Winning gardens at chelsea

Gold, Silver & Bronze Medal Gardens

RHS|Neil Hepworth|Sarah Cuttle

The winning gardens of Chelsea Flower Show 2022 have been announced. These include the Gold, Silver Gilt, Silver, Bronze, and Best in Show Medal awards. Medals are awarded in each garden category, which include Show Gardens, Sanctuary Gardens, Balcony Gardens and Container Gardens.

This year's Gold Medal-winners include the Morris & Co. garden, inspired by William Morris, The New Blue Peter Garden – Discover Soil and, in the Container Garden category, The Still Garden.

Browse the full list of medal-winning Chelsea Flowers Show gardens for 2022 here...

CHELSEA 2022 BEST IN SHOW AWARDS

BEST SHOW GARDEN WINNER: A Rewilding Britain Landscape, designed by Lulu Urquhart and Adam Hunt.

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RHS Chair of Judges, James Alexander-Sinclair said of the award winning garden:
“It’s exciting to be back at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in May, and while all of this year’s gardens are sensational, a few really stood out. It was a hard-fought debate between the members of the judging panel to decide which garden to award Best in Show. In the end, all the judges were captivated by the skill, endeavour and charm of A Rewilding Britain Landscape – every step is exquisite.”

Neil Hepworth

Best Construction Award (Show Garden) - MEDITE SMARTPLY Building the Future, Built by Landform Consultants

Best Sanctuary Garden - Out of the Shadows, Designed by Kate Gould

Best Construction Award (Sanctuary Garden) - Out of the Shadows, Built by Kate Gould Gardens

Best Balcony & Container Garden - The Still Garden, Designed by Jane Porter

Best All About Plants Garden - The Wilderness Foundation UK Garden, Designed by Charlie Hawkes

CHELSEA SHOW GARDEN 2022 WINNERS

GOLD: MEDITE SMARTPLY Building the Future

This garden also won Best Construction in the Show Garden category.

Neil Hepworth

GOLD: The RNLI Garden

Sarah Cuttle

Designed by: Chris Beardshaw | Built by: Cultura Group | Sponsored by: Royal National Lifeboat Institution and Project Giving Back| Built by EGIDOS

GOLD: Morris & Co, designed by Ruth Willmott

Neil Hepworth

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GOLD: The Mind Garden

Sarah Cuttle

GOLD: A Rewilding Britain Landscape

Neil Hepworth

Designed by: Lulu Urquhart and Adam Hunt | Built by: Landscape Associates | Sponsored by: Rewilding Britain and Project Giving Back

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GOLD: The Meta Garden: Growing the Future

Neil Hepworth

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SILVER-GILT:

The New Blue Peter Garden – Discover Soil - SEE FULL DESIGN
Hands Off Mangrove by Grow2Know
Alder Hey Urban Foraging Station

SILVER:

The RAF Benevolent Fund Garden
The St Mungo’s Putting Down Roots Garden
The Perennial Garden ‘With Love’
Brewin Dolphin Garden

BRONZE - None awarded

CHELSEA SANCTUARY GARDEN 2022 WINNERS

GOLD: The Place2Be Securing Tomorrow Garden

Sarah Cuttle

Designed by: Jamie Butterworth | Built by: Form Plants, with On The Ground Ltd | Sponsored by: Sarasin & Partners and Place2Be

GOLD: Out of the Shadows

This garden also won Best Garden and Best Construction in the Sanctuary Garden category.

Sarah Cuttle

GOLD: A Garden Sanctuary by Hamptons

Sarah Cuttle

Designed by: Tony Woods | Built by: Garden Club London | Sponsored by: Hamptons and Koto Design

GOLD: The Boodles Travel Garden

Sarah Cuttle

SILVER GILT:

Connected, by EXANTE

The Body Shop Garden

Kingston Maurward The Space Within Garden

The Plantman’s Ice Garden

SILVER:

The SSAFA Garden, sponsored by CCLA

The Stitchers’ Garden

BRONZE:

A Swiss Sanctuary

CHELSEA CONTAINER GARDEN 2022 WINNERS

GOLD: The Still Garden

This garden also won Best Balcony & Container Garden.

Tim Sandall

The Enchanted Rain Garden

Wild Kitchen Garden

SILVER:

A Mediterranean Reflection

Mandala, Meditation and Mindfulness Garden

BRONZE - None awarded

CHELSEA BALCONY GARDEN 2022 WINNERS

GOLD - None awarded

SILVER GILT:

The Cirrus Garden

The Potting Balcony Garden sponsored by Viking

SILVER:

The Blue Garden

BRONZE:

Jay Day

CHELSEA ALL ABOUT PLANTS 2022 WINNERS

GOLD: The Core Arts Front Garden Revolution

Tim Sandall

GOLD: The Wilderness Foundation UK Garden

This garden also won Best All About Plants Garden.

Tim Sandall

Designed by: Charlie Hawkes | Built by: PW Ltd | Sponsored by: Wilderness Foundation UK and Project Giving Back

SILVER-GILT:

A Textile Garden for Fashion Revolution

SILVER:

The Mothers for Mothers Garden – ‘This Too Shall Pass’

