Chelsea Flower Show 2024 show gardens announced

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.

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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.

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 and All About Plants 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 show will once again be sponsored by The Newt in Somerset.

The hot topics of drought and flooding are tackled in several of the show gardens, and urban biodiversity and wellbeing are also prominent themes.

For the first time, the show will also feature a garden that is designed by children, for children. The RHS has invited garden designer Harry Holding to work alongside pupils from Sulivan Primary School in London to create a fantastical landscape packed with colour and oversized plants, with a natural den set in a pool of water. The Children's Picnic, which first took place last year, will also continue in 2024.

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RHS Chelsea Flower Show gardens - what we know so far

MAIN SHOW GARDENS

The National Garden Scheme Garden

Sponsor: Project Giving Back supporting The National Garden Scheme
Designer: Tom Stuart-Smith
Contractor: Crocus
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. The garden will be relocated to a new Maggie’s Centre at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge.

WaterAid Garden

Sponsor: Project Giving Back supporting WaterAid
Designer: Tom Massey & Je Ahn
Contractor: Landscape Associates
Tom Massey, winner of a Silver Gilt medal in 2023, is creating the WaterAid garden, which 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.

The Octavia Hill Garden by Blue Diamond with The National Trust

Sponsor: Blue Diamond with the National Trust
Designer: Ann-Marie Powell
Contractor: The Landscaping Consultants
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. The garden will be relocated to Bridgemere Show Gardens in Cheshire, an RHS Partner Garden.

Terrence Higgins Trust Bridge to 2030 Garden

Sponsor: Project Giving Back supporting The Terrence Higgins Trust
Designer: Matthew Childs
Contractor: Yoreland Design Ltd
Matthew Childs returns to Main Avenue with a garden for the Terrence Higgins Trust Bridge to 2030 garden, telling a story of resilience, community and love. The entrance into the garden is reminiscent of the flooded base of a rejuvenated quarry landscape, while the front of the garden is a crevice garden, which takes inspiration from natural areas where plants grow in gaps between rocks.

St James's Piccadilly: Imagine the World to be Different

Sponsor: Project Giving Back supporting St James’s Piccadilly
Designer: Robert Myers
Contractor: Stewart Landscape Construction
Chelsea veteran Robert Myers is creating the St James's Piccadilly: Imagine the World to be Different garden. 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. The garden design will be the basis of the restored garden in Piccadilly, open to everyone.

Muscular Dystrophy UK - Forest Bathing Garden

Sponsor: Project Giving Back supporting Muscular Dystrophy UK
Designer: Ula Maria
Contractor: Crocus
Ula Maria is creating the Muscular Dystrophy UK Forest Bathing Garden. 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. The garden will be relocated to the Institute of Developmental and Regenerative Medicine in Oxford.

Stroke Association’s Garden for Recovery

Sponsor: Project Giving Back supporting Stroke Association
Designer: Miria Harris
Contractor: Landform Consultants
Miria Harris is creating the Stroke Association's Garden for Recovery. Miria is a stroke survivor herself, and the garden has been shaped by her story and those of other survivors. The garden will relocate to the Stroke Unit at Chapel Allerton Hospital in Leeds, where patients currently have no suitable access to outside space.

The National Autistic Society Garden

Sponsor: Project Giving Back supporting The National Autistic Society
Designer: Sophie Parmenter and Dido Milne
Contractor: Landform Consultants
The National Autistic Society Garden by two Chelsea newcomers seeks to capture an autistic person’s everyday experience of the world. It highlights a strategy called ‘masking’ – a potentially draining process involving consciously or unconsciously hiding autistic characteristics in order to fit in. The planting will evolve from wetland meadow to river birch woodland, with a vibrant colour palette melting into softer hues. The garden will be relocated to a National Autistic Society supported living site at Catrine Bank – alongside the river Ayr in Scotland.

SANCTUARY GARDENS

Flood Re: The Flood Resilient Garden

Sponsor: Flood Re
Designer: Naomi Slade and Ed Barsley
Gardens Illustrated contributor 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. The garden will be rebuilt at HR Wallingford in Oxfordshire after the show.

MOROTO no IE

Sponsor: G.lion
Designer: Kazuyuki Ishihara
Chelsea favourite Kazuyuki Ishihara is also back in 2024, with a garden that makes him happy. By living in this garden with only the things he likes, he and his family can feel content. Unusually for a Chelsea garden, it will feature autumn leaves as well as pines, irises, and mosses.

The Freedom from Torture Garden: A Sanctuary for Survivors

Sponsor: Project Giving Back supporting Freedom From Torture
Designer: John Warland and Emma O’Connell
Contractor: Living Landscapes
Sculptural streams of willow divide the space, embrace the visitor and provide a place of sanctuary. A sinuous water rill offers irrigation for the plants and restorative relaxation. After the show, the garden will be relocated to the Freedom From Torture HQ in Finsbury Park, London.

World Child Cancer’s Nurturing Garden

Designed as a sensory haven, this garden brings joy, hope and escapism through nature for children undergoing cancer treatment, no matter where they live in the world.

Sponsor: Project Giving Back supporting World Child Cancer
Designer: Giulio Giorgi
Contractor: Landesigns Landscaping Services
The garden's permanent home will be in a 'Home from Home' of UK charity Young Lives vs Cancer, who align with World Child Cancer's belief that every child with cancer should have the support and help that they need.

The Wonderstruck Garden

Sponsor: Wonderstruck
Designer: Holly Johnston
Contractor: Stewart Landscape Construction
A drystone moon gate frames a glowing sculptural sun sitting at the centre of the garden, floating upon a circular water feature. This is surrounded by a tree folly, which is intended to symbolise a ring of stars.

Burma Skincare Initiative Spirit of Partnership Garden

Sponsor: Burma Skincare Initiative with the support of: Sanofi, British Dermatological Nursing Group and The No7 Beauty Company
Designer: Helen Olney
Contractor: Conquest Creative Spaces
The diversity of Myanmar and its people is represented through different planting zones and features. These include tropical foliage reclaiming a ruined stupa, and a stilt house with views of a cascading waterfall. The naturalistic planting combines contrasting textures and constrained colours.

The Boodles National Gallery Garden

Sponsor: Boodles
Designer: Catherine MacDonald
Contractor: Landform Consultants
The Boodles National Gallery Garden is a celebration of the 200th anniversary of the National Gallery. Taking inspiration from paintings at the gallery, it evokes the spirit of many significant artworks. Subject to planning authority consent, the aim is to rebuild part of the garden in front of the National Gallery, near the Getty Entrance, facing Trafalgar Square.

Killik & Co Money Doesn't Grow on Trees Garden

Sponsor Killick & Co, Allgreen
Designer Baz Grainger
Contractor Landform Consultants

The Killik & Co garden is a scented, immersive haven in which to relax and unwind. The design creates a supportive environment for families to talk and spend time together over a lifetime. A path of limestone and oak pavers winds through the garden and is wide enough to encourage conversation while walking together. It leads to a central water well that is fed by an aqueduct running along the top of a limestone and steel pergola that shelters a communal dining area, perfect for family gatherings. It is designed to be a family garden that takes away the stress associated with managing finances.

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