With a rich history to draw upon, the show looks to bring a world-class RHS flower show to one of the grandest stately homes in the country so visitors can experience the best in British and international horticulture, with designs also encompassing themes of wellbeing, sustainability and the beauty of gardening.
RHS Teenage Dirt Park, a Feature Garden by Rachel Platt, creates a planted green space inspired by the young people of BMX Rotherham, part of Rotherham’s Children’s Capital of Culture 2025. The garden showcases a horticultural collaboration that is functional, sustainable and engaging. A bold community garden that contains a central structure of dirt tracks for rollers, jumps and berm turns is situated next to resilient meadow planting that is low maintenance with bold, contrasting colourful plants.
To honour the history of the Fitzwilliam family ownership of the Wentworth Woodhouse estate and a once thriving mining industry, the
RHS Miner’s Garden by Chris Myers recreates a time where miners and their families lived in tight-knit communities The garden uses an allotment style planting to represent a garden’s ability to feed a family, with a natural fringe of wild native trees and wildflowers bordering the garden. Old-fashioned’ cut flower varieties and bedding plants will be used to transport visitors to a garden of the past.
The
RHS Work With Your Garden feature represents a versatile garden that explores how individual garden conditions, from full sun to shade, soil, changes in topography and moisture can be worked with to create a beautiful garden at home. Tackling many of the features and challenges found in gardens across the country. The design will use an unorthodox approach where plants are chosen based on local nursery availability, continuing into the build where plants will be set out in a natural style rather than strictly following a planting plan.
The
RHS Rhubarb by Candlelight installation by Jordan Lister transports visitors into Rhubarb Triangle Forcing Sheds where perennial planting inspired by rhubarb-tones will sparkle under candlelight and the creaking sound rhubarb makes as it grows will be recreated. The sensory delight will be constructed within the chapel at Wentworth Woodhouse and pays homage to the West Yorkshire rhubarb industry.
Show Gardens at RHS Wentworth will include those dedicated to charitable causes - The Greenfingers Charity Together Garden by Phil Hirst and Jo Charlton is intended as a private space for parents whose child is in a hospice. Small, intricate plant details distract the attention of visitors while feeling supported and cared for. A predominantly green planting palette with muted flower colours creates a soothing effect. The Macmillan Legacy of a Lifetime Garden by Pandora Ryan features a still water pool flanked by three chequerboard paths symbolising life’s journey and the challenges of navigating a cancer diagnosis. Visitors can release seeds into the garden to symbolise nurturing future generations. An RNIB Legacy Garden by Paul Hervey-Brooks explores living with sight loss, allowing visitors to experience a garden through someone has lost their sight. Incorporating texture, form, colour and sound, the garden uses highly scented and contrasting colour plants to create an immersive place of safety, beauty and comfort.
Elsewhere in Show Gardens, designers are imagining what garden visitors could see in their own homes.
Urban Pollinators by Richard Browning employs a loose and irregular planting pattern to create a natural garden filled with mixed perennials to attract depleting pollinators.
Hazlewood Barn | Reimagined by Bestall & Co by Lee Bestall aims to give a second life to reclaimed materials, creating a landscape that is designed to cope in a changing Yorkshire climate.
Resembling a pathway into a modern art museum,
Garden Whispers by Hyeyoung Choi and Yungil Choi blurs the lines between nature, art, and architecture. Four well-shaped specimen trees underplanted with a diverse mix of summer-flowering perennial plants grouped by colour families will create a painting resembling what lies in store for visitors attending the fictional exhibition.
The popular Young Designer Gardens also return to the RHS’ summer show, providing the opportunity to kick-start their careers with debut garden designs.
Drakkars Drift by Luke Coleman draws inspiration from the striking basalt columns of Fingal’s Cave on the uninhabited island of Staffa, Scotland. The garden features Scandinavian themes and a vibrant, “moisture meadow” scheme that weaves statement specimens into a resilient, wildlife friendly tapestry that evolves through the seasons.
The Dune Garden by Jacopo Ducato Ruggeri takes from the wild, resilient beauty of Fire Island and its legacy as a queer refuge. The planting responds to the site’s contrasts: soft grasses, primroses, and wild roses meet bristly thistles and the needled forms of pine, beneath which a mosaic of sea heath spreads. Honouring the rich heritage of ceramic making at Wentworth Woodhouse and across Yorkshire’s Rockingham Pottery,
A Potted History: Echoes of Rockingham by Sam Dryell contains soft
Crataegus blooms, woven textures of herbaceous colour, and the gentle sweep of Yorkshire hedgerows. The garden aims to paint a picture through planting to celebrate this area’s cherished artistry.
Visitors will also be able to experience a depth and breadth of horticulture away from the gardens, including The Floral Marquee housing an array 52 of gorgeous florists, growers and nurseries. The show will feature 19 long borders where budding designers, community groups or colleges create a small garden all with the theme of ‘Make a Statement’. In between exhibits, visitors will be able to widen their green-fingered skills through a series of talks, demos and entertainment hosted by experts and familiar faces across the week.
RHS Flower Show Wentworth Woodhouse runs from 16 -20 July 2025 and tickets are available online at
rhs.org.uk/wentworth.
