Every single garden at this year's Chelsea Flower Show
There are 35 gardens at this year's Chelsea Flower Show, offering plenty of inspiration and take-home ideas for our own outdoor spaces.
The world's most prestigious gardening event, held on the grounds of the Royal Hospital Chelsea in London, has an array of gardens to delight, inspire and educate, with key themes around sustainability (eco credentials are now a key criteria when judging) and the joy of gardening.
This year there are eight Show Gardens, eight Sanctuary Gardens, five Balcony Gardens, five Container Gardens, six All About Plants gardens and three Feature Gardens.
When were the winners be announced?
After undergoing a rigorous judging process, RHS judges awarded garden designers with medals (Gold, Silver-Gilt, Silver and Bronze) on the official opening day on Tuesday (21st May). But perhaps the most coveted gong of them all, the People's Choice awards, were announced on Friday (24th May).
Chelsea Flower Show 2024 Garden winners
People's Choice Award (Show Garden): The Octavia Hill Garden by Blue Diamond with the National Trust, designed by Ann-Marie Powell
People's Choice Award (Small Garden categories): The Pulp Friction – Growing Skills Garden, designed by Will Dutch & Tin-Tin Azure-Marxen
People's Choice Award (Balcony and Container Gardens): Children with Cancer UK 'Raines Repurposed', designed by Thomas Clarke
Best Show Garden: Muscular Dystrophy UK – Forest Bathing Garden, designed by Ula Maria
Best Construction Award (Show Garden): Terrence Higgins Trust Bridge to 2030 Garden, built by Yoreland Design Ltd
Best Sanctuary Garden: Burma Skincare Initiative Spirit of Partnership Garden, designed by Helen Olney
Best Construction Award (Sanctuary Garden): The Boodles Garden, built by Gadd Brothers Trees and Landscapes
Best Balcony & Container Garden: The Ecotherapy Garden, designed by Tom Bannister
Best All About Plants Garden: The Size of Wales Garden, designed by Dan Bristow
Take a look at this year's gardens below...
SHOW GARDENS
The creme de la crème of Chelsea, the Show Gardens demonstrate the most remarkable, showstopping garden designs full of wow factor.
The National Garden Scheme Garden designed by Tom Stuart-Smith
Show Garden | Award: Gold
With an ‘edge of woodland’ theme, multi-stemmed hazel trees and drought-tolerant plants, this garden celebrates nearly 100 years of the National Garden Scheme opening private gardens to the public. Central to the design is a carbon sink timber hut towards the rear. A portion of the plants have also been donated by National Garden Scheme garden owners.
This is Tom's ninth gold medal at RHS Chelsea. Sharing his secret to success, he told Adam Frost: 'I think it's pretty simple really, you've got to work with the best people and then you've got to trust them.'
Read more: Monty Don and Adam Frost praise Tom Stuart-Smith's garden
Muscular Dystrophy UK: Forest Bathing Garden designed by Ula Maria
Show Garden | Award: Gold | Best Show Garden
Offering a place of solace and reflection for those affected by a muscle wasting condition, this design – inspired by the ancient Japanese practice of Shinrin-yoku – aims to show how an immersive yet accessible garden can offer a place of refuge. More than 40 trees envelope the garden, creating a forest-like atmosphere, while sculptural flint walls provide a sheltered space.
Ula was the winner of the Young Designer of the Year at the RHS Tatton Flower Show in 2017, and now she's just scooped a Best in Show award for her first Show Garden at Chelsea.
Stroke Association’s Garden for Recovery designed by Miria Harris
Show Garden | Award: Bronze
With windswept pine trees and a complementary pink, orange, yellow, purple and green planting scheme, this garden has been designed as a peaceful, sensory space to support stroke recovery. The concept and material choices (it's been designed without any plastic or any concrete) have all been inspired by the designer’s own experience of surviving a stroke and the stories of people who have been affected by a stroke.
St James’s Piccadilly: Imagine the World to be Different designed by Robert Myers
Show Garden | Award: Gold
This garden celebrates the significance of urban 'pocket parks' in London and other cities, which are often connected with historic churchyards. The tranquil space serves as a sanctuary for urban dwellers and city wildlife, and nature evidently takes centre stage with a biodiverse planting scheme. It forms the basis of a restored, accessible garden at St James’s, where some 300,000 people from all walks of life seek tranquillity and inspiration each year.
