spaces. A flowing, curvilinear pa... - Designer: Sophie Sturgeon - Awards: Silver Gilt Medal - Sponsor: Ground Control - Location: Badminton, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/a5ee7864-86e8-4c9c-be77-ff8c2cb8972c/conversions/PXL_20260708_143525795-preview.webp) - [Addleshaw Goddard: Flourish in the City](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/addleshaw-goddard-flourish-in-the-city) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026 - Description: The garden celebrates the hidden gemstones of London - its gardens and pocket-sized oases that quietly stitch the city together, offering sanctuary, freedom and community amid the urban rush. Inspired by London's status as the first National Park City, the garden blends natural forms and materials to reflect the city's heritage. The garden invites visitors to reconnect with nature in the heart of the city and features a strong ratio of green and blue environmental elements, set amongst quintesse... - Designer: Joe Carey, Laura Carey - Awards: Gold Medal, RHS Chelsea Small Garden of the Year - Sponsor: Addleshaw Goddard - Location: London, United Kingdom - 360 tour: [interactive 360 tour](https://gardensdb.com/360-tours/7a3f5c20-241a-4621-b322-a1fccf0d06b9) - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/e07806c2-bd54-4084-92ae-4d8f435d5dde/conversions/Addleshaw-Goddard---Flourish-in-the-City-2026-05-19-at-09.44.22-preview.webp) - [After the Rain](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/after-the-rain) - RHS Malvern Spring Festival 2026 - Description: After the Rain is a sculptural, atmospheric border that treats the landscape like a curated installation. At its heart sits a striking multi-stem river birch, it's peeling bark colour links to the bronze sculptures by sculptor jewellers Yunus & Eliza that catch and hold rainwater, adding detail and texture. A shallow channel divides the design into wet and dry zones, shaping how water moves and how the planting responds. Moisture-loving plants fill the basin, while tougher, drought-tolerant spec... - Designer: Tomas Olesen - Awards: Silver Gilt Medal - Location: Malvern, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/54738bf4-1644-474c-9acd-4e80012b4baa/conversions/PXL_20260509_131309235-preview.webp) - [Alltar](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/alltar) - Bord Bia Bloom 2026 - Description: This garden by Bord Bia Bloom's 2026 Cultivating Talent winner, Jack Donovan, explores the idea of landscape colonisation. It is inspired by French garden designer and botanist, Gilles Clément's concept of spontaneous vegetation and the resilience of plants that establish in disturbed ground. The design celebrates the ecological processes through which nature reclaims overlooked spaces. A fractured ground plane and rammed earth base evoke disturbance and exposure of the soil profile, while a pre... - Designer: Jack Donovan - Awards: Silver Medal - Location: Dublin, Ireland - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/54ace643-6290-4a02-8ecb-6260948ece8b/conversions/Alltar---1-preview.webp) - [Along the Garden Path: A Story in Bloom](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/along-the-garden-path-a-story-in-bloom) - BBC Gardeners' World Spring Fair 2026 - Description: Once upon a time, there was a single mother with four wonderful children, an old Land Rover, and a deep-rooted passion for nature. With muddy boots and hopeful hands, Julie and her daughter Jess set out on a journey that would become Landygirls. At the beginning of the border, a path emerges among the chaotic planting and the Land Rover, echoing the early days of uncertainty and struggle. The path curves onward, where a birch tree, symbolising growth, marks the middle of the journey. Here, the p... - Awards: Gold Award - Sponsor: Readyhedge, Bradstone - Location: Beaulieu, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/0849bbd9-7f02-49b7-8afd-2954905814b5/conversions/PXL_20260503_135944808-preview.webp) - [Alzheimer's Society: Microbes and Minds Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/alzheimers-society-microbes-and-minds-garden) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026 - Description: Inspired by the rural orchards of Worcestershire and Herefordshire, this garden tells the story of apple cider vinegar and its gut health benefits. At its heart stands a beautiful apple tree symbolising 'The Mother', the naturally occurring culture of beneficial bacteria formed during fermentation. Surrounding it are high-gloss, curved sculptures inspired by amber glass bottles, designed to protect 'The Mother' and, metaphorically, the sitter within the intimate seating area, reflecting apple ci... - Designer: Tina Worboys - Awards: Silver Medal, People's Choice Best Balcony / Container Garden - Sponsor: Alzheimer's Society - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/0698a768-4385-4f73-8b8a-e357537b84b9/conversions/Alzheimers-Society--Microbes-and-Minds-Garden-2026-05-19-at-09.49.30-(3)-preview.webp) - [An Ode To Endurance](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/an-ode-to-endurance) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026 - Description: From the harsh arid landscapes to the discomfort of our front rooms, this exhibit serves as an ode to these otherworldly stalwarts, and our continuous fascination with some of the most curious and unique plants, exploring their place in the modern houseplant collection. Curated to draw focus to the idiosyncratic forms of succulents, 'An Ode To Endurance' is composed of notable species, alongside a conceptual vision of the arid landscape. As we dissect their distinct appearances, formed as a resp... - Designer: Natalia Drezek, Jinhyun Ahn - Awards: Gold Medal, Best Houseplant Studio - Sponsor: Malvern Garden Buildings - Location: London, United Kingdom - 360 tour: [interactive 360 tour](https://gardensdb.com/360-tours/e8bf0eba-eb16-49a3-84a3-128e7e833310) - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/784bf0b3-9592-48fe-804f-e76adf953dde/conversions/An-Ode-To-Endurance-2026-05-19-at-09.46.13-(1)-preview.webp) - [Andrea's Wonderland Border](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/andreas-wonderland-border) - BBC Gardeners' World Autum Fair 2026 - Description: Once upon a time I was broken after many years growing up in the care system. Gardening has been therapeutic and has enabled me to find peace and tranquillity. I have designed a border that takes inspiration from my personal journey and hope that this border can bring similar joy and healing to other people. This magical, colourful border represents my journey to healing. I have used colours, textures and colourful garden items to create avenues of interest to draw the viewer in. I have included... - Designer: Andrea Connor - Location: Essex, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/bcb15db4-d6d1-427a-a0f3-81aa88e16772/conversions/AndreaConnerGWAF26gallery-preview.webp) - [At The Bottom of the Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/at-the-bottom-of-the-garden) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2026 - Description: Once upon a time, I was a young child of 6 or 7 who had an infatuation with fairies! I would build them mini gardens at the bottom of my grandmother's garden. They would include sticks and stones, shiny things, pools of water, snail shells, flowers and the occasional worm! Today I am 29 and still love building gardens. I have, however replaced the snail shells and worms for shrubs and perennials. I feel this design plays on a fond memory that I often look back on when I think about how far I hav... - Designer: Amber Jacklin - Awards: Gold Award - Location: The NEC, Birmingham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/e4b25715-8e24-473d-a76f-c09574c97c80/conversions/PXL_20260617_161843409.MP-preview.webp) - [Back to Grandma's House](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/back-to-grandmas-house) - RHS Malvern Spring Festival 2026 - Description: Back to Grandma's House is a 1970s-inspired indoor garden set within a cosy living room, designed to feel warm, familiar, and achievable for any home. Filled with second-hand furniture, retro textures, and everyday household objects repurposed as creative plant displays, the garden celebrates nostalgia, sustainability, and the natural place of plants in domestic life. Key features include a striking living plant wall, an aquascape, mounted plants, and integrated terrariums and paludariums. Built... - Designer: Alina Hibbert, Adam Critien - Awards: Best Indoor Plant Garden, Gold Medal, People's Choice Best Indoor Plant Garden - Sponsor: Jeffrey Ross Estate Agents, Soil Ninja, Grow Gang, Exo Terra, Plant Studio, Bristol Wood Recycling Project, The Bloom Room Bristol, Vogel Glass, Little Greene, The Aquatic Store Bristol, Begonia Ladies, Oscar & Digby, The Sphagnum Shop, Becca Jade Ceramics, Arcadia Reptile - Location: Malvern, United Kingdom - 360 tour: [interactive 360 tour](https://gardensdb.com/360-tours/756772ba-a1be-4d94-ae0b-61134a7c54e4) - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/73168047-126f-43b2-9cc0-f1a988cc0f93/conversions/PXL_20260509_103543262.MP-preview.webp) - [Back to My Roots](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/back-to-my-roots) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2026 - Description: Once upon a time, I dedicated three decades to serving with Avon and Somerset Police, helping piece together countless stories and seeking the truth in every detail. In 2016, I made the bold decision to trade my badge for gardening boots and enrolled on a garden design course, nurturing my love for creativity and nature. Taking a leap of faith, I found myself exhibiting a Beautiful Border at BBC Gardeners' World Live where my efforts were rewarded with a gold medal, a moment of pride. Ten years... - Designer: Julie Haylock - Awards: Platinum Award - Location: The NEC, Birmingham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/ba90bc1e-15f6-43ea-ac6a-a0d17cad27e8/conversions/PXL_20260617_182540035-preview.webp) - [Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/beauty-is-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder) - RHS Malvern Spring Festival 2026 - Description: Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder is designed for gardeners of all ages and experience levels who enjoy colour, seasonal planting and emotionally engaging gardens. Visitors will encounter an eye-shaped border with a reflective corten steel water 'pupil' and graduated bamboo posts give verticality to the design. The planting follows a clear colour journey, with advancing reds and oranges at the front, transitioning through fresh greens into smoky blues and purples at the back. The garden also... - Designer: Adam Marshall - Awards: Silver Medal, People's Choice Best Blooming Border - Location: Malvern, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/34ca488e-dd58-44a2-b6af-4a6292e5f3e7/conversions/PXL_20260509_122251429-preview.webp) - [Beneath the Border](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/beneath-the-border) - Royal Windsor Flower Show 2026 - Description: Beneath the Border explores the idea that root structure is as important as flower in plant selection. Designed for compacted clay soils common in the UK, this border demonstrates horticultural understanding through a carefully composed palette of perennials chosen for their contrasting root systems. Mixed fibrous-rooted plants stabilise and build the upper soil layers, while the rhizomatous roots of Iris sibirica navigate and bind the surface. Woody-rooted Pittosporum provide long-term stabilit... - Designer: Alex Jensen-Humphreys - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/8745506d-03d9-41ed-b943-fa3362db2ba7/conversions/PXL_20260606_145704342.PORTRAIT.ORIGINAL-preview.webp) - [Between Chaos and Order](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/between-chaos-and-order) - RHS Sandringham Flower Show 2026 - Description: Visitors encounter a calm, immersive space in cool blues, lilacs, silvers and soft golds. Layers of naturalistic planting, gentle grasses and tactile foliage encourage slower looking and quiet participation. Nearby, a reflective pool and stone seat add a sense of stillness. The design is also influenced by the repetitions and symmetry that characterise contemplative Eastern garden philosophy, with Neofinetia falcata shown in the traditional fuukiran style. Vertical emphasis is provided by a stru... - Designer: Dan Steel - Awards: Silver Gilt Medal - Location: Sandringham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/a4895bfe-f748-4d60-8976-12a3677a12cd/conversions/PXL_20260722_155623818.MP-preview.webp) - [Bloom Together Community Garden with Heart of England Britain in Bloom Group](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/bloom-together-community-garden-with-heart-of-england-britain-in-bloom-group) - RHS Malvern Spring Festival 2026 - Description: The Bloom Together Community Garden is a warm and inviting space designed to bring vibrant colour, texture, and community spirit to the heart of the Festival. Beautifully planted seasonal containers create a rich tapestry of interest throughout the space, while benches and seating are thoughtfully placed among the planting welcoming areas encourage visitors to pause, unwind, and chat with Bloom volunteers about their work. This collaborative garden celebrates the talent, passion, and creativity... - Location: Malvern, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/31374682-d5d8-4e0c-8f5f-618058bda44d/conversions/PXL_20260509_124708118-preview.webp) - [Blue Diamond Garden Centres: Where Grief Grows Quiet](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/blue-diamond-garden-centres-where-grief-grows-quiet) - RHS Badminton Flower Show 2026 - Description: Inspired by the ancient sheepfolds scattered across the British countryside, Where Grief Grows Quiet is a garden of refuge and reflection. These simple stone enclosures once sheltered flocks and their shepherds, as places to pause, rest and find protection from the elements. The garden reimagines the sheepfold as a sanctuary for emotional rest along the journey of grief. At the heart of the garden, a stone enclosure creates a protected space. Within it, soft and airy planting surrounds comfortab... - Designer: Sophie Leo - Awards: Gold Medal, RHS Young Designer of the Year, Best Construction Award - Sponsor: Blue Diamond - Location: Badminton, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/6ecb7e9e-275d-4959-b230-68f7cf9d92e7/conversions/PXL_20260708_143741210-preview.webp) - [Bob's Full Circle – a border of hope, love and community.](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/bobs-full-circle-a-border-of-hope-love-and-community) - BBC Gardeners' World Spring Fair 2026 - Description: This border reflects my journey as a garden designer and a mum, shaped by renewal and self-discovery after breast cancer, aged 37. Fast forward 15 years, and this space celebrates looking forward with hope, quiet confidence, and a deep connection with nature. During this time, I benefitted hugely as an outpatient at Oakhaven Hospice, which supported my wellbeing. Handcrafted willow structures, made by me, are paired with a stainless steel fish sculpture, crafted by the renowned local artist Mich... - Designer: Claire Booth - Awards: Silver Merit Award - Sponsor: Readyhedge, Bradstone - Location: Beaulieu, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/2a24ee06-ec7f-4662-aa04-dca35e107eee/conversions/PXL_20260503_122357807-preview.webp) - [Bringing Nature Home](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/bringing-nature-home) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026 - Description: The Bringing Nature Home exhibit invites gardeners to enjoy, engage with and enhance their garden habitats for biodiversity. Exploring the most up-to-date sustainable gardening research and advice, interactive displays will encourage visitors to record twelve RHS wildlife wonder plants on a digital map and explore the latest innovations on the award winning RHS Grow app. Inspired by a row of terraced houses the exhibit has a central wooden structure, with a homely hallway interior decorated with... - Designer: Dave Green - Location: London, United Kingdom - 360 tour: [interactive 360 tour](https://gardensdb.com/360-tours/3f266b1f-ce95-4ab8-8a38-57ff875d0613) - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/382e627e-3fbc-491c-b9af-c26eba850f01/conversions/IMG_2586-preview.webp) - [Buglife: Blue Halo Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/buglife-blue-halo-garden) - RHS Badminton Flower Show 2026 - Description: Some flowers have microscopic ridges on their petals that scatter light, producing a blue shimmer easily seen by bees. This subtle optical effect, known as the 'blue halo' and discovered by the University of Cambridge. The design was inspired by the work of Professor Beverly Glover, Dr Edwige Moyroud, and Dr Heather Whitney, and is the main theme behind this design. A central planter with a rising Hibiscus trionum sculpture is encircled by predominately blue and purple planting, echoing this hal... - Designer: Natalya Scott, Lucie Dannemann-Scott - Awards: Silver Gilt Medal - Sponsor: Buglife - Location: Badminton, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/f10102d2-766e-4f21-a63b-eecaea13f885/conversions/PXL_20260708_163051410-preview.webp) - [Butterfly Sanctuary Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/butterfly-sanctuary-garden) - RHS Sandringham Flower Show 2026 - Description: This garden aims to encourage more people to plant butterfly friendly plants and help with their survival. The garden features a garden room with decking outside. Decking is also used for the paths and a secondary seating area, which is made from thermo-ash (no chemicals are used in treating it). A stream runs from a down pipe into a pond, which is designed to overflow into a rain garden. This demonstrates how to use run off water to create a wildlife pond and irrigate the garden. A boundary wal... - Designer: Amanda Thomas - Awards: Silver Gilt Medal, People's Choice Best Grow Forward Garden - Location: Sandringham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/1595729d-e936-4948-b29e-5e831c550966/conversions/IMG_6534-preview.webp) - [By the Light of the Moon](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/by-the-light-of-the-moon) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2026 - Description: "Once upon a time" transports me back to childhood and the world of fairytales. My border is set in the magical twilight hours as the world slips into sleep. Colours fade into shades of dark and light, and the sense of scent heightens. My border is a space in which to dream when the light is fading. Glowing white branches of Himalayan birch reach over floriferous globe hydrangea, highlighted against the dark foliage of twining star jasmine. The moon window gives visitors a view into the peaceful... - Designer: Kate McCallum - Awards: Platinum Award - Location: The NEC, Birmingham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/8fdb21b4-4bcd-4849-b88f-d552c8751b62/conversions/PXL_20260617_161705931.MP-preview.webp) - [C60 Carbon Garden: A Fusion of Science and Serenity](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/c60-carbon-garden-a-fusion-of-science-and-serenity) - Fukuoka Flower Show 2026 - Description: A fusion of science and tranquility - Designer: Joshua Fenton - Location: Fukuoka, Japan - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/04e7c40d-fdcc-4799-8789-b4b1a8a7a060/conversions/c60---Render-2-preview.webp) - [Celebrity Dream Garden, inspired by Brendan Courtney](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/celebrity-dream-garden-inspired-by-brendan-courtney) - Bord Bia Bloom 2026 - Description: This contemporary garden is a carefully composed retreat where clean lines, texture, and function come together seamlessly. Designed by Declan McKenna in collaboration with fashion designer and television presenter, Brendan Courtney, it is inspired by Brendan's recent project to redesign his garden at home in Wicklow. Corten steel elements introduce warmth and architectural strength while floating sandstone steps guide you gently down through the space to a sunken terrace designed for relaxation... - Designer: Declan McKenna - Awards: Gold Medal - Location: Dublin, Ireland - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/714b67da-20d1-4f33-86de-81ddef0392ea/conversions/celebrity-dream---2-preview.webp) - [Childhood Rediscovered](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/childhood-rediscovered) - BBC Gardeners' World Autum Fair 2026 - Description: Childhood Rediscovered invites all ages to reconnect with wonder, play and nature. A relaxed, wildlife-friendly space encourages curiosity, creativity and reflection, blending vibrant planting with a freer, spontaneous feel to celebrate joy, discovery and a deeper connection with the natural world. Once upon a time there was a place that 'Childhood Rediscovered'. It was full of nature's little woners. People from all different backgrounds, children & grown-ups alike, reconnected with the wonder,... - Designer: James Miller, Marko Yau, Saachi Parasrampuria - Location: Essex, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/f7f9507a-b28d-47ad-aa4a-cb08cecbaaea/conversions/JamesMillerGWAF26gallery-preview.webp) - [Citroën Family Flexible Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/citroen-family-flexible-garden) - Bord Bia Bloom 2026 - Description: This dynamic garden has been created, like Citroën cars, to adapt seamlessly to the evolving rhythms of family life. Designed around three core modes of living - Chill, Host, and Play - it transforms effortlessly to meet the needs of every family member. Hidden seating and storage to pack away clutter, a gently bubbling water feature, and a minimalist planting scheme with soft greens, ornamental grasses, and calming textures, provide a zen retreat to chill. A pop-up bar with built-in cooler and... - Designer: Joshua Fenton - Awards: Gold Medal - Sponsor: Citroën - Location: Dublin, Ireland - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/527ed961-23f3-4c8a-ba97-8a319e41d408/conversions/citroen-family-flexible-garden---2-preview.webp) - [Clay: The 'Super Soil'](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/clay-the-super-soil) - RHS Malvern Spring Festival 2026 - Description: Nobody ever said gardening would be easy and one of the many challenges we can face as gardeners is working with clay soil. But if we take a closer look around us, clay soils bring us so many benefits from the bricks that our homes are built with or laid in our gardens, the tiles on our roofs, to the pots that we plant into or even the mug we drink that much needed tea or coffee from! RHS Malvern Spring Festival is located in Worcestershire, a county renowned for its growing of fruit and vegetab... - Designer: Martyn Wilson - Sponsor: Three Counties - Location: Malvern, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/781d856a-ee05-4451-a393-36f154326c12/conversions/PXL_20260509_084213225-preview.webp) - [Cleary Gottlieb: Time for Creativity](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/cleary-gottlieb-time-for-creativity) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026 - Description: The average person in the UK is said to spend just over five hours a day looking at their phone. Over a year, that adds up to 1,825 hours, which is 76 days or two and a half months. Some of this screen time is unavoidable, but much of it feels inescapable. Hobbies and interests are often sidelined with the excuse of not having enough time, yet the time is there every day, waiting to be reclaimed. This garden explores what can be achieved in an environment free from the distractions of technology... - Designer: Christina Cobb - Location: London, United Kingdom - 360 tour: [interactive 360 tour](https://gardensdb.com/360-tours/c1b7db1b-3390-41e6-a4c6-35e57740afca) - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/56e073e8-26eb-49a5-9693-8a9a40bb8b50/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [CODE + CURE](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/code-cure) - RHS Sandringham Flower Show 2026 - Description: The advancements of AI and how it is being employed to benefit research connected to the natural world are explored in this pioneering design. Visitors can immerse themselves in a variety of plants commonly used in modern medicine, such as Hypericum perforatum , Crataegus monogyna and Valeriana officinalis . Matricaria recutita (German chamomile), known for reducing anxiety and improving sleep, is planted in abundance over a human figure constructed from chicken wire. Its yellow pistils catch th... - Designer: Emma Barnard, Luke Potts, Daniel Seton - Awards: Bronze Medal - Location: Sandringham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/7afd6340-8eab-4856-b706-7d4038265838/conversions/PXL_20260722_154445627-preview.webp) - [Colchester Hospital Wellbeing Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/colchester-hospital-wellbeing-garden) - RHS Sandringham Flower Show 2026 - Description: A reflection of the Colchester Wellbeing Garden created by Adam Frost through an RHS partnership with the NHS, this peaceful cube is intended as a guide for wellbeing-focussed planting. A pond representing the lake beside the hospital garden attracts a wealth of wildlife. Mosaics created by patients, staff and volunteers emphasise the involvement of the community at the heart of the space. Sensory planting includes perennials with medicinal properties and Rosa 'Catherine's Rose', which was plant... - Location: Sandringham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/5692fcba-7254-4e7a-bac7-29428f4aa6c9/conversions/PXL_20260722_174732862.MP-preview.webp) - [Composition in the Park](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/composition-in-the-park) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2026 - Description: Our design brings back to life a composer, Dorothy Howell who in 1919 against a backdrop of Women's Suffrage and virtually no female role models shot to fame with her musical composition played at the "Proms", Royal Albert Hall, London. We will create a wildlife garden that closely imitates the undulating landscape of Wollescote park, which at that time was the countryside surrounding Dorothy's family home and reflects her early pianofortes; Mouse Dance, The Shower and Will o' the Wisp The natur... - Designer: Julia Marks, Denise Mallen - Awards: Platinum Award - Location: The NEC, Birmingham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/7b61651a-381f-48f9-8fed-649a1f16a24d/conversions/PXL_20260617_160647897-preview.webp) - [Cotswold-inspired circular garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/cotswold-inspired-circular-garden) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026 - Description: David Austin Roses returns with a Cotswold-inspired circular garden featuring curving paths lined with rose beds and arches climbing with blooms. Spanning a generous 16x16m, the exhibit is dedicated to the beauty of roses in all their forms allowing visitors to walk among the roses, experiencing shifting fragrance, colour and light at every turn, just as they would in a living garden. - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/8d85f4e4-9d45-4e95-8b59-42aaa7f4b6f7/conversions/IMG_2633-preview.webp) - [Dark Side of the Bloom](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/dark-side-of-the-bloom) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2026 - Description: Inspired by teenage dreams of rock stardom, this music-inspired garden is dark, dramatic and creatively charged. Deep purples, moody foliage and a bass-clef path weave music through the space, creating a place to unwind, create and show how unexpected passions can grow. Once upon a time, I was a moody teenager with smudged eyeliner, a guitar in hand, and dreams of becoming a global rock star… not a gardener. If you'd told my 18-year-old self that I'd one day fall in love with plants, I'd have la... - Designer: Anthony Massie - Awards: Silver Award - Location: The NEC, Birmingham, United Kingdom - 360 tour: [interactive 360 tour](https://gardensdb.com/360-tours/5a6e930c-8940-48f5-9701-82c3147539a5) - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/a0513591-42b8-43b3-ad15-045470b4765e/conversions/IMG_4509-preview.webp) - [Deer Boundary Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/deer-boundary-garden) - Fukuoka Flower Show 2026 - Description: With wildlife damage to crops becoming increasingly serious, how should we interact with nature? This garden is themed around the "boundary" that gently separates humans from nature. Instead of completely enclosing the area with a fence, we gently protect it by utilizing the power of nature, such as the scent and texture of plants, and the fluctuating sounds and light. We aimed to create a forest-like space that is pleasant for people, while conveying to the deer that "this is not a feeding grou... - Designer: Megumu Mitsuishi - Location: Fukuoka, Japan - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/f8e53b97-0fd7-4189-bd76-9710cfe6ed0c/conversions/gdn_a-preview.webp) - [Dibley’s Houseplant Sanctuary](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/dibleys-houseplant-sanctuary) - RHS Malvern Spring Festival 2026 - Description: Dibley's Houseplant Sanctuary is a calming indoor retreat designed to offer a warm and tranquil embrace. Its serene atmosphere is inspired by underwater colour palettes, creating a sense of peaceful immersion. The design is built around the Welsh concept of Cwtch, a word that expresses a warm, safe, protective cuddle. Through the clever use of diverse houseplants, the space captures this comforting feeling and demonstrates how the presence of greenery can envelop and nurture. With rare and colou... - Designer: Lynne Dibley - Awards: Silver Gilt Medal - Location: Malvern, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/69b92084-f5d5-4493-8847-a18de5d6c089/conversions/PXL_20260509_102409279.MP-preview.webp) - [Do one thing for wildlife](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/do-one-thing-for-wildlife) - RHS Sandringham Flower Show 2026 - Description: Join Norfolk Wildlife Trust to celebrate 100 years of protecting wildlife, with a garden that promises to motivate you to 'Do one thing for wildlife' in your own green space. Featuring hedgehog highways, recycled planters and native flowers aplenty, the garden will showcase easy ways to welcome wildlife into a relaxing and low maintenance space. Be inspired to let a corner of your garden grow wild, learn how to use reclaimed materials to create unique interest, and discover a range of plants tha... - Designer: Bea Tann - Location: Sandringham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/97894505-571f-4a16-b679-e7b1e7ee0071/conversions/PXL_20260722_174721195-preview.webp) - [Dorothy House: Shared Breath](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/dorothy-house-shared-breath) - RHS Badminton Flower Show 2026 - Description: Shared Breath highlights the collective reliance of all human beings on a finite, shared resource: oxygen. Its aim is to encourage meaningful conversations around death and end-of-life care and to raise awareness of the vital work carried out by the hospice charity Dorothy House. An abundance of colourful nectar-rich perennials, roses and flowering shrubs fills the space, with a multi-stem Acer campestre providing structure and shade. Aside from a narrow path of recycled crushed shells, the grou... - Designer: Charlotte Sanderson - Awards: Gold Medal - Location: Badminton, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/be6ded80-8084-4f5c-8dc6-f0b65dadc136/conversions/PXL_20260708_163330245-preview.webp) - [Echoes of a Fairground](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/echoes-of-a-fairground) - BBC Gardeners' World Autum Fair 2026 - Description: "Echoes of a Fairground" is a sensory immersion into the blurred, vibrant memories of childhood fairground trips with our grandparents. The border translates the mechanical rhythm and cacophony of the midway through swaying architectural planting and vertical forms mimicking spinning rides. High-octane floral colours mirror the neon glow of lights, while a heavy, sweet fragrance profile evokes the thick, sugary scents of candy floss and excitement. As horticulture students, we are embracing the... - Designer: Victoria North, Charlie White - Location: Essex, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/9a051825-ce69-4d72-8e3e-89cbe7d3ddc6/conversions/VictoriaAndCharlieGWAF26gallery-preview.webp) - [Echoes of water, circles of time …](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/echoes-of-water-circles-of-time) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2026 - Description: Our border invites visitors on a journey through the evolving history of our town, Leamington Spa from a modest medieval village to a diverse, vibrant, and forward-looking technological hub. The story begins with the discovery of a mineral spring; water is not a decoration here, but the foundation of the story. Early planting is medicinal in character, creating a sense of calm, healing, and tranquility. Colour plays a vital storytelling role throughout the border. White planting reflects the Reg... - Awards: Platinum Award - Location: The NEC, Birmingham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/67cd92a3-fbb7-497a-b3da-2216b20b6980/conversions/PXL_20260617_164950963-preview.webp) - [Electuary](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/electuary) - RHS Badminton Flower Show 2026 - Description: A symbiotic relationship with the land is mutually beneficial for both humans and invertebrates. Rooted in this idea, Electuary emerges as a tranquil, immersive and storybook-like garden that feels at once lived-in and carefully crafted. The space draws on the designer's own experience as a beekeeper and offers a pastoral paradise where a combination of natural materials, layered planting and architectural features come together to create an ideal setting for artisans and bee enthusiasts alike.... - Designer: Joshua Fenton - Awards: Silver Gilt Medal - Location: Badminton, United Kingdom - 360 tour: [interactive 360 tour](https://gardensdb.com/360-tours/a91b85ef-e981-48c1-a2bb-8b2b52efee7a) - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/01c185d3-3523-4b89-ba04-5035e9eaf1f2/conversions/IMG_5421-preview.webp) - [Empowering at Every Step](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/empowering-at-every-step) - Bord Bia Bloom 2026 - Description: Empowering at Every Step brings visitors on a journey through the cancer landscape in Ireland - raising awareness, encouraging action where possible, highlighting support, and advocating for greater access to screening. At its centre, charred timber creates a powerful visual reminder of cancer's impact across our society. Pathways reflect individual journeys, recognising that every experience is different and that small, positive steps can make a meaningful difference. The planting scheme draws... - Designer: Robert Moore - Awards: Gold Medal - Location: Dublin, Ireland - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/32cbb964-f1b0-4dbe-8c10-b6ee0be8f325/conversions/Empowering-at-Every-Step---4-preview.webp) - [Enchanted Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/enchanted-garden) - BBC Gardeners' World Spring Fair 2026 - Description: This border is inspired by childhood memories of walking in the woods. The thrill of exploration and the fear of getting lost. It reflects on the belief that if you strayed from the path and walked far enough through the brush and bracken, you would find an enchanted garden. The place folklore and myth take root in the imagination. This border is a call to action for adults to rediscover the wonder in the world as we did as children. Designed as a part shade, spring border which will flourish as... - Designer: James Burness - Awards: Silver Award - Sponsor: Readyhedge, Bradstone - Location: Beaulieu, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/50d43d85-76aa-47d5-b279-0cc81587a846/conversions/PXL_20260503_113720573-preview.webp) - [Feast](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/feast) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026 - Description: She Grows Veg are bringing Feast to the Great Pavilion - a woodland-inspired dining space championing growing your own flavour-rich heirloom vegetables at home. Highlighting the wellbeing, zero-food-miles and organic benefits of homegrown produce, the exhibit will feature a table setting to connect the garden, kitchen and plate. - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/b15472a1-7233-4dc0-b68d-7842b61977d5/conversions/1CAD5370-B255-437A-98EC-52D6E3F06CAC_1_102_o-preview.webp) - [Fettercairn: The Angels' Share](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/fettercairn-the-angels-share) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026 - Description: As whisky ages, some liquid is lost to evaporation and this is known as the Angels' Share. The garden takes its inspiration from this journey of liquid from the copper stills to the wooden casks, and the full whisky ageing process. Grassland moves to woodland across the balcony, around a flexible space designed for sharing, mimicking elements from Fettercairn Distillery's home in the foot of the Cairngorms - often referred to as 'The Garden of Scotland'. A stunning 'vertical stream' cascades ove... - Designer: May Starey - Awards: Silver Gilt Medal - Sponsor: Fettercairn Whisky - Location: London, United Kingdom - 360 tour: [interactive 360 tour](https://gardensdb.com/360-tours/99f6d3da-7e27-45cd-9c2f-46239e350720) - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/6d372090-abed-4659-ae6a-e4f99d50b0fb/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Finding Balance](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/finding-balance) - RHS Malvern Spring Festival 2026 - Description: Finding Balance is a gentle, sensory border designed to encourage pause, reflection and calm. The layout takes its shape from the experience of Acoustic Neuroma, a rare, benign brain tumour that affects balance and hearing, and uses contrast to express both instability and stillness. An ear‑shaped, asymmetric plan reflects disorientation, while a softly crunching gravel path guides visitors safely through the planting. A sculptural boulder offers a place to rest and breathe. The planting is resi... - Designer: Megan Dodd - Awards: Silver Medal - Location: Malvern, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/deb39114-e2a4-4b4e-a500-51a42a748aef/conversions/PXL_20260509_130155222.MP-preview.webp) - [Finding Hope](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/finding-hope) - RHS Badminton Flower Show 2026 - Description: The garden is designed as a public space where visitors can understand the importance of CALM's work. Sixteen lives are lost to suicide every day, and each square within the garden represents one of those lives A contemplative garden structured around sixteen squares, each one representing a life lost to suicide every 24 hours. A continuous pathway offers choice - to turn, pause, reflect and reconnect. Through calm planting, gentle movement and quiet spaces, the garden transforms loss into hope,... - Designer: Pip Probert, Rick Ford - Awards: Silver Medal - Location: Badminton, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/fa11aef6-5f73-4746-9124-5ac5386ba41c/conversions/PXL_20260708_171407022-preview.webp) - [Finding Me](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/finding-me) - BBC Gardeners' World Autum Fair 2026 - Description: This garden reflects a journey beyond motherhood - rediscovering identity through gardening. Inspired by years of nurturing others, it represents growth, self-discovery and renewal, showing how reconnecting with nature can help us find ourselves again. Becoming a mother to new born's who need our undivided attention 24/7, being a mummy of toddlers who need a hand to hold and arms to feel safe in. To being a school mum, parties every weekend, friends round for tea and afterschool activities & hob... - Designer: Stacey Margaret - Location: Essex, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/426637f9-fb37-4244-89b7-ac817c4427c3/conversions/StaceyMargaretGWAF26gallery-preview.webp) - [Fingal Nurturing Communities Through Nature](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/fingal-nurturing-communities-through-nature) - Bord Bia Bloom 2026 - Description: Sponsored by Fingal County Council, this large garden embraces the growing movement towards community gardening. It is designed as a welcoming place, where residents can meet their neighbours, build connections, and reconnect with nature. The garden's primary aim is to encourage residents to grow seasonal produce together, while encouraging the development of gardening skills, plant knowledge, and a strong sense of community. At its centre, a large canopy structure and propagation house is a gat... - Awards: Gold Medal - Location: Dublin, Ireland - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/24b65abf-d8a2-4c95-97b7-2e9c8622634d/conversions/Fingal-Nurturing-Communities-Through-Nature---2-preview.webp) - [Flood Re: Contain the Rain Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/flood-re-contain-the-rain-garden) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026 - Description: The Flood Re: Contain the Rain Garden draws inspiration from traditional Persian design, creating a tranquil sanctuary within a compact urban space. Designed for a single person or couple with an environmental conscience, it offers an immersive retreat from the bustle of city life. The garden is intended to be enjoyed both from indoors, with views of lush greenery, and from a small seating area nestled among vibrant planting, providing a sense of peace and escape. At the heart of the design is a... - Designer: John Howlett - Awards: Gold Medal - Sponsor: Flood Re - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/145d4aec-63f5-4a25-a390-b85e34a9c95f/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [For the love of Birds](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/for-the-love-of-birds) - BBC Gardeners' World Autum Fair 2026 - Designer: Daisy Fenton - Location: Essex, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/6e085a14-3867-42dd-b859-48e07b68e8ad/conversions/DaisyFentonGWAF26gallery-preview.webp) - [From Chaos to Calm](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/from-chaos-to-calm) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2026 - Description: One upon a time - From chaos to calm, my journey through Dyslexia. The design for this border represents my journey of living with Dsylexia, from being diagnosed as a child to how it affects my life today. On the left of the border the planting is dense and chaotic, representing the confusion of jumbled letters and back to front numbers, leading to not understanding why I couldn't do things like my classmates. I was lucky and was sent to Aston University to learn strategies to find my way around... - Designer: Jeremy Price - Awards: Silver Merit Award - Location: The NEC, Birmingham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/37cf7865-5660-4b88-8b3a-0f15c7be0ba7/conversions/PXL_20260617_164050741-preview.webp) - [From Discovery To Legacy](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/from-discovery-to-legacy) - BBC Gardeners' World Spring Fair 2026 - Description: This border honours Sir Harold Hillier's passion for plants and conservation, celebrating the creation of a world-class garden. Inspired by Once Upon a Time, it reflects his plant-hunting travels through vibrant colour and rich texture, with a bust symbolising the enduring strength of his legacy. This Beautiful Border celebrates the remarkable journey of Sir Harold Hillier, whose passion for plants and plant conservation transformed his vision into a world-class, award-winning garden. Inspired b... - Awards: Gold Award - Sponsor: Readyhedge, Bradstone, Sir Harrold Hillier Gardens - Location: Beaulieu, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/5a6510cc-f13c-4161-8c02-8b12c1f7e066/conversions/PXL_20260503_124013786-preview.webp) - [From Plot To Habitat](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/from-plot-to-habitat) - RHS Sandringham Flower Show 2026 - Description: The design responds to the reality that many modern developments offer minimal planting, often leaving homeowners with bare plots defined by fences and surrounding rooftops, completely disconnected from the wider environment. In contrast to the growing use of artificial turf and plastic plants, the border combines grasses, evergreens, perennials and edibles. A strong focus is on pollinator-friendly and drought-tolerant species, including Salvia nemorosa 'Caradonna'. Living willow arches echo the... - Designer: Deborah Blake - Awards: Silver Gilt Medal - Location: Sandringham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/1e014d51-ff2c-4ad0-bea5-83fbdf2d6c7a/conversions/PXL_20260722_155148381-preview.webp) - [From Sewing to Sowing](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/from-sewing-to-sowing) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2026 - Description: This border is inspired by my journey from sewing costumes for films to horticulture student as I look to change career into gardening. Like many people, I caught the gardening bug during 2020 where I discovered a love of growing flowers and veg. I loved the fact that I had gone from sewing costumes to sowing seeds and the journey that it has since opened up for me. Drawing on my previous career I have taken inspiration from Arts & Crafts style gardens. I have used cottage garden planting using... - Designer: Annabel Davies - Awards: Gold Award - Location: The NEC, Birmingham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/122db0ae-cf83-433f-a207-37801671783c/conversions/PXL_20260617_162219086-preview.webp) - [Gardens on the Edge](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/gardens-on-the-edge) - RHS Sandringham Flower Show 2026 - Description: Capturing the fragile threshold between resilience and erosion, Holding the Line explores planting as living coastal infrastructure. Visitors move from a lush contemporary garden into wind-swept dune grasses and finally encounter a sparse, climate-resilient landscape shaped by salt and drought. Sculpted landforms, exposed substrate and weathered structural elements reveal the tension between stability and loss. As abundance gradually transitions into exposure, the vegetation becomes more than ju... - Designer: Emily Joy - Awards: Silver Gilt Medal, People's Choice Best Long Border - Location: Sandringham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/ef2ee682-6e9d-4651-9e82-6e65b863fb03/conversions/PXL_20260722_160632748-preview.webp) - [Girlypop Biosphere](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/girlypop-biosphere) - RHS Badminton Flower Show 2026 - Description: Girlypop is our interpretation of the maximalist, hyper-pop aesthetic of late 90s and early 2000s femininity: bright colours, playful excess, kitsch decoration and unapologetic fun.Plants are often framed as calming and restorative, but they can also be joyful, energising and absurd in the best possible way. In the Girlypop Biosphere, we explore the place of girlhood and femininity within indoor horticulture, and how even the most over-the-top spaces can be softened, grounded and brought to life... - Designer: Devaki Jones - Awards: Gold Medal - Location: Badminton, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/d5343c60-3063-41db-b5c1-42b9e7f1ca9b/conversions/IMG_5056-preview.webp) - [Greenhouse Noir](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/greenhouse-noir) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2026 - Description: This garden is a