RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025: Best in Show and medal winners announced
Discover all the medal results for the Show Gardens and designers at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025
The medal winners at the 2025 RHS Chelsea Flower Show have been announced. This year's RHS Chelsea Flower Show includes a unique garden for dogs, designed by Monty Don, ideas for urban spaces and ways to combat climate change in the garden, inspiration from natural landscapes and wild planting, and the transformative effect gardens can provide for wellbeing and healing. Discover which medals the Show Gardens and designers have been awarded.
RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025 medal winners and awards
Main Avenue Show Garden medal results
BEST IN SHOW: The Cha no Niwa – Japanese Tea Garden, designed by Kazuyuki Ishihara
Medal: Gold
Influenced by the traditional flower arranging art of ikebana, ‘making flowers alive’, the garden’s theme is communication and harmony. It incorporates a design of varying elevations and stones, with plants and trees traditionally seen in the landscapes of the Japanese countryside.
RHS and Radio 2 Dog Garden, designed by Monty Don
Celebrating a love of dogs and gardens, this garden will not be judged but enjoyed by visitors – human and canine alike. Highlighting the relationship between dogs and the garden there will be paths throughout with clever dog-inspired planting, as well as an educational section of plants that are toxic to dogs (not to be relocated). This is the first show garden designed by Monty Don.
Forever home: Battersea Dogs Home
The Avanade ‘Intelligent’ Garden, designed by Tom Massey with Je Ahn
Medal: Gold
An urban forest garden, designed to help combat climate change through monitoring tree health with the use of AI. Trees in gardens offer many benefits, and in urban spaces can improve air quality, reduce heat, manage water from storms, and improve health and wellbeing. Sensors in the garden will track tree health as a testing ground for gathering data for researchers to pilot an innovative AI tool to support the health of our urban trees.
Forever home: London community garden as a testbed for developing the use of AI for more sustainable gardening practices
The Glasshouse Garden, designed by Jo Thompson
Medal: Gold
An immersive garden, celebrating the transformative effect of second chances through horticulture. Informed by The Glasshouse programme, which offers women nearing the end of their prison sentences the opportunity of horticulture training and resettlement support, the planting style is full of texture and colour.
Forever home: Relocated to a women’s prison in the South of England
Hospitalfield Arts Garden, designed by Nigel Dunnett
Medal: Silver Gilt
Taking its inspiration from the east coast of Scotland’s fragile sand dune landscape, the garden will focus on artistic sculptural and abstract representation of this natural habitat, noting the topography and coastal planting. With a Mediterranean planting theme, the garden also features an artist's bothy studio and workspace, and a dune pool to collect rainwater.
Forever home: Ladyloan Primary School, close to the beach in Arbroath, for use by the children and teachers
The Hospice UK: Garden of Compassion, designed by Tom Hoblyn
Medal: Silver Gilt
A garden to provide comfort and calm at the end of life, drawing a strong sense of being grounded in nature through layered Mediterranean landscapes. Using a layout of mirrors inspired from the Olive Houses’ concept of interconnected rooms, the space offers a sense of tranquillity and reflection.
Forever home: St Cuthbert’s Hospice, Durham
The King’s Trust Garden: Seeding Success, designed by Joe Perkins
Medal: Gold
Referencing a hostile environment, this garden highlights the resilience of pioneer plants and their seeds to grow and thrive, drawing parallels with young people and optimism for the future. Screen-printed glass panels represent an artistic display of seed dispersal among grasses and low-growing shrubs in muted colours.
Forever home: The garden will be redesigned at Uxbridge College, West London
Small Show Garden medal results
The Addleshaw Goddard: Freedom to Flourish Garden, designed by Joe and Laura Carey
Medal: Gold
The North Yorkshire salt marshes and natural landscape provides inspiration for this garden, encouraging those with busy lives to embrace the mental health benefits of spending time in nature. Planting includes many wildflowers from the area.
Boodles Raindance Garden, designed by Catherine MacDonald
Medal: Gold
Drawing on the styles and motifs of the Boodles jewellery collection, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary of the ‘Raindance’ collection, taking inspiration from the impact of water on stone. The garden features etched concentric circles and lush greenery, leading to a platinum-coloured Raindance pavilion with a domed roof designed to channel rainwater.
Children with Cancer UK ‘A Place to Be…’ Garden, designed by Ros Coutts-Harwood and Tom Clarke
Medal: Silver
A garden designed for children affected by cancer to have a place to escape to, to play in and be free. Featuring a monorail, a pool and a safe place called The Nest. Throughout the garden the planting will reflect fun and being carefree, as well as areas for calm and healing.
The Down’s Syndrome Scotland Garden, designed by Duncan Hall and Nick Burton
Medal: Silver Gilt
Highlighting the misconceptions that people with Down's Syndrome face, the garden, inspired by co-designer Duncan Hall’s nephew Liam, features a crazy paving path, naturalistic planting and a feature building, decorated with colourful tiles, to relay a sense of playfulness.
Garden of the Future, designed by Matthew Butler and Josh Parker
Medal: Gold
A garden with climate change in mind, showcasing climate resistant plants and crops. Inspired by scientists, researchers and farmers, this garden, set in the near future, shows how we can support our planet and farmers to thrive in changing conditions.
Killik & Co Futureproof Garden, designed by Baz Grainger
Medal: Gold
Looking to the South of France for inspiration as our growing conditions change due to climate, this family garden is designed to withstand unpredictable weather. Within the cottage-style planting are water-harvesting features including a pergola with troughs to collect and redirect rainwater.
