Looking ahead: The RHS in 2025 and beyond
Clare Matterson, RHS Director General, looks forward to a year in which the individuality of all gardeners will be celebrated
Celebrating gardening and telling stories
Gardens bring to life people’s personalities and play a role in telling our life stories. Whether your passion is about wildlife, art, design, houseplants, growing food, entertaining friends and family, this year we will celebrate them all through the theme ‘Your Space, Your Story’ to highlight how people can bring their passions to life through gardening. As part of this theme we’ve worked with BBC Radio 2 and Monty Don to create an RHS Chelsea Flower Show garden that celebrates two of Monty’s and the UK’s greatest loves – dogs and gardens. It’s the first garden at RHS Chelsea to be designed by the Gardeners’ World presenter and well-known dog lover.
A warm moment between Monty Don and Ned on the RHS and BBC Radio 2 Dog Garden
Touring shows and growing communities
Each of our 2025 flower shows will have inspiring ideas and designs for gardens of all shapes, sizes and styles. As part of our aim to make the RHS more accessible in new regions and bring world-class horticulture to the doorsteps of many more people, this year we are delighted to hold the first RHS Flower Show Wentworth Woodhouse in this spectacular South Yorkshire setting.
I’m excited to see what displays, gardens and features are created through new collaborations with different designers, exhibitors, schools and community groups.
Vibrant gardens meet timeless elegance at Wentworth Woodhouse
RHS Grow With It is our UK community growing programme that supports all who want to grow and garden with others. This year we’re inviting people to sow a small space with big impact to benefit pollinators and people in their neighbourhoods.
Digging into the data
In autumn 2025, we published the first in-depth RHS State of Gardening Report to provide a comprehensive picture of the nation’s gardens and gardening practices. Contributing to this report, a national survey of community gardening is being conducted to provide a clear picture of who participates and why, its reach, impact and the barriers to growth.
Community members cultivating connection and greenery in the garden
Inspiring the next generation
As part of our New Shoots programme to encourage people from all backgrounds into horticulture, this year we’re opening the Greener Skills Garden at RHS Wisley in Surrey, which profiles sustainable gardening practices. Packed with inspiration for visitors, it also functions as an outdoor classroom to give budding horticulturists hands-on practice. Our aim is to have a learning space like this at each RHS Garden, and work is under way on the next one at RHS Bridgewater in Greater Manchester.
Hands-on learning in the garden by transferring plants from pots into the ground
A garden for every season
Our five RHS Gardens offer a calendar of beautiful seasonal moments: more than 50,000 daffodils in the RHS Bridgewater Orchard, glorious camassia meadows and wisteria tunnel at RHS Wisley, wonderfully contrasting Hot Garden and Cool Garden at RHS Rosemoor in Devon, exciting edibles in the Global Growth Vegetable Garden at RHS Hyde Hall in Essex and glowing canopies of autumn colour in RHS Harlow Carr’s North Yorkshire garden Woodland, to name just a few. New features to see this year include the Oudolf Landscape at its peak in late summer at RHS Wisley and the extended Winter Garden at RHS Rosemoor.
Global Growth Vegetable Garden – where diverse crops and vibrant blooms thrive in harmony
Gardens to visit on your doorstep
RHS Members can also enjoy free days out at selected times to 231 RHS Partner Gardens across the UK and overseas, with 15 new ones joining us for 2025. From intimate plant-filled oases to grand estates, they offer free entry to members to support our charitable aims, for which we are extremely grateful.
A welcoming path winds through Abbotsford Gardens, an RHS Partner Garden, in full bloom
Members make it possible
RHS Members are the lifeblood of our organisation, helping us to support more people to reap the benefits of gardening and funding vital scientific research to solve some of the problems created by climate change and