contemporary, immersive retreat designed to demonstrate how powerful a small space can be. The bold black backdrops and structure create a dramatic, gallery-like setting that allows every plant to standout with exceptional clarity, turning foliage and texture into the stars of the show. At its heart, exquisitely detailed stone paving and a refined central table introduce craftsmanship and precision, elevating the garden's architectural character. Created with homeowners in mind,... - Designer: Matt Bettison - Awards: Platinum Award - Location: The NEC, Birmingham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/a48f6fc5-2e56-4ede-b242-87b07825d2d4/conversions/PXL_20260617_170154629-preview.webp) - [Grow Them On](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/grow-them-on) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2026 - Description: Once upon a time, we all learned how to be gardeners. Our Beautiful Border charts the path of how so many of us learned our craft as home gardeners but also as students following in the venerable footsteps of so many who studied at Rodbaston, a college that has been part of the nation's evolving relationship with horticulture for over a century. Whether in the vegetable patch or sowing our first annual seeds, the gift of a cutting or first day learning on the job, we have all grown along with th... - Awards: Gold Award - Location: The NEC, Birmingham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/4b2769a9-a8db-411a-a0fa-67ad9d9c838e/conversions/PXL_20260617_160904989-preview.webp) - [Growing with Many Hands](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/growing-with-many-hands) - RHS Sandringham Flower Show 2026 - Description: Growing with Many Hands is inspired by the valuable work gardeners do to care for our green spaces. In a time of climate change, gardeners are on the ground experiencing changes first hand and are able to adapt to these changes. Bringing together climate-resilient planting with habitat piles for biodiversity, the garden will be made as if the gardeners have just left for their tea break. Tools will poke out through the flowers, cups of coffee will be laid on the tea tables, with seed packets rea... - Designer: Mattie O'Callaghan - Awards: Gold Medal - Sponsor: Essex Gardens Trust - Location: Sandringham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/d80ef8e6-9250-44ec-bbc4-213222486c32/conversions/PXL_20260722_153019746-preview.webp) - [Hanging Gardens of Botanica](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/hanging-gardens-of-botanica) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026 - Description: Taking inspiration from the mythical Hanging Gardens of Babylon to demonstrate the process of evapotranspiration, this contemporary, ambitious and contemplative houseplant exhibit sees a total of 12 vertical gardens suspended in terracotta Bergs pots on the inside and outside of the studio, emulating the water cycle. The Hanging Gardens of Botanica carry an important message about water conservation and looking after this precious resource. Botanica Studio wants to inspire creativity with housep... - Designer: Alice Dobie, Alexanda Goodman, Eden Leo, Nadia Saddiq, Rosie Vardy, Tom Vardy - Awards: Silver Gilt Medal - Sponsor: Malvern Garden Buildings - Location: London, United Kingdom - 360 tour: [interactive 360 tour](https://gardensdb.com/360-tours/757f1bd4-a080-40d5-bc87-b0504360f5ca) - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/57dbe6d7-76e2-46f3-8dd9-05dd913a9725/conversions/Hanging-Gardens-of-Botanica-2026-05-19-at-09.47.32-(2)-preview.webp) - [Hedgerow in the Sky - Tech Mahindra](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/hedgerow-in-the-sky-tech-mahindra) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026 - Description: The Hedgerow in the Sky garden reimagines the character and biodiversity of British hedgerows within a contemporary urban balcony garden. Layered planting echoes the natural structure of hedgerows, offering year-round interest and creating moments of discovery for both pollinators and people. A striking, dark backdrop crafted using the traditional Shou Sugi Ban technique adds depth and contrast while delicate pressed-flower artworks celebrate the beauty and fragility of wildflowers. Comfortable... - Designer: Sarah Mayfield, Monika Greenhough - Awards: Gold Medal - Location: London, United Kingdom - 360 tour: [interactive 360 tour](https://gardensdb.com/360-tours/9b6a66d1-2b18-41b3-ac9c-d011a1ab87fa) - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/46d490f7-a5be-4f32-a0d3-ed9964fc5a12/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Heliotropic Carousel](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/heliotropic-carousel) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026 - Description: Heliotropic: to turn towards the sun, a mechanism in plants to maximise the ability to photosynthesise. In psychology, heliotropic describes choosing a positive path or outlook. The plants in the Heliotropic Carousel rotate in a calm, merry-go-round fashion to maximise or reduce exposure to sunlight. At its heart, the room is a space to care for plants, to enjoy the healing energy of their collective foliage. The room becomes what the user needs as the sun moves - a place to enjoy morning rays a... - Designer: John Kitchin - Awards: Gold Medal - Sponsor: Malvern Garden Buildings, Ladybird Plantcare - Location: London, United Kingdom - 360 tour: [interactive 360 tour](https://gardensdb.com/360-tours/24246966-d8de-46b8-a515-2ec98a2e7288) - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/b4a06d86-28fb-4ae5-ae1b-d6dcc0fd7b86/conversions/Heliotropic-Carousel-2026-05-19-at-09.46.39-(1)-preview.webp) - [Heritage Rewoven](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/heritage-rewoven) - BBC Gardeners' World Spring Fair 2026 - Description: Dismantled cable drums have been creatively repurposed to form a pathway, guiding you over the garden pond towards a woven willow structure. Handcrafted by students, the structure creates a cocoon-like setting for an informal social seating area. Wind-felled Merrist Wood timber has been cut into stumps, providing sustainable seating. The natural, earthy tones of these features contrast beautifully with the vibrant seasonal hues of the spring planting. The soft landscaping also incorporates habit... - Awards: Gold Award - Location: Beaulieu, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/5e06889c-bf4b-47ff-929f-11d7b812ea87/conversions/PXL_20260503_145359200.MP-preview.webp) - [Honing Heritage](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/honing-heritage) - RHS Badminton Flower Show 2026 - Description: The character and heritage materials found across the picturesque Cotswold region lend the space a timeless feel. Beautifully constructed dry-stone walls, reclaimed stone and a central iron gazebo, forged by local blacksmith Matt Potts, highlight the importance of handmade features in historic garden design, while reinterpreting them through a contemporary lens. Flagstone paths run through the garden, deliberately laid with small gaps to allow Nigella damascena and other self-seeded plants to em... - Designer: Nick Leitch - Awards: Silver Medal - Location: Badminton, United Kingdom - 360 tour: [interactive 360 tour](https://gardensdb.com/360-tours/6dc8fbcb-facc-4096-ae0b-28c0f91c05ac) - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/4e2cb5b3-01b1-4bc7-b3a4-86e9b025a0bb/conversions/IMG_5412-preview.webp) - [I Can Create That Garden with Q102](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/i-can-create-that-garden-with-q102) - Bord Bia Bloom 2026 - Description: Sponsored by Dublin's Q102 and designed to 'Brighten Your Day', this debut Bloom Show Garden from Carleen Osborne demonstrates how creating an attractive, practical garden is within everyone's reach. The design employs budget-friendly and readily available eco-friendly materials, straightforward construction methods, and a planting scheme underpinned with locally sourced plants. It integrates practical everyday elements, including a discreet retractable drying line and efficient storage for tool... - Designer: Carleen Osborne - Awards: Gold Medal - Location: Dublin, Ireland - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/f635a706-843c-45dd-a8b4-3c0c17b3f8ac/conversions/I-Can-Create-That-Garden-with-Q102---2-preview.webp) - [Journey Beyond the Tracks: From Adelaide to Perth](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/journey-beyond-the-tracks-from-adelaide-to-perth) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026 - Description: This suburban garden is inspired by a journey on the Indian Pacific, one of Australia's epic train routes, linking the coastal cities of Adelaide and Perth by traversing the stunning and unique Outback landscape. The design nods to both cities' commitment to urban greening and reflects the diverse environments of South Australia and Western Australia. A garden structure, echoing the shape and interior of a train carriage, divides the space. One side captures the wild Western Australian outback w... - Designer: Maximillian Parker-Smith - Awards: Silver Gilt Medal - Location: London, United Kingdom - 360 tour: [interactive 360 tour](https://gardensdb.com/360-tours/d0ae0e0f-b9b3-4b49-a878-d3e69c7aaede) - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/c2e8562d-5692-49cc-9442-34317a83dbb1/conversions/Journey-Beyond-the-Tracks---From-Adelaide-to-Perth-2026-05-19-at-09.43.33-(4)-preview.webp) - [L'amour Vert](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/lamour-vert) - RHS Badminton Flower Show 2026 - Description: Celebrating the 5th anniversary of Moulin Rouge! The Musical and the 25th anniversary of Baz Luhrmann's iconic film, make your entrance through the heart-shaped gateway and immerse yourself in a love story waiting to unfold. Houseplants take a starring role, bringing to life two very different worlds inspired by Moulin Rouge! The Musical. With a rich, romantic planting palette of deep reds, burgundy, jewel tones, velvety textures and dramatic foliage, the living stage is set for Satine's luxurio... - Designer: James Whiting - Awards: Gold Medal, Best Houseplant Terrarium - Location: Badminton, United Kingdom - 360 tour: [interactive 360 tour](https://gardensdb.com/360-tours/9b5fd652-e906-473f-9904-86ff6c77933d) - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/ad5177cc-eb92-43f8-8aec-9e04dabbc3d2/conversions/PXL_20260708_165745427.MP-preview.webp) - [Lady Garden Foundation 'Silent No More' Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/lady-garden-foundation-silent-no-more-garden) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026 - Description: The garden is designed to captivate, spark curiosity, and open up uninhibited conversations about gynaecological health. Inspired by sculptor Eduardo Chillida's evocative works, designer Darren Hawkes reimagines the female anatomy through bold architectural forms. Chillida's etching Inguru III shapes the garden's layout, while his sculpture La Casa del Poeta III - with its enclosing, interwoven forms - echoes the structure of the womb. A winding path leads visitors through richly planted borders... - Designer: Darren Hawkes - Awards: Gold Medal, Best Construction Award (Show Garden) - Location: London, United Kingdom - 360 tour: [interactive 360 tour](https://gardensdb.com/360-tours/e6d5ea46-7100-4d13-bb95-da7a68d73df3) - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/d4650acb-292e-4862-9fa2-377b54988381/conversions/E877835B-B6AE-4F12-A489-9CC326F012D4_1_102_o-preview.webp) - [Ladywell Physic Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/ladywell-physic-garden) - RHS Sandringham Flower Show 2026 - Description: Thanks to recent investigations by the UK Health Security Agency, we are better able to anticipate the growing intensity of certain health conditions linked to climate change. With each plant selected for its clinical efficacy in treating these ailments, the border is conceived as an herbal dispensary for the near future. The tradition of medieval physic gardens informs the design. However, these influences are reinterpreted through a more contemporary lens, with a looser planting style and spec... - Designer: João Afonso, David Congram - Awards: Silver Gilt Medal - Location: Sandringham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/18cf9f74-bca6-4a04-b8c6-4defd351936c/conversions/PXL_20260722_153314869-preview.webp) - [Life in Dereliction](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/life-in-dereliction) - RHS Badminton Flower Show 2026 - Description: Despite the challenging conditions often associated with brownfield lands - from infertile soils and contamination to minimal irrigation and exposure - these sites can evolve into highly biodiverse successional habitats. This design encourages visitors to reconsider the importance of these often-overlooked landscapes and to recognise their contribution to the wider urban ecological networks. The regenerative processes of brownfield land are turned into an aesthetic, small-scale planting scheme.... - Designer: Luke Adams, Esme Jones - Awards: Silver Gilt Medal - Location: Badminton, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/20d592ca-3f29-44d0-b1d2-e4c483da72c1/conversions/PXL_20260708_073237443-preview.webp) - [Life on the Land](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/life-on-the-land) - RHS Malvern Spring Festival 2026 - Description: Life on the Land is a garden border about remembering where food really comes from. In a world where vegetables often travel further than the people who eat them, this border brings food back to the soil it belongs to. Every plant, from heritage vegetables to fruit and perennials, has been chosen for flavour, resilience, and beauty rather than shelf life. Deep purples, near‑black foliage, and dark structural elements echo the richness of fertile earth, the place where nourishment begins. They se... - Designer: Madeline Mesias - Awards: Silver Gilt Medal - Sponsor: nkuku, Woven Wood, The Dipping Tank Company - Location: Malvern, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/b848fdff-6ccc-44ab-a1af-36934ddd23fa/conversions/PXL_20260509_154827921.MP-preview.webp) - [Life's Tapestry](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/lifes-tapestry) - BBC Gardeners' World Spring Fair 2026 - Description: Once upon a time, I started to believe in myself. Life's Tapestry is, indeed, woven by interconnections. My design, wishes to highlight the threads we create in our lives. How different paths we may chose, lead us in different directions, but ultimately, how the human spirit still yearns for the same requirements, no matter where or how one lives in this world. Water and love, help provide nature, with joy and sustenance. They are necessary components to us as well. When we compare the human spi... - Designer: Glenda Stansbury - Awards: Silver Award - Sponsor: Readyhedge, Bradstone - Location: Beaulieu, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/d95ead0c-cfce-4bd3-af68-4a52f5f4ecba/conversions/PXL_20260503_124251221.MP-preview.webp) - [Lifted by Birds](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/lifted-by-birds) - RHS Malvern Spring Festival 2026 - Description: Lifted by Birds is a peaceful, nature‑rich garden designed to support British birdlife. It brings together habitats like meadow edges, woodland areas, wetlands, stone features and quiet sheltered spots. These spaces give birds places to feed, nest, rest and move safely through the garden. Visitors can watch birds in their natural behaviour, from blackbirds searching the ground to blue tits finding insects in branches or wrens stopping for water. The garden is set out like a rural cottage landsca... - Designer: Tom Saunders, Jon Pilling, Amie Wheeldon - Awards: Gold Medal, People's Choice Best Show Garden - Sponsor: Protect The Andes - Location: Malvern, United Kingdom - 360 tour: [interactive 360 tour](https://gardensdb.com/360-tours/a4a1a21d-bc37-48fb-a04c-46c81b0abc26) - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/60ac9157-2165-4279-8b25-668fd6304639/conversions/95341617-BB20-49F7-9807-84A4C1334C1A_1_102_o-preview.webp) - [Little Explorers Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/little-explorers-garden) - BBC Gardeners' World Autum Fair 2026 - Description: Small steps, big discoveries. Designed as a celebration of children's natural curiosity, the Little Explorers Garden invites young visitors to play, learn and connect with the outdoors. This feature garden encourages hands-on exploration, with spaces to investigate wildlife, discover textures and colours, and enjoy imaginative play in nature. The garden blends playful elements with gentle educational prompts, helping children understand the world around them while building confidence and creativ... - Designer: Pip Probert - Location: Essex, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/d4512f7c-24d8-4125-bcf2-998c7257dbd0/conversions/Pip-Probert-preview.webp) - [Living Beauty](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/living-beauty) - RHS Badminton Flower Show 2026 - Description: Beauty and ecological richness are not opposing forces, but natural partners that can sit side by side without compromise. Inspired by this belief, the designer brings to life a soft, painterly border where ornamental elegance and biodiversity coexist seamlessly. Visitors encounter a luminous tapestry of grasses and long‑flowering perennials, threaded with the light vertical accents of Berberis thunbergii f. atropurpurea 'Helmond Pillar'. These create movement and an open, uplifting atmosphere.... - Designer: Megan Dodd - Awards: Silver Gilt Medal - Location: Badminton, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/d0fee437-7beb-4daa-9a0a-5a559ee230c9/conversions/PXL_20260708_162328576-preview.webp) - [Lovehoney presents: Aphrodite's Hothouse](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/lovehoney-presents-aphrodites-hothouse) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026 - Description: Conceived as 'the ultimate pleasure garden', this boundary-pushing hothouse is lush, fragrant and just a little bit naughty. Visitors are invited to step inside and wander through a 'Tunnel of Love' dripping with sultry orchids, glistening Anthurium , pendulous Nepenthes and wandering vines that coil and entwine with knowing intent. This indoor garden teases. Among the exuberant foliage, sculptural forms peek out, subtly blurring the line between botanical curiosity and boudoir wink. Devotions t... - Designer: James Whiting - Awards: Gold Medal - Sponsor: Lovehoney, Malvern Garden Buildings - Location: London, United Kingdom - 360 tour: [interactive 360 tour](https://gardensdb.com/360-tours/79de5bdf-d69c-4e14-a836-3dd7422f4de2) - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/098c5b5d-e693-44da-9444-d4765f661560/conversions/Lovehoney-presents---Aphrodites-Hothouse-2026-05-19-at-09.45.10-(1)-preview.webp) - [Macmillan Cancer Support: The Nascent Shade Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/macmillan-cancer-support-the-nascent-shade-garden) - RHS Badminton Flower Show 2026 - Description: This ornamental woodland garden features a small group of birch trees, interspersed with lime and stone sculptures and brass details. At first, these elements are intentionally spaced unevenly, reflecting the gaps and inequalities people experience in cancer care today. As visitors move through the garden, the spaces gradually close and the layout becomes more even. This transition symbolises Macmillan's mission to close the gap between the best and worst cancer experiences, so everyone can get... - Designer: Elle Arnett - Awards: Gold Medal - Sponsor: Macmillan Cancer Support - Location: Badminton, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/e9a4c560-ccd6-4d30-a6fc-39383a00cd2f/conversions/PXL_20260708_072430802.MP-preview.webp) - [Magical Moments](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/magical-moments) - BBC Gardeners' World Spring Fair 2026 - Description: I've created a border inspired by my childhood garden - barefoot grass, flowers, bugs - and my current gardening. It's a space for both kids and adults to connect with nature, enjoy plants, and rediscover the magic of being outdoors. As a child I spent hours in the garden, making fairy dresses out of petals, having a picnic or watching the bugs and the butterflies. The feeling of walking on grass barefoot and the smell of beautiful flowers was grounding. Everything was magical. I have created a... - Designer: Megan Chapman - Awards: Silver Award - Sponsor: Readyhedge, Bradstone - Location: Beaulieu, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/f2406ac7-46f6-4587-82d0-a8c736fa3bd9/conversions/PXL_20260503_114235211-preview.webp) - [Make a Metre Matter](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/make-a-metre-matter-1) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2026 - Description: Created by De-Graft Mensah and Lucy Chamberlain for the Make a Metre Matter campaign, this border shows how one metre of space can make a big difference. It inspires children to grow pizza, pasta, and smoothie ingredients, while showcasing ideas for renters and compact fruit growing. - Location: The NEC, Birmingham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/f412fe19-1e93-45c7-8af2-db83379ac05f/conversions/PXL_20260617_180454592-preview.webp) - [May Morning](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/may-morning) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2026 - Description: This border is inspired by the living tradition of Morris dancing, a joyful celebration of nature, community, and the turning of the seasons. I am part of a newly formed Morris side called Heaps Morris, and we have been dancing together since 2023.Being part of this group has been a transformative experience for me. This garden tells the story of how, through dancing, I have found a community seeking to reconnect with nature and the land. The design centres on May Day, the most important date in... - Designer: Ellen Pye - Awards: Silver Award - Location: The NEC, Birmingham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/6e10d744-2b60-4e9e-a3ce-a2207cc181b5/conversions/PXL_20260617_161743987.MP-preview.webp) - [Met Éireann’s 90th Anniversary: Past, Present and Future](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/met-eireanns-90th-anniversary-past-present-and-future) - Bord Bia Bloom 2026 - Description: This commemorative garden celebrating 90 years of Met Éireann invites visitors to explore our changing climate, while also paying tribute those who monitor, interpret, and communicate Ireland's atmosphere with such dedication. At the garden's foundation, a native birch woodland frames a meadow and wetland that shift subtly with the seasons. Resilient planting and thoughtful design offer moments to pause and reflect, revealing how careful observation, adaptation, and understanding shape our conne... - Designer: Paul Dunne, Padraic Woods - Awards: Silver Gilt Medal - Location: Dublin, Ireland - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/1e437895-451d-47b2-b140-d546df9c82f9/conversions/Met-Éireanns-90th-Anniversary---1-preview.webp) - [Mindful Chef's Gathering](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/mindful-chefs-gathering) - RHS Sandringham Flower Show 2026 - Description: A traditional orchard is reimagined for a smaller garden in this solution-focused design, bringing together the enjoyment of growing and harvesting home produce with a strong commitment to nature recovery. Since the 1950s, an estimated 90% of traditional orchards in England and Wales have been lost through neglect, development and conversion to intensive farming methods. The resulting loss of biodiversity, cultural heritage and carbon-rich habitats has underscored the urgency of this distinctive... - Designer: Sophie Godber - Awards: Gold Medal, RHS Environmental Innovation Award - Location: Sandringham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/d6774512-ce3b-4128-91d9-b3e5e87708fc/conversions/PXL_20260722_172401499.MP-preview.webp) - [Mindful Meadowlands](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/mindful-meadowlands) - RHS Sandringham Flower Show 2026 - Description: Most people know about climate change and how rising temperatures can affect our gardens. However, few connect climate change to flooding even though one in six homes face flood threats (according to the Environment Agency). The design emphasises these risks and shows how to incorporate measures to reduce the impact of waterlogged soil conditions. A bespoke pergola acts as a shaded place to sit and as a feature sculpture for the garden. A 'dead hedge' provides shelter and food to small mammals,... - Awards: Bronze Medal - Location: Sandringham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/b0a68990-cc20-489c-a88a-97172baa390d/conversions/IMG_6533-preview.webp) - [Natural Dyes](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/natural-dyes) - Royal Windsor Flower Show 2026 - Description: Exploring the historical and creative connection between people and the botanical world through the lens of natural dye plants which we have learnt to use over the past 5,000 years including; Dyer's Chamomile, Marigolds, Dyer's Hollyhock, Coreopsis, Goldenrod, Cosmos, Dahlia, Rudbeckia, Black Scabiosa, Safflower, Weld and Woad. For thousands of years we relied on these plants to produce sustainable dyes for textiles and inks for craftsmanship. Through this process, we cultivated a closer connect... - Designer: Louisa Macleod - Awards: 2nd Place - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/6f7985cb-63cb-413f-9059-8f049d0a4308/conversions/PXL_20260606_164427133-preview.webp) - [Naturally Resilient: Inspired by the Norfolk Coast](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/naturally-resilient-inspired-by-the-norfolk-coast) - RHS Sandringham Flower Show 2026 - Description: The long border design is inspired by the east Norfolk coast and surrounding areas, with the key theme of Natural Resilience. A sustainable, ecologically sensitive planting scheme helps to stabilise erosion, enhance biodiversity and thrive in challenging coastal conditions. The design mimics the natural patterns and ecology by selecting hardy, resilient and locally inspired flora that feels rooted in place, while supporting biodiversity and essentially soil stability. The design features five ve... - Designer: Susan Harvey, Konstantinos Gargaletsos - Awards: Silver Medal - Location: Sandringham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/cc24c6a0-f071-4358-b22a-7ae5928944d9/conversions/PXL_20260722_155233897.MP-preview.webp) - [Nature in Balance](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/nature-in-balance) - Bord Bia Bloom 2026 - Description: Nature in Balance highlights the merits of organic farming that actively protects water, soil and biodiversity while producing healthy, wholesome food that is, by its nature, also low carbon. Pasture gently sweeps down to enclose a modern rustic farmyard, a social space shaped by a stone wall and natural materials rooted in the land. A slim profile pergola shades a farmyard table, the focal point of the space, displaying locally produced food alongside pots of herbs and vegetables. From here, pa... - Designer: Linda McKeown - Awards: Gold Medal - Location: Dublin, Ireland - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/937ad9b4-9141-46bb-8b11-dfc331635fb6/conversions/Nature-in-Balance---1-preview.webp) - [Nature's Journey Home](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/natures-journey-home) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2026 - Description: Once upon a time the land was full of the buzzing of bees and the fluttering of butterflies. A meadow stretched wide, stitched with wildflowers and grasses, alive with movement and sound. Then came the new build diggers. The soil was compacted, rubble scattered and the hum fell silent. In its place appeared neat paving, clipped lawn - orderly, practical, but devoid of life. Yet a gardener remembered the meadow - and slowly, a transition. A slab lifted and became a stepping stone, gravel replaced... - Designer: Peter Etherington - Awards: Silver Merit Award - Location: The NEC, Birmingham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/3b0d7085-158c-48e9-afbd-69ae5e95bbc9/conversions/PXL_20260617_162532970-preview.webp) - [Nature's Spa](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/natures-spa) - BBC Gardeners' World Spring Fair 2026 - Description: Inspired by Wordsworth's Lines Written in Spring, this garden celebrates the full arrival of spring and the promise of the warmer months ahead, inviting us back outside to reconnect with nature. It evokes bright days when windows are thrown open, tea is enjoyed in the sunshine, birdsong and fresh air lifts the spirit: The pleasure of sun warming your skin, blossoms opening, and fresh growth stretching towards summer. We wanted to capture that moment when you pause to take it all in: the energy,... - Designer: Vicky Lincoln - Awards: Gold Award, Best Showcase Garden - Location: Beaulieu, United Kingdom - 360 tour: [interactive 360 tour](https://gardensdb.com/360-tours/599d85b3-3b1c-467f-8a56-47a5a715efcc) - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/6467f23c-0c57-4de2-8275-ad9205498b5f/conversions/PXL_20260503_090458377.MP-preview.webp) - [Navigating the Jungle of Diabetes](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/navigating-the-jungle-of-diabetes) - BBC Gardeners' World Spring Fair 2026 - Description: A diagnosis marks the start of an unexpected journey. This border reflects the path many take as they enter the dense jungle of diabetes, a world that can feel confusing and overwhelming. The bold planting mirrors the process of learning, adapting, and building new routines. Along the way, signposts for Knowledge, Support, and Hope highlight guidance from healthcare teams, loved ones, and lived experience. The shelter at the end symbolises clarity and confidence - a place where self-management c... - Designer: Katy Pomeroy - Awards: Gold Award - Sponsor: Readyhedge, Bradstone - Location: Beaulieu, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/b34e74f2-d314-483a-9404-481f57b9680c/conversions/PXL_20260503_115409670-preview.webp) - [Nene Nursery](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/nene-nursery) - RHS Sandringham Flower Show 2026 - Description: Green social prescribing is the practice of supporting people's mental health through nature-based activities. An increasingly popular approach at Nene Park Trust, the charity's forward-thinking mindset offers the inspiration for this border. Key features include a miniature outdoor prep area and a pizza oven, as well as hazel forms, kokedamas and sculptural trees. Through sustainable planting, this border invites visitors to connect with nature, celebrating the power of growing for wellbeing. - Designer: Gareth Lorman, Sofija Tarasevic - Awards: Silver Gilt Medal - Location: Sandringham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/fdae3663-7ca0-4670-abad-78c1abee88fe/conversions/IMG_6269-preview.webp) - [New Beginnings](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/new-beginnings) - BBC Gardeners' World Autum Fair 2026 - Description: Working in a trauma informed way 'It Takes A City' helps build successful pathways from street to home. I have used this sentiment in my design which coincides with the theme of 'Once Upon A Time' as every persons life tells a story. There are many reasons why people find themselves on the streets from relationship breakdowns, job losses, severe mental health issues, release from prison and I believe everyone deserves respect and opportunities in life to be a valued part of society and be able t... - Designer: Suzie Nicholson - Location: Essex, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/6caa82bc-330f-4eac-8679-deb43641ae85/conversions/SuzieNicholsonGWAF26gallery-preview.webp) - [Niche Trade Stand](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/niche-trade-stand) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026 - Designer: Callum Corrie - Location: London, United Kingdom - 360 tour: [interactive 360 tour](https://gardensdb.com/360-tours/87c8d704-335a-46d5-9481-4fa7e31bd870) - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/cb7e69bb-5350-4d98-bca6-0554fa0e8aa5/conversions/IMG_2568-preview.webp) - [Norfolk Coast: A Long Border for Climate Resilience](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/norfolk-coast-a-long-border-for-climate-resilience) - RHS Sandringham Flower Show 2026 - Description: As our climate changes, Norfolk's coastline faces new challenges. As its landscape responds and changes, so do the communities that live within it. The border seeks to embrace and celebrate this process by contrasting local plant communities and the building vernacular, with climate resilient planting design for a future focussed approach to gardening. While rising sea levels, drought and wildlife displacement threaten Norfolk's landscape and communities, its natural beauty persists through its... - Designer: Max Murrell, Adrian Scott - Awards: Silver Gilt Medal - Location: Sandringham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/a75c1cb4-fd95-49b0-8fe2-f0034a0032e8/conversions/PXL_20260722_155455732-preview.webp) - [Nth Degree Clerkenwell Tradestand](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/nth-degree-clerkenwell-tradestand) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026 - Designer: Tomoko Kawauchi - Sponsor: Nth Degree - Location: London, United Kingdom - 360 tour: [interactive 360 tour](https://gardensdb.com/360-tours/075510c1-0327-437a-be03-993de0ebd80b) - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/fba38d2d-9470-4fe5-9c48-30a9f2753c30/conversions/PXL_20260521_101153248-preview.webp) - [Nurture Nature - Nature Nurtures](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/nurture-nature-nature-nurtures) - RHS Sandringham Flower Show 2026 - Description: Designed with sustainable planting, wildlife and climate change in mind, this perennial border is a visual reminder that nature nurtures all living things. Visitors encounter a highly fragrant and texture-rich space where the strong pinks and purples of species like Hylotelephium telephium 'Purple Emperor' are balanced by softer, harmonious tones. Edibles and medicinal plants are artfully interwoven with ornamental blooms and wildlife representations, including hand woven willow swallows. Three... - Designer: Sarah McLean-Barr - Awards: Bronze Medal - Location: Sandringham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/a1d5712a-4207-44db-bcdd-5d173a497976/conversions/PXL_20260722_154523261-preview.webp) - [Once Upon a Time Between Two Shores](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/once-upon-a-time-between-two-shores) - BBC Gardeners' World Autum Fair 2026 - Description: Clacton or Portugal? My grandparents would ask my brother and me where we wanted to go on holiday. Although they had a lovely villa in the Algarve, we always chose Clacton, drawn to the fun of the arcades. In time, they stopped asking, turning instead towards the vibrancy and sun. This border tells a story of childhood holidays shaped by family and choice, contrasting two coastallandscapes. Clacton is expressed through staggered timber groynes, informal planting, and a rickety boardwalk, capturi... - Designer: Zoe Kilbride - Location: Essex, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/294191ba-d31c-4414-8efb-0597cbdd5313/conversions/ZoeKilbrideGWAF26gallery-preview.webp) - [Once upon a time I embarked on a journey to try and calm the monsters that live inside of me](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/once-upon-a-time-i-embarked-on-a-journey-to-try-and-calm-the-monsters-that-live-inside-of-me) - BBC Gardeners' World Spring Fair 2026 - Description: Living with complex PTSD and childhood trauma has shaped my life. Through nature, wildlife and art, I'm learning acceptance and self-love. This border reflects that healing journey. Living with complex PTSD and childhood trauma has had and continues to have a profound impact on my life. It is something I have denied, ignored and felt shame for living with, only to realise years later that the only way to heal is to accept that it is a part of who I am. My journey has only really began but it is... - Designer: Alex Bushnell - Awards: Gold Award - Sponsor: Readyhedge, Bradstone - Location: Beaulieu, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/c6be0d79-291c-4e4a-a071-dbae255e6863/conversions/PXL_20260503_120028230.MP-preview.webp) - [Once upon a Time… in my Granddad's Garden there were Hedgehogs, Frogs and Fuschias Hot and Cold](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/once-upon-a-time-in-my-granddads-garden-there-were-hedgehogs-frogs-and-fuschias-hot-and-cold) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2026 - Description: My first recollection of a garden was my granddad's, Henry "Harry" Bull. Harry had three loves in his life, my grandmother, his boxer dog "Beauty" and fuchsias. He was a member of the Fuchsia Society and, while he gardened in a very regimented way, he relaxed his style as he got older. His dog, Beauty, was very fond of bringing wildlife into the house, most notably frogs and hedgehogs - there seemed to be an ever lasting supply. If he were alive today, I'm convinced that he would still love fuch... - Designer: Richard Guy - Awards: Silver Award - Location: The NEC, Birmingham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/0ce84a7a-bc78-413a-82a7-341d0b85cc54/conversions/PXL_20260617_160825093-preview.webp) - [Once upon a time... Where Imagination Lived](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/once-upon-a-time-where-imagination-lived) - BBC Gardeners' World Autum Fair 2026 - Description: At the bottom of my childhood garden, through the old metal archway, there was a world that belonged only to us. The grass like a tournament field, and with sticks for swords we became knights of legend, as daring as Robin Hood and as loyal as any cavalry sworn to a noble cause. The trees were our fortress walls, their branches ladders to secret watchtowers where we could see kingdoms no one else believed in. We climbed without fear, bark rough against our palms, the scent of leaves and earth ri... - Designer: Paul Nicholson - Location: Essex, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/3300ba02-478e-440f-80ec-c141cb8f670e/conversions/PaulNicholsonGWAF26gallery-preview.webp) - [Once upon a time...There was a tomato in a drain.](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/once-upon-a-timethere-was-a-tomato-in-a-drain) - BBC Gardeners' World Autum Fair 2026 - Description: Once upon a time there was a tomato in a drain. Here tells a tale of one little tomato and two ambitious millennials. A tomato born from a determination to flourish from lunchtime scraps. This little tomato not only grew in fruit but in the hearts of Sally and Lloyd who cheered it along with care. "Learning with every new leaf, new inspiration came until before long that singular source of growth in the gurgling driveway drain became new plans manifested into pots, littered across the yard of ou... - Location: Essex, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/deaae72b-2271-4877-a7f8-50853b89477f/conversions/SallyAndLloydGWAF26gallery-(1)-preview.webp) - [ONE](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/one) - RHS Malvern Spring Festival 2026 - Description: ONE is a contemporary design with sustainability at its core. Created for a single person, it celebrates the garden as a calm, restorative sanctuary and a creative space that nurtures both plants and personal wellbeing. Central to the design are colourful, UK-produced sustainable bricks and a reflective water pool that adds gentle sound and visual interest. Multiple areas of mixed planting introduce texture, colour, and seasonal variation, together creating a richly layered and soothing atmosphe... - Designer: Ian McBain - Awards: Gold Medal, Best Show Garden, RHS Environmental Innovation Award - Location: Malvern, United Kingdom - 360 tour: [interactive 360 tour](https://gardensdb.com/360-tours/49659a61-538d-4e7c-a8ff-c131242efaf4) - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/6e654120-907f-4487-95fc-33d2cf1f1d02/conversions/PXL_20260509_141750433.MP-preview.webp) - [Oregon - The Productive Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/oregon-the-productive-garden) - RHS Badminton Flower Show 2026 - Description: Rather than recreating Oregon's Willamette Valley literally, the garden captures the elements that define it - fertile soils, flowing water, fruit cultivation and the essential role of pollination. Designed to be viewed from the surrounding path, visitors will see a small group of standard fruit trees arranged in gentle curves, reflecting natural pollination routes rather than rigid agricultural rows. Beneath the trees, lavender, herbs and wildflowers create a soft understorey that supports poll... - Designer: Sadie May Stowell - Awards: Silver Gilt Medal - Sponsor: Travel Oregon - Location: Badminton, United Kingdom - 360 tour: [interactive 360 tour](https://gardensdb.com/360-tours/07bbc74a-daf8-4f49-8d51-25bb83dc1ec7) - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/77e46ea6-bb0a-4dda-82bd-6c44c8ea10ac/conversions/PXL_20260708_072234482-preview.webp) - [Parkinson's UK - A Garden for Every Parkinson's Journey](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/parkinsons-uk-a-garden-for-every-parkinsons-journey) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026 - Description: Inspired by a workshop for gardeners living with Parkinson's and their loved ones, this joyful garden is designed as a sanctuary that both supports and appreciates those navigating this complex neurological condition. A wide, accessible path weaves through contrasting planting borders, unified by a sculptural "hand-rill" that functions as both a flowing water feature and tactile handrail. The movement and sound of water provide sensory cues designed to assist with 'freezing', a common Parkinson'... - Designer: Arit Anderson - Awards: Silver Medal, People's Choice Best Show Garden - Sponsor: Project Giving Back, Parkinson's UK - Location: London, United Kingdom - 360 tour: [interactive 360 tour](https://gardensdb.com/360-tours/e532c866-1799-49f2-aec9-1549d5875eee) - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/b960b634-e7b4-4a2e-8f0d-3ec52bacee69/conversions/IMG_2600-preview.webp) - [Perfume Pavilions](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/perfume-pavilions) - RHS Badminton Flower Show 2026 - Description: Nowadays, we often associate perfume with bottles of essential oils produced through chemical manufacturing processes. This garden serves as a reminder that scent originates in botany and pays tribute to nature's extraordinary sensory power. Imaginarily set in the Cotswolds, the Perfume Pavilion Feature Garden, designed by Liz Nicholson, Freddie Gibbs, Ruby Simpson and Dean Parsons offers a myriad of fragrances. From the soothing essential oils of Lavandula and the heady and nostalgic aroma of L... - Designer: Liz Nicholson - Location: Badminton, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/031f7e06-f915-4d95-a7b0-ccd3b8efe1ea/conversions/PXL_20260708_141213164-preview.webp) - [Plantwild: The Pollinators Sanctuary Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/plantwild-the-pollinators-sanctuary-garden) - RHS Badminton Flower Show 2026 - Description: Plantwild: The Pollinators Sanctuary Garden is a low-maintenance border for busy, nature-minded people who want to welcome more wildlife into their space. At its centre, eight sculptural bee towers create a strong visual rhythm, while charred deadwood, interspersed throughout, illustrates how plants support wildlife not just at their most attractive, but throughout their full lifecycle and decay. A small gravel pond provides a safe water source for visiting creatures. The natives are the real st... - Designer: Darren Gillingham - Awards: Gold Medal - Location: Badminton, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/3f4d7879-0f4a-400a-8843-8e267bc6592c/conversions/PXL_20260708_163240279-preview.webp) - [Pressed in Time: Nature’s Memory](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/pressed-in-time-natures-memory) - RHS Malvern Spring Festival 2026 - Description: Pressed in Time: Nature's Memory is a contemplative, calm Show Garden takes the visitor on a journey showcasing the beauty of flowers in both their living and preserved state, inspired by the art of flowering pressing. A gently winding gravel path guides visitors through soft, textured planting, echoing the layered beauty found in pressed botanical art. At its heart sits a giant flower‑press structure made from reclaimed materials, celebrating the act of preserving blooms and the emotional meani... - Designer: Lora Peneva - Awards: Silver Gilt Medal - Sponsor: Studio Wald - Location: Malvern, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/186b5726-501c-42b1-9489-a9f77d3b14a0/conversions/PXL_20260509_162102144-preview.webp) - [Primavera](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/primavera) - RHS Malvern Spring Festival 2026 - Description: This border is a celebration of springtime planting, designed for a south-west facing urban or rural garden with acidic soil type. It is designed with two contrasting sides: a dry, rugged section featuring boulders, pine trees ( Pinus spp.), gravel, and moss, and a lush, softer side planted with Japanese dogwood ( Cornus kousa) , cherry trees ( Prunus spp.), iris varieties, great forget-me-not ( Brunnera macrophylla) , ferns, foamflower ( Tiarella) , providing texture and gentle pastel tones. Th... - Designer: Damien Michel - Awards: Bronze Award - Location: Malvern, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/e36aa7f9-8cd2-4603-a238-c819f1f64fdf/conversions/PXL_20260509_120817394-preview.webp) - [Pulse](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/pulse) - Scone Palace Garden Fair 2026 - Description: Pulse explores how passion is felt in the body — as rhythm. It can arrive as excitement, love, grief or courage, but it is always experienced as a change in pace. This garden translates the pattern of a heartbeat into planting and form, inviting visitors to reflect on what makes their own heart "pulse". A heartbeat is steady yet responsive, quickening with emotion and slowing with calm. Pulse uses this living rhythm as its structure, shaping the space through moments of emphasis and pause. The p... - Designer: Lucy Morton, Adrian Burrows - Awards: Silver Gilt Medal - Sponsor: Viridis Plants, Thistle Timber and Building Supplies - Location: Perth, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/f6fdf2ff-0d38-49ee-9155-f1c16e22c1b6/conversions/20260528_131048519_iOS-preview.webp) - [Re-create yourself with Houseplants](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/re-create-yourself-with-houseplants) - RHS Badminton Flower Show 2026 - Description: After 15 years in a corporate career, the designer moved from her native South America to the UK and created a new life, pursuing her love for plants full time and opening her own business selling beautiful greenery. That sense of reinvention and optimism is reflected in the design, which employs many species native to South America, bringing together the designer's past and present. - Designer: Liuva Chacon, Leigh Halford - Awards: Silver Gilt Medal - Location: Badminton, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/bd27c6cf-661e-44c4-9604-391c40dee233/conversions/PXL_20260708_113505962-preview.webp) - [Reflection](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/reflection) - BBC Gardeners' World Autum Fair 2026 - Description: 'Reflection' is a journey to reconnect with childhood memories, creating a postcard of growing up amongst the quiet beauty of the Irish countryside. From playful mishaps in the family border