BRONZE - None awarded

OTHER CHELSEA 2022 WINNERS AND AWARDS
The Chelsea Flower Show 2022 Plant of the Year: X Semponium 'Destiny' from Surreal Succulents in Cornwall.
RHS Chelsea Sustainable Garden Product of the Year 2022: Dobbie’s range of peat-free John Innes 1, 2 & 3 composts
Floral Awards in the Great Pavilion: Full list here
Floristry and Floral Design Awards: Full list here
Houseplant Studio Award winners: Full list here
All 39 Gardens And Winners (Gold, Best Show)
There were 39 gardens at this year's Chelsea Flower Show, made up of 13 Show Gardens, 12 Sanctuary Gardens, four Balcony Gardens, five Container Gardens, four All About Plants gardens and one Feature Garden (unjudged) – but which garden design won Gold, Best in Show and the People's Choice award?
After undergoing a rigorous judging process, RHS judges awarded garden designers with medals (Gold, Silver-Gilt, Silver and Bronze) on the official opening day.
Lulu Urquhart and Adam Hunt's A Rewilding Britain Landscape won Best in Show, marking the second year in a row that first-time designers have taken the top prize, while Kate Gould won Best Sanctuary Garden for Out of the Shadows. Meanwhile, The Perennial Garden 'With Love', designed by Richard Miers, scooped the coveted People's Choice Best Show Garden Award.
There was something for everyone this year, with each garden – however big or small – providing inspiration and take-home ideas while raising awareness about the environment or the positive effects of gardening for mental health. Situated on Main Avenue, the Show Gardens demonstrate the best of horticulture and excellence in garden design and are the largest gardens at Chelsea, while All About Plants (which was a new garden category this year), hosted for the first time inside the Great Pavilion, interprets the positive powers of plants in unique and interesting ways.
We've compiled every single garden from the Chelsea Flower Show 2022 right here – it's sure to give you lots of inspiration – and you can also see the winners for each garden category.
• CHELSEA FLOWER SHOW 2022 WINNERS
Best Show Garden: A Rewilding Britain Landscape designed by Lulu Urquhart and Adam Hunt
Best Construction Award (Show Garden): MEDITE SMARTPLY Building the Future Garden, designed by Sarah Eberle, built by Mark Gregory's Landform Consultants
Best Sanctuary Garden: Out of the Shadows designed by Kate Gould
Best Construction Award (Sanctuary Garden): Out of the Shadows designed by Kate Gould, built by Kate Gould Gardens
Best Balcony & Container Garden: The Still Garden designed by Jane Porter
Best All About Plants Garden: The Wilderness Foundation UK Garden designed by Charlie Hawkes
Best Show Garden People's Choice winner: The Perennial Garden 'With Love' designed by Richard Miers. (Second place: The RNLI Garden designed by Chris Beardshaw | Third place: Morris & Co. designed by Ruth Willmott)
Best Balcony / Container Garden People's Choice winner: Wild Kitchen Garden designed by Ann Treneman
Best Sanctuary / All About Plants Garden People's Choice winner: The Mothers for Mothers Garden designed by Pollyanna Wilkinson.
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BBC Studios Our Green Planet & RHS Bee Garden designed by Joe Swift
RHS/Tim Sandall
FEATURE GARDEN | Award: N/A not judged
Designed by Joe Swift, this garden aims to help and inspire people to grow bee-friendly plants and think of the power of plants to help precious pollinators. Central to the design is a beautiful silhouette of a bee’s wing. This garden is brimming with ideas to help gardeners across the country balance our ecosystem with nectar and pollen rich plants.
Read more: What happens to the Chelsea Flower Show gardens once the show is over?
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A Rewilding Britain Landscape by Lulu Urquhart and Adam Hunt
RHS/Neil Hepworth
SHOW GARDEN | Award: GOLD | BEST SHOW GARDEN
Designed by Lulu Urquhart and Adam Hunt, this garden shows a rewilding landscape in South West England, after the reintroduction of a native, keystone species – the beaver. With swaying multi-stemmed willows and scented wildflowers, the garden reflects the rich landscape that evolves when nature’s eco-engineers, such as beavers, are able to flourish.
'While all of this year’s gardens are sensational, a few really stood out,' said RHS Chair of Judges, James Alexander-Sinclair. 'It was a hard-fought debate between the members of the judging panel to decide which garden to award Best in Show. In the end, all the judges were captivated by the skill, endeavour and charm of A Rewilding Britain Landscape – every step is exquisite. '
Read more: 10 plants to help you get the wild Chelsea Flower Show look in your own garden
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The Perennial Garden 'With Love' designed by Richard Miers
RHS/Neil Hepworth
SHOW GARDEN | Award: SILVER | People's Choice winner
This is a classical contemporary garden rooted in the belief that gardens are a gift of love, giving pleasure to those who create and nurture them as much as to those who visit and enjoy them. It features eight flat-topped hawthorn trees to form a structured canopy and a predominantly green palette softened with gentle tones of soft white and plum.
Read more: The Perennial Garden 'With Love' wins People's Choice Award
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The Meta Garden: Growing the Future designed by Joe Perkins
RHS/Neil Hepworth
SHOW GARDEN | Award: GOLD
Designed to emphasise the inseparable connection between plants and fungi within woodland ecosystems, the Meta garden by Joe Perkins highlights the beauty and versatility of timber, and the critical role of nature-based solutions, such as tree planting and forest management, in tackling climate change. Central to this is a complex pavilion structure with a seating area sunken into the environment.
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The Mind Garden designed by Andy Sturgeon
RHS/Sarah Cuttle
SHOW GARDEN | Award: GOLD
Designed by Andy Sturgeon for mental health charity Mind, this garden is set among open woodland with generous swathes of colourful meadow planting at the woodland edge. Inspiring us to connect with each other for our mental health, sculptural walls cascade and swirl through the sloping garden like a handful of petals tossed to the ground.
Read more: Tour Andy Sturgeon's courtyard garden at his Brighton home
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The RNLI Garden designed by Chris Beardshaw
RHS/Anthony Masi
SHOW GARDEN | Award: GOLD
Designed by Chris Beardshaw, the RNLI Garden is a celebration of the history of this multi-faceted charity, which has been saving lives at sea for almost 200 years. A classically inspired, green oak pavilion at the rear features carved lettering and turned columns, while rich planting provides a celebration of texture, form and foliage.
Read more: Top 10 show-stopping plants in bloom at Chelsea Flower Show 2022
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Brewin Dolphin Garden designed by Paul Hervey-Brookes
RHS/Neil Hepworth
SHOW GARDEN | Award: SILVER
Designed by Paul Hervey-Brookes, this garden has been designed to illustrate how brownfield land can be rehabilitated using existing and repurposed materials to establish a new, sustainable and environmentally-aware landscape. It reflects the challenges of inheriting poor soil conditions that many British homeowners will face, with thousands of new homes set to be built on brownfield sites over the coming years.
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The New Blue Peter Garden - Discover Soil designed by Juliet Sargeant
RHS/Neil Hepworth
SHOW GARDEN | Award: SILVER-GILT
Designed by Juliet Sargeant, this multi-layered garden, with vibrant blue and orange planting to reflect the colours of Blue Peter, encourages us to investigate the soil beneath our feet. You can listen to the sounds of a compost heap in a subterranean observation chamber and watch what happens below ground.
