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The RHS and The King’s Foundation Curious Garden for RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026 announced

The RHS and The King’s Foundation are creating a garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show (19 May – 23 May 2026) to encourage the nation to discover the joy of getting curious about gardening and the vital contribution plants make to the health of people, places and planet

The RHS and The King’s Foundation Curious Garden will be designed by horticulturist, author and TV presenter Frances Tophill, her first garden at the world famous RHS Chelsea Flower Show in 2026.

Joining Frances on her journey to create the garden will be The King’s Foundation Ambassador, Sir David Beckham and RHS and The King’s Foundation Ambassador, Alan Titchmarsh CBE. The King’s Foundation, founded by King Charles III in 1990, works to build sustainable communities and transform lives through practical education programmes and projects. A huge part of the charity’s work is to encourage the next generation to learn in and from nature, with gardening courses offered at The King’s Foundation HQ, Dumfries House in Scotland.

Sir David, who regularly shares his joy of gardening via his social media channels, will help encourage millions of other new gardeners to be curious in their own gardening endeavours.

I hope we inspire people to get outside into nature and to try something new

Sir David Beckham
Talking about his involvement with the feature garden at RHS Chelsea, Sir David said: “My love for the countryside started when I was a child visiting my grandparents. I’ve experienced how rewarding gardening can be and that’s why I’m looking forward to working with The RHS and The King’s Foundation on their Curious Garden at the 2026 RHS Chelsea Flower Show. I hope we inspire people to get outside into nature and to try something new.”

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Sir David Beckham at the King’s Foundation design school
The RHS and The King’s Foundation Curious Garden will be brimming with take home ideas for people to grow more plants and create beautiful pockets of nature, be it on a windowsill, in a container garden or in a private garden space.

I’m thrilled to be working with everyone involved to bring my first Chelsea garden to life and really explore my own curiosity about plants and their vital role in bringing health to people and to planet.

Frances Tophill, Garden designer
Frances Tophill working with children in the RHS School Gardening Campaign
Garden apprentices and trainees from both The King’s Foundation’s gardens and the RHS will be invited to be involved with the Chelsea Garden. The garden will also celebrate the specialist traditional skills of The King’s Foundation students and graduates around woodwork and other craftmanship will be celebrated. 

Gardeners, from enthusiastic new gardeners to incredible skilled horticulturists, are more important today than ever.

Alan Titchmarsh, CBE
As one of the nation’s best known and best loved gardeners, Alan Titchmarsh, CBE, will also champion curiosity in the garden to encourage people to grow more varieties of plants, propagate new plants and be curious to find out why, and how, gardening can positively impact on our health, happiness and do good for the planet. 
 
Alan Titchmarsh, CBE, is an RHS Vice President and RHS Founding Ambassador
Alan said: “Aside from celebrating the real joy that gardening brings to our lives, we will be highlighting how simply growing more plants helps mitigate both the biodiversity and climate crises, and therefore, why gardeners from enthusiastic new gardeners to incredible skilled horticulturists, are more important today than ever.”

The final destination for the garden, after RHS Chelsea Flower Show, will be aimed at young adults and designed to bring nature to an urban setting and will be announced in 2026.  The RHS and King’s Foundation Curious Garden design for RHS Chelsea will be unveiled early next year.

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