through to wild blackberry picking on sunny autumn days, the garden preserves the enduring value of identity and belonging to a time gone by. Cottage style planting wraps its arms around you as you meander through a worn path, subconsciously tipping its hat to the favourite plant choices of three generations... - Designer: Edward Doherty - Location: Essex, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/47793c20-c6b0-4c80-a3ce-c93ebf4e1380/conversions/EdwardDohertyGWAF26gallery-preview.webp) - [Reflective Memories](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/reflective-memories) - RHS Malvern Spring Festival 2026 - Description: Reflective Memories is a gentle, sensory border designed to spark nostalgia and remind visitors of gardens they once knew or places they once loved. Filled with traditional, familiar plants chosen for year‑round interest, it invites people to engage every sense, touch, scent, sound and sight. A simple chair set beneath a silver birch offers a protected, calming spot to pause and reflect. The warm bark of the acer, the soft rustle of bamboo and the scent of herbs come together to create a comfort... - Designer: Paul Nicholson - Awards: Silver Gilt Medal - Location: Malvern, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/d72c564f-58c2-4015-9fdb-5c402f2f9dc5/conversions/PXL_20260509_131728485.MP-preview.webp) - [Release your inner child](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/release-your-inner-child) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2026 - Description: The one thing I think we all forget as we get older is that there is never truly a limit to our imagination and things can still be fun no matter what age you are. My garden captures a glimpse into the journey I take as a creative, a designer and most importantly - how I kept true to the believes young me had. It mixes the things I would have treasured as a child and how I can bring those forward to my adult life but how whilst the style, materials and appearance have changed, you can still see... - Designer: Ish Kamran - Awards: Silver Award - Location: The NEC, Birmingham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/41b89e2b-3b8b-4c4d-9f8d-6b4aba668dfd/conversions/PXL_20260617_162604320.MP-preview.webp) - [Reminders of Home](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/reminders-of-home) - RHS Malvern Spring Festival 2026 - Description: This border blends nostalgic cottage-garden charm with a fresh, modern feel, inspired by childhood memories of family gardens. Soft, calming colours, a classic cream picket fence and a playful willow dog sculpture create a welcoming, homely atmosphere, designed to suit a typical UK garden and to be enjoyed by everyone. - Designer: Nikki Hollier - Awards: Silver Gilt Medal - Location: Malvern, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/30037799-f1d1-498a-869f-92e8b45c6f73/conversions/PXL_20260509_091822801-preview.webp) - [Return to Gothic](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/return-to-gothic) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2026 - Description: Two years ago, we entered Gothic Lodge's garden-once enchanting, but taken over by nature. Over time, we uncovered its hidden beauty, restoring it to its storybook charm and "once upon a time" spirit. Our show garden mirrors this journey: from wild beginnings to careful renewal. Authentic materials sourced from Gothic Lodge anchor the design, while the layout tells a story-starting with an overgrown, forgotten corner, leading visitors along a path to curated planting and a reflective seating spa... - Designer: Alice Pote, Georgina Spencer - Awards: Platinum Award - Location: The NEC, Birmingham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/6c648897-86b1-4497-8a3d-754adb66c8ca/conversions/PXL_20260617_161414432-preview.webp) - [Returning To My Roots](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/returning-to-my-roots) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2026 - Description: This year marks my 25th year working in horticulture, but the story really began long before I knew what the word meant. It began with my Grandad. Some of my earliest memories are sitting beside him in the garden reflecting on life with a cuppa and biscuit in hand. The garden was a captivating space full of wonderment, and of connection and contemplation. I learned that gardening isn't instant, that mistakes are part of learning, and that the best results come from care, consistency, and time. E... - Designer: Steve Walton - Awards: Silver Merit Award - Location: The NEC, Birmingham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/a1b44d8c-9c37-4b74-bbf6-3bc07ef59090/conversions/PXL_20260617_164406517-preview.webp) - [RHS x CITI Season of Abundance](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/rhs-x-citi-season-of-abundance) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026 - Description: Set at the heart of the Great Pavilion, around The Monument, sculptural raised forms emerge from the ground. Planted with layers of textured foliage, unfurling ferns, ornamental grasses and emerging buds, these forms evoke the vitality and renewal that characterise nature at this time of year. Six large multi-stem trees anchor the landscape, while the planting incorporates spring highlights celebrated for their medicinal and healing properties. Height and scale add drama to this sculptural envir... - Designer: Imogen Perreau - Sponsor: Citi - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/a8ce6da8-5d9f-434a-a9e9-f6e62158ce7b/conversions/1000057720-preview.webp) - [RNIB Talking Books Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/rnib-talking-books-garden) - RHS Sandringham Flower Show 2026 - Description: Books hold a special place in our hearts - a quiet magic that ignites our imagination and creates vivid worlds with unforgettable characters. RNIB's free Talking Books service gives thousands of people with sight loss access to a huge range of fiction and non-fiction, from much-loved classics to educational texts. The garden takes inspiration from the libraries of our imagination. The Talking Books Garden has sinuous curved shingle walls with ladders reaching skywards, an interpretive nod to the... - Designer: Paul Hervey-Brookes - Awards: Gold Medal, Best Show Garden, Best Construction Award (Show Garden) - Sponsor: RNIB, Postcode Lottery - Location: Sandringham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/d78177a6-e5e1-46f3-ab16-d80bbc60ecc8/conversions/9D1C9180-8706-4BD4-A957-F7A85E420EEA_1_102_o-preview.webp) - [Rooted in Recognition](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/rooted-in-recognition) - Royal Windsor Flower Show 2026 - Description: Rooted in Recognition, inspired by Rooted in Nature, responds to the growing disconnect between children and woodland ecosystems. By age ten, many can recognise thousands of logos yet struggle to name common plants and wildlife, though naming is the first step toward connection. As woodlands face increasing pressure from habitat loss, climate change, and human activity, nurturing understanding is vital. The border draws on the frond shape of a fern, highlighting the natural shapes we see in natu... - Designer: Victoria Barbour, Lucy Chapman - Awards: 3rd Place - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/a91ba602-e569-41a8-8ab4-34dc7c681d52/conversions/PXL_20260606_164404593-preview.webp) - [Rooted in Resilience](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/rooted-in-resilience) - Bord Bia Bloom 2026 - Description: Rooted in Resilience is a symbolic garden inspired by the emotional and physical journey of people living with multiple myeloma, a rare and incurable blood cancer. The design guides visitors through contrasting spaces reflecting diagnosis, treatment, recovery and ongoing resilience, while allowing freedom of choice in how the journey is experienced. Visitors begin in a narrow, hospital-inspired corridor that opens into a 'waiting room' space. From there, they may enter a welcoming social garden... - Designer: David Negus - Awards: Gold Medal - Location: Dublin, Ireland - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/41271706-3877-4e6c-a7f8-d62aacc4fbc9/conversions/Rooted-in-Resilience---1-preview.webp) - [Ruskin Mill Trust - Artisan Woodland Craft Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/ruskin-mill-trust-artisan-woodland-craft-garden) - RHS Badminton Flower Show 2026 - Description: The Ruskin Mill Trust - Artisan Woodland Craft Garden celebrates the transformative journey of taking raw materials from nature and shaping them into purposeful objects. This process, described by Ruskin Mill Trust as 'descent into matter', engages hand, head, heart and place, and is central to the self-development of children and young people with learning disabilities. The garden, created as a learning environment, also evokes the woodlands of the Horsley Valley, where the first Ruskin Mill Co... - Designer: Rachael Austin - Awards: Gold Medal, Best Artisan Garden - Location: Badminton, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/710e0074-d8d6-4550-834e-91492088c693/conversions/IMG_5404-preview.webp) - [Saatchi Gallery 2026](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/saatchi-gallery-2026) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026 - Description: Created for the Saatchi Gallery's sixth collaboration with the RHS Chelsea Flower Show , the 2026 design brings together contemporary art, thoughtful planting and public participation. The project is supported by ING , whose commitment to advancing sustainable practice and supporting cultural initiatives reflects a shared belief in the value of nature, creativity and collective responsibility. Guests are invited to venture down the garden path into a surreal environment of interactive, anthropom... - Designer: Naomi Ferrett-Cohen - Location: London, United Kingdom - 360 tour: [interactive 360 tour](https://gardensdb.com/360-tours/03c7ece3-61f8-4cb8-b0bc-bbd151b0cec3) - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/4d910f48-3ee0-4b25-8b1e-b9e56c5e71e5/conversions/1000058772-preview.webp) - [Salty Towers](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/salty-towers) - BBC Gardeners' World Spring Fair 2026 - Description: The salt tower reinterprets coastal salt harvesting traditions through a contemporary pergola structure inspired by Blackthorn filtration towers. Integrating wind protection, rainwater harvesting and vertical planting the design responds to climate change, urban density and water scarcity. Reimagining plant collecting and horticulture as an adaptive, resilient and ecologically responsible practices. - Designer: Miranda Beaven, Vicky Gray, Charlie Jones, Lenaya Myles, Ben Rogers, Noah Williams - Awards: Gold Award - Sponsor: Bradstone, Rolawn, Goulds Garden Centre, Dorchester Timber - Location: Beaulieu, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/fb8147c5-e0dd-4600-a9b9-4974424141d4/conversions/PXL_20260503_090212139-preview.webp) - [Sanctuary for a Changing World](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/sanctuary-for-a-changing-world) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2026 - Description: Introducing a garden for the APL that celebrates the companionship that is created between human and garden. Through good and bad, celebration and healing, a garden provides us with purpose and creates a symbiotic relationship between man and nature. The garden will have a visual and an audio element which allows visitors to connect with the memory of what it is to work a garden, the beauty of the work. These film and sound recordings of many of the simple but essential tasks that we undertake i... - Awards: Gold Award - Location: The NEC, Birmingham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/2e57a6d5-50f4-475d-8557-ae5a56d308df/conversions/PXL_20260617_170319319-preview.webp) - [Sensed, Not Seen](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/sensed-not-seen) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2026 - Description: Sensed, Not Seen is more than a garden. It is an accessible garden designed to invite to pause, imagination and connection with the world of those living with a visual impairment, whilst initiating conversation and raising awareness. This sensory garden celebrates the senses beyond sight, offering safety, accessibility, and joy to all who enter. Every element has been thoughtfully designed for blind and visually impaired visitors to connect deeply with nature. A firm, level pathway will safely l... - Designer: Rebecca Williams - Awards: Gold Award - Location: The NEC, Birmingham, United Kingdom - 360 tour: [interactive 360 tour](https://gardensdb.com/360-tours/124c3117-8fe2-4264-adce-305673b06723) - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/b1c4e3c8-8e3f-4b06-a576-226d20c191f5/conversions/PXL_20260617_152245315-preview.webp) - [Shared Roots, Common Shade](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/shared-roots-common-shade) - Bord Bia Bloom 2026 - Description: This mini forest is a living metaphor for the European Union's investment in our common future. Uniting 27 trees - one representing each Member State - the garden symbolises the power of building our future together. The trees, some reaching over seven metres, frame a meandering pathway and cast shade over an underlayer of natural planting. Here, visitors can travel through the garden to escape the hustle and bustle of the festival and experience the magical atmosphere of this unified forest. To... - Designer: Oliver Schurmann, Liat Schurmann - Awards: Gold Medal - Sponsor: European Commission - Location: Dublin, Ireland - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/6e1d4d73-213e-41b1-b2c9-b82dfb48fd3a/conversions/Shared-Roots-Common-Shade---1-preview.webp) - [Silo: All that comes in remains](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/silo-all-that-comes-in-remains) - RHS Badminton Flower Show 2026 - Description: All that comes in remains is a garden built on Silo's zero-waste philosophy - a closed-loop system where outputs become inputs. The "there is no bin" approach to cooking is translated into soil, planting and materials. Every element has a role. Plants are not only edible, but active participants in the system, improving soil health, supporting biodiversity and strengthening environmental resilience. Supported by Cure Leukaemia, the garden reflects the wider value of food: nourishment, ecology an... - Designer: Abigail Stoyle - Awards: Gold Medal, RHS Environmental Innovation Award - Sponsor: Silo - Location: Badminton, United Kingdom - 360 tour: [interactive 360 tour](https://gardensdb.com/360-tours/728b93b7-cece-4fa9-ac15-80d86dbd9f46) - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/24e70c00-5308-41f5-97bd-960b370e4289/conversions/IMG_5451-preview.webp) - [Silverhand Estate: The Butterfly Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/silverhand-estate-the-butterfly-garden) - RHS Badminton Flower Show 2026 - Description: With butterfly populations declining across the UK, this garden delivers a clear message: the future of these fragile species doesn't require drastic action, but can be achieved through small, thoughtful everyday choices. In response to the national emergency declared by Butterfly Conservation, every element in this border is chosen to give butterflies what they need to thrive: nectar-rich plants for adult specimens, host plants for caterpillars and sheltered spaces that offer protection from pr... - Designer: Emma Atkinson - Awards: Silver Medal - Location: Badminton, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/399023c2-6c42-4e16-a5f6-7ac8cc7c32f7/conversions/PXL_20260708_163900097-preview.webp) - [Spacelift Chelsea Tradestand](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/spacelift-chelsea-tradestand) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026 - Description: Debuting at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026 alongside the brilliant Matt Keightley feels like a turning point. Not just for us, but for what garden design can be. For too long, thoughtful outdoor spaces have been the preserve of the few. We believe every home deserves a garden that's considered, sustainable, and genuinely loved. And we think AI, used carefully and in partnership with world class designers, can help make that possible. Chelsea has always championed the very best of British horti... - Designer: Matt Keightley - Sponsor: Spacelift - Location: London, United Kingdom - 360 tour: [interactive 360 tour](https://gardensdb.com/360-tours/f0f96545-f304-4dcd-a6c2-40695e706450) - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/65028b7b-8898-4a36-b1a1-2ee966603d2f/conversions/Spacelift-Tradestand-2026-05-19-at-09.39.30-(2)-preview.webp) - [Split Hazel Basketry: Weaving Tradition with Flo Hamer](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/split-hazel-basketry-weaving-tradition-with-flo-hamer) - RHS Badminton Flower Show 2026 - Description: Having once been practised by basket makers from the woodlands of Wales to Romania, now the techniques of split hazel basketry are known to only a handful of basket makers in the UK. Once an emblematic craft, today it is at risk of being lost, a trend this serene garden haven aims to reverse. The garden is designed for traditional craftswoman Flo Hamer , one of the few basket weavers who practise this endangered craft and one of only three people who teach it. Visitors encounter swathes of plant... - Designer: Henry T Pope - Awards: Gold Medal, Best Construction Award - Location: Badminton, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/048a25f2-fb69-4312-bbfc-bc3a0c6bf73a/conversions/PXL_20260708_100620727.MP-preview.webp) - [Stories of Memory](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/stories-of-memory) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2026 - Description: This garden captures a single moment shaped by memories shared between generations — stories of wartime resilience, everyday gardening, and the familiar spaces that stay with us for life. Informed by conversations with people living with Alzheimer's and their families, it reflects how memory can remain practical, sensory, and comforting, even as it begins to change. At its heart sits a recognisable Anderson shelter, recalling safety, family life, and the ingenuity of "Dig for Victory" gardens. A... - Designer: Adrian Burrows, Lucy Morton - Awards: Gold Award - Sponsor: Breedon Special Aggregates, Bradstone - Location: The NEC, Birmingham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/69a25538-360a-4d66-ab6b-0c0ec7c56744/conversions/PXL_20260617_162044361-preview.webp) - [Stumped](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/stumped) - RHS Malvern Spring Festival 2026 - Description: Stumped showcases the value of creating beautiful, biodiverse, and sustainable spaces within the garden. The designer believes that green spaces should support everyone who occupies them, humans, flora and fauna alike. Large sculptural tree stumps, repurposed from previous show gardens, highlight the importance of leaving deadwood to decompose naturally. In doing so, the garden demonstrates how decaying wood provides habitat, enriches soil health, and contributes to a richer, more resilient ecos... - Designer: Laura Ashton-Phillips - Awards: Silver Gilt Medal - Location: Malvern, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/707d2f85-eec4-4a8b-9e55-b3bf90307728/conversions/PXL_20260509_125132131-preview.webp) - [Summer holiday train adventures...](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/summer-holiday-train-adventures) - BBC Gardeners' World Autum Fair 2026 - Description: The day that dreams and living finally meet, Bags packed and checked again the night before, An early start along our quiet street. The platform slips away, our eyes explore, The fields through which we slice our racing arcs, On our adventure to some distant shore. Towards the blooms of well-kept seaside parks, Or wild seas, and waving grass and sand, And wind gnarled trees with lovely weathered barks. To airports and far garden wonderlands, Of sun-baked colours sharply shining out, To houseplan... - Designer: Julian Pennant - Location: Essex, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/b51a2434-cd44-4580-b557-542233989f9e/conversions/image-preview.webp) - [Swim Between the Flags](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/swim-between-the-flags) - RHS Sandringham Flower Show 2026 - Description: The garden represents a coastal dune landscape, centred around the RNLI's red and yellow flags of the Lifeguard service. Sculpted sand dunes are planted with coastal grasses and flowering perennials, designed for peak interest in July. A rain curtain introduces movement and sound, referencing sea spray and water. A timber fingerpost points to beaches across the UK, highlighting the RNLI's national presence. The planting is vibrant yet coastal in character, reflecting both the landscape and the e... - Location: Sandringham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/4ec3c4e9-ae69-49d7-baf4-ce6fe31f7e91/conversions/PXL_20260722_174643809.MP-preview.webp) - [Tales from the Riverbank Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/tales-from-the-riverbank-garden) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026 - Description: Tales from the Riverbank offers a river-dwelling bird's-eye view of a young couple's dream - a small but perfectly formed floating home with a fully functioning garden. Away from the hustle and bustle of working life, it blends seamlessly with the natural riverbank environment. This garden celebrates the arts and crafts of a bygone era of riverside living, an approach enjoying a revival as more people seek a simpler, more connected way of life. It reflects a community that works together to pres... - Designer: Susie Kennedy, Kate Henning - Awards: Gold Medal - Sponsor: Kennedys' Independent Property Agents, Nauticalia, Dennett Boat Builders - Location: London, United Kingdom - 360 tour: [interactive 360 tour](https://gardensdb.com/360-tours/6372724a-467c-400f-9c9c-4be220277738) - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/79e8aa90-77dc-4627-980d-5bdebafb1f70/conversions/Tales-from-the-Riverbank-Garden-2026-05-19-at-09.53.18-preview.webp) - [The 'Future In Mind' Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-future-in-mind-garden) - Bord Bia Bloom 2026 - Description: The 'Future In Mind' Garden embodies a shift toward a mental health system that is welcoming, safe, inclusive, and integrated into everyday community life. It represents Ireland's transition from institutional mental health care to a trauma-informed, recovery-focused, community-based system. A fractured concrete wall symbolises the high grey asylum walls of the past, now breaking apart. From this, a gentle water rill flows, creating a calming presence and representing the movement away from inst... - Designer: Joe Eustace - Awards: Gold Medal - Location: Dublin, Ireland - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/5866973a-07b3-4a34-83e2-1be610b69df0/conversions/the-future-in-mind-garden---4-preview.webp) - [The 20th Edition Bloom Gallery Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-20th-edition-bloom-gallery-garden) - Bord Bia Bloom 2026 - Description: Marking 20 years of Bord Bia Bloom, the 20th Edition Bloom Gallery Garden celebrates two decades of horticultural excellence. Inspired by pocket park design, it offers a calm, reflective space that brings together planting, seating and urban design to honour the legacy of Ireland's garden community. Visitors are invited to walk through the space, engaging with gallery walls that display iconic imagery from past Show Gardens alongside the stories of the designers, judges, and teams who have shape... - Designer: Maeve O'Neill - Location: Dublin, Ireland - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/b6bc861d-88bd-4cda-afdf-92184af53653/conversions/the-20th-edition-bloom-gallery-garden---1-preview.webp) - [The Archers' 75th Anniversary Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-archers-75th-anniversary-garden) - RHS Badminton Flower Show 2026 - Description: Imagined as a welcoming, productive and sustainable family-centred space, the setting is inspired by the rhythms of life on a small organic farm. It responds to a recent storyline in which a sewage spill flooded Bridge Farm, highlighting the environmental challenges facing modern farming communities while offering a hopeful vision of recovery and stewardship of the land. A long-time listener, Jo Thompson celebrates traditional skills associated with farm life. Working areas for vegetable growing... - Designer: Jo Thompson - Sponsor: The RHS - Royal Horticultural Society - Location: Badminton, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/e4a7be89-810e-4e08-848d-c198588fc2cc/conversions/IMG_5441-preview.webp) - [The Artist's Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-artists-garden) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2026 - Description: Inspired by a Derbyshire artist's garden, this space reflects more than seventy years of creative evolution, shaped by both the artist and their parents. It blends artistic expression with the practical charm of a traditional country cottage garden. A vibrant palette of herbaceous perennials frames the entrance and surrounds a rose-clad arbour, creating a welcoming threshold. An informal pathway of reclaimed stone, brick and ceramics weaves through the garden, incorporating intricate mosaic deta... - Designer: Denise Rice - Awards: Silver Award - Location: The NEC, Birmingham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/cc15fc8b-6f2f-4b50-a6e7-7e140b4ed9ef/conversions/PXL_20260617_154958654-preview.webp) - [The Association of Professional Landscapers (APL) Landscape and Design Clinic](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-association-of-professional-landscapers-apl-landscape-and-design-clinic) - BBC Gardeners' World Spring Fair 2026 - Description: Join us at the APL Landscape and Design Clinic at BBC Gardeners' World Live Flower Show for expert, personalised advice on transforming your outdoor space. You can meet professional designers and landscapers, discuss ideas, and get practical guidance tailored to your gardens—big or small. Whether you're planning a full redesign or simple improvements, the clinic offers inspiration and trusted expertise. It's also a great opportunity to learn more about the Association of Professional Landscapers... - Designer: Edward Maris - Location: Beaulieu, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/02c9bd4f-b5b0-4d36-a324-bbea4f78b5bb/conversions/PXL_20260503_150539690-preview.webp) - [The Association of Professional Landscapers Elevated Garden Living](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-association-of-professional-landscapers-elevated-garden-living) - BBC Gardeners' World Autum Fair 2026 - Description: This years collaboration of members will show the visitors that by splitting levels you cannot only create two defined areas, but at the same time give a feeling of space and enjoy different views of the garden. It aims to show what can be achieved by using the services of a professional designer and professional landscape contractors. However, this year we have also included in the collaboration two apprentices. Both currently studying landscaping at Merrist Wood College, we aim to provide them... - Location: Essex, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/6ebbc354-3893-492e-a64f-547d06bf54dd/conversions/APL-2-preview.webp) - [The Asthma and Lung UK Breathing Space Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-asthma-and-lung-uk-breathing-space-garden) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026 - Description: This tranquil woodland-edge garden reflects the voices of people living with lung conditions, offering a calm, supportive 'breathing space' in which to recover and reconnect with nature. Accessible paths, graded steps, and seated rest points lead to the heart of the garden, where two structural pine trees, known for their natural antioxidant and immune-boosting qualities, anchor a 'floating' platform. This sheltered space is designed for breath-supporting therapies such as yoga and tai chi. Runn... - Designer: Angus Thompson - Awards: Silver Medal - Sponsor: Project Giving Back - Location: London, United Kingdom - 360 tour: [interactive 360 tour](https://gardensdb.com/360-tours/2687182d-1408-4351-89ed-561117b32467) - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/060a23ed-e212-4379-b0e5-fbc1426e6499/conversions/87CEA9EA-4A1C-4D43-ACC6-0F6250C027CB_1_102_o-preview.webp) - [The Bat Conservation Trust's Nocturnal Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-bat-conservation-trusts-nocturnal-garden) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026 - Description: The Bat Conservation Trust's Nocturnal Garden demonstrates how easy it is to grow plants that support our 18 resident British bat species. These plants attract the small insects that bats feast on and are simple to grow in the UK. The garden reminds us that after we enjoy our gardens during the day, bats and other wildlife can benefit from our plant choices long after we've retired for the evening. A striking bat-like sculpture by UK artist Tach Pollard, graces the space, its curves and angles i... - Designer: Melanie Hick - Awards: Silver Medal, People's Choice Best All About Plants Garden - Sponsor: Project Giving Back, The Bat Conservation Trust - Location: London, United Kingdom - 360 tour: [interactive 360 tour](https://gardensdb.com/360-tours/c8c96c2e-fd71-4a75-95de-2c56eb11eed0) - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/29080444-837e-422d-b2d3-ccc97969c6ac/conversions/The-Bat-Conservation-Trusts-Nocturnal-Garden-2026-05-19-at-09.36.45-(3)-preview.webp) - [The Biophilic Blueprint](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-biophilic-blueprint) - RHS Malvern Spring Festival 2026 - Description: The Biophilic Blueprint is the next evolution of GrowTropical's 2024 RHS Urban Show exhibit, Happy Houseplants . While the original exhibit categorised plants purely by environmental needs, including sun, shade, and humidity, this updated concept, created for the Malvern Plants & People theme, maps these plant requirements onto human lifestyle and wellbeing zones. Instead of asking, Where will this plant survive? The Biophilic Blueprint asks, How does this plant support your life? It explores th... - Location: Malvern, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/2c80bf5b-8f80-4ce6-8643-257bbc1e5371/conversions/PXL_20260509_144100239-preview.webp) - [The Birdwatcher's Balcony Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-birdwatchers-balcony-garden) - Bord Bia Bloom 2026 - Description: Sponsored by RTÉ Radio 1 and Mooney Goes Wild , The Birdwatchers' Balcony is a story of intergenerational connections. It celebrates the bond between a teenage girl and her grandfather who share a love of birdwatching. In this high tech and high nature sanctuary, designer Barry Kavanagh combines the analogue joys of nature with the digital tools used by younger generations to monitor and protect wildlife. The planting scheme, which feels wild, yet managed, contains a selection of bird-friendly p... - Designer: Barry Kavanagh - Awards: Gold Medal - Location: Dublin, Ireland - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/f0662b28-54c0-4289-9980-1c776d2f56a4/conversions/the-birdwatchers-balcony-garden---2-preview.webp) - [The Blessings from the Sea](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-blessings-from-the-sea) - RHS Malvern Spring Festival 2026 - Description: The Blessings from the Sea presents the story of Chollipo Arboretum, Korea's first private arboretum, founded by Carl Ferris Miller, who transformed barren coastal land into a thriving botanical sanctuary. The garden offers a contemporary interpretation of this landscape through dune and coastal planting, a traditional doksal, and a sustainably built pavilion inspired by the Korean hanok . Together, these elements introduce a distinctive Korean landscape to British audiences and convey a powerfu... - Designer: Eun Kyung Jung, Heehyeok Kang, Jaeheon Kim - Awards: Best Construction Award (Show Garden), Silver Medal - Sponsor: Korea Arboreta and Gardens Institute, Stone Warehouse, London Stone - Location: Malvern, United Kingdom - 360 tour: [interactive 360 tour](https://gardensdb.com/360-tours/88af6ee4-1d42-45af-bc4b-9efe369884c2) - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/b31330ed-ba1d-4fbe-95d6-0b2d9c3bd919/conversions/PXL_20260509_131411872-preview.webp) - [The Boodles Garden (2026)](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-boodles-garden-2026) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026 - Description: Celebrating Historic Royal Palaces, The Boodles Garden design draws inspiration from iconic features found across four landmark sites. The garden layout echoes that of the Tower of London, with light-coloured limestone paving reflecting the stonework of the White Tower and architectural elements of Hampton Court Palace. At the heart of the garden, a continuous rill represents the Tower of London's historic moat. A central, asymmetrical pavilion, inspired by the decorative ceiling of the Picnic R... - Designer: Catherine MacDonald - Awards: Silver Gilt Medal - Sponsor: Boodles - Location: London, United Kingdom - 360 tour: [interactive 360 tour](https://gardensdb.com/360-tours/877248d8-f58a-4e29-aebd-496265b0c7ac) - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/4d0cb348-aef6-4171-b4eb-8ab121a90c62/conversions/The-Boodles-Garden-(2026)-2026-05-19-at-09.41.46-preview.webp) - [The Borrowed Border](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-borrowed-border) - RHS Malvern Spring Festival 2026 - Description: The Borrowed Border is a story‑led border inspired by the magical, hidden worlds of Mary Norton's The Borrowers . It captures the feeling of childhood, when a tiny patch of earth felt full of possibility. The space is designed for visitors to slow down, explore and enjoy moments of quiet connection. A companion bench sits within layered planting that creates a sense of shelter and intimacy. As you move through the border, the details reveal themselves gently, inviting curiosity and rewarding any... - Designer: Darcy Owen-Towe - Awards: Silver Medal - Location: Malvern, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/4f4c8d7d-4ae1-493a-a21c-1fa8b9a6c102/conversions/PXL_20260509_121515025-preview.webp) - [The Campaign to Protect Rural England Garden: 'On the Edge'](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-campaign-to-protect-rural-england-garden-on-the-edge) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026 - Description: The 'On the Edge' garden highlights the often-overlooked edgelands - countryside areas on the fringes of towns and cities. These spaces, though undervalued and threatened, are vital for connecting people with nature in daily life. Created in CPRE's centenary year, the garden symbolises hope and resilience on our doorstep, and that with with the right care, these fragile places can recover and thrive for future generations. Set on an imagined piece of undeveloped land on the urban fringe, key fea... - Designer: Sarah Eberle - Awards: Gold Medal, Best Show Garden - Sponsor: Project Giving Back - Location: London, United Kingdom - 360 tour: [interactive 360 tour](https://gardensdb.com/360-tours/ca23ae57-d21d-4b95-81f5-4fdb726fe054) - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/fe99759b-eaa3-42bd-868e-c240457b277f/conversions/The-Campaign-to-Protect-Rural-England-Garden---On-the-Edge-2026-05-19-at-09.32.32-(2)-preview.webp) - [The Chestnut Group garden for The Gurkha Welfare Trust](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-chestnut-group-garden-for-the-gurkha-welfare-trust) - RHS Sandringham Flower Show 2026 - Description: The garden is comprised of three areas. The planting in the woodland is made up of modern cultivars derived from genera found in the Himalayan region. For the rain garden, water captured from the pergola's roof travels down a rain chain, through a subterranean pipe into the concave rain garden. This planting is water-loving and tolerant of moist soils. The gravel garden area is slightly convex, with drought tolerant plants protected by a gravel mulch. Sustainable materials are used throughout, i... - Designer: Jane Scott Moncrieff - Awards: Silver Gilt Medal - Location: Sandringham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/db6a5841-8b02-419b-88d8-ca05d2b90005/conversions/PXL_20260722_133839227-preview.webp) - [The Children's Society Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-childrens-society-garden) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026 - Description: The Children's Society Garden is a nurturing sanctuary designed to offer teenagers a sense of safety, peace, and connection - a space to support emotional wellbeing in a world that can often feel overwhelming. Inspired by designer Patrick Clarke's mission to restore optimism and hope in young people, the garden reimagines an urban landscape shaped in collaboration with teenagers, ensuring their voices are central to its design. The features the concept of beauty in imperfection. The concept of p... - Designer: Patrick Clarke - Awards: Gold Medal - Sponsor: Project Giving Back, The Children's Society - Location: London, United Kingdom - 360 tour: [interactive 360 tour](https://gardensdb.com/360-tours/035c539e-312d-429b-b987-aaf798b686b9) - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/28d816c1-4ee5-49ed-9f1e-f4830d062df4/conversions/1000057854-preview.webp) - [The Composer's Cabin](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-composers-cabin) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026 - Description: The power of peatlands, horticulture and music shapes the concept behind The Composer's Cabin. Set within a landscape inspired by the wild moors of West Penwith and the lush, subtropical planting that flourishes in the softer, frost-free climate of this part of Cornwall. The designer mirrors leaf shapes and forms inside and out, dissolving the boundaries between houseplants like Monstera deliciosa and what thrives beyond the cabin walls, such as Tetrapanax papyrifer and Fatsia polycarpa . Inside... - Designer: Martha Krempel - Awards: Silver Medal - Sponsor: Malvern Garden Buildings - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/76cab2e7-2360-4fe9-a99f-dadcb6ab6203/conversions/The-Composers-Cabin-2026-05-19-at-09.48.23-(1)-preview.webp) - [The Connect Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-connect-garden) - Fukuoka Flower Show 2026 - Description: A garden that connects people and people with nature - Designer: Noriaki Konishi - Location: Fukuoka, Japan - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/5ff0876c-ad98-4d09-9d90-2f49f3066d68/conversions/gdn_b-preview.webp) - [The Conservatory](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-conservatory) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026 - Description: The profusion of plant life that is nurtured both indoors and out at Petersham Nurseries gives a multitude of signature motifs that lend themselves naturally to this Houseplant Studio. The elegant conservatory at Petersham House was foremost in the mind of the designer initially - a beautifully simple space populated by an established collection of plants, which enclose the visitor and give the impression of being cocooned by foliage. Tree ferns and Philodendron in the conservatory have been use... - Awards: Silver Medal - Sponsor: Malvern Garden Buildings - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/7f26b70d-0426-49cc-aaf5-2f8e3e0fd0ed/conversions/E2E8C485-67D3-42F9-9C04-9E8C5D1B5DAE-preview.webp) - [The Crafted Garden - designed for a changing climate](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-crafted-garden-designed-for-a-changing-climate) - RHS Malvern Spring Festival 2026 - Description: The Crafted Garden - designed for a changing climate is inspired by British woodland and its long recognised ability to offer calm, shelter, and restoration. Woodland spaces have an inherent therapeutic quality. Moving beneath trees encourages a slower pace, quiet reflection, and a sense of ease that can steady the mind and body. Designed in response to a changing climate, the garden explores how woodland landscapes can adapt to warmer temperatures, heavier rainfall, and longer periods of drough... - Designer: Jamie Dobinson - Awards: Bronze Medal - Location: Malvern, United Kingdom - 360 tour: [interactive 360 tour](https://gardensdb.com/360-tours/a75d58b6-93b4-4ad2-98ca-27f87c0679ad) - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/71b07656-77eb-4620-b81f-c15c72333c00/conversions/PXL_20260509_113406185-preview.webp) - [The Cricket Pavilion Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-cricket-pavilion-garden) - RHS Badminton Flower Show 2026 - Description: A traditional cricket pavilion façade sits behind a beautifully tended lawn, surrounded by colourful planting. The reference is to the cricket ground at Old Heathfield, a picturesque village in East Sussex where the designer lives. Here, Young at Heart regularly brings together older people and visiting schoolchildren through activities such as gardening, plant propagation and willow sculpture. As the venue is underused by athletes during the week, the space has become a valued community hub tha... - Designer: Stephen Moody - Awards: Gold Medal, Best Show Garden - Sponsor: Alitex Ltd, Frogheath Landscapes - Location: Badminton, United Kingdom - 360 tour: [interactive 360 tour](https://gardensdb.com/360-tours/fe33c51a-9660-49c2-bc4e-fb1e88f106a0) - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/6c3ddaed-504d-457a-b195-1a2309086e31/conversions/PXL_20260708_072156108-preview.webp) - [The Eden Project: Bring Me Sunshine Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-eden-project-bring-me-sunshine-garden) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026 - Description: The Eden Project: Bring Me Sunshine Garden is a celebration of regeneration, hope, and the transformative power of young adults to shape brighter, more positive futures. Inspired by the landscapes and culture of Morecambe Bay, the garden invites young people, especially those often overlooked, to explore practical skills, creativity, and pathways into the green industries. At its heart stands a pioneering solar-powered structure that serves as both shelter and classroom. Beneath its curved roof,... - Designer: Harry Holding, Alex Michaelis - Awards: Silver Gilt Medal - Sponsor: Project Giving Back, The Eden Trust - Location: London, United Kingdom - 360 tour: [interactive 360 tour](https://gardensdb.com/360-tours/3edf9441-2065-41c6-abd7-e549765d9c46) - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/2bca2634-7e3e-4507-9968-0671c8f51a41/conversions/7ED9569B-9850-4646-94D9-757D5D2F15E8_1_102_o-preview.webp) - [The Eel Catcher's Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-eel-catchers-garden) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2026 - Description: I grew up just outside Ely, a city named after the eels that once thrived in the marshy fens. My design is rooted in childhood memories among the wetlands, surrounded by reedbeds, sedges, and the folklore of eel catchers, who made their livelihood from the watery land. It reflects ecological succession, from the most water-loving plants to those that can cope with drier conditions, and the traditional eel-catching baskets provide structure and a glimpse into another time. The inclusion of the cr... - Designer: Nicola Stuart-Menteath - Awards: Gold Award - Location: The NEC, Birmingham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/61756dd6-f4c9-44a2-ad69-debc91a5dc62/conversions/PXL_20260617_162501495-preview.webp) - [The Evolution Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-evolution-garden) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2026 - Description: Professor Alice Roberts, the anatomist, biological anthropologist, author and broadcaster, and acclaimed international garden designer Professor David Stevens are creating the headline Show Garden at BBC Gardeners' World Live 2026. Alice will host live, daily conversations from the garden. Experts from Hillier, plant suppliers for the garden, will be sharing advice about the plants featured. The Evolution Garden was conceived by Alice Roberts and designed by David Stevens, and traces the evoluti... - Awards: Platinum Award, Best Show Garden - Location: The NEC, Birmingham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/27498dcc-01ac-4f80-98bd-bd40c7710326/conversions/PXL_20260617_183035387-preview.webp) - [The Folklorians Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-folklorians-garden) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2026 - Description: For hundreds of years, people across the UK and beyond have looked to plants for meaning, medicine and myth. Their leaves, flowers and roots carry tales of healing, protection, mystery and wonder. The Folklorians Garden gathers together these stories, some familiar, some long forgotten and gives them space to grow once more. In The Folklorians Garden, plants are more than their leaves, flowers and roots, they are storytellers. Some whisper of red dragons or green knights as they stand proud, sof... - Designer: Kate Patrick - Awards: Gold Award - Location: The NEC, Birmingham, United Kingdom - 360 tour: [interactive 360 tour](https://gardensdb.com/360-tours/f41d2c8b-8b51-4618-8681-adab41bf054d) - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/4d0194e4-4d40-4653-bbbe-c36d656a73d1/conversions/PXL_20260617_172451854-preview.webp) - [The Garden of Hope](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-garden-of-hope-1) - Royal Windsor Flower Show 2026 - Description: The garden is conceived as a restorative naturalistic space that honours the compassionate palliative care of Thames Hospice. Nestled among the planting, stands a very special elephant sculpture painted by British artist, illustrator and author Charlie Mackesy which will feature as part of the charities upcoming 'Trunks Across the Thames' art trail. The planting design draws inspiration from Mackesy's work, expressed through a muted palette of pastels—lilac, blush pink, sage and pale primrose -... - Sponsor: Thames Hospice - Location: London, United Kingdom - 360 tour: [interactive 360 tour](https://gardensdb.com/360-tours/a85b5d92-f6fa-4e5e-aacb-08e11c1f5d4c) - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/eb396ed2-df2c-4e3f-8da3-3bc694367d32/conversions/IMG_4049-preview.webp) - [The Girlguiding Journey](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-girlguiding-journey) - RHS Sandringham Flower Show 2026 - Description: This exciting garden is a living representation of the skill-building, personal growth and special connection to nature that young women experience as they progress through the Girlguiding family - the UK's largest youth organisation dedicated to girls. Visitors are taken on an educational journey through the life of a Girl Guide. A bee-friendly wildflower meadow symbolises the Bee Rescuers badge earned by the youngest members, the Rainbows. From there, the path leads to a planting workstation w... - Designer: Dominque Rudd - Location: Sandringham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/8e552b05-dd12-465f-8caf-3de87facd6a6/conversions/PXL_20260722_143018532-preview.webp) - [The Goldcrest Garden: Restoring Habitat, Repairing Climate](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-goldcrest-garden-restoring-habitat-repairing-climate) - RHS Sandringham Flower Show 2026 - Description: In 2050, temperatures in East Anglia could be as high as in Barcelona, but garden designers can help to create biodiversity-rich gardens in anticipation of a significantly warmer future. All plant species in this border have been selected for their resilience and durability, as well as