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St Mungo's Putting Down Roots Garden designed by Cityscapes (Darryl Moore & Adolfo Harrison)
RHS/Neil Hepworth
SHOW GARDEN | Award: SILVER
This urban pocket park has been designed as an inclusive place, bringing people and plants together. It embodies the ethos of St Mungo’s Putting Down Roots programme, which has helped people recovering from homelessness to gain confidence and grow their skills, and to rebuild their lives through gardening. Central to this garden design is a pavilion structure and green textural foliage punctuated with floral accents of colour.
Read more: Top eco-friendly garden ideas to steal from this year's Chelsea Flower Show
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The RAF Benevolent Fund Garden designed by John Everiss
RHS/Neil Hepworth
SHOW GARDEN | Award: SILVER
Designed by John Everiss, this garden celebrates the help and protection the RAF Benevolent Fund has continued to provide from the First World War to the present day. Central to the design is a large sculpture of a young pilot, looking nervously up at the sky, watching dogfights unfold overhead, waiting for the call to return to his spitfire and to the battle – the Battle of Britain. A stone spiral wall surrounds and protects the sculpture, while a curved larch seat is enclosed within.
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Hands Off Mangrove by Grow2Know designed by Tayshan Hayden-Smith and Danny Clarke
RHS/Neil Hepworth
SHOW GARDEN | Award: SILVER-GILT
Inspired by the events of Notting Hill’s Mangrove Nine (who were tried and acquitted of inciting a riot in in the 1970s) and the global deforestation of mangroves, a keystone species that harbour entire estuarine communities, Hands Off Mangrove by Grow2Know – a non-profit CIC born in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire – aims to drive awareness of the severe impacts that racial and environmental injustices are having on our planet. Honouring each Mangrove Nine member, nine corten steel roots combine to form a protective sanctuary where communities can reconnect with each other and nature.
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Alder Hey Urban Foraging Station designed by Howard Miller and Hugh Miller
RHS/Sarah Cuttle
SHOW GARDEN | Award: SILVER-GILT
This woven landscape weaves together young and old, green and urban, play and learning, infused with the magic of discovery inherent to foraging. Precast concrete ‘strands’ make up a picnic blanket laid over an undulating landscape with edible herbs growing through.
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Morris & Co. designed by Ruth Willmott
RHS/Neil Hepworth
SHOW GARDEN | Award: GOLD
This garden reimagines two of Morris’ iconic patterns. Trellis (1862) inspires the garden layout and pathways, and Willow Boughs (1887) is reflected in the design of the pavilion and water channels. The planting reflects Morris' love of colour – earthy reds, apricots and blues predominate – while providing food and habitat for birds.
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MEDITE SMARTPLY 'Building the Future' designed by Sarah Eberle
RHS/Neil Hepworth
SHOW GARDEN | Award: GOLD | BEST CONSTRUCTION
Sarah Eberle's atmospheric edge-of-forest garden has a feature building at its heart, constructed using MEDITE SMARTPLY, sustainable and innovative wood-based panel products to illustrate the future of sustainable landscapes and buildings. Topped with a green sloping roof, a waterfall cascades over the building to a pool below.
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Out of the Shadows designed by Kate Gould
RHS/Sarah Cuttle
SANCTUARY GARDEN | Award: GOLD | BEST SANCTUARY GARDEN and BEST CONSTRUCTION
This contemporary spa garden designed by Kate Gould utilises hardy tropical planting to create a private, calm and relaxing space. Modelled as a post-pandemic garden with a Jacuzzi Swim Spa and central fire pit, this space is designed to revitalise both the body and mind and act as a safe haven for people to exercise and socialise in small groups.
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A Garden Sanctuary by Hamptons, designed by Tony Woods
RHS/Sarah Cuttle
SANCTUARY GARDEN | Award: GOLD
Designed by Tony Woods, this garden focuses on garden living, taking us out of our homes and letting us decompress, play and reconnect. Central to the design is a small, sculptural carbon-neutral garden cabin which offers a place of seclusion and meditation, with the surrounding power of nature and plants.
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A Swiss Sanctuary by Lilly Gomm
RHS/Sarah Cuttle
SANCTUARY GARDEN | Award: BRONZE
Inspired by travels to Switzerland, this garden interprets the Swiss flora and landscape within the boundaries of an urban garden. Large stones act as a garden-sized representation of mountains in the landscape, while alpine and Mediterranean planting to illustrates the country’s distinctive and rich natural landscapes.
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Circle of Life by Yoshihiro Tamura
RHS/Sarah Cuttle
SANCTUARY GARDEN | Award: TBC
This small garden seeks to represent the cycle of life from beginning to end through different means. It's designed as a sanctuary and a place of escape from the digital world. Water is harnessed by the Japanese wooden water wheel – which is the oldest method of harnessing energy – and its turning is a symbol of the passing of time.
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Connected, by EXANTE designed by Taina Suonio
RHS/Sarah Cuttle
SANCTUARY GARDEN | Award: SILVER-GILT
In this cool, calm woodland sanctuary, there’s space among the tranquillity for people to connect inside the main feature. The natural, larger-than-life oak tree stump has a skylight roof encircled by a vegetated edge.
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Kingston Maurward The Space Within Garden by Michelle Brown
RHS/Sarah Cuttle
SANCTUARY GARDEN | Award: SILVER-GILT
Inspired by the sub-tropical gardens of the Mediterranean, a contemporary arch provides the entrance to a secret jungle which leads to a daybed platform where the visitor can rest, whilst being totally immersed in plants.
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The Body Shop Garden designed by Jennifer Hirsch
RHS/Sarah Cuttle
SANCTUARY GARDEN | Award: SILVER-GILT
The conceptual garden-as-sculpture tells a story of environmental and societal regeneration; a journey from a state of burnout to wellbeing. It's defined by a series of Corten steel arches which defines the passing of time.
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The Boodles Travel Garden designed by Tom Hoblyn
RHS/Sarah Cuttle
SANCTUARY GARDEN | Award: GOLD
Some 60 years ago in 1962, Anthony Wainwright, grandfather to the current chairman of Boodles, travelled around the world in just 16 days. This garden celebrates this endeavour with planting drawn from all corners of the world. This global garden offers a calm sanctuary to rest and reflect on the journey.
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The Place2Be Securing Tomorrow Garden designed by Jamie Butterworth
RHS/Sarah Cuttle
SANCTUARY GARDEN | Award: GOLD
This beautiful garden – with trees, shrubs and herbaceous planting – offers a safe space where children and adults can take time to relax and talk. In partnership with Place2Be, a children’s mental health charity, and developed in close consultation with pupils from Viking Primary School in West London, the garden acts as haven for children, especially important for those who have little or no outdoor space at home.
Read more: 'Chelsea Flower Show has been a lot more wholesome this year,' says Jamie Butterworth
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The Plantman’s Ice Garden designed by John Warland
RHS/Sarah Cuttle
SANCTUARY GARDEN | Award: SILVER-GILT
