This year's RHS Hampton Court Flower Show aims to leave its visitors with a sense of wonder this year, with gardens by designers including Adolfo Harrison, Daniel March, Nicolas Navarro, Kitti Kovacs and Yoni Carnice.
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This will be the final RHS flower show at Hampton Court before the show returns in 2027, becoming a biennial event from then on.
As well as the Show Gardens, there is a new category this year - Gardens of Curiosity - for spaces sparking inquisitiveness. The theme for the Pocket Planting category this year is 'city'.
There are several Feature Gardens at Hampton Court this year, including the RSPB and RHS Swift Garden, which has planting that will encourage insects and other invertebrates that swifts feed on and is being designed by Lilly Gomm and Coralie Thomas. A celebrity is also being featured at Hampton Court this year, in the form of Alan Partridge. The fictional TV character is designing The Alan Partridge Sound Bath Garden alongside Joe Carey and Laura Carey to mark the launch of the latest series of Alan's podcast.
Below are all the gardens to expect at RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival 2025.
Show Gardens
Charleston 250
Designer Sadie May Stowell
A garden celebrating one of America's founding cities, Charleston in South Carolina. Designs combine the formality of English gardens with influences of The Preservation Society Charleston, a 1920s body that protect the character of the city.
Oregon Garden
Designer Sadie May Stowell
A garden inspired by the natural landscape of the state of Oregon and its drive to promote regenerative tourism. There will be a natural camping area with a tent and fire pit.
Surrey County Council: Reclaiming Spaces, creating healthy streets
Designer Helen Currie, Steve Dimmock and Diego Carrillo
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.
The Alan Partridge Sound Bath Garden
Designer Joe Carey and Laura Carey
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.
The Subaru Cocoon
Designer Mike McMahon and Jewlsy Matthews
Once covering 20 per cent of the UK but now reduced to just 1 per cent, 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.
The Three Graces of Galicia
Designer Nilufer Danis
The garden honours three influential 19th-century Spanish women – Rosalía de Castro, Emilia Pardo Bazán and Concepción Arenal – celebrating their contributions as poets, novelists, thinkers and naturalists, while highlighting their shared Galician heritage.
Gardens of Curiosity
A Garden of Two Tales
Designer Daniel March
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.
A Woodland Edge
Designer Nicolas Navarro
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 and encourage a connection with the trees and curiosity for the outdoors.
Aster of Senses
Designer Yoni Carnice
This garden has been conceived and realised by London National Park City Rangers from across the capital. The Rangers have sought to use the London National Park City Aster logo as a recurring motif in the garden with the ‘branches’ focusing on the five different senses. A forest garden planting methodology, designed to ignite these senses, is intended to bring nature to life.
Illusion 2050
Designer Kitti Kovacs
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.
Pocket Planting
15 Minute City Garden
Designer Angela Barker-Lewis and Charles Ziar
The Pocket is designed to have year-round interest. Planting has been designed for a south-east facing urban environment on slightly acid, sandy and loamy soils which is naturally free draining.
Before the Concrete Sets
Designer Nathan Humphreys, Kieran Sargent and Helen Haley
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?
Go With the Flow
Designer Anne Beavis and Jerrad Kinsella
This garden is designed to be used as a refuge for wildlife in our inner cities. The gullies mimic natural riparian zones and the planting will provide much-needed homes and food.
Hot Pocket
Designer Tom Pilgrim
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.
Life on the Verge
Designer Laura London, Mary-Anne O'Brien, Robin Dunlop
This garden highlights the often-overlooked potential of roadside verges to transform urban spaces into thriving ecosystems. These spaces offer significant ecological benefits, including enhancing biodiversity, improving air quality and mitigating urban heat and noise pollution.
Sunlight Shining Through
Designer Zhechen Ren, Ziya Xu, Tongheng Liang and Minjie Yang
Set in a coastal community in Hove, in the south of England, the garden has been designed with global climate change in mind, aiming to create a climate-resilient space for the coastal region.
Teucer Wilson: Green the Gap Garden
Designer Laura Strand and Sam Stark-Kemp
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.
The Student City Garden
Designer Charlie Bailey
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 wellbeing by providing beautiful spaces to relax and socialise.
Welcoming Wildlife
Designer Henry T Pope
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.
Feature Garden
RHS Healer's Hollow
Designer Jude Yeo and Emily Grayshaw, Inspired Earth Design
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.
RHS Vertigro
Designer Adolfo Harrison, Landscape Studio
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.
RSPB and RHS Swift Garden
Designer Lilly Gomm and Coralie Thomas
The garden is for a wide range of wildlife, with plants and planting principles that encourage the insects and other invertebrates that swifts feed on. It promotes sympathetic gardening for biodiversity and is meant to stimulate ideas about ways people can garden to benefit insects and birdlife.
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