their value to many much-loved animal species. The design centres on migratory goldcrests and the pine forests they inhabit. Mediterranean species such as Pinus pinea - better adapted to heat than many northern Eu... - Designer: Sam Outing - Awards: Silver Gilt Medal - Location: Sandringham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/8339a196-e82b-4b84-b520-47e8dc09312e/conversions/PXL_20260722_153136951-preview.webp) - [The Goodness Within Edible Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-goodness-within-edible-garden) - Royal Windsor Flower Show 2026 - Designer: Claire Evans - Sponsor: Freely Fruity, Meadowmania, The Prince Philip Trust Fund, KGK Genix, Hall Hunter Partnership, Urban Planting Scheme, Wildflower Co., Osmose Studio, Woven Wood, Project People, Keates Quarries - Location: London, United Kingdom - 360 tour: [interactive 360 tour](https://gardensdb.com/360-tours/a9140506-5958-4601-8810-b9b75792982e) - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/888448d4-bc3b-4655-b486-be232484dd6f/conversions/PXL_20260606_132000286.MP-preview.webp) - [The Growing Creativity Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-growing-creativity-garden) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2026 - Description: All elements of this border encourage story telling. The stepping stone entrances allow children and adults to come together from different parts of the garden and race off again following each child's own creative direction. To support this, uniform paving is interspersed with Delft style tiles depicting characters from stories children and adults will recognise. The bricks and quarry tiles carry the patina of the last century. They come from the same house in Nottingham and will be returned th... - Designer: Alex Purdon - Awards: Silver Merit Award - Location: The NEC, Birmingham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/b08ad623-0155-47ce-be55-d63a321dccc5/conversions/IMG_4420-preview.webp) - [The Habitat Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-habitat-garden) - RHS Sandringham Flower Show 2026 - Description: The Habitat Garden embraces current environmental and biodiversity challenges through an approach to garden creation that is both beautiful and beneficial. To reduce costs and maintenance needs, the space is planted as a naturalistic meadow that can be established from seed. A dynamic mix of native and non-native species, from Centaurea nigra to Oenothera biennis , creates a rich plant community that benefits wildlife, providing nectar for pollinators and food sources for insects and birds. A st... - Designer: Jonathan Mitchell, Katy Haywood Smith - Awards: Gold Medal - Location: Sandringham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/d128485e-402d-437f-af76-8d333a3f0dbf/conversions/PXL_20260722_154236679-preview.webp) - [The Healing Legend of Ethelbert](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-healing-legend-of-ethelbert) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2026 - Description: In the 18th Century a young king, Ethelbert, travelled to meet his future wife. But he was taken captive and murdered, and his body and severed head thrown into the river Lugg, before being removed for burial at Hereford. His burial site became a shrine, and tales of miraculous healing there were reported. One of these, Egwin Shakehead, badly afflicted with palsy, was so grateful for his healing that he donated his Lydbury Manor to the Bishops of Hereford who later built the town of Bishop's Cas... - Designer: Joe Mayho, Pippa Willcox, Emma Mayho - Awards: Gold Award - Location: The NEC, Birmingham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/e1cfe2a8-a545-485d-a3ab-5558ebe80237/conversions/PXL_20260617_162351259.MP-preview.webp) - [The Heart of the Jungle](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-heart-of-the-jungle) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2026 - Description: The Heart of the Jungle is a contemporary, foliage-led show garden that reimagines the modern urban garden as a place of escape, wellbeing and year-round enjoyment. The garden uses bold architectural structure, raised planting and hardy exotic species to create an immersive, transportive space that remains realistic for UK gardens. A heart-shaped pathway forms the organising spine of the garden, guiding visitors through layered planting beds rich in texture and form rather than seasonal colour.... - Designer: Jonathan Dakic, Briony Dakic - Awards: Silver Merit Award - Location: The NEC, Birmingham, United Kingdom - 360 tour: [interactive 360 tour](https://gardensdb.com/360-tours/04c73451-39bf-4809-887a-ebed27c31658) - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/5e63b437-4d10-4bc9-89a0-581f1d28d682/conversions/PXL_20260617_144944641-preview.webp) - [The Hillier Experience - A Neighbourhood of Gardens](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-hillier-experience-a-neighbourhood-of-gardens) - BBC Gardeners' World Spring Fair 2026 - Description: This garden is designed as a "neighbourhood" of four gardens arranged around a central set of doors, each opening into a different outdoor space. The concept highlights how modern gardens can reflect the way people live, putting people as well as plants at the heart of design. The Family Garden blends play and practicality, the Potted Garden showcases flexible container planting for busy or small-space gardeners, and the Cottage Garden provides a classic, wildlife-friendly retreat. The Urban Jun... - Sponsor: Hillier Garden Centres - Location: Beaulieu, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/d74983d9-34a5-407c-a9f0-6bdebfec88d1/conversions/PXL_20260503_105147533-preview.webp) - [The Julia Rausing Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-julia-rausing-garden) - RHS Badminton Flower Show 2026 - Description: This garden celebrates the life of Julia Rausing, a British philanthropist and devoted garden lover whose work supported a wide range of charitable causes across the UK. Julia sadly died in 2024, but in her lifetime she helped raise over £400 million for a multitude of projects, primarily focused on health, homelessness and youth initiatives. The generosity of her work and spirit is reflected in this design. Situated at the head of the lake, with views back towards Badminton House, this sanctuar... - Designer: Tom Stuart-Smith - Sponsor: The Julia Rausing Trust - Location: Badminton, United Kingdom - 360 tour: [interactive 360 tour](https://gardensdb.com/360-tours/f2abc1f0-9b7e-455d-a93d-46c3db8b8e3e) - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/b4218975-24d4-41cc-a26a-1bfc000e95f4/conversions/PXL_20260708_072649722-preview.webp) - [The Killik & Co 'A Seed in Time' Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-killik-co-a-seed-in-time-garden) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026 - Description: At the heart of this family garden is a central wetland surrounded by structures built with traditional straw bale and reed building techniques. Aligning with Killik & Co's investment ethos, the garden celebrates a disappearing craft from Britain's natural wetland heritage and responds to the challenges of a changing climate. The UK ranks among the world's most nature-depleted countries, with around 50% of its biodiversity remaining, compared to a global average of 75%. The garden aims to show h... - Designer: Baz Grainger - Awards: Gold Medal - Sponsor: Killik & Co - Location: London, United Kingdom - 360 tour: [interactive 360 tour](https://gardensdb.com/360-tours/a1728a33-3a1f-46e1-928b-61c44321c6bf) - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/25c9f795-6dfc-4a82-8be7-e85c5f29393f/conversions/2D2F2894-AC51-4E84-9F5B-7429ADFBDA37_1_102_o-preview.webp) - [The Master Gardener's Balcony](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-master-gardeners-balcony) - Bord Bia Bloom 2026 - Description: The Master Gardener's Balcony offers a blueprint for dedicated gardeners who live in apartments with balconies, demonstrating how abundant gardens can be created in small areas through clever planning and efficient use of space. By embracing vertical gardening and employing integrated seating and storage, this garden provides room for growing, working, and relaxing, while avoiding over-cluttering floor space. Building upwards with waist-high growing beds, a green wall panel, trellis, and two per... - Designer: Debbie Brophy - Awards: Silver Medal - Location: Dublin, Ireland - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/2890ec40-358c-4613-9eac-9fea2d41d900/conversions/the-master-gardeners-balcony---1-preview.webp) - [The Mill Ruins](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-mill-ruins) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2026 - Description: The Mill Ruins explores the quiet moment where industry gives way to nature. Inspired by the remnants of Lancashire's historic mills, reclaimed brick, Corten steel and weathered oak echo the fragments left behind as landscapes regenerate. Visitors enter through a sculptural Corten moon gate and follow a winding hoggin path around layered planting and a shallow reflective pool. A rain chain and oak water channel introduce movement and sound - a subtle nod to the water that once powered the mills.... - Designer: David G (3DG) - Awards: Silver Merit Award - Location: The NEC, Birmingham, United Kingdom - 360 tour: [interactive 360 tour](https://gardensdb.com/360-tours/65c835fd-2fb8-419e-a865-5ba0f6945174) - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/e6981088-c80b-433b-91df-44ea33a53428/conversions/PXL_20260617_170421557-preview.webp) - [The Minions & Monsters Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-minions-monsters-garden) - Bord Bia Bloom 2026 - Description: This vibrant and fun-filled installation from designer Benny Magennis introduces us to Irene, the vivid orange blob-like monster with a multitude of bulging eyes, who is set to ooze across cinema screens this July. Starring in 'Minions & Monsters,' the latest release in Illumination's animated Minions' franchise, Irene wreaks havoc when her gelatinous form is unleashed in Hollywood. In this blooming interpretation of the film, she looms large over a typical domestic garden, her voluminous body r... - Designer: Benny Magennis - Awards: Bronze Medal - Sponsor: Universal Pictures - Location: Dublin, Ireland - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/1b7702af-7259-4297-a794-377531bf02f0/conversions/the-minions-monsters-garden---1-preview.webp) - [The Norfolk Weave Border: Kind to Soil, Nature and Soul](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-norfolk-weave-border-kind-to-soil-nature-and-soul) - RHS Sandringham Flower Show 2026 - Description: A celebration of North Norfolk's traditional crafts and heritage, this nature-friendly design takes visitors on a journey from inland wildflower meadows and tangled hedgerows to windswept dunes. The border moves away from traditional flat surfaces. Instead, it incorporates mounded berms and shallow swales, which capture rainwater and filter it slowly to protect soil health during summer droughts or heavy downpours. Built using reclaimed red bricks, these features pay homage to the iconic decorat... - Designer: Kate Eaves, Katy Noon - Awards: Silver Gilt Medal - Location: Sandringham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/45695d13-3227-4e9c-ac51-db2c25939614/conversions/PXL_20260722_114618438-preview.webp) - [The Ophelia Survival Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-ophelia-survival-garden) - BBC Gardeners' World Autum Fair 2026 - Description: "The Ophelia Survival Garden" reimagines resilience in a changing climate. Drought-tolerant planting, flowing grasses and hidden irrigation evoke a lost river, while storytelling invites reflection on survival, memory and renewal within a fragile, evolving landscape. Once upon a time, a woman was driven to the water's edge. Now the water is gone. Ophelia was not simply lost to water: she was driven there by silence and constraint. This garden reimagines her in a climate-changed world, where wate... - Designer: Leanne Werner, Alexandra Freeman - Location: Essex, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/50fc08c2-d8ad-4bff-b68a-1c800e089873/conversions/final-3D-concept-preview.webp) - [The Permaculture First Aid Kit](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-permaculture-first-aid-kit) - Royal Windsor Flower Show 2026 - Description: The Permaculture First Aid Kit creates a community of plants that can be used to treat our minor ailments. These plants can also look after each other - some drawing nutrients from deep underground using tap roots, others fixing nitrogen from the air. The human contribution to this community chooses plants for pollinators, provides hydration and a snip here and there. We cannot separate the health benefits of sipping an infusion of thyme and honeysuckle from the quiet healing of tending to each... - Designer: Sarah Stiell - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/efd3e5a6-ac51-47f5-97ce-dcd103847800/conversions/PXL_20260606_164348917.MP-preview.webp) - [The Pioneering Spirit](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-pioneering-spirit) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2026 - Description: Every summer, a tent would be packed and camping kit prepared so as to discover the wild beauty of the countryside. From besides the River Frome, perched overlooking the Isle of Purbeck or enveloped in the ancient woodlands of the Sussex Weald, camping allowed me to forge a bond with nature; a love found in the beauty of plants as well as the practical skills needed to live alongside them. A camp would be made with fallen branches bound by natural cordage, rain water gathered from stretched canv... - Designer: Mark Selby - Awards: Platinum Award - Location: The NEC, Birmingham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/a7c37c40-8047-4bbd-8ca5-c343f723d3a7/conversions/PXL_20260617_172530335-preview.webp) - [The Plant Collector's Balcony](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-plant-collectors-balcony) - Bord Bia Bloom 2026 - Description: Evoking the atmosphere of a tranquil woodland, this densely vegetated balcony space features an abundance of shade-tolerant outdoor and indoor plants, grouped within their species and displayed in a series of shelves, mini greenhouses, planters, and on trellis and a pergola. A petite museum of planting, it gives visitors an opportunity to see how jungle- and woodland-style plants might grow and thrive in the wild. Here moss carpets the ground; lichens drape under branches; vines and epiphytes cl... - Designer: Tom Bradford - Awards: Silver Gilt Medal - Location: Dublin, Ireland - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/bf0a7cfd-6bb4-4fb1-8603-2bed97433c0a/conversions/the-plant-collectors-balcony---1-preview.webp) - [The Plant Heritage Missing Collector Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-plant-heritage-missing-collector-garden) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026 - Description: Plant Heritage's Missing Collections campaign inspired the concept of "The Missing Collector": a mysterious plant enthusiast who has left behind an extraordinary collection. Vignettes of jewel-toned plants nestled within lush green foliage offer visitors a rare glimpse of this treasured botanical archive. Here, intriguing cultivars of Thalictrum , Polypodium and Aspidistra await discovery alongside "missing" plants such as Verbascum , Deschampsia , and Aquilegia . Inspired by museum display case... - Designer: Will Murray, Kate Campbell, Sally-Anne Rees - Awards: Silver Gilt Medal - Sponsor: Project Giving Back - Location: London, United Kingdom - 360 tour: [interactive 360 tour](https://gardensdb.com/360-tours/51b51355-49d1-411d-84ef-66be4d817d3b) - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/2301c926-c1e8-4f1d-ac23-3ac1f4b0f229/conversions/The-Plant-Heritage-Missing-Collector-Garden-2026-05-19-at-09.37.47-(1)-preview.webp) - [The Plants With Purpose Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-plants-with-purpose-garden) - Royal Windsor Flower Show 2026 - Description: This year, for the first time, the central garden feature will be co-designed and built by HRH The Duchess of Edinburgh in collaboration with Alan Williams of Landform Consultants. The Plants With Purpose Garden will highlight the importance of healthy soil and an understanding of how food is grown, and will reflect The Duchess's love of gardening, and passion for encouraging people to grow plants with purpose. Her Royal Highness dedicates much of her time to championing opportunities for young... - Designer: Alan Williams - Location: London, United Kingdom - 360 tour: [interactive 360 tour](https://gardensdb.com/360-tours/c2509dd3-f44a-41e4-b924-3638197e8551) - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/28e0d049-1c4b-4605-9703-4979e07326a9/conversions/IMG_20260606_175655_00_797~2-preview.webp) - [The Power of Pink Plants](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-power-of-pink-plants) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2026 - Description: Think full pink garden, to showcase the power and impact pink plants can have. My goal with this garden is to inspire others to be bold and put a stamp on their garden, whatever their vision is. Pink for me is different, bold and often underused in the show world, I am here to change this and encourage people to love it as much as I do. All of the chosen pink plants will be easy to maintain, impactful and regularly found in gardens. My aim is to create something achievable and easy to replicate... - Designer: Samantha Stringer - Awards: Silver Award - Location: The NEC, Birmingham, United Kingdom - 360 tour: [interactive 360 tour](https://gardensdb.com/360-tours/60b27dc6-a77b-44b7-b888-3288d7676f88) - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/a992d488-6499-4489-bd53-221ee5e14ec9/conversions/PXL_20260617_154356674-preview.webp) - [The Project Giving Back Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-project-giving-back-garden) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026 - Description: Designed by celebrated garden designer James Basson of Provence-based Scape Design , the Project Giving Back Garden will offer a dramatic, other-wordly landscape, never before seen at RHS Chelsea. The garden celebrates the legacy of Project Giving Back's funding of more than 60 gardens inspired by good causes since 2022 and the enduring impact those gardens continue to have through relocation, reuse and community benefit. Towering red sandstone cliffs, coloured by natural ochre pigment and gentl... - Designer: James Basson - Sponsor: Project Giving Back - Location: London, United Kingdom - 360 tour: [interactive 360 tour](https://gardensdb.com/360-tours/e3f8413f-9cf4-4451-b5c1-984867f18065) - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/e5d75ef7-340f-4510-bc29-0431cf476f1d/conversions/The-Project-Giving-Back-Garden-2026-05-19-at-09.41.12-(2)-preview.webp) - [The Range Rover Cloister](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-range-rover-cloister) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026 - Description: Inspired by cloistered architecture, this contemporary sanctuary celebrates the debut of the Range Rover Electric. Sixteen Carpinus betulus (hornbeam) topiary columns, each three metres high, frame the square garden, creating a serene sense of enclosure that mirrors the interior experience of a Range Rover. The symmetrical arrangement of the columns aims to reflect the brand's attention to detail and geometric precision, while a bespoke stained timber backdrop evokes modern luxury in nature. A s... - Designer: Alexandra Noble - Location: London, United Kingdom - 360 tour: [interactive 360 tour](https://gardensdb.com/360-tours/44365b09-21be-41c6-9a9d-c34747aee293) - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/c0634e63-bfe4-4961-a3c3-e30cf2866c72/conversions/The-Range-Rover-Cloister-2026-05-19-at-11.19.16-(2)-preview.webp) - [The RHS and The King's Foundation Curious Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-rhs-and-the-kings-foundation-curious-garden) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026 - Description: The garden explores and celebrates the diverse nature of plants and all the ways they enrich our lives and our industries. The garden aims to spark curiosity and inspire a new generation of both gardeners, who grow for health, happiness and the environment, and to encourage people into careers working with plants, the environment and rural crafts. It celebrates the work and skills of trainees learning their crafts, from gardening to millinery and wood-work, and is a garden that evokes a sense of... - Designer: Frances Tophill - Sponsor: The RHS - Royal Horticultural Society - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/340a0b42-3d6e-414c-a0fa-e694ee23f054/conversions/FB6026ED-EECD-47D1-9BCB-F1A2E97AC7B5_1_102_o-preview.webp) - [The RHS Crafted from Nature Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-rhs-crafted-from-nature-garden) - RHS Sandringham Flower Show 2026 - Description: Visitors can expect an immersive, meadow-inspired space filled with rich textures, artisan features and wildlife-friendly planting, demonstrating how gardens can be both beautiful and ecological. Despite being based on traditional crafts, the design reinterprets these skills through a contemporary lens. Norfolk water reed, iconic to the Norfolk Broads and traditionally used as a roofing material, has been reimagined by local master thatcher Nick Walker, into a tactile wall. Stacked reed bundles... - Designer: Sam Stark Kemp, Laura Strand - Sponsor: The RHS - Royal Horticultural Society - Location: Sandringham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/89bd53c8-f5a5-4b8a-b152-32d38ea41d32/conversions/IMG_6425-preview.webp) - [The RHS Pollywiggle Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-rhs-pollywiggle-garden) - RHS Sandringham Flower Show 2026 - Description: Inspired by the local landscape and the need for more wetland areas in all UK gardens big and small, we aim to help garden owners make frogs and toads frequent and much-loved visitors. The garden space shows how domestic gardens can welcome amphibians without needing to appear untidy or overly wild. Lush planting surrounds a beautifully naturalistic pond, creating shelter and food for tadpoles, frogs and newts while maintaining an intentional, designed aesthetic. A thoughtfully crafted boardwalk... - Designer: Joe Carey, Laura Carey - Location: Sandringham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/a19c447a-892b-4941-92e8-33e70fe83888/conversions/PXL_20260722_101439059-preview.webp) - [The RHS Royal Legacy Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-rhs-royal-legacy-garden) - RHS Sandringham Flower Show 2026 - Description: Patron of the RHS, the King is a passionate and hands-on gardener, who has regenerated the grounds of royal palaces at Highgrove, Windsor and Sandringham. The Royal Legacy Garden will reflect this lifelong love of gardening with plant choices that reflect the preferences of the King and echo some of the many beautiful green spaces he has created. Taking inspiration from fractals and other regular repeating patterns found in nature, the garden includes sinuous paths leading visitors through the s... - Designer: Catherine MacDonald - Sponsor: The RHS - Royal Horticultural Society - Location: Sandringham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/47d09ee1-7d54-4e8f-8d6b-e3322531a927/conversions/IMG_6407-preview.webp) - [The Rhythm of Rainwater](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-rhythm-of-rainwater) - RHS Sandringham Flower Show 2026 - Description: Inspired by the musicality of rainfall, seven aluminium dipping tanks store harvested rainwater at the heart of the garden. Two are interlinked by a narrow rill, allowing water to move softly between them, while droplets falling onto steel tongue drums create organic music. Hydrophones within the tanks reveal the subtle sounds created beneath the surface. The Environment Agency warns that England could face a daily water shortfall of up to 5 billion litres by 2055. The garden explores how using... - Designer: Anthony Purdy - Awards: Gold Medal, Best Grow Forward Garden, Best Construction Award - Sponsor: The Dipping Tank Company - Location: Sandringham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/1f757ad7-6214-4357-bfea-5f0ef5c60a83/conversions/PXL_20260722_123023031-preview.webp) - [The Scholar's Jungle](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-scholars-jungle) - RHS Malvern Spring Festival 2026 - Description: Reimagine the traditional home office as a thriving indoor ecosystem. This curated 'Dark Academia' botanical showcase blends heritage design with maximalist greenery, pairing deep-toned foliage with the timeless charm of a rustic study. At the centre, a weathered wooden desk and leather chair act as grounding anchors for an immersive indoor jungle. Vertical layering creates a canopy effect, with trailing pothos and climbing philodendrons cascading from above, while architectural specimens like t... - Designer: Abbi Dixon - Awards: Gold Medal - Location: Malvern, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/423ecb33-a5ab-492c-bcda-9da1c9601184/conversions/PXL_20260509_103424011-preview.webp) - [The Science of Sustenance](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-science-of-sustenance) - RHS Malvern Spring Festival 2026 - Description: This immersive kitchen-laboratory garden explores the future of food growing in domestic spaces. A stainless-steel culinary workspace is surrounded by layered planting, lush trailing vines, living moss walls, micro-herbs, salad greens, and fruiting plants, all thriving under integrated LED grow lights. Suspended from a timber pergola-like frame, dramatic hanging gardens frame the view inward, evoking the spirit of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. At the heart of the space, a mature citrus tree ri... - Awards: Silver Gilt Medal - Location: Malvern, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/489aca4f-a7e5-4719-8e5a-fa9d2f4364e3/conversions/PXL_20260509_102433899-preview.webp) - [The Seasalt Painted Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-seasalt-painted-garden) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026 - Description: The garden draws inspiration from the mid-century modernist artists of the St Ives School, a renowned group that included Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson, Peter Lanyon, Patrick Heron, and Bernard Leach - figures whose influence endures to this day. The St Ives School artists broke from traditional realism, pioneering nature-based abstraction and turning a Cornish fishing village into a hub of modern art in the 1950s and 60s. This garden reimagines their bold creativity in a contemporary setting.... - Designer: Lynn James - Awards: Bronze Medal - Sponsor: Seasalt Cornwall - Location: London, United Kingdom - 360 tour: [interactive 360 tour](https://gardensdb.com/360-tours/c7eb9e47-1c94-461b-8248-d76dc56f72bf) - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/65f50348-9740-4519-932b-c3876b3c1e62/conversions/The-Seasalt-Painted-Garden-2026-05-19-at-09.50.00-preview.webp) - [The Sightsavers Garden: We Start With Sight But We Don’t Stop There](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-sightsavers-garden-we-start-with-sight-but-we-dont-stop-there) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026 - Description: A sensory sanctuary where thoughtful, innovative design invites us to experience how inclusion, accessibility and belonging benefit everyone. Inspired by Sightsavers' mission to protect sight, eliminate disease, and champion disability rights, this garden reimagines an intimate urban space as a richly layered haven alive with sound, scent, and texture. Simple materials, multi-sensory planting and a central turning circle designed for wheelchair users welcome all visitors, inviting them to slow d... - Designer: Peter Karn, Sarah Fisher, Janice Molyneux - Awards: Bronze Medal - Location: London, United Kingdom - 360 tour: [interactive 360 tour](https://gardensdb.com/360-tours/dc76334e-ebbd-4dfc-82b6-776bb7ca3774) - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/92c45512-b03d-4b83-b94d-15443e8bec6f/conversions/The-Sightsavers-Garden-2026-05-19-at-09.48.54-(1)-preview.webp) - [The Spirit of the Forest](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-spirit-of-the-forest) - Fukuoka Flower Show 2026 - Description: This garden is inspired by visits to Ashiu Forest in Kyoto and Meiji Jingu Shrine in Tokyo. In these places, trees and forests create a calm and peaceful atmosphere that soothes the soul. The garden's concept is to create a tranquil, forest-like space, offering visitors opportunities for contemplation and introspection, while also telling a story about the future of Japan's forests. In Japan, artificial forests of Japanese cedar and cypress were created in various parts of the country in the ear... - Designer: Dave Green - Location: Fukuoka, Japan - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/ce31fc57-7e51-4793-9a19-79535a56bc50/conversions/20260320_131351-2048x956-preview.webp) - [The Tate Britain Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-tate-britain-garden) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026 - Description: Inspired by East Asian woodlands and resilient, drought-tolerant species, the planting reflects Tate's sustainability commitments and uses long-lasting plants which increase biodiversity. A gently curving path made from garden stone reclaimed from the existing Tate Britain Garden leads to a circular seating area, crafted from repurposed materials. Surrounded by vibrant, biodiverse planting, the space invites conversation and connection, reimagining museum gardens as creative, social spaces. A tr... - Designer: Tom Stuart-Smith - Awards: Gold Medal - Sponsor: Project Giving Back - Location: London, United Kingdom - 360 tour: [interactive 360 tour](https://gardensdb.com/360-tours/4b164148-4293-4a4b-badb-3039983e3aa8) - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/f61cf67c-eae0-4b2a-905d-9bcf16e9ce94/conversions/9EE757E6-2A26-40DA-946A-60EB6EC8EF80_1_102_o-preview.webp) - [The Thomas Gainsborough Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-thomas-gainsborough-garden) - RHS Sandringham Flower Show 2026 - Description: The concept is inspired by the garden at Gainsborough's House and the artist's work. It is a living canvas of Gainsborough's cultural landscape. His paintings have informed the garden's naturalistic, romantic perimeters. His use of chiaroscuro (an Italian term which translates as light-dark) has been used to create visual layers. The artist's attention to fabric, texture and colour has influenced the planting colour palette. Garden features reference garden elements at Gainsborough's House. Lime... - Designer: Frederic Whyte - Awards: Silver Medal - Location: Sandringham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/2563ad67-4a6c-4fec-82e6-eda05e92ccea/conversions/12E77C6F-C0D8-44BA-9EB9-EC9A0C224D31_1_102_o-preview.webp) - [The Transient Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-transient-garden) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026 - Description: The Transient Garden demonstrates practical and achievable ideas for creating a relaxing balcony garden within a compact space. It showcases realistic methods of space saving that maximise both comfort and greenery. The theme centres on flexibility and adaptability, reflecting the increasingly temporary and mobile nature of modern living. All elements are modular, lightweight and designed to be moved by two people, allowing the layout to be easily reconfigured. Visitors can expect to see contain... - Designer: Rebecca Lloyd Jones - Awards: Silver Gilt Medal - Sponsor: Garden Club London - Location: London, United Kingdom - 360 tour: [interactive 360 tour](https://gardensdb.com/360-tours/ee668297-46ea-4fbf-adb3-7e1007f818e6) - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/2a6eed70-b275-4d25-95b0-1b8b559178c7/conversions/The-Transient-Garden-2026-05-19-at-09.53.32-(1)-preview.webp) - [The Trust Links Therapeutic Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-trust-links-therapeutic-garden) - RHS Sandringham Flower Show 2026 - Description: The garden imitates extremes of our evolving British climate with both a dry garden and a bog garden, this being the analogy for mental resilience in challenging times. It is a therapeutic garden utilising wildlife attraction and sensory elements in the landscaping and planting to stimulate responses. The garden is a place to interact; feel leaf and flower textures, pause to hear water and the buzz of bees, smell the fragrance and see the play of light. A boulder inscription is a quote by natura... - Designer: Phil Clarke - Awards: Silver Medal - Location: Sandringham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/3eeb23a9-0f9f-484a-bedd-3f4e3dc2421d/conversions/PXL_20260722_153356808-preview.webp) - [The Volunteer's Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-volunteers-garden) - BBC Gardeners' World Autum Fair 2026 - Description: This garden tells a story of care and human connection, inspired by the volunteers of Arthur Rank Hospice Charity, whose time and dedication sustain the hospice gardens. Supporting people living with life-limiting illnesses and those close to them, the hospice is reflected here through a prairie style border shaped by light, movement, and soft structure. A multi-stem birch casts dappled shade over flowing grasses, alongside late-season perennials. A curved path weaves through the planting, sugge... - Designer: Garima Chandra - Location: Essex, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/fe64198a-f728-45ff-907e-06dca96a3208/conversions/GarimaChandraGWAF26gallery-preview.webp) - [The Whittard of Chelsea Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-whittard-of-chelsea-garden) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026 - Description: Imagine a small London courtyard owned by a refined, maverick tea enthusiast. An eclectic mix of containers, each with a colourful patina, has been reclaimed and repurposed into charming planters. Together, they form a cosy seating area, enclosed by lush planting. Celebrating 140 years of the simple, peaceful pleasure of enjoying a Whittard of Chelsea unique tea blend, this garden transforms a small Chelsea courtyard into a tranquil retreat. Here, nature, tea and wonder come together to create t... - Designer: Ollie Pike - Awards: Gold Medal - Sponsor: Whittard of Chelsea - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/ce76f61a-7ea9-48c4-88a5-f0ceb6621697/conversions/The-Whittard-of-Chelsea-Garden-2026-05-19-at-09.52.48-preview.webp) - [The Winding Path: A Wellbeing Journey](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-winding-path-a-wellbeing-journey) - RHS Sandringham Flower Show 2026 - Description: The winding path, without a defined end or fixed destination, symbolises the ongoing and ever changing journey of mental wellbeing. The path includes woven archways, some placed unexpectedly, reflecting moments of uncertainty and disruption along this journey. They suggest goals that may feel out of reach and challenging, reinforcing the idea that improving one's wellbeing is personal, gradual and not always a straightforward journey. The pathway contains a sharp aggregate, that gradually transi... - Designer: Megan Chopp, Phoebe Hunt - Awards: Silver Medal - Location: Sandringham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/a363698d-a7d7-48f6-a91f-682d16bb4ce2/conversions/the-quiet-path-preview.webp) - [The Woodstock Homes Multiple Sclerosis Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-woodstock-homes-multiple-sclerosis-garden) - RHS Badminton Flower Show 2026 - Description: Drawing on one of the designers' own experience of living with Multiple Sclerosis, this space shows how a safe and tranquil environment can be achieved in a compact setting. An accessible seating area sits within a floral lawn of native wildflowers - a low-maintenance, climate-resilient alternative to traditional grass. The planting reflects the individuality of each diagnosis through varied forms of the same species, in a palette of soft purples and whites with touches of apricot and orange. Th... - Designer: Michael Leech, Gavin Moth - Awards: Silver Medal - Location: Badminton, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/5c1c0406-5c13-4c44-afcf-2649d8b95b9f/conversions/PXL_20260708_164104469-preview.webp) - [The Yin and Yang Pocket Planting](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-yin-and-yang-pocket-planting) - RHS Badminton Flower Show 2026 - Description: The ancient Chinese concept of Yin and Yang, characterised by two opposite yet complementary and interconnected forces, inspires this design. Split into two distinct halves, the garden reproduces the Taijitu symbol: one side is planted for sunny conditions and the other for shade, reflecting the environments people typically have in their gardens. A sinuous, wildlife-friendly native hedge separates the two areas, while topiary columns echo the opposing dots on each side. The planting is naturali... - Designer: Alexandra Gray - Awards: Silver Gilt Medal - Location: Badminton, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/1210c200-c086-4068-90fb-9b3ff1d6475d/conversions/PXL_20260708_073334515-preview.webp) - [This Terrarium May Contain Joy](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/this-terrarium-may-contain-joy) - RHS Badminton Flower Show 2026 - Description: Inspired by heliotropism and the joy that houseplants can bring to people, this terrarium will contain a rich display of interesting and contrasting foliage. Some plants will rotate slowly under grow lights to ensure even growth. The terrarium is aimed to encourage people to think about leaning in to the light in their life, just a like a plant. Turn towards the sun and find the joy in your world. - Designer: John Kitchin - Awards: Silver Gilt Medal - Location: Badminton, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/dc7dca31-8f45-4dbc-8f83-4ae45f8149bc/conversions/PXL_20260708_165023521.MP-preview.webp) - [Threads of Life](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/threads-of-life) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2026 - Description: 'Threads of Life celebrates five decades of lived experience, where planting, path and sculpture form chapters that are still being written. Inspired by a lifelong love of sewing and creativity, textiles provide both language and structure. Colour, texture and form are stitched through prairie drifts, needles, mirrors and fractured elements, echoing growth, loss, illness, repair, reflection, grief, survival and hope. The garden speaks of fragility, mending and resilience. This year, the project... - Designer: Jan O'Brien - Awards: Platinum Award - Location: The NEC, Birmingham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/5ff14b4d-7ecd-4e43-a65d-e500f00b0826/conversions/PXL_20260617_161933175.MP-preview.webp) - [Through a Child's eyes](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/through-a-childs-eyes) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2026 - Description: This design is inspired by my childhood memories of exploring and discovering the simple joys of being in a garden, moments that first connected me with nature. Returning to gardening as an adult, and building a garden from scratch with my son, rekindled that same sense of wonder and ultimately inspired my change in career. The design aims to show that you don't need a big budget to create something beautiful. With a little creativity, it's possible to build a garden that feels rich and welcomin... - Designer: Heather Carstens - Awards: Silver Award - Location: The NEC, Birmingham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/b4deabce-8383-4186-9f46-12aa8c7b624d/conversions/PXL_20260617_180315657-preview.webp) - [Time to heal](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/time-to-heal) - RHS Sandringham Flower Show 2026 - Description: Built in tribute to the designer's father and cousin, who both died of cancer, Time to heal is an informal interpretation of a physics garden. The space reflects her background as a doctor and features plants with year-round interest and recognised therapeutic properties, some of which are still used in modern medicine. The hope is to inspire others to create a wellbeing garden at home and foster a deeper appreciation of how the natural world continues to influence modern medicine. Betula utilis... - Designer: Sarah Fleming - Awards: Silver Gilt Medal - Location: Sandringham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/aea5f023-6688-4b06-a22c-da3ab5cfd8c6/conversions/PXL_20260722_155034837-preview.webp) - [TÎR : A Welsh Landscape](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/tir-a-welsh-landscape) - RHS Malvern Spring Festival 2026 - Description: TÎR (the Welsh word for land or landscape, pronounced 'T-EE-R') represents a fragment of Welsh waterways and forests, centred around a sculptural pond formed by boulders and moving water emerging from a waterfall. Carefully selected materials, integrated water elements, and layered planting combine to create a cohesive and immersive experience. The garden demonstrates how high-quality gardens can be both aspirational and achievable, showing how strong visual identity, practical construction, and... - Designer: Nick Anthony - Awards: Bronze Medal - Location: Malvern, United Kingdom - 360 tour: [interactive 360 tour](https://gardensdb.com/360-tours/3b50e724-28b6-4916-9145-dcaf1dc85abd) - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/40ec40e1-2090-4f7d-9c27-d8af0d2260fd/conversions/1CD2A5B8-7052-4752-803E-A506A4D4BE04_1_105_c-preview.webp) - [Tokonoma Garden - Sanumaya no Niwa (砂沼や の 庭)](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/tokonoma-garden-sanumaya-no-niwa) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026 - Description: The Tokonoma Garden - Sanumaya no Niwa, revives the tradition of viewing a beautiful landscape from the tokonoma, a raised alcove once central to Japanese family life. While visitors cannot enter the room itself, they will experience the tranquil view from outside, where stone, moss, water, and seasonal plants create a contemplative scene. The theme is harmony and connection, inspired by the designer's childhood memories of the Sanumaya drapery store, where his large family gathered. In the past... - Designer: Kazuyuki Ishihara - Awards: Silver Gilt Medal - Sponsor: Calmic Japan, HB-101, Glion Group - Location: London, United Kingdom - 360 tour: [interactive 360 tour](https://gardensdb.com/360-tours/ebf39665-9f50-4cc0-bd4f-c0c9b15dc631) - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/0900c1a1-2c10-40d1-a35a-ac3e3431db05/conversions/IMG_2504-preview.webp) - [Tough as Old Boots Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/tough-as-old-boots-garden) - RHS Sandringham Flower Show 2026 - Description: As climate unpredictability increases, plant choices become more important and exciting than ever. Based on a study tour the designers undertook in 2024, this raised bed aims to surprise people about what can grow in an urban setting. Bright purples and yellows with contrasting leaf forms and varied heights create visual interest. All plants draw inspiration from Mediterranean and dry steppe climates, from the elegant tree Heptacodium miconioides to the structural umbellifers of Angelica sylvest... - Designer: Zac Willitts, James Horne - Awards: Gold Medal, Best Long Border - Location: Sandringham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/9db70452-a64d-4957-b9c5-03c76ac72eda/conversions/PXL_20260722_154801720.MP-preview.webp) - [Trains in the Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/trains-in-the-garden) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2026 - Description: Once upon a time, there was a little schoolboy called Andrew who loved nothing more than to climb the fence at the end of his grandparent's garden and watch the trains go by. This is my story of how I fell in love with steam engines and climbed the ladder to become an Engine Driver. Watching steam engines tackle the Lickey Incline behind my grandparents' garden and playing with model railways my father built for me. I started volunteering with the Severn Valley Railway when I was young, and hand... - Designer: Andrew Christie - Awards: Gold Award - Location: The NEC, Birmingham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/7e61468b-b303-421e-b602-a08981636f6b/conversions/PXL_20260617_175654281-preview.webp) - [Trussell's Together Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/trussells-together-garden) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026 - Description: This garden is inspired by the way food banks, and the communities that support them, come together to help those on the lowest incomes. It's a powerful reminder that when each of us plays our part, we can end hunger together. The theme of togetherness is woven throughout the garden's design: intersecting paths, a shared seating area, and a reciprocal frame structure made from individual timbers interlaced for strength and stability. These elements represent how communities can hold each other u... - Designer: Rob Hardy - Awards: Gold Medal, People's Choice Best Small Show Garden - Sponsor: Project Giving Back - Location: London, United Kingdom - 360 tour: [interactive 360 tour](https://gardensdb.com/360-tours/76e20af9-e977-4de8-abf4-41d765b5f574) - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/b9e98876-253f-486d-b361-25e678ac9895/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Umbrellas](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/umbrellas) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2026 - Description: The garden 'Umbrellas' takes inspiration from the cult French film 'The Umbrellas of Cherbourg' which featured an ebullient colour design, an all sung narrative and a bitter sweet love story. The garden features two garden rooms, two entrance arches and canopies of strung umbrellas. Bradstone products are used to provide cobble effect paths and faux wood flooring in the rooms. Ready hedge product will bound the side and back of the garden. The bold colour scheme in the hard landscaping mimics th... - Designer: Dave Hodson - Awards: Silver Merit Award - Location: The NEC, Birmingham, United Kingdom - 360 tour: [interactive 360 tour](https://gardensdb.com/360-tours/f6c3f9df-b919-4fae-a096-fbc8387d5286) - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/97adff74-3869-48e1-8b7b-5dc087e6739f/conversions/IMG_4571-preview.webp) - [Understoreys](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/understoreys) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026 - Description: Drawing on the Greek myth of Persephone - the queen of the underworld and the goddess of spring - Understoreys unfolds around the All About Plants gardens, threading between them and intensifying the experience of each. A savannah-like structure of small trees, low shrubs and geophytes, set on subtle earth mounds, bridges the gardens and carries visitors through this triangular space. Dark burgundy and purple tones, with occasional flashes of red, are set against pale flowering and silvery folia... - Designer: Jacopo Ducato Ruggeri - Sponsor: Range Rover - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/a5462e85-5978-424d-b0b1-989ff0221dca/conversions/DF989081-56F2-4CEA-AD96-68E212BD332A_1_102_o-preview.webp) - [University of Sheffield: The Invisible Balance Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/university-of-sheffield-the-invisible-balance-garden) - RHS Badminton Flower Show 2026 - Description: This urban gravel garden celebrates the strength and resilience of those living with hidden disabilities and developmental disorders that require balancing