Designed by John Warland, this garden contains a 15 ton block of ice at its centre, drawing attention to the alarming rate at which the Polar Ice is melting – over twice the rate of the rest of the Earth. Contained within the core of this ice block is a botanical treasure chest – Silene tatarica plants – celebrating the miracle of botany, whilst also drawing attention to the potential that nature can offer to the problems of world hunger.
Read more: This Chelsea Flower Show garden will melt before the show ends
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The SSAFA Garden supported by CCLA and designed by Amanda Waring
RHS/Sarah Cuttle
SANCTUARY GARDEN | Award: SILVER
This garden offers a quiet, secluded area within a larger garden, providing a place for calm and respite for those staying at Norton House; a safe and supportive accommodation to families whose loved ones are receiving treatment for injuries at the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre near Loughborough. The enclosure of the timber walls and hedging creates an area of security, whilst soft perennial planting echoes the colours of the armed forces.
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The Stitcher's Garden designed by Frederic Whyte
RHS/Sarah Cuttle
SANCTUARY GARDEN | Award: SILVER
This garden celebrates Fine Cell Work, a charity teaching prisoners needlework. Visitors will see into the garden through a ‘cell’ – this simple structure is made of steel, with the contemporary woven willow panels replicating the dimensions of their prison space.
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Wild Kitchen Garden designed by Ann Treneman
RHS/Sarah Cuttle
CONTAINER GARDEN | Award: SILVER-GILT | People's Choice winner
This container garden, inspired in part by the recipes and writing of the late Roger Phillips, combines wild edible plants and trees in a small urban setting. The planting is informal, colourful and natural, and a sink and prep area against the back wall makes harvesting easy.
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The Cirrus Garden designed by Jason Williams
RHS/Tim Sandall
BALCONY GARDEN | Award: SILVER-GILT
This sustainable balcony garden is focused on increasing the biodiversity within urban areas and providing a tranquil setting for mental health. It features wildflowers, perennials, herbs, a seating area, a vegetable garden and a fish pond, all of which has been inspired by designer Jason's experience of living with an 18th-floor balcony garden, known as The Cloud Garden.
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JAY DAY designed by Flock Party (Alison Orellana Malouf and Su-Yeon Choi)
RHS/Tim Sandall
BALCONY GARDEN | Award: BRONZE
Dedicated to the Eurasian jay (Garrulus glandarius), this balcony is a reimagined urban jay habitat to encourage visitors to consider integrating live plants into their bird-feeding regime. The Eurasian jay uses hypnum moss for nut caching, so a carpet of green moss is overlaid with a metal grate to encourage it into the space.
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The Blue Garden designed by Tom Wilkes-Rios
RHS/Tim Sandall
BALCONY GARDEN | Award: SILVER
The Blue Garden celebrates what is possible in a small space and the joys of being alone in it. The planting wraps entirely around the balcony, creating a fully immersive experience, whilst vivid block colours and vibrant planting aims to uplift.
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The Potting Balcony Garden designed by William Murray
RHS/Neil Hepworth
BALCONY GARDEN | Award: SILVER-GILT
This balcony garden rethinks how we could use limited outdoor spaces for hands-on gardening. There's a practical space to sow seeds, pot up plants and propagate cuttings, all whilst utilising smart garden technology to nurture micro-greens and seedlings. This small space also offers a place to relax amongst the greenery and enjoy the view.
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The Still Garden designed by Jane Porter
RHS/Tim Sandall
CONTAINER GARDEN | Award: GOLD | BEST BALCONY AND CONTAINER GARDEN
Inspired by Scotland and the plants that thrive across the Highlands and Islands, this garden celebrates reuse, repurposing and heritage crafts. Reclaimed Scottish whisky casks are reconstructed to make new sculptural planters, whilst slate rescued from a disused quarry in Perthshire is constructed to resemble a glen between two mountains.
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A Mediterranean Reflection designed by Tanya K Wilson and Johanna Norlin
RHS/Sarah Cuttle
CONTAINER GARDEN | Award: SILVER
Inspired by the Mallorcan landscape, the curved design evokes the tranquil waves of the sea, whilst the hand-rendered stone-effect wall is an interpretation of the weathering effect of sun and sea. The design is complete with with textural Mediterranean drought-tolerant plants of succulents, perennials and ornamental grass.
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Mandala, Meditation & Mindfulness Garden designed by Nikki Hollier
RHS/Tim Sandall
CONTAINER GARDEN | Award: SILVER
Inspired by the impact of the pandemic, this container garden is a place in which to escape. It offers a safe haven to spend time sitting and meditating, listening to the tranquil water, bees humming and birds singing.
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The Enchanted Rain Garden designed by Bea Tann
RHS/Tim Sandall
CONTAINER GARDEN | Award: SILVER-GILT
Inspired by a rainy garden in Manchester, this container garden features robust, deep green planting with waxy textures that glisten when wet. A rain collection barrel allows the storage and re-use of valuable rainwater, whilst the ferns can hold raindrops in the soft spaces between their leaves.
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The Wilderness Foundation UK Garden designed by Charlie Hawkes
RHS/Tim Sandall
ALL ABOUT PLANTS | Award: GOLD | BEST ALL ABOUT PLANTS GARDEN
Inspired by plant communities in native Japanese forests, this garden's sense of green immersion is heightened by lifting the planting and intersecting a path through it. The charred timber walkway enables visitors to engage with the predominately green understorey.
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The Mothers for Mothers Garden: 'This too shall pass' designed by Pollyanna Wilkinson
RHS/Tim Sandall
ALL ABOUT PLANTS | Award: SILVER | People's Choice winner
'This too shall pass' is a mantra passed between mothers navigating the challenges of raising young children and the associated mental health challenges that can come with it. This garden for mothers represents a place of transition: from despair to hope. Bronze walls and archways represent how long days at home with a baby can feel like either a sanctuary or a cage. The planting transitions from a muted palette to a joyful, feminine celebration of colour.
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A Textile Garden for Fashion Revolution designed by Lottie Delamain
RHS/Tim Sandall
ALL ABOUT PLANTS | Award: SILVER-GILT
This garden attempts to re-establish the connection between plants and fashion. It's intended to imitate a textile, with planting in distinctive blocks of colour to create the impression of a woven fabric. Shallow reflective pools represent dye baths, with fabric or fibres soaking in natural dyes, and paved seams leading through the planting.
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The Core Arts Front Garden Revolution designed by Andy Smith-Williams
RHS/Tim Sandall
ALL ABOUT PLANTS | Award: GOLD
In this garden, two urban households have removed the defining boundary between their front gardens to make one open positive space for gardening, socialising, wellbeing and environmental gain. The planting is an original mix of native hedging, flowering fruit trees, perennials, evergreen grasses and wildflowers.
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Chelsea Show: 7 RHS Chelsea Garden Trends 2022

