Become an RHS member

You can start to use your membership as soon as you receive your order confirmation email with your membership number. Your membership will be processed and will start shortly after you join online; your welcome pack including your membership card and RHS Members’ Handbook will arrive within 10 working days.

For Gift membership, the membership is valid for one year and will start once the giftee has activated their membership online or by phone, and a membership welcome pack has been received.

Direct Debit payments are secure and when you choose to pay this way you are guaranteed never to miss a day’s RHS membership. The Direct Debit will be taken as one annual payment. We’ll always write to you before renewal to remind you of the cost and date. Plus, you’ll be helping the RHS save money so we can do more charitable work.

The Garden magazine is available digitally via RHS The Garden app or as a paper version delivered to your door monthly.

As a new RHS member, you are automatically opted in to access the digital version of The Garden magazine via RHS The Garden app.

If you would like to receive paper copies of The Garden magazine, please log in to your My RHS account, select 'My Account' and then 'My Communication Preferences', and choose the option to receive paper copies.

Alternatively, you can call Membership Service on 020 3176 5865 (Mon to Fri, 9am to 5pm, excluding Bank Holidays) or email [email protected].

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We only offer a concessionary Life membership for those over the age of 60, we do not offer concessionary rates on standard memberships, but our aim is to keep membership prices as low as possible for all.

Membership subscriptions are critically important to the RHS because we are engaging in more work now than at any time in our 200-year history. As a registered charity that receives no Government funding, membership brings in much-needed income to help secure gardens and gardening, and advance our charitable objectives. Our objectives include growing our RHS Campaign for School Gardening, engaging communities through Britain in Bloom, developing our RHS Gardens, furthering research into pests and diseases affecting gardeners today and enabling members to share our vision ‘to enrich everyone’s life through plants, as well as to make the UK a greener and more beautiful place’.

We use money from membership subscriptions to help fund our charitable work. Together, we’ll be helping millions of school children sow, grow and learn through our RHS Campaign for School Gardening as well as inspiring communities right across Britain to get gardening.

Yes, you can choose to join at the garden entrance at all our gardens, please just ask a member of staff. Alternatively, if you pay the normal entry fee at the main entrance, hold on to your receipt and if you take out individual or joint membership as you leave the garden you can exchange up to a maximum of two garden entrance tickets per membership on the day of your visit.

Yes, we offer free entry for essential carers accompanying visitors with a disability, when you visit one of the main RHS Gardens - Wisley in Surrey, Hyde Hall in Essex, Rosemoor in Devon, Harlow Carr in Yorkshire and Bridgewater in Greater Manchester. If your membership has a guest entitlement you can still use this in addition to your carer.

We have more than 200 RHS Partner Gardens and carer arrangements can vary - please check before visiting, details can be found in your membership handbook or by visiting our RHS Partner Gardens page.

If you have joined by direct debit, or via this page, it takes up to 48 hours for your membership to be recognised with our online booking system.

Alternatively, you can buy an RHS Shows ticket and membership package at the same time by selecting the ‘join today’ option when visiting our official RHS ticketing site.

Please note: You should only select this option if you are buying a membership and ticket together. If you are already a member, please log in (after 48 hours for new members) to access member rates.