day-to-day energy levels. A wheelchair-accessible seating area is enveloped by structural planting, offering an escape from everyday sensory stressors. As an autistic individual living with a form of dysautonomia called postural hypotension, the designer wants to challenge visitors to think more inclusively and sustainably when creating their... - Designer: Enya Jacobson - Awards: Silver Medal - Location: Badminton, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/365907a5-9aae-4730-b9f9-80f0273567bf/conversions/PXL_20260708_162103055-preview.webp) - [Urban Planters: A Pocket for Amphibians](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/urban-planters-a-pocket-for-amphibians) - RHS Badminton Flower Show 2026 - Description: Inspired by the designer's passion for wildlife, Urban Planters: A Pocket for Amphibians focuses on protecting amphibian life cycles. It responds to the dramatic loss of freshwater ponds across the UK and offers take-home ideas for habitat creation, food sources, breeding areas and hibernation spots. The central feature is a wildlife pond, where Iris laevigata provides shelter from predators and safe routes between water and land. Adjacent to it, a bog garden is filled with moisture-loving plant... - Designer: Charlotte Connelly - Awards: Silver Gilt Medal - Location: Badminton, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/bf2c8265-e589-492f-a136-8a132d0f21d4/conversions/PXL_20260708_163618598-preview.webp) - [Vision Norfolk: The Vision In Bloom Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/vision-norfolk-the-vision-in-bloom-garden) - RHS Sandringham Flower Show 2026 - Description: This joyful cube aims to raise awareness of sight loss and demonstrate how people living with visual impairment can find enjoyment and fulfilment through gardens. The asymmetrical yet balanced design reflects the imperfect beauty of the human face, while its shapes and colours mimic the microscopic anatomy of the human eye. To ensure everyone can appreciate the space, all the senses are engaged. The planting scheme offers interesting textures, strong scents and movement that creates sound, while... - Location: Sandringham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/eae7429a-6d1d-4a5c-a689-4845d00bd0cc/conversions/PXL_20260722_174714126-preview.webp) - [Where Did Your Love of Nature Begin?](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/where-did-your-love-of-nature-begin) - BBC Gardeners' World Autum Fair 2026 - Description: Inspired by childhood storybooks and the ancient woodland of Audley End, this border celebrates the wonder of discovering nature through curious eyes. Centred on a tree stump, it invites visitors to pause with a book on the blanket. Nearby, a reclaimed sink becomes a wildlife pond and a log pile provides habitat for small creatures. Layered woodland-inspired planting offers autumn colour, berries, flowers and evergreen structure, encouraging people of all ages to notice the beauty of stems, inse... - Designer: Belinda Buckley - Location: Essex, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/d5ab6280-04b2-4dbf-906c-fa8f6a793ce0/conversions/Gardens-Module-Gallery-Image-preview.webp) - [Where Nature Navigates](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/where-nature-navigates) - RHS Badminton Flower Show 2026 - Description: More than just a route, a canal is a corridor of connection between industrialised towns and waterside habitats. This thriving ecosystem is represented here through a towpath inspired by the Huddersfield Narrow Canal, a 20-mile waterway in northern England. Using self-seeded plants salvaged from both the designer's and sponsor's properties, the garden demonstrates that a landscape doesn't need to be manicured to be magnificent. Instead, it celebrates the low-maintenance, wilder verges of Digital... - Designer: Alison Johnston - Awards: Gold Medal - Location: Badminton, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/c6affb34-5bac-4f2a-a47f-68286c2cca69/conversions/PXL_20260708_073118512.MP-preview.webp) - [Where Trust Takes Root](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/where-trust-takes-root) - Bord Bia Bloom 2026 - Description: Sponsored by Marks & Spencer, this garden explores the relationship between food, craft and trust within the Irish landscape. Here edible and ornamental planting are woven together to celebrate seasonality, provenance and the beauty of productive landscapes. A raised platform provides a space to gather, share food and dine, forming the social focus of the garden. A timber structure rises through and supports this space, representing the role of farming in holding everything together. It reflects... - Designer: Scott D. Renwick - Awards: Silver Medal - Sponsor: M&S - Location: Dublin, Ireland - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/b00f2b36-0091-4a83-b725-7f859f8745ab/conversions/where-trust-takes-root---4-preview.webp) - [Wild, Old and Cultivated](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/wild-old-and-cultivated) - Royal Windsor Flower Show 2026 - Description: This design seeks to playfully integrate the wild, old and cultivated, with food and habitat for all sorts. Anchored with 'standing deadwood', this is a nod to ancient habitats - living and being reworked - on the margins and midsts of fields, often reflecting bygone woodlands. It features a backbone of native wildflowers, once often seen in fallow fields or around the edges of crops such as barley - a marker human interaction. Not too neat, it leans towards non-hybridised, old fashioned edible... - Designer: Peter Gadsdon - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/ee607f1e-d9c6-4860-a5cc-59aa7d0ca4ae/conversions/PXL_20260606_164304085.MP-preview.webp) - [Women on the Land: Celebrating the Year of the Woman Farmer](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/women-on-the-land-celebrating-the-year-of-the-woman-farmer) - RHS Sandringham Flower Show 2026 - Description: From the Women's Land Army to today's female growers, stock keepers, horticulturists and agricultural leaders, women have shaped the past, present and future of British farming. Their stories are brought to life in this celebratory garden, starting with the profound impact of the thousands of Land Girls who lived, trained and worked on the Sandringham Estate during wartime. The design creates a circular journey that guides visitors through four interconnected areas: a cut-flower garden, a vegeta... - Location: Sandringham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/3f0cb522-6ffc-43d0-bd65-7539f2ee2f5a/conversions/PXL_20260722_174653612.MP-preview.webp) - [Woodland Trust: Forgotten Forests Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/woodland-trust-forgotten-forests-garden) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026 - Description: Visitors will journey through the transformation of a damaged ancient woodland, from a dark, uniform conifer forest into a vibrant, thriving habitat bursting with life, colour and beauty. Along the way, they'll discover how the Trust carefully opens up these landscapes, letting in the light that awakens the dormant seed bank beneath the soil, allowing ancient species to flourish once more. The design features a striking transition zone where regimented conifers gradually give way to a more diver... - Designer: Ashleigh Aylett - Awards: Gold Medal, Best All About Plants Garden - Sponsor: Woodland Trust, Project Giving Back - Location: London, United Kingdom - 360 tour: [interactive 360 tour](https://gardensdb.com/360-tours/3505ba0d-3d63-4954-8b62-1af675bd7cc0) - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/c875758c-2a59-4f9a-872c-d327eb4840b4/conversions/IMG_2266-preview.webp) - [YoungMinds Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/youngminds-garden) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026 - Description: Plant diversity throughout the garden mirrors the range of experiences young people bring to the space. Characterful weeping conifers create a dappled canopy, beneath which a rich planting palette thrives. Stepping pads, crafted from waste stone, form a pathway leading young gardeners to the heart of the garden. Yellow-flowered plants, symbols of light and hope, have naturalised in the cracks of weathered boulders. A habitat wall, built from stone offcuts, frames the garden, offering a sense of... - Designer: Charlie Chase - Awards: Silver Gilt Medal - Sponsor: Project Giving Back, Young Minds - Location: London, United Kingdom - 360 tour: [interactive 360 tour](https://gardensdb.com/360-tours/c8fb4e23-c722-4d37-9a68-d5f4284fe8b3) - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/ab3b79fe-9ccd-46e6-a328-a15e171df620/conversions/YoungMinds-Garden-2026-05-19-at-09.36.05-(3)-preview.webp) - [15 Minute City Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/15-minute-city-garden) - RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival 2025 - Description: The 15 Minute City Garden is based on an urban planning model that aims to move towards a climate friendly solution where neighbourhoods have the necessities of modern life, including access to green space, jobs and essential services to be available within a 15 minute walk or cycle from home. A graceful and relaxing space, the planting uses a broad mixture of textures. A short gravel pathway leads to a small seating area set beneath one of the specimen trees. A place for momentary quiet and ref... - Designer: Angela Barker-Lewis - Awards: Silver Medal - Sponsor: UK Bamboo Supplies, Annie Sloan - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/b7c9ed45-9e8b-4ab0-9784-2c4f935c30bc/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [2050](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/2050) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2025 - Description: The Watershed Garden offers a glimpse into the corner of a not-so-distant future of a family garden. The garden is set in a future where water resources are limited, showcasing resilient planting and adaptive design elements. At its heart is an outdoor home cinema set-up, with a projector casting lush, water-rich planting onto the wall of a shed. The David Attenborough style video is paired with the sound of trickling water from speakers nestled in the planting. This transports visitors to a tim... - Designer: Vivien Moseley - Awards: Platinum Award - Location: Birmingham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/836a2f7e-75c3-4b95-81b3-73c8f0b7b9a4/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [A British Rainforest](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/a-british-rainforest) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2025 - Description: Temperate rainforests are globally important habitats found in mild climates with particularly high rainfall and humidity. Rarer even than their tropical counterparts, they are rich in biodiversity, supporting populations of epiphytic ferns, mosses and liverworts. While remnants of rainforest survive in western Britain, they are threatened by deforestation and overgrazing. My border encapsulates a regenerating rainforest, underplanted with native British flora, with the aim of raising awareness... - Designer: Chris North - Awards: Platinum Award - Location: Birmingham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/4a82ae92-49f2-4963-ac88-cc7489225c31/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [A Garden of Two Tales](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/a-garden-of-two-tales) - RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival 2025 - Description: The Garden of Two Tales is designed to inspire wonder and inquisitiveness. It represents the natural curiosity of mankind, with the design intended to be an inviting space that will drive visitors to stop, engage in their surroundings and ask questions. The garden will inspire its visitors to take a moment to reflect on what they see before them. The key feature of The Garden of Two Tales is the transition across the water feature, taking you into a secluded gathering area where you can reflect... - Designer: Daniel March, Hallie Abbott Trangmar - Awards: Gold Medal - Sponsor: Arbour Landscape Solutions, Suns Lifestyle, Livingreen Design - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/187f1977-0be0-43b5-8656-9030acde6106/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [A Potted History: Echoes of Rockingham](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/a-potted-history-echoes-of-rockingham) - RHS Flower Show Wentworth Woodhouse 2025 - Description: In this garden, the past is not remembered, it is lived. Inspired by the exquisite craftsmanship of Rockingham Pottery, A Potted History invites visitors into a living gallery, where the delicate brushstrokes of history unfurl through petals, stone, and porcelain. Winding pathways weave through vibrant planting that echoes the intricate motifs once hand-painted onto the fine Rockingham Pottery. Soft Crataegus blooms, woven textures of herbaceous colour, and the gentle sweep of Yorkshire hedgerow... - Designer: Sam Dryell - Awards: Silver Gilt Medal - Sponsor: Barista Bar, Children's Capital of Culture, Ashlar Stone Products - Location: Rotherham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/0231acc3-ef9f-40a3-b78b-40e7630499bc/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [A Reflection of Nature](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/a-reflection-of-nature) - RHS Malvern Spring Festival 2025 - Description: The garden displays a reflection between an outdoor tropical space and indoor living area, where the various growth habits of plants are mirrored. Epiphytic plants which grow on trees outside, are mounted on cork and bogwood branches inside. Aquatic plants in low lying water are in an aquarium and terrestrials are potted in unique ways. The indoor space closely reflects the layout of the outdoor world, taking inspiration from nature and understanding the needs of different plants and reflecting... - Awards: Gold Medal, Best Indoor Plant Garden - Location: Malvern, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/7f173c16-55cf-4d3e-81e9-1ef83315b26c/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [A Space to Read Balcony Garden sponsored by Viking](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/a-space-to-read-balcony-garden-sponsored-by-viking) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025 - Description: A Space to Read Balcony Garden sponsored by Viking is an external reading room for passionate gardeners to take a seat for a little while to read or tend to their collection of much-loved plants. The design aims to evoke the feeling of an intimate and tranquil sanctuary, a space to get lost among plants while reading. Simple materials combine with a verdant and harmonious planting scheme. The brick design on the back wall is reminiscent of a library, with a bookshelf created from a timber inlay.... - Designer: Freddie Strickland, Ben Gifford - Awards: Silver Gilt Medal - Sponsor: Viking - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/352a9c9f-8aeb-4be4-9b03-4864d425a789/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [A Taoist Vision](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/a-taoist-vision) - RHS Flower Show Wentworth Woodhouse 2025 - Description: The border's theme, inspired by Taoist values, celebrates the dynamic balance between yin and yang. Recycled logs mark the transition between the natural yin area - characterised by tall, flowing evergreen grasses - and the more controlled yang area, with vibrant with blue and purple flowering plants. Native wildflowers sown at the edges hint at an undefined space awaiting the future. The design is a response to gardening for the future in a changing climate and gently blurs the boundaries betwe... - Designer: Bowen Hsu - Awards: Silver Medal - Location: Rotherham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/0df957df-0e4b-446f-9970-85eba0356a89/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [A Time for Peace](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/a-time-for-peace) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2025 - Description: This border design seeks to foster self-connection through self-reflection and calm. The planting and water feature have been selected to promote a tranquil setting where one can reflect and enjoy a moment of peace. The planting scheme is inspired by a mediterranean meadow, with focal points that revolve around two varieties of Iris germanica, which have been chosen for their structural beauty and scent. The surrounding perennials add movement and lightness, and are pollinator friendly to suppor... - Designer: Rachael Deterville - Awards: Bronze Award - Location: Birmingham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/4eeb44eb-36e6-468a-a07d-f108e4763038/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [A Woodland Edge](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/a-woodland-edge) - RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival 2025 - Description: The garden is inspired by one of the richest and most diverse environments in nature - the edges of woodlands. The design is mostly made from wood-based materials and aims to inspire creativity, encourage a connection with the trees, and curiosity for the outdoors. Handcrafted branch features will be made using more than twenty species of trees, shrubs and some dry flowers, all carefully collected from woodlands and gardens. The main feature is the boundary itself, including a large woven wall,... - Designer: Nico Navarro - Awards: Silver Gilt Medal, Best Construction Award - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/4535a399-ac41-4459-8785-e35fa68a8dfb/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [After the end](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/after-the-end) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2025 - Description: After the End explores the connections between the end and the beginning of life. In this garden, death is represented by a spiral of logs, made from dead wood. As the wood rots down, it gives nutrients to the organisms and creatures living in the soil. From this decay springs forth a new garden. The spiral shape has been chosen because it occurs throughout nature – from whirlwinds to snail shells, and it has also been associated with rebirth by cultures around the world. - Designer: Alex Valk - Awards: Gold Award - Location: Birmingham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/374afa26-fe1e-4e5c-8625-2f3dc1f67980/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [AKT London Trade Stand](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/akt-london-trade-stand) - RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival 2025 - Description: Creating theatre in a show garden is very important to me as a designer as visitors to my spaces should be able to fully Immerse themselves in the world and feel like the main character! So it made complete sense to me to make the 'Hay Fever' garden a film set, where the actors have just wrapped on the campaign trailer. To bring this concept to life, I've chosen to blur the lines between what is set and what is real life with areas of the garden being styled with crew equipment. The decision is... - Designer: James Whiting - Sponsor: AKT London - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/2f6f158b-12da-4b5d-94be-f057745eff5f/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Alitex Trade Stand - Chelsea 2025](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/alitex-trade-stand-chelsea-2025) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025 - Description: This year, we’re bringing the charm of a storybook English cottage garden to life, complete with a showstopping Victorian lean-to greenhouse. Designed to celebrate the nostalgia of British summer, our stand will be brimming with plants grown at Alitex HQ and by the expert growers at Form Plants. - Sponsor: Alitex Ltd - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/108e85df-2d9c-450b-ae99-de80dbf46450/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Apple Core Values](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/apple-core-values) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2025 - Description: My space explores how neighbours can create mini orchards in small gardens. By working together, different varieties of apple can be planted for everyone to enjoy, whilst still retaining each garden's individual identity. Pollinators connect the gardens, enabling the different varieties to blossom. Human connections are created from the initial planning - such as choosing the different apple varieties for the gardens through to the exchange of apple recipes and the sharing of a glass of homemade... - Designer: Isabel Sabine - Awards: Platinum Award - Location: Birmingham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/ac404e64-3a66-49f6-8cdb-09f6747566dd/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Aster of Senses](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/aster-of-senses) - RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival 2025 - Description: In July 2019, London became the world's first National Park City, aiming for people, places and nature to be better connected. The climate and biodiversity crises are significantly driven by people's disconnection from nature, especially in cities. This garden has been conceived and realised by London National Park City Rangers from across the capital. This varied and multi-talented group represent the diversity and talent of Londoners and epitomises a latent desire to start prototyping and enac... - Designer: Yoni Carnice - Awards: Bronze Medal - Sponsor: Froglife - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/34cdc8b5-35dc-4c1f-93b0-bfc629c177be/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Babylon Beats](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/babylon-beats) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025 - Description: Babylon Beats designed by James Whiting of Plants by There and The Little Botanical reimagines the Hanging Gardens of Babylon through a 1980s lens, exploring multi-dimensional planting with houseplants displayed on every level of the space. The studio flat is transformed into a shrine to houseplants and the elements, using light, sound, scent and texture to create a truly immersive experience. Visitors are invited to take a houseplant pilgrimage and will be transported to another realm. A large... - Designer: James Whiting - Awards: Gold Medal, Best Houseplant Studio - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/7eff682a-ec65-453a-92ce-7538176bd9c6/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Before the Concrete Sets](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/before-the-concrete-sets) - RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival 2025 - Description: Inspired by the designers' hometown of Didcot, where rapid urbanisation threatens to erase the soul of the place, the garden asks a bold question: why wait until a town has become a city, to reclaim green space? Cities around the world are now playing catch-up, racing to restore nature where it has long been erased. But what if, as our towns grow, green infrastructure grows with them, not as an afterthought, but before the concrete sets? The garden will feature materials often left over at the e... - Designer: Nathan Humphreys, Helen Haley - Awards: Silver Medal - Sponsor: Surrounding Counties - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/f7dd6002-3d1c-4e36-a4f9-f3c97504e308/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Beneath the Canopy](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/beneath-the-canopy) - RHS Malvern Spring Festival 2025 - Description: The garden takes a whimsical journey through a slice of the Amazon Rainforest. Learn how these plants thrive in the wild and meet the wondrous creatures with which they share this richly diverse but highly threatened part of our planet and their integral links to each other and our ecosystem. Oversized, abstract wildlife illustrations of rainforest creatures feature through the garden representing the essential roles their real-life counterparts play in maintaining ecological balance. Through un... - Awards: Silver Gilt Medal - Location: Malvern, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/e319a5b5-0cbd-4640-a398-5b1ff5281fb6/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Biosis: Mode of Life](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/biosis-mode-of-life) - RHS Malvern Spring Festival 2025 - Description: In Mirabel Osler’s book A Gentle Plea for Chaos, she calls for a less regimental, more relaxed approach to gardening. Biosis: Mode of Life displays a conscious blurring between the wild and tamed and shows how innovative design is used to garden gently and embrace the wider community that we share our gardens with, echoing Osler’s ‘gentle plea for chaos’. This is a rural, water-wise garden, circulating captured rainwater from the green roof of a bee wing inspired pergola and filtering through a... - Awards: Gold Medal, Best Show Garden, Best Construction Award, RHS Environmental Innovation Award - Location: Malvern, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/e30de33c-fb71-4d3d-bcef-bbe59a0c10f4/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Blue Forest Trade Stand - The Sanctuary](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/blue-forest-trade-stand-the-sanctuary) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025 - Description: The Sanctuary - a tranquil treehouse retreat designed to embody simplicity, harmony, and natural beauty. Nestled within a serene garden designed by HollandGreen, this space is a celebration of refined craftsmanship and thoughtful design. A place to pause. A moment to reconnect. A sanctuary within the show. - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/c8fa4ae9-2d73-4eea-9de8-b157202c0ca0/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Boodles Raindance Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/boodles-raindance-garden) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025 - Description: The Boodles Raindance Garden commemorates the 25th anniversary of the ‘Raindance’ jewellery collection. Inspired by the impact of water on stone, the garden reflects the style and motifs of the jewellery. Against the backdrop of lush green ferns, beautiful flowers such as Astrantia ‘Shaggy’ and Paeonia ‘Noémie Demay’ stand out like gemstones. The garden’s colour palette harmonises with the platinum-coloured steel of the water features and the zinc roof of the custom-designed pavilion. Seating ar... - Designer: Catherine MacDonald - Awards: Gold Medal - Sponsor: Boodles - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/60f1064c-a6a1-48b9-94f8-7afbe69768a7/conversions/3-preview.webp) - [Buglife: Habitat Mosaic](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/buglife-habitat-mosaic) - RHS Flower Show Wentworth Woodhouse 2025 - Description: Habitat Mosaic is a Long Border designed to showcase the often-overlooked but incredibly beneficial ecological principles found in brownfield environments - spaces typically dismissed, yet rich in biodiversity. These sites naturally develop what's known as open mosaic habitats - a patchwork of textures, materials, planting, and conditions. From sun-warmed rubble and areas of bare ground perfect for nesting invertebrates, to shaded pockets beneath tree canopies, weathered industrial remnants, and... - Designer: Sebastian Stall - Awards: Gold Medal - Sponsor: Buglife - Location: Rotherham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/0b4cd3b5-4bb8-4aba-b2fa-12e20fa5f697/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Bull & Stein Trade Stand](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/bull-stein-trade-stand) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025 - Designer: Dan Hartley - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/13d7b0bf-d96e-40a4-9a3c-c4328617eb9d/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [C6](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/c6) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025 - Description: C6 is all about carbon sequestration, water recycling and being wildlife friendly whilst creating a calming sophisticated space. C6 (carbon has the chemical symbol C and atomic number 6) sequesters 1200kg+ carbon as well as slowing down and storing 450L rainwater. The garden promotes three ways to sequester carbon in gardens large or small, the first is the use of bio char, which not only improves the soil but takes carbon out of the carbon cycle for up to 1000 years. The second is the use of ch... - Designer: Joshua Fenton - Awards: Silver Gilt Medal - Sponsor: Navium Marine - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/1188bae3-83a3-4c27-9fe4-ea4e098dbdfd/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Calon Lân 5 Senses Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/calon-lan-5-senses-garden) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2025 - Description: Calon Lân Five Senses Garden is a sacred peaceful retreat that nurtures the heart and soul. This garden celebrates cultivating connections by uniting Islamic faith with my Welsh and Arab heritage. Guided by Islamic Principles of environmental care, it embraces sustainability with eco-friendly materials and plants suited to the British climate. Designed to inspire peace and reflection, it encourages a deeper connection with nature and each other. At the heart of the garden is a fountain where the... - Designer: Emma Yousef - Location: Birmingham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/5f3b3959-df36-44ea-87de-b73766c5c3c5/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Cha No Niwa - Japanese Tea Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/cha-no-niwa-japanese-tea-garden) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025 - Description: The theme of this garden is communication and harmony. The design employs a distinctive use of stones, with the shape and arrangement of the stones thoughtfully designed to interact with the plants. The Garden incorporates varying elevations, creating a sense of depth and 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), includi... - Designer: Kazuyuki Ishihara - Awards: Gold Medal, RHS Chelsea Garden of the Year, People's Choice Best Show Garden - Sponsor: Calmic Japan, Glion Group, HB-101 - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/909e2080-c395-4d70-be3f-17e2a4db7c82/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Charleston 250](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/charleston-250) - RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival 2025 - Description: Charleston 250 embodies the timeless beauty and elegance of one of America's founding cities, Charleston in South Carolina. The design of the garden aims to be rich in detail and grace, combining the formality of the classic English garden with the influences of The Preservation Society Charleston, a 1920s body that protects the charm and character of this historical city. This garden showcases reclaimed brickwork, antique iron railings, water features and a sculpture, alongside intricate landsc... - Designer: Sadie May Stowell - Awards: Silver Medal - Sponsor: Explore Charelston, Brand USA - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/59f0ea96-a639-4307-bcde-db850bb5fd64/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Children With Cancer UK 'A Place To Be...'](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/children-with-cancer-uk-a-place-to-be) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025 - Description: The Garden is a place where children recovering from cancer can be themselves – away from doctors, worried parents and their own fears. A place to be happy, carefree, reflective, healed, refreshed, renewed and grounded by the natural world. Just a place to be... A safe refuge, the Nest, is reached by a fun monorail or the more reflective winding path. This represents the luxury of choice, something children with cancer do not usually have. The pool is a playful distraction along the path and can... - Designer: Tom Clarke, Ros Coutts-Harwood - Awards: Silver Medal - Sponsor: Children With Cancer UK - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/6816e92c-8146-499f-a211-263dd77736f4/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Citroën Downsizers' Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/citroen-downsizers-garden) - Bord Bia Bloom 2025 - Description: This garden, inspired by and featuring the new Citroën Ami, is designed for downsizers and highlights how our needs evolve in tune with our lifestyles and life stages. Like the cars we drive, we may need smaller, more accessible gardens that are easier to manage. The design underscores, however, that when it comes to downsizing there is no need for compromise; you can have it all – be that in a car or a garden. It demonstrates how even in a relatively small space, it is possible to enhance comfo... - Designer: Louise Checa - Awards: Gold Medal - Sponsor: Citroën - Location: Dublin, Ireland - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/9e9b5403-bd9d-42e1-8f5f-5b11896cd0ad/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Coastal reflections](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/coastal-reflections) - RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival 2025 - Description: This garden is a love letter to the coast and a poignant reminder of rising sea levels and the vanishing shorelines caused by climate change. It celebrates the beauty and nostalgia of a sunset coastal walk, creating a sensory experience rooted in the colours and textures of plants from the Lamiaceae family, complemented by coastal-friendly elements. By showcasing the diversity of the Lamiaceae family, the aim is to craft a garden that not only honours the natural beauty of the coast but also nur... - Designer: John Howlett - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/357db330-3ff6-4c3f-a8cf-26b91dd1068a/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Connecting with nature: a sustainable haven for wildlife](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/connecting-with-nature-a-sustainable-haven-for-wildlife) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2025 - Description: Inspired by my own garden, I believe creating a wildlife-friendly space can be simple, rewarding. and sustainable. As UK habitats continue to shrink, our gardens can become vital sanctuaries for wildlife. With hardy perennials that thrive year-round, plus features like bug hotels, log piles and a small pond, this border provides food, shelter, and nesting spots for pollinators and beyond. I hope this garden inspires others to create their own wildlife-friendly havens - places buzzing with life a... - Designer: Sandrine Hughes - Awards: Silver Award - Location: Birmingham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/78de806b-3b3e-41c7-ba9d-221c0f55c992/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Contemporary Living | A Modern Retreat](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/contemporary-living-a-modern-retreat) - RHS Malvern Spring Festival 2025 - Description: This Indoor Show Garden is a tranquil urban oasis designed to bring nature indoors and create a seamless connection between interior design and plant life. The space showcases contemporary 3D-printed planters using a plant derived material. The room is styled as a multifunctional retreat, incorporating elements for relaxation, meditation and creative pursuits. The layout includes comfortable seating, a small zen garden and a dedicated space for yoga or meditation, all designed to encourage visit... - Awards: Gold Medal - Location: Malvern, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/c4e7c194-8488-4233-9e53-a65089bec605/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Conversations in Bloom](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/conversations-in-bloom) - BBC Gardeners' World Autum Fair 2025 - Description: Welcome to the ' Conversation in Bloom' border, where connections blossom amidst nature. Designed to be the ultimate talking point, the border invites visitors to take a seat either side and quite literally have conversations over it. We know spending time in nature can have a profound impact on our social skills, allowing us to be more present, listen clearer and become more attuned to our emotions. Ultimately helping us to make more meaningful connections. So this border aims to provide the pe... - Designer: Charlotte Hugh - Awards: Platinum Award - Sponsor: Garden on a Roll - Location: Essex, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/82c1e7a4-bcd1-43c3-bf5a-44cac6aa9041/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Cultivating Connections - Connecting with Myself](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/cultivating-connections-connecting-with-myself) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2025 - Description: The sculpture ‘Head full of Dreams’ by Simon Higgins triggered a response with me that acting and living those dreams is so important for my own mental health. I work in an industry with the highest rate of male suicide and have been involved in many sessions where we are encouraged to recognise the state of our own mental health and reach out for support. Over the past 12 months I strengthened my mental health by pushing myself out of my comfort zone, learning new skills which included the RHS... - Designer: Stuart Gibbs - Location: Birmingham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/df94e15e-4ced-473d-89ec-d7ace984524c/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Dibleys' Modern Garden Room: Engaging Colour and Texture](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/dibleys-modern-garden-room-engaging-colour-and-texture) - RHS Malvern Spring Festival 2025 - Description: "When Matisse dies, Chagall will be the only painter left who understands what colour really is." claimed Picasso in 1964. By incorporating Chagall's vibrant and bold colour palette, this design brings a touch of artistic inspiration to houseplants. The juxtaposition of vibrant flowers and foliage next to green textured houseplants creates a visually stunning display. This space presents a contemporary take on a garden room - often perceived as a remote and romantic Victorian space. Modern eco g... - Designer: Lynne Dibley - Awards: Silver Gilt Medal, People's Choice Best Indoor Plant Garden - Location: Malvern, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/d9ae66ac-8298-43fb-9514-44c4c8dba2a9/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Down's Syndrome Scotland Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/downs-syndrome-scotland-garden) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025 - Description: Inspired by co-designer Duncan Hall’s nephew Liam, the garden hopes to help challenge the misconceptions and barriers faced by people in Liam’s community and encourage society to change their perceptions so people with Down’s syndrome can fulfil their life potential. Visitors enter this immersive, semi-wooded garden on a ‘crazy paving’ path through two main areas of planting, each conveying contrasting moods. The garden path ends at a feature building, with colourful decorative tiles scattered i... - Designer: Nick Burton, Duncan Hall - Awards: Silver Gilt Medal, People's Choice Best Small Show Garden - Sponsor: Project Giving Back, Down's Syndrome Scotland - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/43aa3b92-2e35-42cf-97fa-eaa69bd356c8/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Drakkars Drift](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/drakkars-drift) - RHS Flower Show Wentworth Woodhouse 2025 - Description: Drakkar's Drift draws inspiration from the striking basalt columns of Fingal's Cave on the uninhabited island of Staffa - an interest sparked by a 2023 trip that led to deeper research into the island's history. The Norse word 'Drakkar' refers to Viking ships displaying a dragon head at their front and so reminds of the arrival of the Vikings in the northern Scottish isles over a thousand years ago. The garden itself celebrates Scotland's historic ties with Scandinavia by blending Nordic wellnes... - Designer: Luke Coleman - Awards: Gold Medal - Location: Rotherham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/88e41812-a7b2-472c-9351-41559fda09c4/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Essence of Horsemanship](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/essence-of-horsemanship) - BBC Gardeners' World Autum Fair 2025 - Description: In the equestrian world, the word "connection' resonates. Featuring in the everyday partnership between human & horse, the connections felt down the reins to communicate and the connections made with your riding position. Essence of Horsemanship Focus = translates as the focal apple tree. Horse loves apples! Clarity = the water in the trough. Softness = the texture and movement of the grasses and flowers. My design represents a whimsical summer meadow, natural hedgerow environment suitable for h... - Location: Essex, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/5c10d6d8-20b6-4c87-b1e6-ba1d6cbf1f26/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Family, Nature and Neighbours](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/family-nature-and-neighbours) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2025 - Description: Cultivating connections immediately made me think of the connections we create with our families and neighbours through the garden spaces we share. I based the design around this shared boundary, using a low dry stone wall filled with planting pockets and a fence with vertical herb planters and a wildlife highway. Using companion planting with pollinator friendly plants helps to create a space where families can connect with nature through the sights, sounds, smells and tastes of the world aroun... - Designer: David Blythe - Location: Birmingham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/efca9268-b5c4-4502-8013-6da9f78702ba/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Fettercairn Wilderness Retreat](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/fettercairn-wilderness-retreat) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025 - Description: Inspired by the wilderness of the Scottish Cairngorms landscape, home of Fettercairn distillery, Fettercairn Wilderness Retreat is a balcony garden to ignite the senses and invigorate the soul. Surrounded by wild and verdant planting reminiscent of the Cairngorms landscape, it echoes the grassy heathland, rocky outcrops and mossy glens. A striking copper bathtub for a cold-water plunge brings the sound of moving water and a more sheltered seat provides space to breathe and relax – slowing the mi... - Designer: Sonia Kamel, Sally Giles, Helier Bowling - Awards: Silver Medal - Sponsor: Fettercairn Whisky - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/b325d87d-d8fd-443f-800b-8ef89517751d/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Fostering IS For You](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/fostering-is-for-you) - Bord Bia Bloom 2025 - Description: This vibrant garden is a heartfelt tribute to the fostering community, symbolising unity, diversity, and connection. It celebrates the intertwining lives of children from various backgrounds, foster carers, their families, and dedicated staff. A place of joy and shared experiences, it highlights the richness that embracing difference brings. The garden’s design, inspired by the Tusla logo, features colourful planting to reflect Tusla’s welcoming ethos. Two entry routes represent varied experienc... - Designer: Pip Probert - Awards: Silver Medal - Sponsor: Tusla - Location: Dublin, Ireland - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/19640047-04f7-42f0-88fa-3f7a964795cb/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Fractal Attraction](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/fractal-attraction) - Royal Windsor Flower Show 2025 - Description: This garden shows us how repeating fractal patterns in nature can attract and benefit both humans and wi'dlife, even within a pocket-sized space. It was inspired by research showing that our brains are inherently attuned to fractals, finding them soothing and stress-reducing, and it is one of the key reasons why spending time in nature increases your happiness and positive outlook, as well as reducing the physiological impacts of stress. Beneficially, flowers exhibiting these patterns tend to at... - Designer: Evie Pace - Awards: 1st Place - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/5f8d6056-d7d0-43c2-b7d8-0e12ab4876f9/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [From Maiden to Mother](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/from-maiden-to-mother) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2025 - Description: A border can be a place to express yourself, a place that sparks memories and inspiration. This border represents my transition from maiden to mother and how the connections I have cultivated along the way have carved the path for me to pursue my career in horticulture when my prioritise changes once I became a mother. The annual flowers and plants represent my maiden phase where life could be fleeting and fast paced. Then it transitions across the bridge representing becoming a mother and then... - Designer: Donna Sutton - Awards: Bronze Award - Location: Birmingham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/3fdbead6-ff6a-416f-9a9a-1eb3b64635d2/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Garden of the Future](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/garden-of-the-future) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025 - Description: The Garden of the Future is set in the near future, in a scenario where climate threats are increasing. Countries all over the world, including the UK, are experiencing higher-than-average temperatures, more extreme weather, periods of drought, and sudden, heavy rainfall. Many of the people most affected by climate change are those who rely on the land to grow our food and crops. Globally, these smallholder farmers are already experiencing the worst impacts of climate change. Through innovation... - Designer: Matthew Butler, Joshua Parker - Awards: Gold Medal - Sponsor: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/f464fd10-39e5-4c80-aa22-e685e3bedaa1/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Garden of the Wind](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/garden-of-the-wind) - RHS Malvern Spring Festival 2025 - Description: The Garden of the Wind is designed for an art and cultural institution as a therapeutic space that embodies Eastern philosophy and provides a unconventional exhibition space. The wind in the garden can be experienced in different ways, Through the sound of the rustling leaves and the sight of their movement in the breeze and in the artworks throughout the space. In Korean, ‘wind’ and ‘hope’ are homophones, and the garden plays with the idea that when the wind blows in the garden, visitors feel a... - Awards: Gold Medal - Location: Malvern, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/93a0c86d-f363-4bb5-aa6b-fbd017e7a091/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Garden Tigers](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/garden-tigers) - Royal Windsor Flower Show 2025 - Description: Inspired by the beautiful colours, stripes and spots of the Garden Tiger moth, ‘Garden Tigers’ shows how we can all make small but powerful changes to reverse the declining number of moths, butterflies and other pollinators in our gardens. Key plants in our garden include Galium verum, Jasminum officinale and Digitalis, which provide habitat, as well as food for caterpillars and nectar for butterflies, moths