Reflecting on his gold medal win, Robert said: 'We've created this rather ginormous structure, [I was] a bit worried that the judges might think it was just all a bit too much, but what a relief.'
Terrence Higgins Trust Bridge to 2030 Garden designed by Matthew Childs
Show Garden | Award: Silver-Gilt | Best Construction Award
Reminiscent of the flooded base of a rejuvenated quarry landscape, this garden takes inspiration from the AIDS: Monolith advert and the landscape of North Wales. An interesting feature is the water level in the garden which rises and falls, revealing a monolith slate stepping stone which creates a bridge to the 2030 vision of no new HIV cases.
The National Autistic Society Garden designed by Sophie Parmenter & Dido Milne
Show Garden | Award: Silver-Gilt
This garden seeks to capture an autistic person's everyday experience of the world, and highlights a strategy called 'masking' – a potentially draining process which involves consciously or unconsciously hiding autistic characteristics in order to fit in. Key to the design are walls of cork used to create a series of spaces dedicated to different types of social interaction.
The Octavia Hill Garden by Blue Diamond with the National Trust designed by Ann-Marie Powell
Show Garden | Award: Silver-Gilt | People's Choice Award (Show Garden)
Conceptually located on an urban brownfield site, this plant-filled community wildlife garden is designed to stimulate physical, mental and social wellbeing. It's inspired by pioneering social reformer Octavia Hill (1838–1912), a founder of the National Trust, who believed that ‘the healthy gift of air and the joy of plants and flowers’ were vital in everyone’s life.
WaterAid Garden designed by Tom Massey and Je Ahn
Show Garden | Award: Gold
With a focus on sustainable water management, this clever garden features a colourful array of plant species designed to deal with varying amounts of rainfall. At the centre of the design is a rainwater-harvesting pavilion – the structure harvests every drop of rainfall, filtering and storing this precious resource, while also slowing flow and providing shade.
Read more: Tom Massey's tips for a water-wise garden
SANCTUARY GARDENS
The smaller Sanctuary Gardens explore both modern and more traditional garden concepts, with a focus on the calming and uplifting benefits we can get from our very own private green spaces.
Flood Re: The Flood Resilient Garden designed by Naomi Slade & Ed Barsley
Sanctuary Garden | Award: Silver
Presenting lots of take-home ideas, this garden has been designed to help reduce flood risk and to recover quickly after periods of heavy rainfall. Highlights include dense planting to slow the flow, large tanks doubling as ornamental ponds which store water for later use, and a central swale.
MOROTO no IE designed by Kazuyuki Ishihara
Sanctuary Garden | Award: Silver-Gilt
Filled with vibrant acers and moss-covered stone, this garden showcases the beauty of the natural world. Central to this design is a beautiful waterfall, tumbling into a pool, which fills the space with the calming sound of water. To the side is a building, camouflaged into the structure, with stairs sweeping around the water feature to a driveway.
The Bridgerton Garden designed by Holly Johnston
Sanctuary Garden | Award: Silver
Inspired by wallflower-like character Penelope Featherington in Bridgerton, this secretive and secluded garden features a moongate which leads to an ornate water feature, a sunken seating area in the heart of the garden, and climbing wisteria in a nod to the Netflix series.
Read more: The Bridgerton Garden unveiled
The Freedom from Torture Garden: A Sanctuary for Survivors designed by John Warland & Emma O’Connell
Sanctuary Garden | Award: Silver
A place of peace and hope, this space is a therapeutic garden for survivors of torture. Sculptural streams of willow divide the space and provides an organic place of sanctuary, while naturalistic planting stimulates happier memories of home.
World Child Cancer’s Nurturing Garden designed by Giulio Giorgi
Sanctuary Garden | Award: Gold
Aiming to bring joy, hope and escapism through nature for children undergoing cancer treatment, this garden is filled with circular raised beds made from perforated clay blocks. It offers sensory experiences through soft-touch plants, fragrant herbs and vibrant mosses.