The RHS Chelsea Flower Show is the most important event in the landscape design world, held annually in Chelsea (UK). Let's see what ideas the designers conveyed this year through exhibition installations.

1. Climate-positive gardens
It would seem that a British garden is just a small piece of land in the backyard or a patch in front of the porch. But if you combine all the gardens in the UK, they will occupy 4330 square kilometers, which is 1/5 of the territory of Wales. Therefore, even a tiny garden contributes to environmental protection: by composting, caring for the soil, growing honey plants that attract insects. nine0003
2. Even weeds are plants
The trend towards free, natural planting continues this year at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. The gardens showcase a mix of perennials and wild flowers. There are elegant verbascums, heveas and irises, as well as buttercups, and shaggy robin, and bull's-eye daisies.

We can draw inspiration for our own gardens using the "everything goes" approach. Take any plants you like, combine, feel free to plant "weeds" (if they work in your space). nine0003
3. Gardens heal
Many of the Chelsea 2022 exhibition gardens are dedicated to promoting mental health.

An interesting example of this is the “Core Arts Frontyard Revolution” (pictured) designed by Andy Smith-Williams, where two neighbors removed the boundary between their lots to create a common “borrowed landscape” space (each enjoying the neighbor’s lot as continuation of his).

Boulders, garden toe paths and sculpted seats are integrated into the garden for the emotional well-being of children. nine0003
4. The psychology of color
The exhibition presents a variety of shades - from exuberant orange and raspberry to cool blue, lilac and pale pink. Color is often used to convey a mood or emotion, helping those who will be using the garden feel calm or uplifted.

For example, in the Circle of Life garden, designer Yoshihiro Tamura used herbs, wild cereals, and vegetables in different colors to symbolize human emotions. Healing greens, passionate reds and warm yellows are combined with white, symbolizing purity, and black, emphasizing everyday problems and worries. nine0003
Mothers for Mothers Garden - “This Too Shall Pass” (pictured) by Pollyanna Wilkinson uses gradual planting to show the different stages of emotion a mother can experience. Melancholic blues fade into soothing peach and pink, and finally into invigorating, hopeful purples and reds.

