Hardy’s Cottage Garden Plants RHS Chelsea 2026

Our journey to this year’s Chelsea started back in the late autumn when designers approached us about growing show quality plants for their projects. Closer to the show, other designers visit to find the unusual and quality plants that we are known for. 

This year, you’ll find Hardy’s Cottage Garden Plants herbaceous perennials in the following show gardens:

The RHS and the Kings Foundation’s Curious Garden. Designed by Frances Tophill with input from His Majesty King Charles III, Alan Titchmarsh, CBE  and Sir David Beckham. The garden celebrates the diversity of plants, including flowers, fruits and vegetables and their uses to people, places and the planet. The garden aims to ignite a spark of curiosity in future generations of gardeners and will promote careers in horticulture, rural and heritage crafts.  Visitors will be able to take home ideas about how to create pockets of nature in their own gardens. Following the show the garden will be championed by Baroness Floella Benjamin as it relocates to a college where fashion students can use plants for dye and catering students can use the vegetables and herbs in cooking.  This is Frances Tophills first Chelsea garden and we couldn't be more delighted to work with her.  Find out more about the RHS and the Kings Foundation Garden here.  

 

Arit Anderson with Rosy and Rob. May 2026

 

The Parkinson’s UK garden. Designed by Arit Anderson. A Garden for Every Parkinson’s Journey was co-designed with gardeners with Parkinsons and their loved ones. Arit's sister has Parkinsons and we learnt a lot when Arit visited us about the importance of plants and planting in helping people with this condition. The garden will use  colour and texture which reflect symptoms and which will provide comfort during outpatient visits. Sponsored by Project Giving Back and Parkinson's UK. Following the show this garden will relocate to the John Radcliffe hospital.  Find out more about the Parkinson's UK garden here. 


The Campaign to Protect Rural England Garden designed by Sarah Eberle. ‘On the Edge’ celebrates the CPRE’s centenary year and raises awareness of the vulnerable and fragile, neglected spaces in urban areas which connect people to the environment.  Planting celebrates UK native flowering plants which are vital to our ecosystems but which are often dismissed as weeds. Sponsored by Project Giving Back following the show the garden will be relocated to  a regenerated housing development in urban Sheffield. Find out more about the CPRE's garden here

Patrick Clarke and members of Studio Ikram with Rosy and Rob May 2026

The Children's Society Garden. Designed by Patrick Clarke with teenagers. This garden is to be a welcoming space for young people:  providing a safe, peaceful and restorative environment where teenagers can be seen, heard and can connect.  The planting scheme will combine spring greens, buttery yellows and rich purples, which are very much our thing,  and contain plants which can thrive in challenging conditions. Sponsored by Project Giving Back and the Children's Society after the show the garden will relocate to a youth support centre in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire. Find out more about the Children Society's Garden here
 

 

Tom Stuart-Smiths plants expertly packed into a car. May 2026.

 

The Tate Britain Garden. Designed by Tom Stuart-Smith. Inspired by the new Clore Garden at Tate Britain,  Tom Stuart-Smiths garden reflects Tate’s sustainability commitments and uses long-lasting and drought tolerant plants which increase biodiversity. The garden highlights the importance of Museums in creating accessible reflective, joyful and creative green spaces in urban settings. Sponsored by Tate, the Clore Foundation and Project Giving Back, this garden will form part of the larger Clore garden development at Tate Britain. We'll be absolutely chuffed in future to walk down the Embankment and know that our plants are there. For more information about the Tate Britain Garden see here.

And in a balcony garden:

Designers Sarah Mayfield and Monika Greenhough's ' Hedgerow in the Sky'  will demonstrate how small spaces can be used to support bio-diversity. Taking inspiration from British hedgerows, the plant species are chosen for resilience to wind exposure, fluctuating temperatures and limited root space to ensure they are suited to growing in containers. While this garden may be small in comparison to the show gardens, the work and attention to detail are very much the same.  For more information about the Hedgerow in the Sky garden see here.

We have one more week of growing before we wave goodbye to our plants and they start their journeys to the Chelsea showground.  As we grow outdoors, don't force our plants, and let nature do it's stuff, it's also a nail biting time for us. 

We're wishing everyone the best for the greatest show on earth.  Rosy and Rob are all too familiar with the hard work and sleepless nights that go into creating a Chelsea exhibit.   We can't wait to see the final gardens, And while medals are important, for the charities and sponsors it is more about awareness raising of the organisations and their causes which counts. 

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