and bees. Three ‘stripes’ rise out of the border as upright bee posts, which also suppor... - Designer: Alana Sims, Kiera Jamison - Sponsor: GardensDB - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/e76e3b08-f6d5-4322-9317-0bc54cc8efdb/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Garden Whispers](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/garden-whispers) - RHS Flower Show Wentworth Woodhouse 2025 - Description: The garden merges organic architecture with contemporary aesthetics to form an immersive, poetic space. A composition of slender white poles creates a rhythm of vertical enclosures that both reveal and conceal, encouraging exploration. Curved platforms offer tranquil resting spots, while diverse plantings enrich biodiversity and seasonal interest. The garden draws visitors in - sparking curiosity and contemplation. Blurring the lines between nature, art, and architecture, it transforms a transit... - Designer: Hyeyoung Choi, Yungil Choi - Awards: Silver Gilt Medal - Sponsor: Hyundai Engineering - Location: Rotherham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/db3c269b-796b-43e8-b22f-f5e16b790a8e/conversions/PXL_20250716_072113714-preview.webp) - [Gardens Apart](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/gardens-apart) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2025 - Description: In this digital world, it can be difficult to find that deep and spiritual connection with distant loved ones. This ode to the cottage style border showcases how to bring family, friendships, lost ones and important elements of life into the garden, however far away the real thing might be. A beautiful connection to the things that matter most. A sweet pea grown by your Great, Great Grandfather; the seeds passed down through generations; a rose named after your late Auntie; a herb garden for you... - Designer: Jade Dinwiddy - Awards: Silver Merit Award - Location: Birmingham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/ca2960e1-c5df-4694-bea6-fd8bdaef1410/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Girlguiding Grows](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/girlguiding-grows) - RHS Flower Show Wentworth Woodhouse 2025 - Description: Young members from 82nd Doncaster Rangers took inspiration from the Girlguiding programme to design Girlguiding -Grows. The garden features bright and colourful flowers to represent each section Rainbows, Brownies, Guides and Rangers. In the centre of the garden is a campfire circle, synonymous with Girlguiding adventures. With support from volunteers and leaders, the garden is a product of the Rangers exploration of gardening while in pursuit of their Gardening Interest Badge. - Location: Rotherham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/549e0738-172f-4b28-8b8b-cf1ff8a0d066/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [GIY Balcony Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/giy-balcony-garden) - Bord Bia Bloom 2025 - Description: The GIY Balcony Garden demonstrates how even tiny urban spaces can produce significant amounts of fresh, nutrient-dense, delicious vegetables, yielding up to €1,000-worth (100kg) of food in a year. Beautiful and functional, it showcases the potential of apartment living, where residents can create the garden of their dreams, grow food productively, interact with plants and nature, get their hands dirty, and relax and de-stress. The design features distinct zones with a seating area, edible ‘wood... - Designer: Barry Kavanagh - Awards: Bronze Medal - Location: Dublin, Ireland - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/12515cea-f295-43c0-81ab-aa01123c2b04/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Go with the Flow](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/go-with-the-flow) - RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival 2025 - Description: The 'Go with the Flow' garden is a reaction to wetter winters and the worsening floods happening around the country. Overloaded rainwater systems go on to overwhelm water treatment plants and these storm surges cause the release of untreated or partially treated sewage into our waterways. The garden presents an attractive alternative, designed as a plug and play system where existing drains and downpipes can be rerouted through richly planted gullies. Native plants fill the gullies, containing a... - Designer: Anne Beavis, Jerrad Kinsella - Awards: Silver Medal - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/382b35d4-1d68-4ff3-a324-c852df06aebc/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Grain to Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/grain-to-garden) - RHS Malvern Spring Festival 2025 - Description: At the heart of the Grain to Garden exhibit stand three striking, repurposed grain silos, each approximately four metres in diameter and five metres tall. These industrial relics have been creatively transformed into immersive spaces, each offering a different experience: a lively bar, a disco-inspired silo with a dazzling mirror ball and lighting, and a tranquil retreat featuring a warming fire pit. The silos sit in a beautifully naturalistic garden. Wildflowers sway in the breeze, a serene pon... - Location: Malvern, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/45cdafd1-ef43-473c-a1ef-364284be4a43/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Hazlewood Barn - Reimagined by Bestall & Co](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/hazlewood-barn-reimagined-by-bestall-co) - RHS Flower Show Wentworth Woodhouse 2025 - Description: This garden aims to illustrate how a small space can be transformed into a sustainable and beautiful garden that doesn't cost the earth, by using some basic design principles, a few reclaimed materials and some locally made products. Inspired by his passion to bring great design within the reach of a wider audience and at a reduced environmental cost, the designer wanted to give a second life to materials and create a garden that didn't feel second best. A reclaimed planting medium supports a va... - Designer: Lee Bestall - Awards: Gold Medal - Sponsor: Bestall & Co Landscape Design - Location: Rotherham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/089252e0-2d1d-41a4-b914-e07c6842a38c/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Head In The Clouds](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/head-in-the-clouds) - RHS Flower Show Wentworth Woodhouse 2025 - Description: Proving that tranquillity can be created in even the smallest of borders with a bit of thoughtful planting, colour and design, this space encourages mindfulness and quiet reflection. Central to the design are a series of shallow, still reflective pools that echo the sky and clouds above, symbolising self-reflection and inviting inner calm. - Designer: Liz Broadbent, Tom Orton - Awards: Gold Medal - Location: Rotherham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/998ff2ef-c649-4599-8c3a-f9a1dae2a00a/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Healing Horizons](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/healing-horizons) - RHS Flower Show Wentworth Woodhouse 2025 - Description: Healing Horizons is an impressionist-inspired, ornamental raised bed, featuring a central, fragrant, warm-tone drystone wall implanted with sedums and a colourful drought-tolerant planting scheme. The inspiration is access to nature and the health and social benefits green spaces bring, specifically in regard to the effect that natural environments have in the urban context. Impressionism is a key theme due to its emotive portrayal of the value of the natural world and its pioneering representat... - Designer: Cornelia Gower, Sophie Howells - Awards: Silver Medal - Sponsor: Appleby Landscape & Gardens, Reclaimed Brick Company - Location: Rotherham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/049c199d-ff30-4a5b-a6f3-918978b39bc1/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Hedgerow to Home](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/hedgerow-to-home) - RHS Malvern Spring Festival 2025 - Description: For the ultimate in low maintenance, yet beautiful gardens, Hedgerow to Home takes its inspiration from nature for planting combinations which are tried and tested to thrive in the local environment and boost biodiversity in your garden. Hedgerow plants are often drought-tolerant, resistant to pests and diseases, and require little pruning. Coastal plants may be salt-tolerant and able to thrive in poor soil conditions. This makes them easier to care for once established, which is ideal for garde... - Location: Malvern, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/eaddc228-9f3a-499d-8293-cfceaf0319b3/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Held](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/held) - BBC Gardeners' World Autum Fair 2025 - Description: An homage to childhood memories of sitting in a field, held by the long grass and accompanied by a soundtrack of rustling and buzzing under a blue summer sky. A rustic stile sits among drifts of ornamental grasses, a step over which reveals a sunken seating area embraced by the planting. A crunch of gravel underfoot leads to a timber seat, facing a reflective pool of water. Using reclaimed agricultural materials for an authentic rural atmosphere, and a mix of native and non-native ornamental gra... - Designer: Piers Dixon - Awards: Silver Award - Location: Essex, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/64a3fd95-30e0-4e7a-97e9-4e9dfa6382c8/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Herbal Fortress](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/herbal-fortress) - RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival 2025 - Description: Herbal Fortress illustrates the antimicrobial power of Lamiaceae . The design mimics a petri dish and how essential oils extracted from members of this genus create 'halos' of defence when they are added to bacterial cultures in a lab. Islands of vigorous, vibrant flowers represent this effect while the surrounding planting evokes the shape and colouring of pathogens under a microscope. In light of the increasing resistance to pharmaceutical antibiotics, this Lamiaceae -only border revives the a... - Designer: Marlene Lento - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/2d75dd2e-3582-4623-b2fa-cb6f9883429c/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Hidden in Plain Sight](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/hidden-in-plain-sight) - Royal Windsor Flower Show 2025 - Description: Mathematics are present in many aspects of nature, but even ifit is right in front of us, we might never see it. Just like a water hole hidden in a depression in the prairie landscape, you can spend days of years looking at the hirozon without seeing it behind tall grass. With the theme of "Patternsin nature" my design concept illustrates the hidden mathematics behind nature's beauty, like the Fibonacci sequence or the golden ratio symmetry or fractal patterns. I have used the metaphor of the 'w... - Designer: Guillaume Jombart - Awards: 2nd Place - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/5829f692-2649-4093-92bf-a5bcea88b59f/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Hospice UK: Garden of Compassion](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/hospice-uk-garden-of-compassion) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025 - Description: This garden draws on the spirit of Mediterranean landscapes, showing how thoughtfully designed spaces can play a crucial role in providing comfort and calm at the end of life. Inspired by the Olive Houses in Mallorca and broader Mediterranean settings, it uses large rocks to create a strong sense of being grounded in nature. The layout mirrors the Olive Houses’ concept of interconnected rooms, offering everything from secluded corners for quiet moments to more open spaces for more communal use.... - Designer: Tom Hoblyn - Awards: Silver Gilt Medal - Sponsor: Project Giving Back, Hospice UK - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/1bb2b639-7498-4b94-9937-e602ff5b33c7/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Hot Pocket](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/hot-pocket) - RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival 2025 - Description: An eye-catching and colourful planting pocket, giving you time to pause, take a perch and reconnect with nature. The theme of the pocket focuses on drought tolerant plants that can thrive and survive in hot, dry and low fertile conditions and are good for pollinators. The pocket is inspired by dry meadow and gravel garden planting schemes that are resilient and can adapt to a warming climate. Plants: Plants include: Achillea, Kniphofia, Eryngium, Salvia and ornamental grasses for colour, structu... - Designer: Tom Pilgrim - Awards: Silver Gilt Medal - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/6ff57357-f867-4df4-a436-59bb410f2eec/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [House Plants: A Long View](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/house-plants-a-long-view) - RHS Malvern Spring Festival 2025 - Description: Inspired by BBC Radio 4’s The Long View, the garden presents and compares plant stories from the past with those from today. The Indoor Garden is set within a typical living room of a terraced house divided into three areas, beginning with the Victorian fireplace at the heart of the room. This area is resplendent with ferns, evergreens, delicate flowering plants and Wardian style gardens under glass. Moving to classic mid-century design dripping with hanging and cascading plants. The final area... - Awards: Silver Medal - Location: Malvern, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/2ef2d13e-fef3-4e79-96f9-622a66ad8dce/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Illusion 2050](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/illusion-2050) - RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival 2025 - Description: Illusion 2050 is a modern courtyard garden designed to inspire reflection and raise awareness about sustainable design. The planting layout highlights the shift from traditional gardening to more drought-tolerant approaches, demonstrating how we can adapt to environmental changes by 2050 while maintaining beauty and biodiversity. The garden's dream-like atmosphere encourages visitors to consider the future: what changes will 2050 bring? How can we prepare our gardens for the challenges ahead? Co... - Designer: Kitti Kovacs - Awards: Silver Medal - Sponsor: QVC - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/1233e804-396c-4982-b96b-728a1d7d1b75/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Interwoven](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/interwoven) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2025 - Description: People are interwoven with nature through gardens and outside spaces. This design shows how small spaces can cultivate connections to nature. The woven willow screening, gabion wall, and bird and insect friendly fencing provide garden boundaries that support wildlife, not cut you off from it. A mosaic of habitats and dense planting weaves a colourful and beautiful garden with year round interest to people alongside food and shelter for wildlife. The garden features reclaimed materials including... - Designer: Sophie Howden - Location: Birmingham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/2d7881e7-ed19-4efd-89f3-93ab5f9f4512/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Into The Forest](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/into-the-forest) - Bord Bia Bloom 2025 - Description: Into The Forest is inspired by the unique oceanic woodlands of the west of Ireland, evoking the beauty of these ancient forests. A lush green canopy is provided by Betula (birch) trees, one of the many species that formed the oceanic woodland. Beneath them mosses and ferns thrive, while a meandering boardwalk leads occupants past mossy boulders to a serene reflective pool. This captures the changing light of the sky above and the foliage of the deciduous canopy. Along the journey, a sculptural b... - Designer: Sarah Cotterill - Awards: Silver Medal - Sponsor: Westland Horticulture - Location: Dublin, Ireland - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/2ea45310-88c7-4210-b33c-4c6e1d6c3590/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Jimmy's NHS Wellbeing Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/jimmys-nhs-wellbeing-garden) - RHS Flower Show Wentworth Woodhouse 2025 - Description: This Cube takes inspiration from St James's University Hospital Wellbeing Garden, a space designed by BBC Gardeners' World presenter and garden designer Adam Frost. The exhibit here provides a snapshot of the hospital's garden in Leeds and highlights the RHS Wellbeing Gardens Programme, an initiative to transform public outdoor spaces into vibrant gardens that promote physical, mental, and social wellbeing while supporting the environment. Developed in conjunction with RHS Community Outreach adv... - Designer: Sharon Hockenhull - Sponsor: The RHS - Royal Horticultural Society - Location: Rotherham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/6b9ff24c-3d1d-4819-ab49-42717c5d457f/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Just a garden...](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/just-a-garden) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2025 - Description: My inspiration is a love of plants and a gardening ethos that is both achievable and sustainable. This design leads you via a series of raised floating platforms, set amidst a tapestry of relaxed naturalistic planting, to a deck where you can sit and unwind, or maybe do a spot of Pilates. At its core, this garden embraces simplicity – it’s achievable by anyone, and this is its only message. It’s just a garden! However, it does subtly consider good environment practices. There are no impermeable... - Designer: Carleen Osborne - Awards: Platinum Award, Best Showcase Garden - Sponsor: Breedon Special Aggregates - Location: Birmingham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/f88433d7-9980-4a42-9aef-1fc504426be1/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Killik & Co Save for a Rainy Day Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/killik-co-save-for-a-rainy-day-garden) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025 - Description: The Killik & Co 'Save for a Rainy Day Garden' is a modern family garden designed to withstand the unpredictable weather patterns of a changing climate. As temperatures rise, plants traditionally found in the South of France may thrive in southern English gardens. To adapt to these shifts, the garden showcases resilient ‘future trees’ like Zelkova serrata and Pinus mugo ‘Mughus’, which can endure drought, flooding, and rising temperatures. Inspired by architectural rainscaping techniques, the gar... - Designer: Baz Grainger - Awards: Gold Medal - Sponsor: Killik & Co - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/61fa3241-70fb-44c6-a390-6e83756198f0/conversions/rainy-preview.webp) - [Kitchen Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/kitchen-garden) - RHS Malvern Spring Festival 2025 - Description: The always popular Kitchen Garden returns to RHS Malvern Spring Festival with a revamped focus on plants that serve more than one purpose. Every plant has been thoughtfully chosen to provide multiple benefits—whether for culinary or medicinal use to attract pollinators, or to add to soil health. The garden features an array of raised beds and containers at varied heights. The planting is divided into three groups: Blooms – A vibrant display of edible and pollinator-friendly flowers that bring bo... - Designer: Jon Wheatley - Location: Malvern, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/ed1a0318-4274-4c2b-9903-1a76c85bfca3/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Komorebi Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/komorebi-garden) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025 - Description: The theme of the design is Komorebi, a Japanese word for when light pierces through a tree canopy and the gently swaying branches make shadows dance on the ground. A wooden platform is surrounded by a canopy of trees, embracing and protecting you from the busy urban life beyond the garden. Looking up, dappled shade and shimmering lights create patterns all around. This is a moment to contemplate, a moment to remember. The garden is inspired by the designer’s childhood memories of visiting forest... - Designer: Masa Taniguchi - Awards: Gold Medal - Sponsor: Hamptons - The Home Experts - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/42497279-0fc0-4977-bb65-ace0e8b95c32/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Laura B's Paper Plant Studio](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/laura-bs-paper-plant-studio) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025 - Description: This houseplant studio will be a working collage artist’s studio, dressed with houseplants that have inspired Laura’s collages over the years. The studio will have a veranda with an area for Laura to work during the week as she makes a large-scale collage celebrating the atmosphere and energy of the Houseplant Studio area. This Houseplant Studio will not be judged. Key plants: The studio will have a range of different leaf shapes and colours as this is what inspires Laura when she collages. Plan... - Designer: Laura Burns - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/4420e364-3c3e-4089-998f-da724a3ac3b2/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [LEGO Gardeners of Tomorrow Project](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/lego-gardeners-of-tomorrow-project) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2025 - Description: Designed by gold-winning RHS Young Designer of the Year 2024 Callum Corrie, the garden will be bursting with floral inspiration and include imaginative spaces for all generations to get involved. - Designer: Callum Corrie - Awards: Silver Merit Award - Sponsor: LEGO - Location: Birmingham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/7a446671-cee7-4d0c-a8f6-772c52521b3d/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Life on the Verge](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/life-on-the-verge) - RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival 2025 - Designer: Laura London, Mary-Anne O'Brien, Robin Dunlop - Awards: Silver Gilt Medal - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/fbd51141-2065-4aa1-9343-2c8a84ccda7d/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Living Connections](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/living-connections) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2025 - Description: This border is inspired by Whispering Trees Community Interest Company which supports adults and children to reduce stress and anxiety through a range of activities, connecting them with nature and those around them. Living Connections represents the beautiful, intricate interdependence between humans, plants and wildlife within a woodland habitat. Mature trees filter the air, stabilise the soil, and provide shelter to all that dwell, pass, or grow under their canopy. When the trees fall they de... - Designer: Danielle Telfer - Awards: Silver Merit Award - Location: Birmingham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/1331c7dd-7446-4ba5-a36c-4fd1db34aaea/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Lyn's Garden: A Garden for all Weathers](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/lyns-garden-a-garden-for-all-weathers) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2025 - Description: Our garden’s theme is a garden for all seasons, and therefore all weathers. With changes to our climate we, as gardeners, need to ensure that we can continue to have a garden that we can enjoy with year-round interest whilst also being mindful of the environment. The main feature of this garden is a pondless waterfall that is fed by rainwater collected from the house roof. By having a waterfall, the water is aerated and therefore allows the water in the main harvesting unit to remain fresh for u... - Awards: Silver Award - Location: Birmingham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/51021f54-25f0-477d-baeb-71071e7cc2b0/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Maindee Unlimited: Greening Maindee Gateway Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/maindee-unlimited-greening-maindee-gateway-garden) - RHS Malvern Spring Festival 2025 - Description: The garden is co-created with the community-led charity Maindee Unlimited and their volunteer gardening team Greening Maindee, who aim to transform underused spaces into greener safer and attractive areas for people and wildlife. A striking trompe l’oeil (‘to deceive the eye’) mural wall created by local artist Andy O’Rourke provides an engaging and colourful backdrop to the garden and runs along a main path, which is enveloped and softened by planting. Additional pathways draw visitors through... - Awards: Silver Medal - Location: Malvern, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/a3dc53de-11d7-42fa-a93c-fc42520f6f29/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Make a Metre Matter](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/make-a-metre-matter) - BBC Gardeners' World Autum Fair 2025 - Description: This garden demonstrates a range of planting combinations and things you can do in your own garden within a single metre squared. Although the garden is realistic to a small garden plot, we aim to show multiple ways of enhancing just a small amount of space within. We are trying to show how re-using things can be done in a way that looks new and fresh, plus how we all like to put our own mark on a space and add a few quirky bits! The planters have come along to each show as part of our "Make a M... - Designer: Pip Probert - Location: Essex, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/c8788459-9824-4eae-975b-c874f4973621/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Make-A-Wish Garden of Hope](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/make-a-wish-garden-of-hope) - Bord Bia Bloom 2025 - Description: This modern, naturalistic, and accessible space is designed to capture the magic and wonder Make-A-Wish brings to children across Ireland. A rich sensory experience unfolds where vibrant colours, soothing scents, and diverse textures create an atmosphere of tranquillity and possibility. Concentric circles shape the design, symbolising unity and the cycle of wishes granted. Lush planting and carefully selected materials weave together to form a welcoming retreat. At the garden’s heart, a pergola... - Designer: Linda McKeown - Awards: Silver Gilt Medal - Location: Dublin, Ireland - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/76a89306-5754-414f-b32a-0584e04ada37/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Making Life Better With Bees](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/making-life-better-with-bees) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025 - Description: Inspired by Africa and the vital connection between bees, people, and biodiversity, this urban retreat transforms a small space into a pollinator haven. Traditional English and African beehives highlight the role of bees in mitigating biodiversity loss, climate change, and poverty. Key features include a hexagonal bench for privacy, a feature wall with vertical planting and solitary bee habitats and planters repurposed from honey barrels and beehives. A windfallen oak trunk demonstrates traditio... - Awards: Silver Gilt Medal, People's Choice Best Balcony / Container Garden - Sponsor: Bees for Development - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/3c9376fb-30b5-4079-bb64-f08950423415/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Making Waves](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/making-waves) - RHS Flower Show Wentworth Woodhouse 2025 - Description: The border is inspired by the idea of activating brain waves with multi-sensory experiences. The border is composed into ripples or waves through the height and layout of the plants. The plants have been chosen based on their sensory contributions, through foliage, touch, scent, sound and year-round interest. When flowering, the planting produces a gradual change in colour from red to blue along the length of the border, with yellow scattered throughout. - Designer: Daisy Bayliss, Moka Matsushima - Awards: Bronze Medal - Location: Rotherham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/0fd905a5-88ba-4197-b959-d0a08a6061fd/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Manor Farm - 250 Years Taste and Tradition](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/manor-farm-250-years-taste-and-tradition) - Bord Bia Bloom 2025 - Description: Celebrating Manor Farm’s 250-year anniversary, this show garden reflects the company’s proud heritage of tradition, innovation and care for the environment. The train track-inspired path, crafted from recycled railway sleepers and gravel, symbolises the journey from Manor Farm’s origins in rural Ireland to the heart of the capital. Dublin’s Manor Street is referenced in a clever and creative sculpture made from metal rods. An authentic wildflower meadow, native trees and shrubs, and a regenerati... - Designer: Tünde Perry - Awards: Silver Medal - Sponsor: Manor Farm - Location: Dublin, Ireland - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/135031e3-c69c-4eaa-a2de-664813ae9960/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Midlands Air Ambulance Charity Medicinal Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/midlands-air-ambulance-charity-medicinal-garden) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2025 - Description: Designed as a space for healing, the medicinal garden tells stories of survival through the language of nature – growth, renewal, and transformation. More than just a collection of plants, it is a living tribute to early medicine and second chances. Every bloom symbolises a life saved, every pathway a journey of recovery, and every tree a reminder of the Midlands Air Ambulance Charity’s role in giving people another opportunity to thrive. Nature has long been intertwined with healing, and many o... - Designer: Lucy Chapman, Helen Swan - Awards: Silver Merit Award - Location: Birmingham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/44f426f3-cc68-41f2-87df-f28de9b16fdd/conversions/1000025772-preview.webp) - [MS Amlin Peace of Mind Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/ms-amlin-peace-of-mind-garden) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025 - Description: The garden explores colour therapy and impact of colour on human perception. Planting is laid out to reference a colour wheel, but in a 3D dimensional space, with contrasting leaf textures, shapes and flower colours for maximum impact. Fibreglass planters are made from a blend of recycled plastic and recycled glass, making them durable to environmental conditions. Seating is immersed among the planting to take full advantage of the therapeutic effects of being connected to nature. The aim of the... - Designer: Hamzah-Adam Desai - Awards: Silver Medal - Sponsor: MS Amlin, Schellevis - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/7e60a2b0-a2a0-4d9c-b3ab-eac67a910e14/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Nature Captured](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/nature-captured) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2025 - Description: A garden that showcases the creative direction we can utilise when designing for wildlife. Water, trees and meadows with ornamental wild flowers will create habitats for all types of wildlife to thrive in a beautiful and practical space. Camera traps and technology will be used and integrated harmoniously within the garden so the visitors can see how we can enjoy and help to record and take part in conserving British wildlife. The garden will learn from larger re-wilding projects inspired by the... - Designer: Tom Saunders - Sponsor: Protect The Andes - Location: Birmingham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/d3368bdd-3943-44a4-bf42-9ca0c7e5c1c3/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Nature Wrapped in Gold](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/nature-wrapped-in-gold) - Bord Bia Bloom 2025 - Description: Precious things are wrapped in gold and this garden provides a precious habitat for wildlife, wrapped in an artfully designed golden wall. The garden reflects Kerrygold’s natural positioning as a producer of high quality, healthy, natural food. The golden flecked boundary wall, with its verdant green undulating strip inspired by the rolling pastures of the Golden Vale, evokes Kerrygold’s roots and connection to Irish farming. Wildlife will find shelter, food, water, and nesting materials. The ha... - Designer: Ailish Drake - Awards: Gold Medal - Sponsor: Kerrygold - Location: Dublin, Ireland - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/d52582d3-b29a-48e2-aed4-21d38229ae6a/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Nature's Resilience](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/natures-resilience) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2025 - Description: 'Nature's Resilience' was inspired by rubbish I unearthed while gardening-a stark reminder of the damage we've done-and by children I work with, fearful of insects and disconnected from the natural world. Healing begins with reconnection: between communities, ecosystems, and generations. A living arch links a recovering wasteland to lush, pollinator-friendly planting. Above ground, plants restore damaged soil; below, a hidden mycorrhizal network connects roots, sharing resources-just as human co... - Designer: Hannah Becket - Awards: Gold Award - Location: Birmingham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/e908195d-5623-4655-b4b2-3b978839f6d3/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Nature's Symphony: Celebrating Organic Growth](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/natures-symphony-celebrating-organic-growth) - Bord Bia Bloom 2025 - Description: This special organic garden highlights Ireland’s commitment to advancing its organic agricultural sector, a key component of the National Organic Strategy 2024-2030. In accordance with the principles of organic growing, it is designed from the ground up, beginning with the critical element of soil health. The design features distinct planting zones that showcase organic potatoes and fruit grown in traditional beds. Wild zones within the garden are purposefully left untamed, with wildflowers and... - Designer: Liat Schurmann, Oliver Schurmann - Sponsor: Bord Bia - Irish Food Board - Location: Dublin, Ireland - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/c54d4235-66e2-4387-8b7a-6bddceb0f355/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Navium Marine: Blue Mind Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/navium-marine-blue-mind-garden) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025 - Description: This garden explores our deep connection to water as humans and the positive impact it brings to our well-being. Inspired by the 'blue mind' – a sense of calm from being close to water. It reimagines how the aspects of water can be thoughtfully integrated into small spaces to create a sense of serenity in an urban environment. In the garden, ripple-effect cladding mimics the flow of water, reflecting light in wave-like forms, while a water feature creates soothing sounds beside a reflective pool... - Designer: Ashleigh Aylett - Awards: Gold Medal, Best Balcony & Container Garden - Sponsor: Navium Marine - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/131c52d1-a151-495d-9ee6-e6534fbea2c3/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Neo Flora](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/neo-flora) - RHS Malvern Spring Festival 2025 - Description: The concept of Neo Flora is inspired by a teenager's bedroom in an urban setting. It blends a grunge cyberpunk aesthetic with a newfound love for indoor plants. Bright neon tones, a dark grunge atmosphere, and the room’s messiness reflect the teenager's state of mind, while the calming influence of indoor gardening brings softness and balance to the chaos. The greenery contrasts vividly with the grungy backdrop, while sleek hydroponic elements, such as a wardrobe waterfall and flowing propagatio... - Awards: Gold Medal - Location: Malvern, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/e166de76-6bfe-4edf-a525-2b75386a92fa/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Nice Day for a Green Wedding](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/nice-day-for-a-green-wedding) - RHS Malvern Spring Festival 2025 - Description: Nice Day for a Green Wedding is set at a wedding reception hosted in a banquet hall. Two circular dining tables with 8 places each sit at the front of the space. In the middle of each table instead of a floral centrepiece is one planted full of verdant houseplants. Small potted plants with guests’ names act as place cards for each seat. Behind, framed by an arch of foliage, sits a sweetheart table for the bride and groom. The design creates an atmosphere of joy and celebration, showcasing housep... - Awards: Gold Medal - Location: Malvern, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/61c7904c-afa2-40a2-afb2-40064e55b554/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Nourish - The Caragh Nurseries Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/nourish-the-caragh-nurseries-garden) - Bord Bia Bloom 2025 - Description: In a world marked by overwhelm and disconnection, Nourish offers a sanctuary of balance and healing. A collaboration between award-winning designer Leonie Cornelius and Caragh Nurseries, this courtyard-style garden blends architecture with wild nature to reconnect us with ourselves and the rhythms of the natural world. Drawing inspiration from Mediterranean living and ancient herbal traditions, Nourish features a sensory apothecary room surrounded by climate-resilient, edible, and ornamental pla... - Designer: Leonie Cornelius - Awards: Gold Medal - Sponsor: Caragh Nurseries - Location: Dublin, Ireland - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/5a206300-1847-4c26-9f16-67f3e0f80ff0/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Nourishing the Soul](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/nourishing-the-soul) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2025 - Description: My border is inspired by the gardens of the Marie Curie hospice in Solihull, where my Mum passed away in 2014. The garden encouraged the families and loved ones to connect with nature and were so peaceful and comforting. Inside, there was a multi-faith prayer room with a prayer book and pebbles, which I have incorporated into my design. My border is designed to connect and cultivate the soul with nature, and leave the viewer feeling peaceful. - Designer: Laura Whiskens - Location: Birmingham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/2c18ebae-d13b-43c1-96d5-6b95d0a86053/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [One Element](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/one-element) - RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival 2025 - Description: Introducing One Element, a new balcony feature at RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival on behalf of The RHS. We are creating a storyboard historic balcony setting with a contemporary edge, nestled into the surrounding landscape inspired by waterside settings and architecture. Linking indoor and outdoor spaces through plants and materials representing true and achievable outdoor living. Environmental handprint and a positive approach to our use of natural capital is key to the philosophy of t... - Designer: Nadine Charlton - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/e07583d9-848b-441c-9e65-c7fdd0f1efe1/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Oregon Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/oregon-garden-1) - RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival 2025 - Description: The garden is inspired by the natural landscape of the state of Oregon and its drive to promote regenerative tourism and its majestic, outdoor beauty. The focus of the garden will be a natural camping area, complete with a canvas tent and fire pit. Known for its historic towns and sleepy fishing villages, you'll find waterfalls, wind swept beaches, verdant forests, snow-capped peaks, towering rock formations and dramatic river valleys in this incredibly diverse state. Forests, an abundance of wa... - Designer: Sadie May Stowell - Sponsor: Travel Oregon, Brand USA - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/ec069db1-a6a9-420e-8640-9852ead0789a/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Patterns in Nature](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/patterns-in-nature) - Royal Windsor Flower Show 2025 - Description: In its 118th year, the Royal Windsor Flower Show is embracing the theme Patterns in Nature, inspired by His Majesty King Charles III’s book Harmony. From the rhythm of the seasons to natural symmetry, this theme runs throughout the show. At its heart is the spectacular central Feature Garden, designed by Alan Williams of Landform Consultants and generously supported by ComXo. This stunning showpiece brings the theme vividly to life, offering a beautiful and thoughtful interpretation of nature’s... - Designer: Alan Williams - Sponsor: ComXo - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/7f8f0bde-e264-4f69-9461-d734e4a2ffff/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Pocket Potager](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/pocket-potager) - RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival 2025 - Description: Pocket Potager is inspired by the desire to transform small spaces such as an unused driveway or front garden into areas of both beauty and practical use. Ornamental and edible plants grow side by side; offering a delightful harvest of homegrown cut flowers, herbs, fruit and vegetables throughout the seasons. Pocket Potager brings cottage charm to an urban scale, providing a space to both pause and enjoy the act of growing. - Designer: Jonny Lincoln - Sponsor: Brampton Willows - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/e4eac8e6-6e54-4f9e-8aa6-676339600f89/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Putting Down Roots](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/putting-down-roots) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2025 - Description: The Putting Down Roots' garden brings the warm tones and sunny climate of Los Angeles, where I grew up, to the UK where I have lived for over 30 years. Stepping stones are loosely set in gravel, for a casual, wild and contemporary feel. This, along with Agaves ves and succulents in pots, reflects California courtyard aesthetics. The scheme includes drought-tolerant plants native to California and the colour scheme is replete with warm oranges and complementary purples and greens, reminiscent of... - Designer: Victoria Benjamin - Awards: Silver Award - Location: Birmingham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/ad4bd19d-1d1e-44fd-9814-c85cf0165d48/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [QVC's Reflective Retreat](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/qvcs-reflective-retreat) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2025 - Description: Discover the all-new QVC Reflective Retreat Show Garden! Following their 2024 success - earning both the Gold and Best Showcase Garden Awards - QVC will unveil an inspiring new garden design by the celebrated and award-winning garden designer, Kitti Kovacs. Renowned for her artistry in creating lush, tranquil spaces, Kitti will once again capture the essence of relaxation and escape in this year’s highly anticipated show garden. You can experience QVC’s Show Garden first hand to get a flavour of... - Designer: Kitti Kovacs - Awards: Platinum Award - Sponsor: QVC - Location: Birmingham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/2f7f91a4-8971-41db-be60-e702b1576690/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Repak Most Sorted Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/repak-most-sorted-garden) - Bord Bia Bloom 2025 - Description: Repak Most Sorted Garden is a living, breathing example of the circular economy in action. It brings viewers on a journey along a curated and circular pathway, gently demonstrating the steps to better recycling. The space is designed to show that waste is not an inevitability but a design flaw; one that can be solved through thoughtful recycling and regeneration. Every element in the garden exists within a closed-loop system where materials are repurposed, resources are regenerated, and nothing... - Designer: James Purdy - Awards: Gold Medal, Best in Category - Sponsor: Repak - Location: Dublin, Ireland - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/5f57e20c-94bb-431c-a3fc-458ca2ef4403/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [RHS and BBC Radio 2 Dog Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/rhs-and-bbc-radio-2-dog-garden) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025 - Description: At the centre of the garden is a neatly mown lawn, which though tended, is essential for canine sprawling, sleeping, rolling, flopping, itching and chasing balls. A large tree provides shade on the grass to stretch out on a warm afternoon while surrounded by ‘balls’ of alliums and topiary. The lawn drifts into longer grass planted with ornamental spring flowering bulbs to create a tameflower, rather than wildflower meadow. Brick paths run straight creating vistas – a touch of Monty Don’s own Lon... - Designer: Monty Don - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/027a8f43-a46f-4d76-83e3-595db253e91d/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [RHS Healer's Hollow](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/rhs-healers-hollow) - RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival 2025 - Description: RHS Feature Garden 'Healer's Hollow' is an enchanting exploration of the history of our human connection to plants and the benefits they bring to our health and wellbeing. We are all familiar with using plants to create beautiful gardens and we know they provide us with food, but we also have a much deeper need for plants. From the very existence of complex plant ecosystems to the foundations for much of our modern medicine - humans simply wouldn't exist if it weren't for plants. The garden will... - Designer: Jude Yeo, Emily Grayshaw - Location: London, United Kingdom - 360 tour: [interactive 360 tour](https://gardensdb.com/360-tours/2195529b-c85e-4e26-b904-2c3a63671aa0) - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/496c6efa-04ba-4ff0-9359-f5c1eabc86bd/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [RHS Miner's Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/rhs-miners-garden) - RHS Flower Show Wentworth Woodhouse 2025 - Description: Imagine going back in time to when coal mining was a thriving industry in the north of England. After a long hard day down the pit in pitch darkness, the first thing almost every miner wanted to do was get out in the daylight and breathe in the fresh air, and what better way to do this than by getting stuck into some serious gardening. Through the necessity of feeding their families and sheer survival, miners found huge enjoyment in gardening, it was one of the biggest things in almost every min... - Designer: Chris Myers - Location: Rotherham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/c8f7087c-8ee2-44f0-add1-8f71cbe9e272/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [RHS Rhubarb By