When is Chelsea Flower Show 2025 and how to get tickets?
The RHS Chelsea Flower Show returns from 20th-25th May 2025.
Our favourite event for trending garden ideas, houseplant inspiration (and the occasional celeb spot) will be back next year on the grounds of the Royal Hospital Chelsea. Every year in May, SW3 is in the spotlight with RHS Chelsea and the affiliated Chelsea in Bloom providing a week-long horticultural spectacle.
Despite the RHS making a number of changes to its annual events from 2025, scheduling of the world-famous Chelsea Flower Show remains unaffected for the foreseeable future.
The Chelsea Flower Show is the pinnacle of horticultural excellence. Attracting gardeners, new and seasoned, as well as members of the Royal Family, it is the place to see the most spectacular Show Gardens (a category deemed the crème de la crème of RHS Chelsea) from the UK’s leading garden designers and emerging talent.
Alongside the Show Gardens, Chelsea Flower Show 2025 will include Sanctuary Gardens, All About Plants gardens, and Balcony and Container Gardens, as well as non-judged Feature Gardens. The Balcony and Container Gardens are one of our favourite categories – perfect for those of us with small outdoor spaces.
Indoor gardening more your thing? You’ll love the Houseplant Studios. It's full of popular and unique houseplants, with creative ideas on how to style indoor plants, plus care tips on making them thrive.
And, described as 'the crown jewel of Chelsea', the much-adored Great Pavilion offers a masterclass in floral exhibits and gathers some of the UK's best nurseries for impressive plant displays.
Chelsea Flower Show 2025 dates
• Tuesday 20th to Friday 23rd May, 8am–8pm
• Saturday 24th May, 8am–5.30pm
Chelsea Flower Show 2025 tickets
Tickets are not yet on sale but we’ll let you know once they are (they usually go on sale in September). The cost of tickets will vary (for RHS Chelsea 2024, ticket prices started from £47.85 for members and £55.85 for non-members) depending on if you want a half day ticket (entry from 3pm onwards) or a full day ticket (entry 8am-8pm).
In the meantime, it’s worth signing up as an RHS Member. Why? Typically, the first two days (Tuesday and Wednesday) are reserved for RHS Members only. If you get an RHS membership you'll get access to early bird tickets and exclusive reduced rate tickets to all RHS Flower Shows, alongside unlimited free days out to all five RHS Gardens, free entry to over 220 Partner Gardens, priority access to events, and unlimited, personalised gardening advice.
Where is the Chelsea Flower Show located?
Chelsea Flower Show is located on the grounds of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, in south-west London, which is home to the iconic Chelsea Pensioners (retired soldiers of the British Army). Some 300 veterans live in the retirement and nursing home on site.
Address: Royal Hospital, Chelsea, London, SW3 4SL.
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A few highlights from Chelsea Flower Show 2024...
• Every year there's always one garden that makes everyone stop and stare and appreciate the beauty of garden design. That title seemingly went to The National Garden Scheme Garden designed by eight-time RHS gold medal winner, Tom Stuart-Smith. Touring the garden, Gardeners' World star Adam Frost said it gave him 'goosebumps', while Sophie Raworth described it as 'absolutely magical'.
• Flowers donated by a local Lidl store were given a new lease of life in a winning RHS Chelsea garden. Violas were donated to Nottingham-based social enterprise Pulp Friction and used for their Growing Skills Garden, which was awarded a silver-gilt medal by the judges and crowned the People's Choice award winner in the smaller garden category.
• A very special, beautiful scarlet red rose, bred by Harkness Roses, was launched in honour of the Chelsea Pensioners, paying tribute to the nation’s beloved veterans who call the Royal Hospital Chelsea home.
• As far as structures go, Tom Massey's gold medal-winning WaterAid Garden with architect Je Ahn commanded attention, addressing the challenges presented by an ever-changing climate and focusing on sustainable water management. Central to the design was a rainwater-harvesting pavilion and 16m tall alder trees, making them the biggest trees on a Chelsea garden this year.
• Sustainability was no longer a 'theme' at RHS Chelsea with the launch of the first Green Audit and Environmental Innovation Award, encouraging designers to create gardens which invite wildlife, encourage biodiversity and reduce carbon consumption from the very beginning of their garden design.
• Children became judges! In a first for the RHS, we saw junior judges determine the winner of an all-new RHS Children's Choice Award (the Octavia Hill Garden was triumphant). We also saw the first ever garden designed by children, for children. The RHS No Adults Allowed Garden, designed by Harry Holding and pupils from Sulivan Primary School in Fulham, south-west London, highlighted the importance of access to nature for children.
• One of the biggest shows on Netflix also made their mark at RHS Chelsea 2024 with the Bridgerton Garden. Designed by Holly Johnston, the silver medal-winning garden was based on Penelope Featherington, the wallflower-like character at the forefront of the third season of the Netflix period drama. A moongate, wisteria and ornate water feature were key features of the garden design.
• What is RHS Chelsea without a little bit of controversy? Presenters Monty Don and Joe Swift sparked an ‘interesting debate’ on their BBC Two show – they couldn’t 'understand' the judges’ decision to award the Best Show Garden to Ula Maria for her Japanese-inspired Muscular Dystrophy UK – Forest Bathing Garden. Monty said the judges have 'lost that sense of delight that makes a garden, and what we have is a procedure that is like passing a driving test'.
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