RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025: Prize-Winning Exhibits and Award Recipients Revealed
The 2025 RHS Chelsea Flower Show, held at London's Royal Hospital Chelsea, features a variety of garden designs catering to different themes, including an exclusive dog park, eco-friendly urban spaces, climate change combating gardens, and wellness-focused landscapes. Let's take a look at the medal winners and their innovative gardens.
Main Avenue Show Garden Awards
1. Best in Show: The Cha no Niwa - Japanese Tea Garden, designed by Kazuyuki Ishihara
Medal: Gold
With a quality that's simply unmatched, this garden draws inspiration from ikebana, the ancient art of flower arrangement. Themed around communication and harmony, its elevated design incorporates traditional Japanese countryside plants and trees.
2. RHS and Radio 2 Dog Garden, designed by Monty Don
This fun and friendly garden victoriously wags its tail, waiting to charm visitors, four-legged and two-legged alike. Offering an enlightening section on plants hazardous to dogs, it's the show's first garden curated by Monty Don.
3. The Avanade 'Intelligent' Garden, designed by Tom Massey with Je Ahn
Medal: Gold
An urban forest garden that employs artificial intelligence, this innovative creation aims to monitor tree health, mitigate climate change, and raise awareness about the importance of trees in our cities. With sensors throughout, it is set to test an advanced AI tool intended to promote greener urban areas.
4. The Glasshouse Garden, designed by Jo Thompson
Medal: Gold
The Glasshouse Garden is a breath of fresh air for those expecting second chances. Incorporated with the Glasshouse program's philosophy, it focuses on vendors at the end of their prison sentences, helping them rehabilitate by training them in horticulture.
5. Hospitalfield Arts Garden, designed by Nigel Dunnett
Medal: Silver Gilt
Inspired by Scotland's fragile coastal landscapes, this innovative garden aims to represent sand dunes artistically and abstractly by focusing on sculptural geometries and striking plant combinations.
6. The Hospice UK: Garden of Compassion, designed by Tom Hoblyn
Medal: Silver Gilt
A soothing oasis for the dying, the Garden of Compassion reflects Mediterranean landscapes. Its thoughtful design features mirrored sections inspired by Olive Houses, offering a sense of calm and reflection.
7. The King's Trust Garden: Seeding Success, designed by Joe Perkins
Medal: Gold
The garden metaphorically highlights resilience, focusing on the adaptability of pioneer plants and their seeds in the face of adversity. representing the optimism of young people for the future.
Small Show Garden Awards
These compact creations are as captivating as their large kin. Found below, are some of the winners in this category.
1. The Addleshaw Goddard: Freedom to Flourish Garden, designed by Joe and Laura Carey
Medal: Gold
Witness the serene beauty inspired by North Yorkshire's salt marshes, where visitors can reap the mental health benefits of being amidst nature.
2. Boodles Raindance Garden, designed by Catherine MacDonald
Medal: Gold
Drawing inspiration from the 25th anniversary of the Boodles "Raindance" collection, this garden uses sophisticated stone motifs and abundant greenery to evoke the effect of water on surfaces.
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The 2025 RHS Chelsea Flower Show introduces both groundbreaking garden designs and focuses on eco-consciousness and well-being. With creativity, innovation, and adaptability at the forefront, participating designers have ensured that their creations leave a lasting impact on visitors and the environment alike.
- The Men's Health & Skin Care Sanctuary, designed by Amelia Lee Medal: Silver A tranquil haven for men to focus on self-care, this sanctuary foster skills for skincare and mental-health support.
- The Weight-Management & Nutrition Garden, designed by Sarah Eberle Medal: Silver Gilt Coupling fitness and exercise with an emphasis on smart food choices, this garden seeks to demonstrate practical solutions for weight management.
- The 'Valentine's Wellness Retreat' Garden, designed by Sarah Eberle Medal: Silver Gilt Celebrating sexual-health and self-care, this retreat-style garden invites guests to explore therapies and treatments that promote overall well-being.
- The 'Aging Gracefully' Garden, designed by Joe Perkins Medal: Silver Gilt Embracing the beauty of aging, this garden showcases plants known for their medicinal properties beneficial for the aging population, alongside medical facilities like Medicare.
- The 'Womens-Health & Fashion-Forward' Garden, designed by Amelia Lee Medal: Bronze A unique fusion of plants, color, and textures, this garden reimagines the relationship between wellness and fashion as it relates to women's health and concerns.
- The 'Parenting in a Changing Climate-Environment' Garden, designed by Tom Hoblyn Medal: Bronze Creating awareness around climate-change and its implications on future generations, this garden features educational resources on raising children in a sustainable and eco-friendly manner, advocating for environmentally-friendly policies and practices in travel, food-and-drink, home-and-garden, fashion-and-beauty, and lifestyle.