5. Multi-tasking spaces
Many of us want to spend more time in our gardens, so it makes sense to create a space where we can take our indoor activities to the outdoors. Out of the Shadows garden by Keith Gould, which has a swimming spa, horizontal bars, a yoga space and relaxation areas. nine0003
6. Don't "fix" nature
Gone are the days when plants were forced to grow by watering them endlessly or spraying them with pesticides. Instead, visitors to Chelsea are encouraged to choose garden plants that will thrive in certain conditions without much effort.

The Brewin Dolphin Garden, designed by Paul Hervey-Brooks, is made from plants that can grow in poor soils. Low-maintenance, long-flowering shrubs and perennials provide nectar and habitat for pollinators. nine0003
Bea Tann's Enchanted Rain Garden (pictured) has containerized plants that grow well in rainy climates.

7. Urban nature
There is a lot of urban greenery in Chelsea this year. Get inspired by Hands Off Mangrove by Grow2Know by Taishan Hayden-Smith and Danny Clarke, featuring pollinator-friendly and edible plants suitable for urban landscapes.

The Cirrus balcony garden (pictured) was designed by Jason Williams, who has his own 18th floor balcony garden. He recreated this space for Chelsea to show how you can cram wildflowers, perennials, herbs, a kitchen garden and even a fish pond into a small urban area. nine0003
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Nature knows best. Breaking down the Chelsea Flower Show gardens - PRAGMATIKA.MEDIA

Forest green and charred wood - this year most of the Chelsea Flower Show gardens gravitated towards monochrome and natural colors. Bright inclusions of flowering perennials only emphasized the abundance of greenery that enveloped structures, structures, shamelessly invaded the paving. What else distinguished the world's largest exhibition of flowers and garden design this year? In the traditional section "Likbez" we analyze the features of exhibition projects with the founder of the Beloded Landscaping Bureau, a full member of the Society of Garden Designers (SGD) Lyudmila Beloded. nine0003
The Chelsea Flower Show in London is a global event and almost a national holiday. Light madness covers Chelsea and Kensington, Belgravia and Knightsbridge - all restaurants, galleries, boutiques decorate their windows, platforms with flowers and floral installations. Before the show closes, when the interviews are already recorded, the winners are announced, the gong sounds, and the entire exhibition is sold out to the tune of Rossini's overture to the opera William Tell.

Lyudmila Beloded, landscape designer, director and founder of Beloded Landscaping

While the show is on, visitors can't pick up the plants, but many buy and reserve them in advance. And so, as soon as the signal for the sale is given, a queue is built before each exposition. In the hands of English ladies suddenly there is what we call kravchuchka bags, which are instantly filled with huge two-meter delphiniums, collectible peonies, meconopsis. And from the side of the embankment, the so-called flower buses drive up, which deliver visitors to the nearest metro station for free. Armfuls of flowers hang from all the windows and upper platforms of these buses. The sight is stunning! At the metro stations during these hours, of course, there is a full house. Literally an hour later, the exhibition is empty - neither people nor plants remain. This is the tradition of the English. nine0003

Chelsea Flower Show is a catalyst for the "green" industry in the UK and around the world

Let me tell you a little about the specifics of the organization of the show. Gardens in Chelsea are evaluated in several categories. Show Gardens - gardens created by famous designers and their teams; Artisan Gardens demonstrate an innovative approach to the use of traditional practices, materials and craftsmanship; Space to Grow is about the possibilities of creating a garden in small spaces. And the Feature Gardens nomination was introduced for special gardens like The RHS Back to Nature Garden, a garden created under the curation of the Duchess of Cambridge, Kate. By the way, the award was not awarded to him for ethical reasons, so that there would be no accusations of biased judges. The Kate Middleton Garden is a classic family garden with a treehouse and swings for the kids. It's cozy, green, wet and apparently designed by the Duchess in collaboration with Davies White Ltd. with love and care for children. nine0003
In each category, the best garden according to the jury and the garden most liked by the audience are awarded. Gold, gilded (strange as it sounds), silver, and sometimes bronze medals are also awarded. There is an award that celebrates the best gardens in terms of construction and engineering work - the Best Construction Award. As part of the Chelsea Flower Show, florists are also awarded, whose works are exhibited in a separate pavilion. Floristry is a discipline in its own right, and every year the participants of the show show us the highest level of skill in using and combining plants for interior decoration. In a word, most of the participants return with awards, and this is very stimulating. nine0003
Duchess of Cambridge Kate Middleton at the opening of the Chelsea Flower Show 2019. Image Source: royal. Uk

The Chelsea Flower Show gardens cannot literally be called designer gardens, as they are not named after the designer. We don't say "Andy Sturgeon's garden" - we say "M&G Garden". This is a huge investment company that sponsored the creation of this garden and paid all the expenses. Such an approach, when the emphasis is on sponsors, is a very competent step on the part of the organizers, it is he who ensures the viability of the entire event. The show is supported by large tech companies, insurance funds, and usually such partnerships last for years. I noticed that Laurent-Perrier, a champagne manufacturer, is not among the sponsors this year, and many regulars no longer imagine their visit to the Chelsea exhibition without a glass of sparkling wine. Laurent-Perrier has supported the RHS show for the past few years. nine0003

Sustainability and sustainability are important aspects of a modern garden

CROCUS, a landscaping contractor, has chosen our partner companies - nurseries from Germany and Holland as a supplier of plants. For designer Andy Sturgeon, who created the M&G Garden, which won this year's Best of the Year, and Sarah Eberle, who designed The Resilience Garden, which won the highest award for Best Construction Award, they supplied rare specimens of zelkova (Zelkova serrata), calocedrus (Calocedrus) and hornbeam (Carpinus). nine0003
Perhaps if we followed this rule, then we could hold large-scale shows. Everyone would win - sponsors, designers, owners of nurseries and greenhouses, everyone involved in the industry. Well, the audience, of course.

