SHOW GARDENS
GOLD — Cha No Niwa – Japanese Tea Garden
Also named RHS Garden of the Year in the Best in Show awards
Designer: Kazuyuki Ishihara
Kazuyuki Ishihara has been creating gardens at Chelsea for several years, but this is his first full-scale show garden — and its's a triumph, described as 'perfect' by Tiffany Daneff, Country Life's gardens editor.
GOLD — The Glasshouse Garden
Designer: Jo Thompson
No garden has more beautiful planting this year than Jo Thompson's creation, where a plethora of roses create a wonderful mix of sight and scent.
GOLD — The Avanade Intelligent Garden
Also awarded Best Construction (Show garden) in the Best in Show awards
Designer: Tom Massey & Je Ahn
An 'urban forest' planted with the environment in mind, full of things to monitor urban air quality and intended to be a test environment for urban tree planting in the future.
GOLD — The King’s Trust Garden: Seeding Success
Designer: Joe Perkins
The colourful stained glass installations make an immediate and bold impression, contrasting with the muted tones of the grasses and perennials that dominate the planting.
The King’s Trust Garden: Seeding Success at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025
SILVER GILT — Hospice UK: Garden of Compassion
Designer: Tom Hoblyn
Not just beautiful, a garden full of clever ideas that's been made as much for its future life at a hospice as it has been for Chelsea. Just one example: paths made intentionally large enough for a hospital bed to be pushed along.
SILVER GILT — The Hospitalfield Arts Garden
Designer: Nigel Dunnett
A Scottish dunescape transported to London — quite something to see.
SMALL SHOW GARDENS
GOLD — London Square Chelsea Pensioners Garden
Designer: Dave Green
The Chelsea Pensioners Garden at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025 RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025
GOLD — Garden of the Future
Designer: Matthew Butler & Josh Parker
Garden of the Future at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025
GOLD — Boodles Raindance Garden
Designer: Dr Catherine MacDonald
Boodles Raindance Garden at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025
Boodles Raindance Garden at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025
GOLD — Killik & Co ‘Save for a Rainy Day Garden’
Designer: Baz Grainger
GOLD — The Addleshaw Goddard: Freedom To Flourish Garden
Also named RHS Chelsea Small Garden of the Year and Best Construction (Small Show Garden) in the Best in Show awards
Designer: Carey Garden Design Studio
GOLD — The British Red Cross ‘Here for Humanity’ Garden
Designer: John Warland & Tom Bannister
SILVER GILT — Down’s Syndrome Scotland Garden
Designer: Nick Burton and Duncan Hall
SILVER GILT — Tackle HIV Challenging Stigma Garden
Designer: Manoj Malde
SILVER GILT — The Pathway Garden
Designer: Allon Hoskin & Robert Beaudin
SILVER — Children With Cancer UK ‘A Place To Be...’
Designer: Tom Clarke and Ros Coutts-Harwood
ALL ABOUT PLANTS
BEST ALL ABOUT PLANTS GARDEN — Seawilding
Designed by: Ryan McMahon
The Seawilding All About Plants Garden at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025, with sea bed plants on display in a tank incorporated into the build.
CONTAINER GARDENS
GOLD — Room to Breathe Hospital Garden for the TSA
Also named Best Container and Balcony Garden of the Year in the Best in Show awards
Designer: Jen Donnelly and Catherine Gibbon
Room to Breathe Hospital Garden for the TSA — Container gardens at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025
GOLD — Komorebi Garden
Designer: Masa Taniguchi
SILVER GILT — C6
Designer: Joshua Fenton
SILVER GILT — Secret Base – The Another Green Room garden
Designer: Jun Ishihara
SILVER— MS Amlin Peace of Mind Garden
Designer: Hamzah-Adam Desai
BALCONY GARDENS
GOLD — Navium Marine: Blue Mind Garden
Designer: Ashleigh Aylett
SILVER GILT — A Space to Read Balcony Garden sponsored by Viking
Designer: Freddie Strickland & Ben Gifford
SILVER GILT — Making Life Better With Bees
Designer: Humble-Bee Gardeners
SILVER — Fettercairn Wilderness Retrea
Designer: ssh scapes : Sonia Kamel; Sally Giles; Helier Bowling
BRONZE — The ME+EM City Garden
Designer: Caroline and Peter Clayton of Viriditas Studio
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'It's perfect': The lush, RHS Garden of the Year at Chelsea Flower Show 2025Kazuyuki Ishihara's 'Cha No Niwa – Japanese Tea Garden' has won the coveted RHS Chelsea Garden of the Year, the top award at the Chelsea Flower Show. And it's a worthy winner.
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Chelsea Flower Show 2025: What not to miss, from the 'perfect' garden and Monty Don's dog to The King's new roseCountry Life's gardens editor Tiffany Daneff shares her favourite flowers, gardens, clever ideas and nicest surprises from the 2025 Chelsea Flower Show.
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'It's perfect': The lush, RHS Garden of the Year at Chelsea Flower Show 2025
Kazuyuki Ishihara's 'Cha No Niwa – Japanese Tea Garden' has won the coveted RHS Chelsea Garden of the Year, the top award at the Chelsea Flower Show. And it's a worthy winner.
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Chelsea Flower Show 2025: What not to miss, from the 'perfect' garden and Monty Don's dog to The King's new rose
Country Life's gardens editor Tiffany Daneff shares her favourite flowers, gardens, clever ideas and nicest surprises from the 2025 Chelsea Flower Show.
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Chelsea Flower Show 2025: Welcome to Country Life's 'Outdoor Drawing Room'The 2025 RHS Chelsea Flower Show opens today and with it Country Life's first stand in a quarter of a century.
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Hampnett House: A Gloucestershire garden where an empty, squelchy lawn has been replaced by 'gorgeous flowery generosity'What to do if you inherit a garden that isn’t your style? Tiffany Daneff visits the garden at Hampnett House, Gloucestershire — home of Mr Sanjeev Shah and Ms Mansi Amin — and finds a space that has undergone a major transformation, from high-concept minimalism to flower-filled paradise. Photographs by Britt Willoughby Dyer.
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'Nowadays, you can barely throw a heavy brick without it hitting a garden designer’: The renaissance of the country gardenTiffany Daneff looks at how the English country house garden has been rescued from its thorny slumbers over the last 50 years.
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Chelsea Flower Show 2025: Ten things not to miss in what promises to be a superb year at the world's greatest horticultural showIt promises to be a stellar year at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. Kathryn Bradley-Hole previews some of the highlights you can expect, while we take a look ahead to what Country Life will be up to during the week.
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10 outstanding British gardens from the Country Life ArchiveWith Chelsea Flower Show is on the horizon, we've mined the 128-year-old Country Life Archives for 10 inspiring gardens from across our Isles.
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Chelsea Flower Show 2025: The essential guide for first timersThe RHS has gone to great lengths to make the Chelsea Flower Show as fun and accessible for people of all gardening abilities. If you're planning to visit for the first time, here's everything you need to know.