London Square Chelsea Pensioners Garden, designed by Dave Green
Medal: Gold
Set in part of the Royal Hospital Chelsea grounds, this garden has been designed for the Chelsea pensioners as “a home for soldiers broken by age and war” to come together. The wooded area includes a central seating area with calm, textural planting.
Tackle HIV Challenging Stigma Garden, designed by Manoj Malde
Medal: Silver Gilt
Inspired by the molecular structure of HIV medication and the significant scientific and medical advances made in treating those with HIV over the last 40 years, this garden includes statues by artist Ralph Bourdoukan as a tribute to those who have lost their lives to HIV, and to highlight the stigma that still exists today. Hexagonal paving, flowing water, and a covered gazebo for reflection all feature.
Manoj Malde reveals his favourite RHS Chelsea Flower Show gardens of all time, in the video below:
The British Red Cross Here for Humanity Garden, designed by John Warland and Tom Bannister
Medal: Gold
A contemporary alpine garden, inspired by Henri Dunant, the Swiss founder of the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement, and the many volunteers who have dedicated their lives to those in crisis in the UK and abroad. Featured plants are included from countries the organisation has provided disaster help to, including Morocco, Turkey and the UK.
The Pathway Garden, designed by Robert Beaudin and Allon Hoskin
Medal: Silver Gilt
Using only recycled materials, this garden has been designed with a sheltered urban environment in mind to support those who have experienced homelessness on a path to a happier and healthier life. With an open design, the garden features interconnected spaces and herbaceous planting.
Balcony and Container Garden medal results
Balcony Gardens
Navium Marine: Blue Mind Garden, designed by Ashleigh Aylett
Medal: Gold
Embracing the restorative benefits of being near, in or on water, with muted blue and green-toned coastal planting.
A Space to Read Balcony Garden, designed by Freddie Strickland and Ben Gifford
Medal: Silver Gilt
A tranquil sanctuary to relax and read, complete with a bookshelf, among a harmonious planting scheme.
Fettercairn Wilderness Retreat, designed by Sonia Kamel, Sally Giles, Helier Bowling
Medal: Silver
This balcony garden, inspired with planting from the Cairngorms landscape, ignites and invigorates the soul to embrace being outdoors.
Making Life Better with Bees, designed by Jenny Rafferty, Frantisek Zika, Jim Goodman
Medal: Silver Gilt
A haven for pollinators, showcasing that small urban spaces can also support bees and biodiversity.
The ME+EM City Garden, designed by Caroline and Peter Clayton
Medal: Bronze
A space for moments of relaxation and calm, where the beauty of nature can be enjoyed.
Container Gardens
C6, designed by Joshua Fenton
Medal: Silver Gilt
This garden promotes ways to sequester carbon, capture and reuse rainwater and support wildlife.
Komorebi Garden, designed by Masa Taniguchi
Medal: Gold
An urban garden space with dappled light inspired by Japanese forests in Nagano.
MS Amlin Peace of Mind Garden, designed by Hamzah-Adam Desai
Medal: Silver
Exploring colour for mental wellbeing through plants in containers.
Room to Breathe Hospital Garden for the TSA, designed by Jen Donnelly and Catherine Gibbon
Medal: Gold
A calm and cocoon-like sanctuary for parents and carers visiting loved ones in hospital.
Secret Base – The Another Green Room, designed by Jun Ishihara
Medal: Silver Gilt
A secret hideaway garden to immerse you in nature and awaken the senses.
All About Plants gardens medal results
Supported by Project Giving Back and designed by first-time designers, with an emphasis on plants that are unusual and specialist, there are four gardens in this category.
The SongBird Survival Garden, designed by Nicola Oakey
Medal: Silver Gilt
Designed for children, this bird-friendly garden is informed by the narrative of a bird’s daily life and includes shelter, water and food.
Forever home: The Neighbourhood Network, Hull
The Seawilding Garden, designed by Ryan McMahon
Medal: Gold
Highlighting marine conservation and taking inspiration from the west coast of Scotland, the garden includes the first-ever use of seagrass at the show.
Forever home: Community Garden in Ardfern, Scotland
The ADHD Foundation Garden, designed by Katy Terry
Medal: Silver Gilt
This modern formal garden aims to celebrate neurodiversity through a richly layered, biodiverse environment.
Forever home: The University of Liverpool
The Wildlife Trusts British Rainforest Garden, designed by Zoe Claymore
Medal: Silver Gilt
Emphasising the wild and wet woodlands that were once part of the west coast landscape, the garden hopes to bring extensive rainforests back to the British Isles.
Forever home: The Neighbourhood Network, Hull
Houseplant Studios medal results
Showcasing how indoor plants can enhance indoor and balcony spaces. There are six studios in this category.
Babylon Beats, designed by James Whiting of Plants by There and The Little Botanical
Medal: Gold
Transforming a studio flat into a shrine for house plants through an immersive experience.
Laura B’s Paper Plant Studio, designed by Laura Burns
An artist studio of house plants that have inspired the designer’s collage work. This Houseplant Studio will not be judged.
The Roots of Wellbeing, designed by Botanic York
Medal: Silver Gilt
Utilising house plants to create a calming environment of wellbeing when working remotely.
The Sensory Retreat, designed by Pippa Jameson of The Sensory Home and Beards & Daisies
Medal: Silver
Creating a positive space with house plants to support neurodivergent thinkers.
The TerrariROOM, designed by Hugo & Green
Medal: Silver
A terrarium you can step into, to experience a living ecosystem from the inside.
The Victorian Arid House, designed by The Plant Rescuer X RHS
A Victorian-style greenhouse displaying cacti and succulents to show their timeless appeal. This Houseplant Studio will not be judged.
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