Green Switch, designed by Kazuyuki Ishihara, Chelsea Flower Show 2019. Photo: Hannah Stephenson/PA

Another commercial component is the representation of a huge number of brands and manufacturers at the exhibition. Here you can see new garden furniture, tools, flowerpots of both classical and avant-garde forms, garden sculpture, innovative lighting. Clothes for gardeners are also presented - there are three large companies that exhibit their new collections every year. A separate pleasure is to try on all these aprons and hats. Representatives of the Irish brand, which produces professional shoes for gardening, put on their exclusive boots and stand in a basin for half an hour, proving that they do not get wet. Such purely English entertainment. nine0003
Not only British designers and brands take part in the exhibition. There are participants from former colonies - from Myanmar, India, South Africa. Their expositions are distinguished by exotic luxury, richness of colors and shapes. It is easy to lose one's head from the variety of nursery products exhibited in the central pavilion. The most selected delphiniums, lupins, digitalis, hydrangeas, irises, daylilies create an incredibly colorful palette.

The Resilience Garden, designed by Sarah Eberle, Chelsea Flower Show 2019. Photo: Neil Hepworth/RHS

Construction of the gardens for the show starts a month and a half before the show. On the first day it is visited by members of the royal family and the press, on the second day by members of the RHS, then by everyone else. But the popularity of gardening here is so great that in the UK almost every second member of the RHS, so there is no discrimination.

Back to nature

It must be understood that Chelsea Flower Show gardens are high art. I would say art for art's sake. Each garden has its own carefully thought-out legend. Even if it is completely naive or scientific, like, for example, recycling water in a garden space. But the idea, the concept of the garden must be declared. nine0003
For example, the opportunistic Facebook: Beyond the Screen, designed by Joe Perkins, had a very complex concept based on the positive impact of social media on the lives of young people. And there are about 1.5 million gardeners in the specialized British FB group! Flowing water, according to Perkins, symbolized the state of online, and quiet backwater - offline. The garden was awarded three awards at once - a gold medal, an award in the Space to Grow nomination and the Best Construction Award. I found it very appropriate to comment: "If you want your garden to look bigger, then place the main element diagonally." nine0003
Facebook: Beyond the Screen, designed by Joe Perkins, Chelsea Flower Show 2019. Photo: Neil Hepworth/RHS

As a practitioner, I think that the idea is still secondary. In fact, the jury first of all evaluates the talent and painstaking work to create a single space, which is formed from inert materials - stone, metal, glass - and from living plants. British designers have an amazing flair for arranging and choosing combinations - texture and color. The background is very important, for example, the Morgan Stanley Garden demonstrates how impressive the red beech hedge looks. At the same time, the designer must understand which plants support this background or stand out in contrast. This is where skill lies. nine0003

The idea, the concept of the garden must be announced

What I want to note is that most of the gardens this year showed us a purely English style. Cottage garden style. At the same time, a large assortment of perennials, wild flowers and herbs are used to make the garden look lush, picturesque and a little “wild”: cow parsley (Anthriscus), marsh spurge (Euphorbia palustris), angelica (A. Archangelica) and others.

The naturalness of English gardens, their maximum closeness to the natural landscape, their slight carelessness and neglect are the result of a jeweler's work that begins with the preparation of very detailed drawings. But even detailed sketches will not allow you to copy such a garden exactly. For it to comply with the principle of Nature knows best ("Nature knows best"), a lot of experience and flair are needed. This is the skill - to make the man-made landscape as natural as possible. nine0003

The best of the best

Of course, all the gardens presented this year are interesting and original. First of all, I pay attention to how the gardener works with materials, in what ways he organizes space.

M&G GARDEN

Andy Sturgeon's M&G Garden has collected several medals and the highest award Best in Show. This is already the fourth victory of the reputable designer from Sussex at the Chelsea Flower Show and the 8th gold medal in his collection. nine0003
M&G Garden, designed by Andy Sturgeon, Chelsea Flower Show 2019. Photo: Neil Hepworth/RHS

Andy Sturgeon used very complex plants and intricate elements - charred wood fragments symbolizing natural rock outcrops. I can’t say that this design is absolutely innovative, the charred tree in the garden format I have seen before. Designers of this level use the developments of different eras and periods, the main thing is that they evoke an emotional response. In the early 2000s, there was an installation "Fisherman's Hut" - really a hut covered with mosses with elements of charred logs. It creates a mood, evokes emotions. There are large trees in the M&G Garden, and moisture-loving, shade-resistant perennials were chosen to form the lower tier. Since the image of a garden was created in the coastal zone, everything is very appropriate. Sculptural charred fragments look very contrasting against the background of rich greenery of rogers, brunner, ferns, anemone, aquilegia. Andy Sturgeon's garden is very colorful, but I love the aesthetic of The Morgan Stanley Garden by Chris Beardshaw. nine0003

The Morgan Stanley Garden

The Morgan Stanley Garden stands out for its harmonious organization of space. There are both large-sized and sheared topiaries, which immediately take on the role of the main landmarks, and unpretentious wildflowers and garden perennials - peonies and irises - are planted between them. In my opinion, such a balance between natural nature and landscape, which is regulated by man, is ideal. The use of multi-stemmed trees is another confirmation that the fashion for plants still exists. The recreation area, gazebo or pavilion is very stylishly decorated - in the descriptions it is simply called “structure”. nine0003
Morgan Stanley Garden by Chris Beardshaw, Chelsea Flower Show 2019 This is an exclusive copy. There is a huge earthen lump under the ground, fixed with metal anchors, the use of which, by the way, we are now trying to introduce into our landscape culture. And the wooden support plays the role of an emotional dominant, illustrates the care and support from a person. The plants that are used in Chelsea show gardens rarely return to nurseries, most often they are also bought out, and I am sure this pine has already gone to a permanent place of residence, becoming the decoration of some beautiful garden. nine0003

