RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026

Designed by Melanie Hick

As Planting Consultant of this All About Plants garden, the Nocturnal Garden for the Bat Conservation Trust used plants that would encourage the food for bats into people’s gardens.

Awarded Silver and People’s Choice

A lush garden scene with various flowers, trees, and a wooden sculpture of an bat, surrounded by colorful plants and greenery under a clear blue sky.
A lush garden with various green plants, colorful flowers, and a small pond, surrounded by trees and garden borders.
A lush garden with a variety of flowering plants and greenery, bordered by a gravel path, with a modern black wooden fence and tall trees in the background.
A lush garden filled with various green plants and colorful flowers such as white daisies, purple, white, and pink blooms. There is a black drip irrigation line running through the plants and a tree in the background.
Colorful garden with purple, white, and yellow flowers, green foliage, and a black fence with decorative wood pieces on top.
A lush garden scene with various colorful flowers including daisies, pink cosmos, and purple flowers, along with green foliage, a black garden lamp, and a decorative black wooden fence in the background with pieces of bark attached to it.
Pink and white flowering plants growing beside a large wooden log, with trees and blue sky in the background.
Close-up of a garden bed with green plants and shrubs, bordered by a slate edging, with a wooden post and a gravel pathway nearby. In the background, there is a building with large windows and purple accents.
A lush garden scene with various green plants and flowers, including pink, white, and yellow blooms, a small tree with white bark, and a black plastic barrier at the bottom. Sunlight filters through the leaves, creating a vibrant, natural setting.
Three women standing outdoors in front of a large bat statue, holding awards and a colorful plaque, surrounded by lush green plants and trees, under a bright blue sky.

RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025

Designed by Ryan McMahon, MUSA Landscape Architecture

As Planting Consultant of this All About Plants garden, the Seawilding garden needed to reflect the diverse native flora of Ardfern, on the west coast of Scotland, where the Charity is based.

Awarded Gold and Best All About Plants

A lush garden with various green plants and colorful flowers surrounding a stone pathway. There is a metal sculpture resembling cactus on the left, and a pink circular sign with colorful graphics near the rocks.
Close-up of a diverse collection of green plants and ferns growing among rocks.
Yellow iris flowers in a garden with green leaves and tall grass.
Lush garden with various green plants and ferns, some small yellow and pink flowers, a tree trunk, and rocks.
A small garden with various plants, rocks, and sand. There is a green leafy plant with a yellow flower, some smaller green plants, and rocks scattered around.
A lush garden with various green plants, flowers, and small trees along a concrete pathway.
Trees behind a thick bush with large green leaves, surrounded by tall grass and small flowering plants, with some flowers showing purple and yellow colors.
Lush garden scene with various green plants, pink and yellow flowers, and trees with dense foliage, sunlight filtering through the leaves.
Pink and purple foxglove flowers growing among green leaves and grass in a natural outdoor setting.
Various green plants and small rocks growing between large orange and brown rocks.

BBC Gardeners World Autumn Fair 2024

A border with a brief to create a calm space for children who need a relaxed space and can get sensory overload; Surrounded by green foliage with some seasonal white flowers, there is a lawn in the middle, with space to sit, to meditate, to rest, to read, or to build a nest to feel safe.

Awarded Gold

Close-up view of a garden bed with lush green leafy plants and a small tree trunk, illuminated by sunlight.
A wooden planter box filled with various green plants and small trees, set in an outdoor garden with a background of taller dark green trees and a grassy lawn.
Close-up of a tall flowering plant with small white blossoms and a bumblebee collecting nectar on a lower flower. The background is blurred greenery.
Close-up of green plant leaves with a blurred background of trees and sky.
Green plants and leaves in a garden with sunlight shining through, with buildings in the background.
Various green plants, ferns, and a white flower growing among lush foliage, with a wooden support or tree branch in the background, outdoors in a garden.
A garden display at the BBC Gardeners' World Live Fair featuring plants, a stuffed lion toy, water bottles, and colorful informational signs. The background shows a historic building and trees under an overcast sky.
Close-up of green grass and other plants growing in soil along a wooden border.

Winter Garden at Kings College

After many years as a lawn and seasonal bedding, this space has been redesigned as a Winter Garden focusing on interest when the students are on campus. Regular additions to the scheme have been mixed with natives such as foxgloves (Digitalis purpurea), teasels (Dipsacus fullonum) and native ferns (Asplenium scolopendrium and Dryopteris filix-mas.

During the build no green waste was removed, and instead made into an incline to add topography that creates different microclimates within the space, and logs have been introduced for structure with both additions helping to add to the biodiversity of a previously more sterile space.

In its first summer many self seeding annuals contained within the seed bank have germinated and there has been a curation of which are allowed to grow, and which have been weeded out.

More image coming this Winter

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Sustainable Bedding at Kings College

Introducing new ways of creating beautiful seasonal displays that nod to the past but without leaving too much imprint in their creation. Spaces were previously populated with plants that were entirely bought in and then composted, but now much is grown from seed and hardy perennials are used which require a lot less resources and can be used again either within these seasonal beds or within the rest of the campus.

A colorful garden with large banana plants, yellow and purple flowers, and green grass.
Close-up of yellow and orange flowers in a garden bed.
A garden with large green and purple banana plants, surrounded by various flowers including yellow, red, and purple blooms, with a grassy area and stone buildings in the background.
Yellow and brown flowers with broad green and purple-tinged leaves, some with purple veins, growing densely together.
Close-up of yellow and orange flowers in a garden with various green plants and dark soil.
A small outdoor patio courtyard with various potted plants, colorful flowers, and a large wooden planter filled with greenery. There are multiple tables and chairs arranged around the space, with a modern building with many windows in the background.
Flower bed with yellow, red, purple, and orange flowers along a stone and brick paved courtyard, with a stone building with arched windows in the background.
Colorful garden with yellow, orange, and red flowers surrounded by green foliage, with a large striped leaf plant in the center, and a stone building with tall windows in the background.