Burma Skincare Initiative Spirit of Partnership Garden designed by Helen Olney
Sanctuary Garden | Award: Gold | Best Sanctuary Garden
Telling the story of a global dermatological partnership which supports Burmese healthcare workers treating patients with skin conditions, this garden features textures such as bark, plants, moss and lichen to illustrate the skin diseases affecting people supported by the charity. All of the plants in this garden are found in Myanmar and grow happily in the UK.
Killik & Co: ‘Money Doesn't Grow On Trees’ Garden designed by Baz Grainger
Sanctuary Garden | Award: Silver-Gilt
An immersive outdoor space ideal for families to relax and unwind, this garden design features a shaded seating area and a communal dining area which is zoned by a limestone and steel pergola. The corten steel waterfall creates a calming environment.
The Boodles Garden designed by Catherine MacDonald
Sanctuary Garden | Award: Silver-Gilt | Best Construction Award
A celebration of the 200th anniversary of the National Gallery, this garden takes inspiration from paintings at the gallery with an ‘art in nature’ theme. This is brought to life with a planting scheme, topiary, sculptural metal arches and water features which represent aspects of specific art movements, including Pointillism and Impressionism.
BALCONY GARDENS
The Balcony Gardens provide much-needed inspiration to renters and urban dwellers on how to utilise your small outdoor space.
Children with Cancer UK 'Raines Repurposed' designed by Thomas Clarke
Balcony Garden | Award: Silver-Gilt | People's Choice Award (Balcony and Container Gardens)
A balcony designed for relaxation and contemplation, a shaded seating area with scented flowers and a simple colour palette create a calming, uncluttered and practical space for reflection. There's a soft evergreen planting scheme with muted tones of pinks and burgundy.
La Mia Venezia designed by Michela Trinca
Balcony Garden | Award: Silver
Inspired by Venice in Italy, this balcony features decorative pergolas to create shadow and screening, as well as a colourful combination of roses, fuchsias and silvery Artemisia to create an elegantly charming space.
See more: Watch a video tour
The Addleshaw Goddard Junglette Garden designed by Mike McMahon & Jewlsy Mathews
Balcony Garden | Award: Gold
This striking jungle-inspired balcony garden is filled with hardy planting – arching banana plants, towering tree ferns, and orange and yellow nasturtiums – to mirror the structural layers of a jungle. It also promotes biodiversity with bird nests, integrated bat boxes and a small pond, showing what can be achieved in a small space.
The Discover More Garden sponsored by Viking
Balcony Garden | N/A, not judged
Taking inspiration from destinations all around the world, this balcony features an eclectic mix of containers, specimen Cornus mas tree, and a limed soft wood pergola.
Tomie’s Cuisine the Nobonsai designed by Tsuyako Asada
Balcony Garden | Award: Silver-Gilt
A no-waste, plastic-free balcony garden that supports living together with creatures, including fungi and microorganisms, this design takes inspiration from Japanese gardens. The planting is harmonious, creating an aesthetic closer to nature than a container garden.
CONTAINER GARDENS
Container gardening is for all, and these small plots demonstrate some clever container ideas that you can recreate in your own space.
Changing Tides Garden designed by Lucy Mitchell
Container Gardens | Award: Gold
This is a coastal garden celebrating the resilient plants that have adapted to the harsh conditions along the strandline of the UK’s vegetated shingle beaches. With a seaside setting, it features sea kale in corten planters and sedums carved in boulders.
Sanctum designed by Sonja Kalkschmidt
Container Gardens | Award: Gold
This container garden features a striking black charred wood planter, which creates a visual contrast with the lush green foliage. With a focus on plants suitable for shaded environments, it's ideal for city spaces often lacking in sunlight.
The Anywhere Courtyard designed by Elisabeth Wright-McCalla
Container Gardens | Award: Silver-Gilt
Calming and restorative, this beautiful tiled courtyard garden has a central water feature surrounded by a living wall. Trees form a natural canopy of gentle shade, while a sensory mix of herbal and perennial plants are part of an evergreen planting scheme.
The Ecotherapy Garden designed by Tom Bannister
Container Gardens | Award: Gold | Best Balcony & Container Garden
Imagined as a small London courtyard, this beautiful garden aligns with biophilic principles of people’s innate attraction to nature. Central to it all is a cold plunge pool enveloped in lush planting. A rill passes through the planting, leading into a final cascade, and the gentle sound of the water creates a soothing soundscape.
