The Royal Horticultural Society has announced the second Show Garden of the 2027 RHS Chelsea Flower Show.
The Addleshaw Goddard Flourish As One Garden, designed by husband-and-wife duo Joe and Laura Carey of Norfolk-based Carey Garden Design Studio, will be one of the gardens on Main Avenue. It will be sponsored by international law firm Addleshaw Goddard.
The designers
Joe and Laura have already amassed three consecutive gold medals and the Best Small Garden award at RHS Chelsea over the past three years, and last year they became the first designers to achieve double RHS Gold Medals at both Chelsea and Hampton Court in the same calendar year.
But the Flourish As One Garden will be their first large show garden. Moving to Main Avenue, they will have double the amount of design space they have had in previous years.
While Laura brings a specialist eye for colour to the design – thanks to a childhood surrounded by native wildflowers in coastal Wales and a career designing botanical prints – Joe is interested in urban landscapes, and his years working as a design teacher allow him to shape the garden's architecture and innovative use of materials.
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The Addleshaw Goddard Flourish As One Garden
The design
Inspired by gardeners worldwide, the Addleshaw Goddard Flourish As One Garden celebrates the rich history of international botanical exchange and the flow of knowledge and research across the world, exploring how global horticultural collaboration can help landscapes thrive in a changing climate.
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Stepping into the garden, visitors will be immediately immersed in a richly layered landscape of rare and unusual plants from around the world.
The space will also include a cantilevered pavilion with a green roof, and an eight-metre-tall feature tree rising dramatically through it. As the tree pre-dates the pavilion, it will serve as a reminder that the living landscape should come first, with architecture respecting and working around it.
Across the garden, the Careys will create a series of micro-climates to mimic the conditions found in the plants' native environments, ensuring their resilience in extreme weather. However, to represent how diverse planting can connect us, the plants won't be grouped geographically. The garden will be built by The Outdoor Room, a design and build company founded in 1995 with the simple goal of creating outstanding gardens.
The planting
With beautiful and interesting plantings from across the globe, the garden will suggest the importance of understanding a plant's origins, how it thrives and the legacy it leaves behind. The plants are supplied by Katie's Garden Plant Centre, Creepers, Crug Farm and Kevock Garden Plants.
The planting design will replace struggling native UK species with non-native, drought-tolerant plants which can better cope with rising global temperatures – acknowledging the collective effort across the globe to save plants through horticultural knowledge-sharing.
Reflecting the rich international heritage within the space, the planting will create botanical diversity using structural grasses, flowering perennials, umbels and varied leaf forms. As for colour, visitors can expect to see lemon yellow, smoky lilac, plum and acid green.
Laura is known for her signature planting style using soft texture, and so the garden will include foliage like the fern Araiostegia pulchra, subshrub Asparagus meioclados, tufted hair grass Deschampsia cespitosa, and Eschscholzia varieties.
Interestingly, every seed and cutting used in the Addleshaw Goddard Flourish As One Garden has been carefully documented, with its true origin and exact route to the garden traced to celebrate its heritage.
