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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Alan Titchmarsh: 15 years ago we planted a hedge — today, it's 10ft tall, 6ft deep and a joy throughout the year. Here's how we did it15 years ago, Alan Titchmarsh planted a hedge; today, it's 10ft tall, 6ft deep, he and his wife absolutely love it, 'and so do all the creatures with whom we share our garden.'
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The one website about trees and shrubs that everyone needs to know about'Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles' has been digitised, making one of gardening's most important works free and at your fingertips.
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'Nature's loo roll': Verbascum, one of the most curious — and useful — plants you'll find in an English country gardenWith its ability to rouge cheeks, settle stomachs and operate as Nature’s loo roll, verbascum is as surprisingly useful as it is pretty, discovers Ian Morton.
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'There is only a handful of fruit trees I’d grow for their non-edible charms — quince is one'A versatile fruit that's superb in jams and with booze, quince also doesn't make you work too hard for all that pleasure.
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Everything you could ever want to know about growing, eating and cooking plumsMirabelles, gages, plums, damsons — the best ones to buy, the ones to avoid, and how to use them. Charles Quest-Ritson has you covered.
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Sophie Conran's garden at Salthrop Manor, and its journey from bare field to Cotswold paradiseThe walled garden at Salthrop Manor — home of Sophie Conran — hums with life and colour. It’s hard to believe that this was merely a field not so long ago, as Tiffany Daneff explains; photography by Ngoc Minh Ngo for Country Life.
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Alan Titchmarsh: You wouldn't think it, but Surrey is the most wooded of all England's counties — and its Scots pines are as beautiful as any of its treesAlan Titchmarsh is selling his house
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'Knowledge, energy, creativity and enthusiasm... He's a sensation': Meet the golden boy of English horticultureCharles Quest-Ritson meets the best of the next generation of gardeners tending to some of the nation's best gardens.