The Water Saving Garden designed by Sam Proctor
Container Gardens | Award: Bronze
With water-saving measures at its heart, this courtyard is a love letter to the Chilterns’ iconic chalk streams, highlighting the urgent need to save and reuse rainwater. It features interconnected fibreglass planters fed with rainwater, while the decking is made of bamboo.
ALL ABOUT PLANTS GARDENS
Located inside the Great Pavilion, All About Plants are small-scale garden displays that focus entirely on the significance of plants, and the many unique ways in which they positively benefit us.
Bowel Research UK Microbiome Garden designed by Chris Hull & Sid Hill
All About Plants | Award: Gold
Exploring the connection between the health of the soil, wildlife and our own microbiome, this garden aims to inspire people to rewild their diets, gardens and relationship with the land. It features edible planting and traditional log hives that provide habitats for pollinators.
Planet Good Earth designed by Betongpark & Urban Organic
All About Plants | Award: Bronze
At the heart of this garden is a granite skate ramp, creating an area for skateboarding and other wheeled sports. Either side are edibles in a forest garden scheme, with planting that combines native and exotic species, with culinary and medicinal herbs. The garden also features vertical hydroponic grow towers that efficiently recycle water.
Sue Ryder Grief Kind Garden designed by Katherine Holland
All About Plants | Award: Gold
With sensory plants and a central seating area, this garden offers a safe and peaceful sanctuary to sit among nature, while sharing experiences of grief, or having a moment of quiet reflection. The garden will be relocated to Bedford, and so the design has taken inspiration from the area’s history in lace production.
The Panathlon Joy Garden designed by Penelope Walker
All About Plants | Award: Silver-Gilt
A colourful, accessible space with a winding path (to promote inclusion), this garden includes a fun and playful seating area with a distinct space for a wheelchair. Steam-softened timber panels flow across the rear length of the garden.
The Pulp Friction - Growing Skills Garden designed by Will Dutch & Tin-Tin Azure-Marxen
All About Plants | Award: Silver-Gilt | People's Choice Award (Small Garden categories)
Celebrating the skill, determination and passion of Pulp Friction members (a social enterprise that supports people with a variety of learning disabilities and/or autism to get into the world of work), this garden features a large overhead hoop constructed from recycled fire hoses, with edible planting spread throughout.
The Size of Wales Garden designed by Dan Bristow
All About Plants | Award: Gold | Best All About Plants Garden
This garden is inspired by the abundance and diversity of life that occurs in the tropical forests of the world. Some 313 plant species have been used, reflecting the number of tree species that can occur in just one hectare of tropical forest.
FEATURE GARDENS
The Feature Gardens category is the only one not judged at Chelsea Flower Show but these large plots are the perfect canvas to reinforce wider messages or RHS themes, from mental health to community spirit and sustainability.
RHS No Adults Allowed Garden designed by Harry Holding and Sulivan Primary School
N/A, not judged
The first garden at RHS Chelsea to be designed by children, for children, this garden takes kids on an adventure through a fantastical landscape of lush woodland, bountiful meadows and a wetland with heightened colour and oversized bog plants.
Read more: King Charles III visits the No Adults Allowed Garden
RHS Chelsea Repurposed designed by Cityscapes (Darryl Moore with Toby Magee)
N/A, not judged
This garden has repurposed key elements from Show Gardens dating back as far as 2010, including Andy Sturgeon’s corten steel columns and Tom Massey's fountain and concrete benches. Celebrating creative recycling, the design also highlights drought-tolerant species planted in crushed concrete and sand salvaged from demolished buildings.
Read more: The Chelsea garden created almost entirely out of repurposed materials
RHS Britain in Bloom 60th Anniversary: The Friendship Garden designed by Jon and James Wheatley
N/A, not judged
Commemorating the RHS Britain in Bloom’s 60th anniversary and celebrating the relationships that form when people garden together in their communities, this vibrant garden is an explosion of colour. The planting demonstrates the value of native and British-grown plants, with peat-free compost and minimal use of chemicals.
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