Candlelight](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/rhs-rhubarb-by-candlelight) - RHS Flower Show Wentworth Woodhouse 2025 - Description: An artistic exploration of the otherworldly glow and atmosphere found in The Rhubarb Triangles forcing sheds, where rhubarb creaks and sparkles like jewels under candlelight. The installation aims to visually transport visitors inside the interior of dark rhubarb forcing sheds, using plants to interpret the sensory experience found within. The Installation explores the rich and mysterious history of Yorkshire's Rhubarb Triangle, using colour, texture, light and shadow to recreate the otherworldl... - Designer: Jordan Lister - Sponsor: Owl Lane Nurseries - Location: Rotherham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/fd63118c-b96f-4dac-85a2-84729455265d/conversions/PXL_20250716_080929108.MP-preview.webp) - [RHS Teenage Dirt Park](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/rhs-teenage-dirt-park) - RHS Flower Show Wentworth Woodhouse 2025 - Description: This bold community garden is a space to connect, create, and let loose, designed with Rotherham's young people and created for the Children's Capital of Culture. At its heart, a striking central structure invites young people to hang out, vibe to music, and capture their next viral TikTok. Thrill-seekers can hit the adrenaline-pumping dirt track featuring rollers, jumps and berm turns, while vibrant graffiti seating brings a splash of urban creativity. Wrapped in resilient meadow planting, this... - Designer: Rachel Platt - Sponsor: Dirt Factory - Location: Rotherham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/576ffe0a-9ba4-498e-9928-2f7da18ddd86/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [RHS Vertigro](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/rhs-vertigro) - RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival 2025 - Description: RHS Vertigo aims to re-imagine the possibilities of the urban vertical planting habitat and its place in our ever-warming and polluted towns and cities. The garden will feature towering, vertical planting - an undulating corridor of living wall and climbers in a heliotropic race to the light. The plant palette will be peppered with species that accentuate a vertical arching growth, bending towards the sunshine, emphasising the extreme conditions of vertical planting. The garden will celebrate th... - Designer: Adolfo Harrison - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/0685450f-2bf9-4f70-a6ee-5ef77ae30f89/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [RHS Work With Your Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/rhs-work-with-your-garden) - RHS Flower Show Wentworth Woodhouse 2025 - Description: We shouldn't fight against our garden, we should work with it and this RHS Feature Garden showcases how you can work with your space to create a happy and healthy garden. The layout of the garden is inspired by the rays of the sun, flooding out into the open from a central shaded circle. Subtle links to our industrial past link the garden firmly to Yorkshire. Visitors can walk freely through the garden, moving through planting archetypes, from full sun to shade. Explore how elements such as aspe... - Designer: Matt Biggins, Richard Hill - Location: Rotherham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/8b4270b7-97f3-4d9c-be6e-eecacf8d94f8/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [RNIB Legacy Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/rnib-legacy-garden) - RHS Flower Show Wentworth Woodhouse 2025 - Description: The RNIB Legacy Garden is a space that explores living with sight loss, allowing the wider public to see the world through the eyes of someone who has lost their sight. The garden will be a deeply tactile space that uses texture, form, colour and sounds to create an immersive experience. In places it will be thought provoking and challenging, but it will also provide a place of safety, beauty and comfort. The experience and conversations around RNIB's Legacy Garden will help visitors understand... - Designer: Paul Hervey-Brookes - Awards: Gold Medal - Sponsor: RNIB - Location: Rotherham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/68d1aa2d-570c-4b11-acf9-a873e7f6772d/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Room to Breathe Hospital Garden for the TSA](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/room-to-breathe-hospital-garden-for-the-tsa) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025 - Description: Designed specifically as a restorative retreat for parents and caregivers of patients in hospital, the garden offers solace in nature, helping them recharge and face the challenges of caregiving with renewed energy. A cocoon-like feature chair cradles caregivers, offering a warm embrace and a sense of security. Evergreens and textural leaves provide a long season of interest and shades of green provide a calming backdrop with white flowers illuminating darker areas. Hints of burgundy foliage and... - Designer: Jen Donnelly, Catherine Gibbon - Awards: Gold Medal - Sponsor: Tuberous Sclerosis Association, Taylor Wessing - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/a6f1d32f-a842-4c72-9233-e484dc24cf15/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Roots of the Roast](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/roots-of-the-roast) - BBC Gardeners' World Autum Fair 2025 - Description: Step back to Victorian Britain, at the height of the great plant-hunting era. A ship, laden with weird and wonderful plant specimens gathered from across the globe, never made it home. Now, crates from three continents have burst open, their contents taking root. But these are no ordinary plants - they're the vegetables found in a traditional Sunday roast! Our border tells a story of adventure, discovery and cultivating connections through edible plants. Just as importantly, it showcases that gr... - Designer: Richard Bowman - Awards: Gold Award - Sponsor: Suttons - Location: Essex, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/82383cc6-71c8-4d70-88e5-ba9e79287d0d/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [RSPB and RHS Swift Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/rspb-and-rhs-swift-garden) - RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival 2025 - Description: This garden aims to increase awareness of swifts and advocates for wildlife-friendly practices that support all garden birds. The relationship between gardening and wildlife is undeniable, and by working together, this exhibit shows how in small ways we can create a positive and cumulative impact and offer refuge to species facing challenges. The garden highlights the incredible lives of swifts and their yearly migratory journey to the UK. It seeks to inspire action and foster a deeper connectio... - Designer: Lilly Gomm, Coralie Thomas - Sponsor: RSPB - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/99346e90-eb60-4eff-8233-71d964f73eaa/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Safe Haven](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/safe-haven) - RHS Flower Show Wentworth Woodhouse 2025 - Description: This border is inspired by the 'butterfly gardens' jointly created by a number of children's charities for families suffering unimaginable loss. Designed as a pocket of calm amid the surrounding hustle and bustle, the space not only soothes the soul but also provides for pollinators, specifically butterflies, numbers of which are in worrying decline. A simple sleeper bench, with bark mulch to the base, dominates the space, while three obelisk features support climbing plants to add a sense of he... - Designer: Pip Probert - Awards: Silver Gilt Medal - Sponsor: British Garden Centres - Location: Rotherham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/1c9b3f69-42a3-467b-a5de-df43741d51bd/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Seawilding](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/seawilding) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025 - Description: The garden is inspired by the landscape found at Loch Craignish on the west coast of Scotland, home to Seawilding. The garden has a distinctly coastal atmosphere. Sandstone rock outcrops emerge from a saltwater pool and pebble beach, to create planting zones ranging from a bog to elevated slightly freer draining soils. A sandstone step stone path leads to an informal rocky seating area within the garden. A seagrass sculpture ‘flowing’ over the informal seating area connects the land-based garden... - Designer: Ryan McMahon - Awards: Gold Medal, Best All About Plants Garden - Sponsor: Seawilding, Project Giving Back - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/c27158c1-ff13-48da-9edf-0ed5634f8e0e/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Secret Base - The Another Green Room garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/secret-base-the-another-green-room-garden) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025 - Description: Inspired by biophilic design that harmonises with nature, the theme of the garden is a secret hideaway with beautiful trees and the sound of water to awaken the senses. The garden is designed to be used as an additional room, where one can feel the breeze through the greenery. It allows you to be immersed in nature, through the placement of plants overhead, the sound of flowing water from a carefully crafted waterfall and a design that conceals the artificial shapes of the containers. Visible fr... - Designer: Jun Ishihara - Awards: Silver Gilt Medal - Sponsor: Glion Group - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/4aa9f621-c3a9-4020-8747-92472e06ca72/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Seedlings, Saplings, Trees: A passage through a lifecycle](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/seedlings-saplings-trees-a-passage-through-a-lifecycle) - BBC Gardeners' World Autum Fair 2025 - Description: This show garden demonstrates lifecycles, growth, change and connection to past and future generations across time. Trees are integral to natural systems and gardens. In the garden they create nostalgic markers overtime, sanctuary and places for inspiration and wellbeing. In systems they promote health from the ground up providing services to soil, other plants, wildlife and air at every point in their lifecycle. Trees are part of a system where everything is important and contributes to each ot... - Location: Essex, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/602e9e77-eb54-4e75-8b53-1457cfd1234b/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Slugs and snails, making friends with our foes!](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/slugs-and-snails-making-friends-with-our-foes) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2025 - Description: Each layer of a natural ecosystem within our gardens allows them to have a vital biodiversity which includes connecting with parts of the ecosystems that we may not like and that can cause damage, eg. slugs and snails. This design hopes to be mindful of those delicate connections in the natural world, and rather than eliminate an often destructive garden pest, it seeks to prevent and minimise the damage done by planting specimens that slugs and snails choose not to munch on! It is a playful inte... - Designer: Deborah Mole - Location: Birmingham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/1aa2a72a-758e-4edf-aaf0-7d01a211a133/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Small but mighty](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/small-but-mighty) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2025 - Description: Even the smallest space can change the course of the future. To watch, listen and breathe are my biggest grounding tools and my garden is the key for those to succeed. There is nothing better than eating your own grown tomatoes, or having the dog walk by smelling of the Salvia she has just brushed past. These are the things that make me feel alive, present and in the moment. So, sit in your tiny space and share it with nature who will for sure, swing by as they need it just as much as we do. - Designer: Zoe Grady - Awards: Silver Award - Location: Birmingham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/f84ffd3c-46d6-4dcd-8e4a-9a1feb8f4438/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Spires in Nature](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/spires-in-nature) - Royal Windsor Flower Show 2025 - Designer: James Fenneberg - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/27929bce-617f-4bde-84dd-b996e3553d1e/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [St Godwald's Retreat](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/st-godwalds-retreat) - RHS Malvern Spring Festival 2025 - Description: The Garden is inspired by the life and times of St Godwald for whom the church in Bromsgrove, local to the Primrose Hospice & Family Support Centre, is named. Using ancient crafting techniques and influenced by the landscape surrounding the Primrose Hospice, the garden transports us to a space removed from modern life. Within the wattle and daub gazebo sits a ‘wind telephone’ – an opportunity to speak with a loved one that has passed, the wind carrying these words out through the stone portal an... - Designer: Marc Harbourne-Bessant - Awards: Bronze Medal - Location: Malvern, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/4bd03f2d-2f1f-4f20-8e16-10f23f053238/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Sunflower Power](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/sunflower-power) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2025 - Description: With the aim of raising awareness of the amazing work Beth’s Sunflowers do for cancer charities, our garden design showcases the incredible power of the sunflower and how it is being channeled as a force for good. A hugely symbolic plant since ancient times, its cheerful, ‘sun-like’ appearance and ability to follow the sun (heliotropism) have led to it being a symbol of positivity, optimism and happiness. One of nature’s mathematical marvels, its seeds are arranged in spirals following the Fibon... - Designer: Hannah Thomas - Awards: Platinum Award - Location: Birmingham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/6fb5e0b9-1de7-4368-b328-d26dcf961dd3/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Sunlight Shining Through](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/sunlight-shining-through) - RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival 2025 - Designer: Zhechen Ren, Xiya Xu, Tongheng Liang, Minjie Yang - Awards: Gold Medal - Sponsor: The Paul Hogarth Company, Re-form - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/839fb8bc-f3b6-41b6-8f89-ce13b9dc02cd/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Super Blooms! A high-energy dry border for people, plants and pollinators](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/super-blooms-a-high-energy-dry-border-for-people-plants-and-pollinators) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2025 - Description: Drawing inspiration from the Superbloom events in the Americas, South Africa, Australia and the Mediterranean, this colourful dry border connects the visitor with an array of annuals and perennials from these regions. Some plants you'll recognise, some you won't. The setting is sand and gravel, reminiscent of the Sussex coastline where the designer lives, and the floral sand beds, where she is a WRAGS trainee. It shows visitors how easy and pocket friendly it is to create impactful flower and fo... - Designer: Rhoda Parry - Awards: Gold Award - Location: Birmingham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/3fd01dde-5e40-4abc-89c1-bdef86831413/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Super Garden Winner - 'Bee Happy' Wildlife Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/super-garden-winner-bee-happy-wildlife-garden) - Bord Bia Bloom 2025 - Designer: Debbie Brophy - Awards: Silver Medal - Sponsor: RTÉ - Location: Dublin, Ireland - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/082cfa5b-e240-4d85-8355-5b3597dd1b78/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Surrey County Council: Reclaiming spaces, creating healthy streets](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/surrey-county-council-reclaiming-spaces-creating-healthy-streets) - RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival 2025 - Description: A garden which re-imagines parking spaces, with the creation of vibrant functional areas that connect people and communities with nature. Planting has been chosen to provide colour all year round, be low maintenance and have good longevity. Plants with pollution absorbing qualities will be planted along an imagined, busy Surrey Road, and plants that survive temporary waterlogging will also feature, as the garden is designed to absorb water from the highway. An area built by the Surrey Youth Offe... - Designer: Helen Currie, Steve Dimmock, Diego Carrillo - Awards: Silver Medal - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/f9ff33ef-f25c-4eb6-ac97-6b0204f2bad3/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Tackle HIV Challenging Stigma Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/tackle-hiv-challenging-stigma-garden) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025 - Description: The garden draws inspiration from the significant scientific and medical advancements made in HIV treatment over the last 40 years. Today, individuals living with HIV on effective treatment can anticipate a long and fulfilling life without limitations. Tree statues serve as a solemn tribute to lives lost to HIV and the stigma that sadly persists. Hexagonal paving reflects a key chemical structure found within many HIV medications. Water flows under a bridge, symbolising the transition to a healt... - Designer: Manoj Malde - Awards: Silver Gilt Medal - Sponsor: ViiV Healthcare - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/3be22afb-046f-4aa9-99ef-eaceaf3d6ab9/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Tea and Tranquillity: Harmonies in Green](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/tea-and-tranquillity-harmonies-in-green) - RHS Flower Show Wentworth Woodhouse 2025 - Description: Inspired by a traditional Japanese Tea Garden, the design promotes calm and mindfulness through a symbolic journey. A 'dewy path' (roji) over stepping stones, passes through a bamboo gate and into the inner garden. Along the way lies a stone basin and lantern for ritual cleansing, and a Chiriana (dust pit) symbolising tidying and the release of worries. These features reflect the garden's purpose of preparing visitors for the Tea ceremony. The planting scheme uses mainly evergreens and creates s... - Designer: Andy Bolton, Nick Islip - Awards: Gold Medal - Sponsor: Japanese Garden Society, The Japanese Garden Centre - Location: Rotherham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/727424c7-2df5-4726-a7e3-0baa6ba1ba98/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Telling Stories, Making Memories](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/telling-stories-making-memories) - RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival 2025 - Description: Of the five senses, the sense of smell is the only one fully developed before we are born. Our earliest memories are laid down in scent and aromas can transport us back to a past time. In the brain, scent molecules are captured by the olfactory bulb which connects directly to the limbic system including the amygdala and hippocampus which are centres of emotion and memory. The design is an intimate and immersive space intended to connect generations of a family through the medium of scent, memory... - Designer: Ella Clarke, Sally Holder - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/dfbc7964-7211-433b-b605-f9d7ba08c519/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Teucer Wilson: Green the Gap Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/teucer-wilson-green-the-gap-garden) - RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival 2025 - Description: As cities grow, the Teucer Wilson Green the Gap Garden explores how nature can thrive in overlooked spaces - the gaps between the hard landscape, the neglected corners, verges, and forgotten edges. The Portland Stone sculptures are made from off-cuts and un-loved material, provided by Albion Stone and sculpted by Teucer Wilson. Carved with recesses that reflect architectural detailing, they echo the forms and surfaces of the built environment and speak to the urban fabric surrounding these hidde... - Designer: Laura Strand, Sam Stark Kemp - Awards: Gold Medal, Best Pocket Planting - Sponsor: Teucer Wilson, Albion Stone, Hortus Loci - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/9ee47d23-2858-44e2-be0b-4c8b51542d3d/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [The Addleshaw Goddard: Freedom To Flourish Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-addleshaw-goddard-freedom-to-flourish-garden) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025 - Description: This garden advocates against the rising tide of ‘being too busy’. Inspired by a Norfolk colloquialism (slow you down), the design explores the mental health benefits of living an unhurried lifestyle, spending time in nature, gardens and gardening. Taking its cue from the landscape of North Norfolk, gabions filled with natural materials represent coastal cliffs and also provide habitats for wildlife. The planting palette has a base colour of sandy tones in the bark of feature trees –Heptacodium... - Designer: Joe Carey, Laura Carey - Awards: Gold Medal, RHS Chelsea Small Garden of the Year, Best Construction Award - Sponsor: Addleshaw Goddard - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/df3f9fb0-a6ff-49e7-9865-b1d2f62cdef2/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [The ADHD Foundation Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-adhd-foundation-garden) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025 - Description: The Garden aims to be a celebration of neurodiversity. A richly layered environment with a uniquely shaped tree, shrubs and planting combinations representing biodiversity as a mirror to human diversity to symbolise the estimated 1-in-5 people living with neurodiverse conditions. The design invites visitors to ‘think differently about thinking differently’. Art features throughout the Garden – with a central slab cast sculpture, created by Sasha Sykes, and umbrella figures, created by David Begb... - Designer: Katy Terry - Awards: Silver Gilt Medal - Sponsor: ADHD Foundation - The Neurodiversity Charity, Project Giving Back - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/248848a7-2c32-47aa-858e-332d3cd098c9/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [The Alan Partridge Sound Bath Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-alan-partridge-sound-bath-garden) - RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival 2025 - Description: This garden, devised by tv character Alan Partridge (played by Steve Coogan) in collaboration with leading designers, offers a contemporary rethinking of the outdoor space. A tribute to structure, to durability, and to personal resonance, the garden reflects Alan's meticulous approach to design, aesthetics, and materials. Visitors are invited to experience a space that is both purposeful and forward-looking. The rear boundary fence is a standout feature, crafted from Norfolk-grown Larch with a b... - Designer: Joe Carey, Laura Carey - Awards: Gold Medal - Sponsor: Audible - Location: London, United Kingdom - 360 tour: [interactive 360 tour](https://gardensdb.com/360-tours/6da1ecce-7946-45a0-9979-2e7172e39230) - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/2a786eaa-1a88-4ca9-8a78-f83e792c982e/conversions/The-Alan-Partridge-Sound-Bath-Garden---1-preview.webp) - [The Avanade 'Intelligent' Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-avanade-intelligent-garden) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025 - Description: The Avanade 'Intelligent' Garden is RHS Chelsea’s first Show Garden with embedded AI showcasing cutting-edge technology for urban garden management. AI continuously monitors factors like soil moisture, pH, temperature, air quality, wind, and rainfall through a network of sensors. This data powers a dynamic digital model of the garden, revealing trends, tracking changes, and predicting future conditions, enabling proactive, resource-efficient care. Visitors can explore this technology through an... - Designer: Tom Massey - Awards: Gold Medal, Best Construction Award - Sponsor: Avanade - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/a6c9489f-c579-48a8-a8a1-c669fad9a508/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [The British Red Cross 'Here for Humanity' Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-british-red-cross-here-for-humanity-garden) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025 - Description: The garden is inspired by Henri Dunant – the Swiss visionary founder of the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement – and the countless volunteers who have dedicated their lives to impartial and compassionate service supporting people in crisis in the UK and overseas. A contemporary twist on an alpine garden, with large stone column-like planters which mimic traditional trough alpine displays, while areas of scree and crevice planting allow for a unique collection of plants to be shown. Alpine species c... - Designer: Tom Bannister, John Warland - Awards: Gold Medal - Sponsor: British Red Cross - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/d636168d-0276-4776-ab95-42dd52c6d9d2/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [The Burning Truth](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-burning-truth) - RHS Flower Show Wentworth Woodhouse 2025 - Description: This border is inspired by the overwhelming force of wildfires, their sheer size, unrelenting speed and the devastation they leave behind. The intense reds, oranges, and blacks in the planting create an immediate impact and mirror the raw devastation of wildfires. The scorched wood and ash-like plants are stark reminders of the reality of climate change, yet the swirling grasses and soft, white tones of renewal bring a sense of emerging hope. This border is about loss but also resilience, the po... - Designer: Angharadd Jones, Emma Barnard - Awards: Silver Medal - Sponsor: University of Gloucestershire, Build Right Recruitment - Location: Rotherham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/ef7f46bd-ac05-4b31-8251-928ddb68cf78/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [The Calm at the Centre](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-calm-at-the-centre) - RHS Flower Show Wentworth Woodhouse 2025 - Description: This border uses empty space as a focal point, challenging the idea of what the eye is - or should be - drawn to in a garden. Two dynamic plantings, both with strong palettes of purples, reds, copper and steely blue, surround a serene, clear centre. A pair of decorative steel water tanks, planted with aquatic species, ground the design and create the negative focal space between, while structural plants such as Beschorneria yucciodes (yucca-leaved Beschorneria) and Euphorbia rigida (upright myrt... - Designer: Skye Bond - Awards: Silver Gilt Medal - Sponsor: The Chagford Inn - Location: Rotherham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/d1370dbf-d11b-4cfe-8763-49c3bc009bb9/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [The Chorley Council: Wild & Tended Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-chorley-council-wild-tended-garden) - RHS Flower Show Wentworth Woodhouse 2025 - Description: Many people do not have access to acres of land to create their own wildflower meadow to support local wildlife. However, most do have access to a doorstep, balcony or garden space where British native plants can be incorporated, creating wildlife corridors between urban areas and the countryside. With a combination of native plants and wildflowers along with cultivated varieties, The Chorley Council: Wild & Tended Garden inspires a balanced approach to planting design with vibrancy as nature in... - Designer: Stephanie Brookes-Taylor - Awards: Gold Medal - Sponsor: Chorley Council - Location: Rotherham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/397f08e2-e9d1-4859-ae98-3361c865a928/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [The Diamond Way: Cotswold Estates and Gardens 60th Anniversary Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-diamond-way-cotswold-estates-and-gardens-60th-anniversary-garden) - RHS Malvern Spring Festival 2025 - Description: The garden reflects a walk around the Cotswolds, but rather than a landscape in miniature, it is an ornamental garden that takes inspiration from many of the quintessential aspects of the area. A covered seating area is designed around a church lychgate, and the water feature represents a stone-sided watercourse with a ford crossing, beside which is a bench, designed to look like a stone footbridge. One end of the garden is planted with semi-mature beech trees and underplanted with woodland plan... - Awards: Bronze Medal - Location: Malvern, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/089d1d87-df7a-415c-a032-137d7161c412/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [The Discovery Outdoors 'Edimental Kitchen Classroom'](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-discovery-outdoors-edimental-kitchen-classroom) - RHS Flower Show Wentworth Woodhouse 2025 - Description: This Border nurtures the connection to the food growing process, while challenging the aesthetics of what an edible bed should look like - encouraging hands-on education and exploratory interest for school children. Ornamental and naturalistic planting with varied textural and architectural qualities sees edible planting merge functionality and beauty. Built elements recreate an outdoor classroom environment, with vertical surfaces and a food prep table, which appears to float above the plants.... - Designer: Sam Penrose - Awards: Silver Gilt Medal - Sponsor: Discovery Outdoors Sheffield, Roots Allotments - Location: Rotherham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/76709395-587d-4b25-9a6d-616d88b8cd6d/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [The Dune Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-dune-garden) - RHS Flower Show Wentworth Woodhouse 2025 - Description: The Dune Garden is a ritual sanctuary inspired by the wild, resilient beauty of Fire Island, New York, and its legacy as a queer refuge. Spartan and elemental, it invites quiet gestures of use: walking a thin sand path, rinsing under an outdoor shower, and resting on a reclaimed split-chestnut bench in the lee of a dune. The garden is an act of consideration, of the dune, by presence and return, in our ritual of freedom under the sun. A bench, a shower, water gathers, orchids appear and creeping... - Designer: Jacopo Ducato Ruggeri - Awards: Silver Gilt Medal - Location: Rotherham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/61b5e4d1-609d-4578-be1e-0db22ae38e5c/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [The Early Bird Catches the Worm Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-early-bird-catches-the-worm-garden) - Bord Bia Bloom 2025 - Description: The Early Bird Catches the Worm Garden has been created to raise awareness of cancer prevention and the importance of early detection. Inspired by the idiom “the early bird catches the worm”, the centre of the garden features a large wooden birdhouse. Throughout the space, vibrant flowers represent Ireland’s five most common cancers. Every element of the garden works together to highlight the importance of healthy lifestyle choices that reduce cancer risk. The sheltered area beneath the birdhous... - Designer: Benny Magennis - Awards: Silver Gilt Medal - Sponsor: Marie Keating Foundation, AstraZeneca, Gilead Sciences - Location: Dublin, Ireland - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/0551fa0e-7516-453e-9ab7-19e6da016ba9/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [The Earth Heals](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-earth-heals) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2025 - Description: The garden is a tribute to the incredible resilience and survival of the people of Hiroshima after the Atomic bomb on August 6th 1945, and the rebuilding and replanting of the city into the vibrant leafy place it is today. It references the extraordinary ‘hibaku jumoko’ or ‘survivor trees’ which can be seen in the city, and reminds us of the capacity of the Earth to heal itself. The garden uses elements of traditional Japanese garden design such as enclosure, asymmetry, simplicity and naturalnes... - Designer: Sue Arthur, Ian Potts - Awards: Gold Award - Location: Birmingham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/f1fd7cd9-2b26-48ff-88fa-9704918db813/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [The Ecotalk Rooted in Nature Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-ecotalk-rooted-in-nature-garden) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2025 - Description: Nature and nourishment is at the heart of Garden Organic's 'Rooted in Nature' Garden – which shows how diversely planted kitchen gardens can provide fresh food for your family while buffering the biodiversity crisis. Based around the charity’s research paper, Every Garden Matters, the garden demonstrates easy ways to maximise wildlife and manage water while growing your own food. In the vegetable patch, diverse and colourful heirloom vegetables, such as beetroots, peas and amaranth – from Garden... - Designer: Emma O'Neil - Awards: Silver Merit Award - Sponsor: Garden Organic, Ecotalk - Location: Birmingham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/869c7771-e992-45de-b78b-eabbe91ea53d/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [The Estate's Essence](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-estates-essence) - Bord Bia Bloom 2025 - Description: Abbeyleix House and Farm returns to Bord Bia Bloom for a second successive year with this small show garden which brings the essence of the County Laois estate to the Phoenix Park. Elegant planting and classical features, including small sculptures and the feature wall medallion, have been brought straight from Abbeyleix to offer visitors a glimpse of the beauty of this 250-year-old estate. The simple colour scheme of green and white offers a tranquil backdrop to the art on display, with a plant... - Designer: Patrik Weisser - Awards: Silver Medal - Location: Dublin, Ireland - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/d3934fa2-681e-40e0-b7d0-980770d9a22d/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [The European Commission's 'Renewed Blooms' Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-european-commissions-renewed-blooms-garden) - Bord Bia Bloom 2025 - Description: The European Commission's 'Renewed Blooms' Garden embodies EU circular economy principles by repurposing materials and blending nature with human-made elements. Featuring a discarded railway track and facade tiles made from recycled PVC windows, the garden showcases how waste materials can be transformed into functional, durable, and striking design features. Highlighting the beauty of reclaimed materials while serving as a wildlife habitat and source of inspiration, every element – from salvage... - Designer: David Negus - Awards: Gold Medal, Best in Category - Sponsor: European Commission - Location: Dublin, Ireland - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/3d2e962f-ba13-4216-8e46-db6ada5abfe3/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [The Garden of Hope](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-garden-of-hope) - Royal Windsor Flower Show 2025 - Sponsor: Thames Hospice - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/94a9977c-855b-4b13-ae9f-b4ad84f9645b/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [The Garden of Reflection](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-garden-of-reflection) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2025 - Description: The Garden of Reflection is designed to actively involve pupils in the creation and upkeep of the space, fostering a sense of ownership and responsibility. By allowing students to plant flowers and care for the space, they become directly connected to the environment, which in turn promotes a sense of pride and accomplishment. The process of nurturing plants offers a calming, therapeutic experience, helping reduce stress and anxiety. The garden serves as a powerful tool for mental well-being, pr... - Designer: Marc Buirski - Location: Birmingham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/e380fe71-7b88-41e2-b4fe-6d7a0537161a/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [The Garden of Simples](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-garden-of-simples) - RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival 2025 - Description: Inspired by medieval and monastic healing gardens, the garden celebrates the healing properties of the Lamiaceae plant family. The garden aims to reflect the style, structure, skills and craftmanship that would have been used within a monastic garden and how the priests and monks, in line with their commitments to serve the poor and sick, created early centres of medicinal plant collections, that were the precursor to the physic and botanical gardens of today. - Designer: Susie Kennedy - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/86f104b7-6483-49b3-a997-4222d4ad97dd/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [The Glasshouse Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-glasshouse-garden) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025 - Description: The Glasshouse Garden celebrates the transformative effect of second chances through horticulture. It embodies the sense of purpose, self-belief and hope The Glasshouse programme offers to women as they approach the end of their prison sentences, through a programme of horticultural training, employment and resettlement support. An immersive space centred around a translucent elliptical pavilion emerging from the foliage, the Garden is full of sensory delights. Jewel-like colours and fragrant fl... - Designer: Jo Thompson - Awards: Gold Medal - Sponsor: The Glasshouse, Project Giving Back - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/b457b59f-4239-4c0b-9f4e-181ce65d2900/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [The Golden Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-golden-garden) - RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival 2025 - Description: The Golden Garden celebrates the rich possibilities of yellow in our gardens. This vibrant, cheerful colour is often overlooked by gardeners who find it tricky to mix into their planting schemes. However, this misses out on so many wonderful plants, many of which are magnets for butterflies, bees and other pollinators. So, we're setting out to show how you can combine the analogous hues of yellow-orange, yellow and yellow-green to create a joyful, wildlife-friendly space. The addition of bee pos... - Designer: Alana Sims, Kiera Jamison - Sponsor: GardensDB - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/538b4c92-de02-4c3f-a892-6aac29e876b1/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [The Golden Hour](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-golden-hour) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2025 - Description: The Golden Hour border is a space for reconnecting with your true self – a tranquil escape from the hustle of daily life. Inspired by the golden sunrise and sunset hours, it features warm hues and amber tones proven to promote relaxation. The wild, loose planting invites you to let go of formality, while tall stems and swaying grasses encourage daydreaming and introspection. A herbal lawn enhances grounding, releasing soothing aromas as you walk. The border is designed around a circular arch sig... - Designer: Ellen Tozer - Awards: Gold Award - Sponsor: We Say Grow - Location: Birmingham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/7b32c283-7a2a-4ce4-a0e4-29569fc26ed5/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [The Grant Horticulture Xeriscape Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-grant-horticulture-xeriscape-garden) - RHS Flower Show Wentworth Woodhouse 2025 - Description: Inspired by the sun-baked Garrigues of southern France, the landscapes of the wider Mediterranean, and areas closer to home with more temperate climates such as the Isle of Wight, Scilly Isles and Cornwall, this space is an exploration of futureproof planting. Xeriscaping is the practice of designing landscapes to reduce or eliminate the need for irrigation, and as temperatures continue to rise and water becomes more precious a resource, the types of plants we use in our borders in the future wi... - Designer: Callum Bain-MacKay - Awards: Gold Medal - Sponsor: Grant Horticulture - Location: Rotherham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/398b5383-00b3-46c4-8431-d1a5de1d2477/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [The Grass Advantage](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-grass-advantage) - Bord Bia Bloom 2025 - Description: Depicting an idyllic garden nestled within an iconic rural farm setting, The Grass Advantage highlights the beauty of Ireland’s natural pasture with its white clover grass mix forming a naturally enriching multi-species sward. At its centre, a large, five-metre-high milk churn sculpture symbolises the cultural heritage of Irish dairy production and celebrates the grass-based system that is the foundation of Ireland’s world-renowned “Liquid Gold” dairy produce. The garden is inspired by the many... - Designer: Robert Moore - Awards: Silver Gilt Medal - Sponsor: National Dairy Council - Location: Dublin, Ireland - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/45dd987e-c2d8-4151-bb2f-d347ffa95fbb/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [The Green Tapestry](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-green-tapestry) - Royal Windsor Flower Show 2025 - Description: The Green Tapestry is a nod to trailblazer Beth Chatto, who taught us to see the beauty in leaves, to value the rhythm of foliage as deeply as the flourish of flowers. The bed is a study of leaves: a living canvas of layered texture, shifting shapes, and subtle tonal interplay While flowers attract pollinators with nectar guides, certain leaves offer similar yet less celebrated patterns, to guide flying insects. This is a place where structure meets softness, and where every leaf whether bold or... - Designer: Camila Romain - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/cfbd98e9-0a74-4847-a66a-c56340759cf0/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [The Greenfingers Charity Anniversary Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-greenfingers-charity-anniversary-garden) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2025 - Description: This beautifully designed space will bring to life the five key elements that define every Greenfingers garden: Play, Learn, Remember, Care, and Grow. The garden, designed by Pip Probert, draws inspiration from her recent visit to Claire House Children’s Hospice in The Wirral, where Pip, alongside the Greenfingers team met with hospice staff and explored an existing Greenfingers space. An immersive space designed for all Spanning 15.5m x 15.5m, The Greenfingers Charity Anniversary Garden, will b... - Designer: Pip Probert - Sponsor: Greenfingers Charity - Location: Birmingham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/c55a2ce9-61c5-4c5e-9d22-481eb1cf18c4/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [The Greenfingers Charity Together Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-greenfingers-charity-together-garden) - RHS Flower Show Wentworth Woodhouse 2025 - Description: This garden is a private space, designed for use by parents who are staying with their child at the hospice in the end of life suite, to which the garden is attached. The visitors will see a garden of scrolling forms and spaces which caress or merge into each other, resembling hands softly held together. The design offers moments of tranquillity set amongst immersive planting to pause or reflect, a place in which to feel cocooned, and able to be alone with thoughts or find a glimmer of solace wi... - Designer: Phil Hirst, Joanne Charlton - Awards: Silver Gilt Medal - Sponsor: Greenfingers Charity, Pentola - Location: Rotherham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/2b2e9aae-98f4-4c0e-bbdc-640e84961cfa/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [The Hierarchy of Plants](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-hierarchy-of-plants) - RHS Malvern Spring Festival 2025 - Description: The garden is inspired by the basic need to realise one's full potential and becoming everything that you can be, as suggested by Mazlow’s hierarchy of needs. Often presented as a pyramid, the philosophy categorises our five essential needs: physiological (food, water and shelter), safety, social (belonging), esteem and self-actualisation (creativity, achievement). ​ The garden is a tiered, tropical style garden infused with a variety of cottage garden plants interspersed with lush foliage and t... - Designer: Kate Mason - Awards: Silver Gilt Medal, People's Choice Best Show Garden - Location: Malvern, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/dd75b20b-5227-405d-b856-1229a8f48591/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [The Hospitalfield Arts Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-hospitalfield-arts-garden) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025 - Description: The Hospitalfield Arts Garden takes its inspiration from the location of Hospitalfield Arts on the east coast of Scotland, with its continuous soft, fragile and precious sand dune landscape. The Garden has a strong sense of place: a sculptural and abstract representation of this natural habitat, with a focus on dramatic dune topography and evocative, resilient coastal planting. Not only the setting for art practice, it is also a place in which artists can garden. A place for both quiet contempla... - Designer: Nigel Dunnett - Awards: Silver Gilt Medal - Sponsor: Hospitalfield, Project Giving Back - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/22976527-a848-47de-93a3-1fa65ad15e98/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [The Hoverfly Haven](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-hoverfly-haven) - RHS Flower Show Wentworth Woodhouse 2025 - Location: Rotherham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/09d4418d-4115-42ae-b782-8de68e215850/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [The Hummingbird Haven](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-hummingbird-haven) - RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival 2025 - Description: This garden, sponsored by PoB Hotels, celebrates the connection that evolved between hummingbirds and Lamiaceae plants such as Salvia and Monarda. Featuring a curated selection of their favoured nectar-rich orange and red blooms, the planting creates an inviting habitat inspired by these fascinating pollinators. Enjoy a vibrant, immersive space with life-size sculptures of hummingbirds darting between flowers. The oval shape and curves of the bed are inspired by their elegant flight patterns. Pl... - Designer: Alison Shadwell Williams, Yvonne Price - Sponsor: PoB Hotels - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/54ce8857-57cd-4464-b5f4-0b478e8072b6/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [The Inner Child](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-inner-child) - BBC Gardeners' World Autum Fair 2025 - Description: My Inspiration came from a sculpture by Ukrainian born: Alexander Milov entitled 'Love'. It depicts two conflicting adults whilst their inner children reach out to connect with the other. Pride and resentment choke connections between adults causing conflict, yet the inner child within us all simply wants connection through love. Using shape colour and texture, I have re-imagined this using dark purples, thorny and leathery leaves for resentment and anger, soft feathery grasses, whites and compl... - Designer: Adele Glaser - Awards: Silver Merit Award - Location: Essex, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/6fcec274-a989-41d2-b771-fbd4e56e0dd9/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [The Interwoven Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-interwoven-garden) - BBC Gardeners' World Autum Fair 2025 - Description: The interwoven garden is a celebration of our relationship with plants and how people have used them for thousands of years. Including plants that can either be used to weave a basket or can create a pigment for material. The human relationship with plants and the heritage crafts that came from them are still in use to this day and the aim of this garden is to inspire people to make a beautiful garden that is rich in biodiversity and history. - Designer: Emily Passmore - Location: Essex, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/5c9f7314-1a9a-47d7-a5bd-28055edf8e76/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [The Islands - From Rain to Sun](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-islands-from-rain-to-sun) - BBC Gardeners' World Autum Fair 2025 - Description: Inspired by her own journey of blending cultures, British and Dominican, this border celebrates the warmth, love, and beauty of multicultural families. A circle of water flows through the space, symbolising connection across oceans. Warm reds, oranges & yellows bring the energy of the Caribbean. Cool blues, purples & pinks reflect the calm, rainy beauty of the UK. Two worlds, one story. - Designer: Rebecca Sheppard - Awards: Silver Merit Award - Location: Essex, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/b9dfbcad-670f-4c5e-a2d0-6727f4c37413/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [The King's Trust Garden: Seeding Success](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-kings-trust-garden-seeding-success) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025 - Description: The King’s Trust Garden: Seeding Success is inspired by volcanic environments, highlighting pioneer plants and how their seeds represent the potential for life, growth and optimism for the future and drawing parallels with the potential held in young people. Screen-printed glass panels weave through the garden to convey an artistic representation of seed dispersal. Drifts of grasses and perennials are punctuated by low-growing sub-shrubs in muted silvery greys and greens with accents of colour.... - Designer: Joe Perkins - Awards: Gold Medal - Sponsor: The King's Trust, Project Giving Back - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/b56d0ad1-6042-4bcd-a232-3e608990e743/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [The London Square Chelsea Pensioners Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-london-square-chelsea-pensioners-garden) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025 - Description: Working with the Royal Hospital Chelsea, home of the Chelsea Pensioners, London Square aims to reflect the 300-year-old heritage of “a home for soldiers broken by age and war.” The garden is a place for the Pensioners to share or to enjoy quiet reflection. A woodland space, filled with striking trees offers a sheltered, accessible central space with seating upholstered in recycled Pensioners’ scarlet uniforms and a world map table creating an immersive, natural environment to encourage the Pensi... - Designer: Dave Green - Awards: Gold Medal - Sponsor: London Square - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/ba7cb937-fb76-4f62-bfe2-bde74cb4cf73/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [The Macmillan Legacy of a Lifetime Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-macmillan-legacy-of-a-lifetime-garden) - RHS Flower Show Wentworth Woodhouse 2025 - Description: The Macmillan Legacy of a Lifetime Garden is a space for contemplation, connection and quiet appreciation. It invites visitors to consider the impact of a lifetime and how each generation can support the next. This symbolic garden highlights how leaving a gift in a will for Macmillan can be a lasting legacy, helping those living with cancer in the future. Inspired by the tranquil beauty, healing qualities and lifecycles of nature, the garden features elegant trees with finely cut leaves, casting... - Designer: Pandora Ryan - Awards: Silver Medal - Sponsor: Macmillan Cancer Support - Location: Rotherham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/a32c6061-436f-4d56-b597-2bfed5948436/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [The Making Sense Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-making-sense-garden-1) - BBC Gardeners' World Autum Fair 2025 - Description: The garden was designed to demonstrate the connection between mind, body and environment, creating a place of contemplation, engaging the senses towards self-understanding, personal agency and connectedness. The concept was formed from my own personal experiences and recognition of the value of immersing oneself in the smells, sounds, touch and sight of an ever-changing garden space, my form of mindfulness. Conversations with others living with stress or pain have reinforced my belief that senso... - Location: Essex, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/fe90214a-38e0-453f-87bd-f8add96bff4d/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [The ME+EM City Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-meem-city-garden) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025 - Description: Generous planters clad in moss green and soft pink natural clay tiles overflow with planting designed to catch the soft glow of the late afternoon sun, offering a soothing retreat for the senses. Fragrant plants, perfect for cut flowers bring the beauty of nature into the home. A small, tile-clad seat provides the ideal spot to relax and watch the sunset, with sweeping views of the city lights. From a pergola, draped in climbing plants hangs a striking orb-like light which casts a soft, warm glo... - Designer: Caroline Clayton, Peter Clayton - Awards: Bronze Medal - Sponsor: ME+EM - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/7897d88f-dd04-4829-a0e5-ff616d6556bf/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [The Milky Way](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-milky-way) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2025 - Description: This border attempts to connect night and day. To experience the alien world of a garden at night during the daytime, dark leaved plants have been used. When the usual green colours disappear, a border starts looking unfamiliar, where the visitor ostensibly sets foot in an alternate universe, more familiar to what can be experienced at night. The white flowers scattered around the border represent the stars, the white-greenish Pittosporum tenuifolium ‘Irene Patterson’ represents the moon and the... - Designer: Wouter Leyssen - Location: Birmingham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/c484533b-2206-4689-97e2-8202fd0a75a6/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [The Moonlight Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-moonlight-garden) - RHS Flower Show Wentworth Woodhouse 2025 - Description: The garden is a tranquil and enchanting space designed to come alive after dusk, supporting night-time pollinators such as moths, bats, beetles and other nocturnal creatures. Pale flowers and silvery leaves glow under the moonlight, while soft foliage and subtle scents create a calm and reflective atmosphere. Planting includes silvers, whites, soft purples and pinks sat amongst the swaying grasses, with the centrepiece rising moon sculpture. The garden is inspired by the often-overlooked world o... - Designer: Lauren Whalley, Louise Leyland - Awards: Silver Medal - Location: Rotherham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/9c47c6a6-f787-4610-94da-910315c31f9a/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [The National Garden Scheme: Hotter Summers, Cooler Colours](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-national-garden-scheme-hotter-summers-cooler-colours) - RHS Flower Show Wentworth Woodhouse 2025 - Description: Traditionally, when we imagine hot borders, we imagine hot colours and plants found in more arid or tropical environments. This doesn't need to be the case. We can still have the English country garden feel and colour palette that can cope with a changing climate and doesn't lose the romantic feel. This is what a visitor can expect to see. The garden shows how hot border planting can be achieved in an English country theme. Arts & Crafts gardens such as Sissinghurst, Great Dixter and Hidcote Man... - Designer: Lydia Weston-Foss - Awards: Silver Medal - Sponsor: The National Garden Scheme - Location: Rotherham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/5264b01d-a1b1-47e5-9294-8af982e99450/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [The Nectary](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-nectary) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2025 - Description: The Nectary is a sustainable garden that cultivates connections between generations of skilled artisans, farmers, and the best of local UK family-run businesses. As a beekeeper, it will incorporate one of our most beloved pollinators – the bee. A garden should bring joy, and this one is sure to delight, from the stained glass incorporated into the greenhouse with colour therapy and plant growth in mind, to hand-painted art by community artists adorning the glass, willow weavers UK-grown sustaina... - Designer: Kate Patrick - Awards: Silver Merit Award - Location: Birmingham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/36d40988-32a4-494f-9b81-8c4181d31f04/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [The NEW Build Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-new-build-garden) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2025 - Description: The NEW Build Garden celebrates the transformative power of nature at our backdoor and showcases a modern vision of a New Build Garden. Honouring nature as inspiration using repurposed waste materials and human craft skills to create a paradise, our design premise is to foster a sustainable and harmonious connection with the natural world. Creating intelligent repurposing of waste materials, we will cultivate an environment that celebrate biodiversity and promotes well-being, inspiring a deeper... - Designer: Lucie Ponsford - Awards: Gold Award - Sponsor: Hot Tubs Oxfordshire, Hutsmith, No Rules Textile Society - Location: Birmingham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/ff5714bb-0172-4628-bc96-9708921ace2a/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [The Newborn Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-newborn-garden) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2025 - Description: The Newborn Garden is a private space for carers to feed their babies. It is inspired by my experience of post-natal anxiety and created in association with the Maternal Mental Health Alliance and maternal health and feeding experts Lansinoh. The garden offers a sense of enclosure, shielding users from the outside world while fostering connection. Shade is cast by a leafy upper tier and the underplanting is shade tolerant. The colours are muted to create a calming environment for bonding and ref... - Designer: Jane Eastwood - Awards: Silver Award - Location: Birmingham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/d9e73745-bfa7-4113-aa9a-a0f184648b9f/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [The One to Three Border](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-one-to-three-border) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2025 - Description: A space created to cultivate a connection with yourself, others and nature. The border is designed to offer seating for up to three people to pause and reflect, just 1-3 minutes of mindfulness in nature could make all the difference to your mindset. There is a seat for two on one side for shared moments, and a seat for one under the tree for quiet contemplation. A water bowl reflects the sky, and tactile and aromatic plants surround the seating to engage the senses. The planting palette is kept... - Designer: Anita Rose - Awards: Platinum Award, Best Beautiful Border - Location: Birmingham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/a0135e79-6735-4086-b753-5b7080a393b0/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [The Pathway Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-pathway-garden) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025 - Description: Inspired by the work that the Pathway charity does to support people out of homelessness, the Pathway Garden has interconnecting spaces yet keeps an open feel, with no dead ends. Boulders intersect the first section of path, illustrating that the journey of an individual out of homelessness onto a healthier and happier life course often features obstacles. The bench and pergola are a sheltered resting place, with the water feature providing an opportunity for reflection. The planting reflects an... - Designer: Allon Hoskin, Robert Beaudin - Awards: Silver Gilt Medal, RHS Environmental Innovation Award - Sponsor: Project Giving Back - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/768c0a02-40ab-4b7b-bd5b-ad3df2a87959/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [The Plant Based Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-plant-based-garden) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2025 - Description: Nick Bailey, BBC Gardeners’ World presenter and award-winning garden designer, is designing the Headline Show Garden for BBC Gardeners’ World Live 2025. The Plant-Based Garden has a homestead feel with a cluster of characterful, feature buildings, meadow-like planting, an elegant dining space and a series of beds for cut flowers, veg, herbs and composting. A multi-occupancy birdhouse is designed to suit different bird species. Three ornamental Make a Metre Matter ponds will demonstrate how to at... - Designer: Nick Bailey - Location: Birmingham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/94d71009-e99a-41a6-a68f-7b241c6a2718/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [The Plant Lover's Garden - Easy Steps to Dream Gardens](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-plant-lovers-garden-easy-steps-to-dream-gardens) - Bord Bia Bloom 2025 - Description: This garden from Bord Bia’s 'Easy Steps to Dream Gardens' series features an abundant display of planting that will provide interest throughout the year. The design is quite natural; planting is brought close to the house and is inspired by meadows with lots of flowers and grasses. The hard landscaping is simple, allowing the plants to be the main attraction. The patio closest to the house includes a bench – the ideal spot for morning coffee - while the centre of the garden features room for a t... - Designer: Patricia Tyrrell - Location: Dublin, Ireland - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/3f4fa0a1-0755-4119-940c-034affb8e1f4/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [The Pot Gallery Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-pot-gallery-garden) - Bord Bia Bloom 2025 - Description: In urban environments, space within garden terraces, roofs or balconies is often at a premium and does not allow planting directly into the ground. The aim with this garden is to showcase how pots, both freestanding and vertical, can be used creatively to green such a space. The plot is typical of a concrete courtyard or roof garden setting which generally has limited soil depth and harsh wall surrounds. At ground level, selected shallow rooting plants have been chosen to grow within the raised... - Designer: Alan Rudden - Awards: Gold Medal, Best in Category - Sponsor: Alan Rudden Collection - Location: Dublin, Ireland - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/4c1411ce-6eea-4a88-8d8e-1bcd6a7b5fb2/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [The Quiet Retreat](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-quiet-retreat) - RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival 2025 - Description: A Quiet Retreat is designed for those who work from home, providing a sensory retreat for mental grounding and mindfulness. Warm-coloured flowers and textured foliage create a nurturing environment, while natural materials - clay, timber and woven surfaces - enhance the tactile experience. Seating invites daily pause and reflection. - Designer: Katerina Kantalis - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/32864592-b3c4-40aa-8635-a561285b1b44/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [The Rain Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-rain-garden) - RHS Malvern Spring Festival 2025 - Description: The Rain Garden is inspired by the changing climate and flood risks that urban environments face. This garden offers a peaceful retreat from the hustle and bustle of city life, drawing inspiration from the tranquillity and beauty of traditional Japanese gardens. It demonstrates that with thoughtful design and planting, it’s possible to create a space that not only inspires but also addresses practical concerns, such as mitigating the impact of flooding caused by climate change. The garden’s desi... - Designer: John Howlett - Awards: Gold Medal - Location: Malvern, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/0daf005c-eac5-4327-96ed-e7d19693c8f4/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [The Rainbow Brick Balcony Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-rainbow-brick-balcony-garden) - Bord Bia Bloom 2025 - Description: The Rainbow Brick Balcony Garden has been designed and built by Limerick artist, Gary Kirwan, as a tribute to LEGO, the iconic brick loved by millions of children and adults around the world. Designed for a balcony space, the garden is eye-catching and functional. Constructed entirely from bricks, it has been meticulously planned and built to scale. The vibrant colours replicate the beauty of nature with flowers such as fairy foxglove, aster, Welsh poppy and sunflowers. Unlike a living garden, t... - Designer: Gary Kirwan - Awards: Gold Medal, Best in Category - Sponsor: Brick Shows Ireland - Location: Dublin, Ireland - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/7cfb3298-3285-4340-99d9-e83c5d78aa3b/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [The Roots of Wellbeing](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-roots-of-wellbeing) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025 - Description: Focusing on work-life balance, The Roots of Wellbeing explores how greenery can enhance remote working and a feeling of inner peace. A jungle-inspired office sits inside the studio pavilion, featuring hanging troughs and trailing plants that release calming aromas. A reclaimed table serves as a workspace immersed in nature, while the exterior extends the living wall concept with herbs and aromatic plants, offering space to potter, repot and unwind. A central workstation, flanked by herbs, enable... - Designer: Abbi Dixon - Awards: Silver Gilt Medal - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/94c4278e-bf92-477d-a41e-bad30fd07b5f/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [The Scenic Root](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-scenic-root) - Royal Windsor Flower Show 2025 - Designer: Amy Drewitt - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/e39294aa-73d2-48d4-af36-69f6756ef88a/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [The Secret Shade Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-secret-shade-garden) - BBC Gardeners' World Autum Fair 2025 - Description: Shady corners are often neglected and unloved parts of the garden. My design creates a secluded green nook with ferns and other shade-loving plants. A mossy path draws visitors into a little clearing. Log piles and a tree stump give structure to the area. The wood provides an abundance of habitats and nutrition for insects, small birds, and frogs. Dead material is closely interconnected with life in the garden. Death cultivates life. - Location: Essex, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/62e4d277-ec54-4852-ae05-1f9456ac941e/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [The Sensory Retreat](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-sensory-retreat) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025 - Description: The Sensory Retreat is designed by Pippa Jameson of The Sensory Home and Beards & Daisies to support neurodivergent thinkers by exploring the power of indoor plants in enhancing mood and reducing stress. Drawing from Pippa’s own experiences with autism and dyslexia, as well as parenting a neurodivergent teenager, the design challenges the negative labels often placed on individuals who often struggle in environments that don’t support their cognitive needs. The studio retreat features five senso... - Designer: Pippa Jameson - Awards: Silver Medal - Sponsor: Graham & Brown - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/d39b00a3-c751-4237-9008-006276e28dfa/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [The Sensory Sanctuary](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-sensory-sanctuary) - RHS Malvern Spring Festival 2025 - Description: The Sensory Sanctuary, is an immersive oasis designed to reconnect visitors with nature. Set within a semi-enclosed cube, the design blends lush tropical greenery with interactive sensory elements. A misty swamp pond is surrounded by cascading vines, vibrant plants, and vertical green walls – bathed in soft, warm lighting. Fragrant flowers are complimented by textured foliage, and interactive features, such as tactile substrate panels and a natural soundscape. Inspired by the calming qualities o... - Awards: Silver Medal - Location: Malvern, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/81d16076-c761-465b-934c-edf90a052031/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [The Sleep in Beauty Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-sleep-in-beauty-garden) - RHS Malvern Spring Festival 2025 - Description: The Sleep in Beauty Garden celebrates the joys of sleeping outside in a beautiful garden. Our gardens are often the backdrops for so many happy daytime events and occasions, but we often overlook their potential in the evenings and overnight. A king-sized bed sits beneath a glorious overhead structure with a living roof and a star gazing panel. Multiple trees create a wonderful feeling of dappled shade, and the calming and relaxed planting will feature the shade-tolerant plants which are so ofte... - Designer: Ian McBain - Awards: Silver Gilt Medal - Location: Malvern, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/762b387f-0f89-439a-88b3-9cb18194641b/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [The SongBird Survival Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-songbird-survival-garden) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025 - Description: The SongBird Survival Garden centres around the narrative of a bird’s daily life. Designed for children, it provides a playful, immersive space for people to explore and connect with the fascinating lives of songbirds. Three elements – shelter, water and food – are instrumental to birds’ lives. The design is inspired by the movement and perspective of a bird, foraging for food and water while moving between points of safety and shelter. Two pathways weave between layers of planting, mimicking ho... - Designer: Nicola Oakey - Awards: Silver Gilt Medal - Sponsor: Songbird Survival, Project Giving Back - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/1961a25e-8809-4b2d-9c7f-608d16e9ed2d/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [The Student City Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-student-city-garden) - RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival 2025 - Description: This pocket champions the transformation of student terrace gardens and is inspired by the designer's local area of Crookesmoor, Sheffield. It highlights how low-cost, low-maintenance, drought-tolerant planting can improve student mental well-being by providing beautiful spaces to relax and socialise. A warm, uplifting palette of vibrant self-seeders, grasses, and perennials (including purples, reds, and apricots) erupts from a bed of recycled aggregate, signifying the dissolution of hard surfac... - Designer: Charlie Bailey - Awards: Silver Medal - Sponsor: Student Minds, PA Jewellery - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/c13f100e-f724-4090-9f30-e2f10207b10a/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [The Subaru Cocoon](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-subaru-cocoon) - RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival 2025 - Description: Once covering 20% of the UK but now reduced to just 1%, temperate rainforests are one of the country's most fragile and overlooked ecosystems. The Subaru Cocoon distills the essence of these landscapes, balancing naturalistic planting with a contemporary interpretation of the walled garden. A perforated jali wall defines the space - enclosing yet open, structured yet porous. Crafted from K-Briq, a pioneering brick made from recycled building waste with just 5% of the embodied carbon of tradition... - Designer: Mike McMahon, Jewlsy Mathews - Awards: Gold Medal, Best Show Garden, Best Construction Award - Sponsor: Subaru UK - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/8bc762f6-6ebc-481e-ba5a-ae9bd66fb2ac/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [The Sun & Rain Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-sun-rain-garden) - RHS Flower Show Wentworth Woodhouse 2025 - Description: By 2050, the UK's climate is predicted to feature hotter, drier summers and milder, wetter winters with heatwaves and flooding becoming more commonplace. This cube showcases the RHS' Plants for Purpose project, a pioneering programme that is labelling UK cultivated plants with their environmental benefits - right plant, right place, right purpose. For this exhibit the focus is on planting for wet and dry conditions to support flood mitigation. - Designer: Christine Leung - Location: Rotherham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/ae475b3c-ef5e-411c-864e-2b9d9ffda255/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [The Sundowner Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-sundowner-garden) - RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival 2025 - Description: For generations, the Lamiaceae family has been highly valued and cultivated for flavour, fragrance and healing properties, used in ancient feasts and as the base for medicinal tonics. Sage, lavender, thyme, hyssop and basil have all been used in the Hampton Court Royal Palace kitchen garden since the 17th century and are used within the planting palette for a contemporary spin on how this plant family can provide beauty, enjoyment and relaxation in the garden. These plants are often used to infu... - Designer: Victoria Stanton, Kate Hyslop, Gina Liverton-Brown - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/785f3d93-974f-40f6-a1bf-14ef67e8ba58/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [The Support Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-support-garden) - Bord Bia Bloom 2025 - Description: The Support Garden embodies the deeply personal journey of advance planning, reflecting themes of strength, trust, and care. At its centre, a steel fireplace symbolises the donor of an Enduring Power of Attorney or directive maker of an Advance Healthcare Directive. This is surrounded by an elaborate steel pergola which supports the fireplace and represents the network of trust built between the donor, their attorney, and the people that surround them. The garden is enclosed by three Amelanchier... - Designer: Joe Eustace - Awards: Silver Gilt Medal - Sponsor: Decision Support Service - Location: Dublin, Ireland - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/8ef364af-e388-4b59-aaaf-66d5eebe919a/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [The TerrariROOM](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-terrariroom) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025 - Description: A terrarium you can step into, The TerrariROOM invites visitors to experience a living ecosystem from the inside. The space showcases carefully selected plants arranged for easy care, with hero grow lights expanding plant placement beyond traditional windowsills. A lush carpet of blue star ferns leads into the studio, where greenery cascades along the floor and climbs the walls. Suspended kokedama add to the immersive experience, hanging from trees above the studio to create a dreamy botanical e... - Designer: John Kitchin - Awards: Silver Medal - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/45c13639-ce58-49f8-9fe6-53546611f7f5/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [The Three Graces of Galicia](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-three-graces-of-galicia) - RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival 2025 - Description: The garden honours three influential 19th-century Spanish women - Rosali­a de Castro, Emilia Pardo Bazan, and Concepcion Arenal - celebrating their contributions as poets, novelists, thinkers, and naturalists, while highlighting their shared Galician heritage. Inspired by their work and the romantic 19th-century gardens of Galicia, the design features winding paths, shaded nooks, and serene water elements to reflect Rosalia de Castro's romantic poetry. Bold structural elements, like a pavilion... - Designer: Nilufer Danis - Awards: Silver Medal - Sponsor: Axencia Turismo de Galicia, Spain.info - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/225770ba-5dbb-407b-a01a-fc32b0ef075b/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [The Victorian Arid House](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-victorian-arid-house) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025 - Description: The design is inspired by the Victorians’ fascination with cacti and succulents, particularly the way they were displayed in glasshouses and private conservatories during the 19th century. The Arid House is a Victorian-style greenhouse, painted black to create a dramatic backdrop for an immersive display of cacti and succulents. The purpose of the exhibit is to showcase the timeless appeal of these plants, from their historical significance to their modern resurgence as statement pieces in inter... - Designer: Sarah Gerard-Jones - Sponsor: The RHS - Royal Horticultural Society - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/d96091ec-9493-4c5b-9d3b-80237b480e47/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [The Wallace Line](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-wallace-line) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2025 - Description: The ‘Wallace Line’ garden is a formal central canal garden with a twist. From 1854-1862 the naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace travelled the Malay Archipelago collecting plants and animals for scientific research. Wallace developed a theory of Natural Selection at the same time as Charles Darwin. He also hypothesised about an imaginary line between otherwise close islands which seemed to feature completely different species of plants and animals. The Wallace Line Garden recreates a representation... - Designer: Dave Hodson - Location: Birmingham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/db5c611e-7dcf-4caf-9de9-133e0cc6aeb4/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [The Wildlife Trusts' British Rainforest Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-wildlife-trusts-british-rainforest-garden) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025 - Description: The Wildlife Trusts' British Rainforest Garden rekindles the wild and wet woodlands that once swathed vast landscapes along the west coast. Inspired by the enchanted forests of Arthurian legend, the space creates a sense of wonder as a domestic garden on the edge of a beautiful British rainforest. A raised wooden walkway immerses visitors in a sensory journey with dappled sunlight and the sound of flowing water. Lichened boughs of trees and mounds of mosses beside a tumbling waterfall summons th... - Designer: Zoe Claymore - Awards: Silver Gilt Medal, People's Choice Best All About Plants Garden - Sponsor: The Wildlife Trusts, Project Giving Back - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/510a14d5-d1ee-4bed-a3bc-51caeff0b8f3/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [The Wonder Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-wonder-garden) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2025 - Description: Our Beautiful Border introduces children to the joys of gardening through sensory experiences, play and learning. Vibrant flowers, textured leaves, and fragrant herbs invite exploration, while rustling grasses and hidden treasures like bug hotels and stepping stones encourage discovery. Each plant and feature is chosen to engage young minds, teaching concepts like pollination and biodiversity. Interactive elements foster hands-on learning, connecting children to nature and sparking curiosity. Th... - Designer: Anthony Massie - Awards: Platinum Award - Location: Birmingham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/2dde6f07-ee8b-4c5e-b67e-204f39cb64c0/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [The Wood and Wildflower Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/the-wood-and-wildflower-garden) - BBC Gardeners' World Autum Fair 2025 - Description: This border is inspired by the rich tapestry of species that exist at the edge of habitats. Egeland environments are where two habitats connect and host a particularly diverse range of flora and fauna, characteristic of both spaces. We have created a 'forest edge' garden that draws inspiration from two ecologically important habits - broadleaved woodlands and wild meadows. We hope we highlight the many relationships within these ecosystems, including the often overlooked micro connections. We ho... - Awards: Gold Award - Location: Essex, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/1346470d-ccf0-40ed-a850-c5cefd89b381/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Think, all things Pink](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/think-all-things-pink) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2025 - Description: Designed to inspire the use of a single colour when planting, I have chosen to use the colour pink to empower strength and boldness within the garden. I will use a blend of different pinks to add depth and interest to the borders, use different flower heads to create texture and also attract pollinators. Mixing perennials and annuals together to create a sea of pink, I will also add grasses for softness, alliums for fun and foxgloves to create extra height and screening. My design will be a circ... - Designer: Samantha Stringer - Awards: Gold Award - Location: Birmingham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/645fc992-dd69-4c8c-8627-3956c904e1d3/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [To be or not to be](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/to-be-or-not-to-be) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2025 - Description: In the busyness of life, how can we find space and time to connect with others and with nature, to pause and observe, and just ‘to be’? ‘To be or not to be’ is a garden where people, words and nature combine. To access the calm and beautiful central space, we must first enter a narrow path, rough with overgrown plants and debris. INspiring words and beautiful plants lead us on to an oasis of healing and connectivity - a place to pause and enjoy. We leave the garden feeling restored, energised, p... - Designer: Emma Mayho, Pippa Willcox - Location: Birmingham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/ba74cae5-e338-4404-8263-6278ccddc99a/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Trent View College: The Living Larder](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/trent-view-college-the-living-larder) - RHS Flower Show Wentworth Woodhouse 2025 - Description: A 'potager' style garden, with a combination of vegetables and flowers. Key features of the design are the white flowers, purple vegetables, and green foliage, creating a striking visual impact through a carefully considered interplay of colour, texture, and structure. The design was inspired by Trent View College's Horticulture department and its mission to raise the profile of its learners, all of whom have additional needs. With the right scaffolding and support, learners can achieve success... - Awards: Gold Medal - Sponsor: Trent View College - Location: Rotherham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/7e652e92-ea51-483b-82ee-a0ccb6ab287b/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Urban Pollinators](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/urban-pollinators) - RHS Flower Show Wentworth Woodhouse 2025 - Description: Urban gardens are invaluable to pollinators and other wildlife who rely on well-connected habitats for survival. Providing inspiration to the more than four fifths of the UK population who live in urban areas, this garden highlights how creating a pollinator paradise is achievable in any space, regardless of size. Off centre, a circle of lavender provides a buffet for some of the 260-plus species of bees found in the UK. From here, a path weaves through the space, which is punctuated by a natura... - Designer: Richard Browning - Location: Rotherham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/e012f02d-165d-43f0-bab5-d2e26566ee09/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Vertigrow: Symbiotic Flow](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/vertigrow-symbiotic-flow) - RHS Flower Show Wentworth Woodhouse 2025 - Description: The border is inspired by St Leonard's Hospice in York, where it will be relocated after the Show. The design highlights how people and nature can nurture each other for their mutual benefit by inviting a deeper connection with the natural world, fostering wildlife, encouraging sustainability and encouraging a sense of peace and wellbeing for visitors. A dynamic wave of grasses and perennials evoke a sense of movement and serenity, with grasses of different heights to add depth and textural cont... - Designer: Deb Strachan, Alison Walker - Awards: Silver Medal - Sponsor: Vertigrow, Composite Prime - Location: Rotherham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/2be0eb7d-5968-4a93-99f6-5c73e23170be/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Vihara Meditation Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/vihara-meditation-garden) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2025 - Description: Designed on Buddhist principles, the Meditation Garden provides a tranquil space for mindfulness, meditation, and connection with nature. Created for the Birmingham Buddhist Vihara Temple, the garden offers a serene environment to practice peace and contemplation, inviting visitors to reflect on Buddhist teachings. It demonstrates how these principles can inspire daily life, encouraging moments of stillness and a deeper appreciation for the natural world. A raised boardwalk will guide you on a j... - Designer: Sarah Coe - Awards: Silver Merit Award - Sponsor: Derby College - Location: Birmingham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/15c1c02b-6256-49c7-8de3-6670a70bf626/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Weave with Nature](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/weave-with-nature) - Royal Windsor Flower Show 2025 - Designer: Darcy Chapple - Awards: 3rd Place - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/cf243873-d3bf-483f-9f95-034ec14f0db7/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Welcoming Wildlife](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/welcoming-wildlife) - RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival 2025 - Description: The Welcoming Wildlife garden invites visitors to imagine cities where wildlife is not just accommodated but truly welcomed. The garden explores two approaches to city gardening: one side features a structured, modern layout, while the other embraces a wilder, more natural feel. A hazel post fence separates the two, showing how different styles can both support biodiversity. Key features include a hedgehog house, log piles, native planting, and a feature tree - designed to enrich urban spaces fo... - Designer: Henry T Pope - Awards: Silver Gilt Medal - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/8b6b3a70-880e-4c23-b5c1-d51ee767a760/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [West Dean Trade Stand](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/west-dean-trade-stand) - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025 - Designer: Alana Sims - Sponsor: West Dean College - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/effd6000-eabe-4f0d-bf7f-f20362c569ed/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare?](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/what-is-this-life-if-full-of-care-we-have-no-time-to-stand-and-stare) - RHS Flower Show Wentworth Woodhouse 2025 - Description: This border is inspired by the concept of 'Restorative Landscapes', which promote experiences that are restorative to physical, social and mental wellbeing. It celebrates the natural Yorkshire landscapes and their sense of awe and wonder. Designed as a microcosm of wild space, the naturalistic composition seeks to mimic the atmosphere of flower-rich meadows and offers a moment of pause to slow down, stimulate our senses and connect with nature. Plant selections echo the forms of traditional mead... - Designer: Sally Holder, Tory Haydon - Awards: Gold Medal - Sponsor: Haydon Holder Studio, David Austin Roses, Holden Clough Nurseries - Location: Rotherham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/334443f4-ddbe-4368-98f9-562814ddf42c/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Where There's Water, There's Life](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/where-theres-water-theres-life) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2025 - Description: The ‘Where There’s Water, There’s Life’ garden highlights the vital connection between water, plants, people, and nature. It focuses on innovative design techniques that slow down water flow, ensuring it is conserved and used effectively in garden landscapes. A playful ephemeral ‘rill’ connects from the pergola green roof to the pond, flowing past the deck, adding a soothing sound and visual interest, whilst capturing rainwater following a cloud burst. Natural overflows from the pond into a rain... - Designer: Rachel Bailey - Awards: Platinum Award, Best Construction Landscaper, Best Show Garden - Location: Birmingham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/f17c8d30-d92b-4dd5-af6d-b47a95fa7aee/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Whiskers and Wildflowers](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/whiskers-and-wildflowers) - RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival 2025 - Description: Whiskers and Wildflowers is designed to be a feline paradise and sanctuary for both cats and people. Raised planters let cats climb through grasses, while trees provide height and dappled shade. Filled with beneficial plants, it's a shared retreat of calm, health, and curiosity. - Designer: Elisabeth Wright-McCalla - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/9982e56e-8af4-43fc-abce-824c73952d89/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Wild Beasts: A Colourist's Garden](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/wild-beasts-a-colourists-garden) - RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival 2025 - Description: Wild Beasts: A Colourist's Garden, is a vivid homage to the Fauves (French for wild beasts) and the Scottish Colourists artists who painted with fearless, expressive colour. Inspired by Samuel Peploe's Luxembourg Gardens (1910), the design explores tetradic (double complementary) colour harmony - a bold but balanced way to play with hot and cool tones in your own garden. At its heart? An easel, displaying Peploe's work, crystalising the connection between painting and planting. It's colourful. I... - Designer: Robert Pryor - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/ea3c06e8-adb1-4e40-8662-c679b5126308/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Willow moments and memories](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/willow-moments-and-memories) - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2025 - Description: The garden is inspired by Willow, a national charity providing special days for seriously ill young adults aged 16-40 This garden design is inspired by my own special day as a beneficiary of Willow, and the impact Willow had on me. The symbolic river of memories consists of everlasting flowers leading to a calm oasis by the willow tree. Every plant chosen, symbolises words and emotions important to special day beneficiaries: hope, uplifting, grateful, calm. Each stepping stone represents the jou... - Designer: Jan O'Brien - Awards: Silver Merit Award - Location: Birmingham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/ebf0a328-7935-40e3-88c0-5764dc03f19d/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Window to the Wolds](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/window-to-the-wolds) - RHS Flower Show Wentworth Woodhouse 2025 - Designer: Emily Joy - Location: Rotherham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/4e085706-cb20-469f-bedd-7546fa8b894e/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [Woman-to-Woman](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/woman-to-woman) - RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival 2025 - Description: The garden aims to reignite the recognition of female ancient healing knowledge and celebrates oral tradition - the practice of passing down knowledge through spoken word or song. Long before Hippocrates, the ancient Greek physician regarded as 'the father of modern medicine', health and healing was a female domain of knowledge, received, preserved and transmitted from generation to generation. In Ancient Greek civilisations, gardens played a central role in the cultivation of plants for medicin... - Designer: Ally Elphick, Charlotte Rose Wroe, Gill Hall, Irene Rosazza - Location: London, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/253b97bc-4d2e-4032-94f7-8cb825c3a206/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp) - [York Gin Botanical Border](https://gardensdb.com/gardens/york-gin-botanical-border) - RHS Flower Show Wentworth Woodhouse 2025 - Description: The border has been inspired by the botanicals used in York Gin and those grown around York Minster. Key features include two junipers, and a sculpture which weaves its way through the planting, showing the journey from juniper to still. With small trees, flowers, fruit and herbs, the border provides inspiration for what can be achieved in a small space. - Designer: Camilla Grayley - Awards: Silver Gilt Medal - Sponsor: York Gin - Location: Rotherham, United Kingdom - Thumbnail: [preview image](https://cdn.gardensdb.com/media/835a775e-40a6-4538-be74-6a6beebd6f0c/conversions/primary_image-preview.webp)