Go wild in the garden
Pick up tips on how to encourage wildlife into your garden at this year's show. With many designers choosing to garden for the environment, the show will provide a feast of ideas to take home.
- The Children’s Society Garden uses self-seeding plants around a shallow pool, to attract bees and butterflies to the garden.
- River and Rowing Museum: Ratty’s Refuge is inspired by the plight of the water vole, which is the UK’s fastest declining species of mammal, and shows how to turn a small space into a water vole haven.
- Summer Solstice designed for Daylesford Organic, uses native hedging to create an enviable habitat for wildlife
Changing climate
Visit the Continuous Learning section in the Great Pavilion and discover how climate change will effect gardening in the future.
Chelsea @ home
We've asked some of this year's garden designers to let us have detailed planting plans of parts of their gardens that you can recreate at home.
The garden displays:
Information on the garden displays can be found here:
[ Show Gardens ]
[ Urban Gardens ]
Continuous Learning
The Continuous Learning area within the Great Pavilion gives visitors an insight into the gardens of the future.
From the use of biofuels to adapting flower gardens, these scientific and educational exhibits tackle the theme of Gardening with Climate Change.
[ The Continuous Learning Exhibitors ]
Floral Design Marquee
The Floral Design Marquee showing the best in floral arrangement and floristry.
The Great Pavilion
All the floral exhibitors at Chelsea.
The Marshalls Garden Design Forum
Following its debut success at Chelsea last year, the Marshalls Garden Design Forum returns to the Great Pavilion at the 2008 RHS Chelsea Flower Show.
The Forum will host a series of daily talks throughout the show from some of the UK’s most prominent gardening experts. The Forum not only gives you the chance to hear fascinating and topical talks, but also the opportunity to quiz the experts with your questions.
There are only 150 free tickets available for each session, which will be allocated on a strictly first come first served basis.
Tickets are available each day from the talks tent.
Tuesday 20
12pm Andrew Fisher Tomlin: New Garden Trends
1pm Chris Collins & Sven Wombwell: Plantsmen for The Marshalls Garden That Kids Really Want!
2pm Lady Arabella Lennox-Boyd: Designer for The Daily Telegraph Garden
3pm Tom Stuart Smith: Designer for The Laurent-Perrier Garden
4pm Roy Lancaster: A Plantsman's Chelsea
5pm Matthew Wilson: Gardening for Wildlife
6pm Andrew Wilson & Bob Sweet: RHS Judging Debate
Wednesday 21
12pm Julian Dowle: Traditional or Modern - Which is Your Kind of Garden?
1pm Chris Bailes: Border Planting Design at Rosemoor
2pm Michael Marriott: Choice Roses for the Garden
3pm Andy Sturgeon: Designer of Cancer Research UK Garden
4pm Chris Collins & Sven Wombwell: Plantsmen for The Marshalls Garden That Kids Really Want!
5pm Jekka McVicar: Native Herbs of the UK
6pm Roger Platts: Plants in Design
Thursday 22
12pm Sarah Eberle: Spokesperson for K T Wong I Dream, I Seek My Garden
1pm Andy McIndoe: Trees for Small Gardens
2pm Jekka McVicar & Cleve West: The Use of Fruit & Vegetables in Design
3pm Members of the ThinkinGardens Group - Stephen Anderton & Chris Young: What Matters Most - Imagination or Planting?
4pm Tomasso del Buono & Paul Gazerwitz: Designers of the Daylesford Organic Summer Solstice Garden
5pm Raymond Evison: Clematis for Small Gardens
6pm Ian Dexter: Designer of The Marshalls Garden That Kids Really Want!
Friday 23
12pm Trevor Tooth: The Lloyds TSB Show Garden
1pm Ian Dexter: Designer of The Marshalls Garden That Kids Really Want!
2pm Paul Cooper: Designer of the Simply Italian Ocean to a Garden
3pm Neil Lucas: Grasses and Their Place in Design
4pm Tom Hoblyn: Designer of Tempest in a Teapot Garden
5pm Robert Myers: Designer of A Cadogan Garden
6pm Chris Baines: Gardening for Wildlife
Saturday 24
12pm Bunny Guinness: Designing Your Garden To Look After You
1pm Wes Fleming & Jaimie Durie: Flemings & Trailfider Garden Presented by Melbourne, Victoria
2pm Andrew Fisher Tomlin & Bob Sweet: Highlights of Chelsea 2008
Tickets for the floristry demonstrations are available from the Floral Design Marquee