The RHS has revealed some of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2024 show gardens, by top garden designers including Tom Stuart-Smith, Tom Massey and Ann-Marie Powell
The RHS has announced details of some of the show gardens at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2024.
Tom Stuart-Smith, Ann-Marie Powell, Tom Massey, Matthew Childs and Robert Myers are some of the well-known garden designers and Chelsea veterans who will be creating show gardens at the show in 2024.
They will join Chelsea newcomers including Sophie Parmenter and Dido Milne, Miria Harris, Ula Maria, Giulio Giorgi and Je Ahn (collaborating with Tom Massey) and garden writer and consultant Naomi Slade. A further six All About Plants gardens will also be supported by Project Giving Back in 2024. They will again be staged in the Great Pavilion and largely created by first time Chelsea designers.
The RHS Chelsea Flower Show runs from Tuesday 21 to Saturday 25 May 2024. Here’s all you need to know about booking tickets for the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2024.
Project Giving Back will be supporting 15 gardens for good causes at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2024, including many of the larger show gardens and some of the smaller Sanctuary gardens.
All gardens supported by Project Giving Back, launched in 2021, are inspired by UK-registered charitable organisations and will live on after the show in permanent locations around the UK as a lasting legacy for their individual good causes – as teaching gardens, community spaces and other beneficial green spaces.
The hot topics of drought and flooding are tackled in several of the gardens, and urban biodiversity and wellbeing are also prominent themes.
Head to our Chelsea Flower Show hub for more information.
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Chelsea veteran Tom Stuart-Smith is back after several years with a woodland edge garden for the National Gardens Scheme, sponsored by Project Giving Back. It will be laid out through an open hazel coppice with a collection of woodland drought-tolerant plants. Many of the plants have been contributed by National Gardens Scheme garden owners.
Tom Massey, winner of a Silver Gilt medal in 2023, is creating the WaterAid garden, also sponsored by Project Giving Back. The garden will explore what a UK garden might look like in 50 years, focusing on sustainable water management and featuring a colourful array of drought-tolerant plants.
Ann-Marie Powell is creating the Octavia Hill Garden by Blue Diamond with the National Trust. Conceptually located on a brownfield site, this plant-filled wildlife haven will feature open-air sitting rooms, where visitors feel like they are part of nature.
Matthew Childs returns to Main Avenue with a garden for the Terence Higgins Trust Bridge to 2030 garden, telling a story of resilience, community and love. The garden is sponsored by Project Giving Back.
Chelsea veteran Robert Myers is creating the St James’s Piccadilly: Imagine the World to be Different garden, also sponsored by Project Giving Back. It will celebrate the restorative power of green spaces in cities and is the first RHS Chelsea show garden to be commissioned by a place of worship in recent years.
Ula Maria is creating the Muscular Dystrophy UK Forest Bathing Garden, sponsored by Project Giving Back. The garden is inspired by the ancient Japanese practice of Shinrin-yoku which means bathing in the forest atmopshere or ‘forest bathing‘ and reconnecting with nature through the senses.
Miria Harris is creating the Stroke Association’s Garden for Recovery, also sponsored by Project Giving Back. Miria is a stroke survivor herself, and the garden has been shaped by her story and those of other survivors.
Garden writer and consultant Naomi Slade will be creating the Flood Resilient Garden, which will show how a flood risk can be reduced and a garden can recover quickly after heavy rainfall.
Chelsea favourite Kazuyuki Ishihara is also back, with a Sanctuary Garden where a small family can live a happy life. Unusually for a Chelsea garden, it will feature autumn leaves.
Head to our Chelsea Flower Show hub for more information.