The garden helps to disconnect from the stresses of city life

Note the red beech backdrop. These living walls serve as boundaries between gardens and are built from hedge fragments that can be purchased from nurseries. The landscape industry today anticipates all our requests and whims. To create the perfect hedge, you do not need to grow it for years and master the intricacies of regular shaping and shearing. Today, all this can be bought as a fragment of the designer. A red beech hedge is a purely English feature, because in contrast with the greenery of endless English meadows and pastures, beeches always look like a bright dominant. nine0003

Green Switch

Gorgeous Green Switch, awarded the gold medal in the Artisan Gardens category. Japanese designer Kazuyuki Ishihara is also a multiple medalist on the show. His garden is distinguished by a high degree of naturalism and fidelity to Japanese traditions. Here the name speaks for itself: Green Switch is designed as a place where you can disconnect from the stresses of city life.

Green Switch by Kazuyuki Ishihara, Chelsea Flower Show 2019. Image Source: rhs.org.uk

Architectural and color dominant - two pavilions: one with a tea room and a parking space, the second - a shower room. The bright color of the sea wave, in which the horizontals and supports of the pavilions are painted, has already been used by Kazuyuki Ishihara in his projects. Apparently, this color is symbolic for him. The plants are selected to match the national context: the designer uses mosses, swamp grasses, maples, larch and a rare specimen of large pieris. And, of course, a Japanese garden is impossible without water - there are two small waterfalls and a series of small ponds. Pay attention to the crystal water: rather complex engineering was used to construct this garden. nine0003

Kampo no Niwa

Another Japanese garden, Kampo no Niwa, was awarded a gold medal in the Space to Grow category. Its authors — designers Kazuto Kashiwakura and Miki Sato — hail from the island of Hokkaido in northern Japan. They decided to dedicate the garden to the traditional Japanese Kampo herbal medicine system. We specially selected plants that are used in treatment, and those that reflect the national character of the garden. For example, we used saw cherry (Рrunus serrula) with a specific red-brown "varnished" bark. Its flowering is not as lush as that of modern hybrids, but it is a classic Japanese sakura. nine0003
Sketch from Kampo no Niwa garden design by Kazuto Kashiwakura and Miki Sato, Chelsea Flower Show 2019. Image Source: kinokaen.com still gives the garden a certain Mediterranean international accent. Although the idea of water flowing down the wall is very expressive. Designers are clearly not indifferent to the murmur — these small streams give a special flavor and mood. Attention is drawn to the accuracy of all joints and mating between the paving and the curb made of Corten steel. The color of the wood of the pergola is in harmony with the stone — they are designed in the same warm colors as the metal. The polished limestone surfaces in the layout visually make this small garden quite spacious. It is very clean, with clear shapes and lines. nine0003

Wedgwood Garden

Another favorite of mine is Joe Thompson's Wedgwood Garden. He received only a gilded medal, but he attracts with his architecture. The sculptural structure created by Joe Thompson is a direct reference to the colonnade of the Episcopal Palace in Siena. Josiah Wedgwood, the founder of Wedgwood, admired the architecture of Etruria so much that he even named a village built for factory workers in Staffordshire by that name. Thompson's image combines classics and modernity. Some of the columns and watercourses are made of "rusty" Corten steel - a kind of allusion to industrial factory design. Nigra pine and metasequoia are used as living verticals, and their "severity" is softened by delicate pastel-colored irises, classic roses, sage, foxglove and geraniums. nine0003

From a regular garden to a landscape garden

The external neglect and wildness of British gardens, which experts and critics first of all pay attention to, is still not innovative - this is a tribute to tradition, the image of a natural English garden. Ukraine has not yet developed a taste for such landscapes. An ideal garden in our understanding is still closer to a regular one, because it looks, shall we say, more expensive. In our practice, we rarely meet requests to make the garden "natural and wild", although there are such customers. One of them, for example, strictly forbade us to remove fallen needles, clean stones from mosses. It is important for a person to maintain such a patina of time. nine0003
Wedgwood Garden, designer Jo Thompson, Chelsea Flower Show 2019. Photo: Neil Hepworth/RHS

When going abroad, Ukrainians see shop windows, restaurant menus, expensive cars, but do not pay attention to the quality of the environment itself. But the naturalness of a garden or park at the design stage is even more expensive than the arrangement of ceremonial flower beds of thousands of roses. But in the future, a natural garden requires less care, but, of course, specific, and deeper knowledge about the needs of plants. For example, azaleas and rhosdodendrons, which have become popular with us, need regular soil acidification. And such nuances are darkness. nine0003
Another difference: we want to make a garden once and for all. The British, on the other hand, are always looking for new solutions - they are not afraid to update their gardens every year. Their traditions and love for gardening stimulate the green industry, and vice versa, a rich selection of plants and accessories stimulate gardening.

The British are not afraid to experiment and update their gardens every year

There are many professionals in Ukraine with good taste and imagination who could adequately represent the country at exhibitions like those held by RHS. But to participate in such large-scale and authoritative events, of course, serious sponsorship is needed. If we are talking about holding such shows in Ukraine, then today we would be faced with a shortage of material. It was not by chance that I noticed that Chelsea Flower Show participants use exclusive plants of project sizes as solitaires.
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