2024 has been a special year for the National Garden Scheme with its show garden at the world-renowned RHS Chelsea Flower Show dominating the calendar in May.
Find out more about the initial impact of the garden on our work in our newly published Impact Report and Video.
Watch our fabulous final highlights film from the Gold Medal winning National Garden Scheme Garden at RHS Chelsea. Designed by Tom Stuart-Smith, brought to life by Crocus and fully funded by Project Giving Back, this wonderful garden was supported by so many people. Thank you all for your wonderful help and enthusiasm and for making it such a special experience.
Our plant sale on Saturday 1 June was a fabulous success raising over £20,000! Thank you to everyone who attended and bought. We hope you had a lovely day at Chilworth Manor and that your plants have a happy life in their new homes! Update soon…
We’re thrilled to announce that the National Garden Scheme Garden designed by Tom Stuart-Smith, brought to life by Crocus and funded by Project Giving Back has won an RHS Gold Medal at this year’s Chelsea Flower Show.
After rave reviews from Adam Frost and Sophie Raworth on the BBC’s Chelsea prequel programme on Sunday night, the stars flocked to the National Garden Scheme Garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show on press day (Monday 20 May).
The final list of plants used by Tom Stuart-Smith on The National Garden Scheme Garden at RHS Chelsea 2024 is available now. Click the link to find out more.
Artist Tyga Helme is the artist-in-residence for our RHS Chelsea show garden. The beautiful work she captured at the beginning of the week is on sale on Messums website with one work up for auction.
Designed by Tom Stuart-Smith, brought to life by Crocus, and fully funded by Project Giving Back we are delighted to share the story of our show garden for the RHS Chelsea Flower Show ahead of its opening on 21 May.
Exclusive collection of homeware and textiles designed by Emma Bridgewater in celebration of the National Garden Scheme at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2024. Its beautiful honeysuckle design is inspired by the National Garden Scheme Garden designed by Tom Stuart-Smith with its beautiful woodland planting. All funds raised are in aid of the National Garden Scheme.
Every garden needs a shed, but not many will have one as considered and well-crafted as the one being prepared for The National Garden Scheme Garden at RHS Chelsea Flower Show this year. Designed by architect Ben Stuart-Smith, son of garden designer Tom Stuart-Smith, the shed is being put together by furniture maker and woodworker Fenton Scott-Fielder and his team in Bristol.
2024 is a special year for the National Garden Scheme as we showcase the charity with our very special show garden at RHS Chelsea. Designed by Tom Stuart-Smith and fully funded by Project Giving Back it shines a global spotlight on our work and the wonderful gardens we open each year. If you can’t make it to Chelsea why not explore the inspirational gardens that open for us this summer – many with a Chelsea connection.
A new perspective of Tom Stuart-Smith’s design for The National Garden Scheme Garden at RHS Chelsea bringing the garden to life in full colour has been released.
National Garden Scheme garden owners are supplying plants for our RHS Chelsea Flower Show garden in 2024, exemplifying the spirit of generosity synonymous with the charity.
Read more about the varieties and why our garden owners are delighted to be part of this exciting project.
Tom Stuart-Smith is a landscape architect whose work combines naturalism with modernity and built forms with romantic planting. He has designed eight award winning gardens for the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, all of which were presented with gold medals and three ‘Best in Show’.
Tom has opened his garden at The Barn, alongside his sister’s garden at Serge Hill for the National Garden Scheme since 1993.
Join us at Chilworth Manor, Surrey for our very special National Garden Scheme, Chelsea Plant Sale. On sale will be a wide selection of perennials hand-picked by garden designer Tom Stuart-Smith and Peter Clay, co-founder of the renowned online nursery Crocus for our show garden at RHS Chelsea Flower Show.
In keeping with an increased emphasis on sustainability, The National Garden Scheme Garden for RHS Chelsea will feature a number of recycled and repurposed items. Some, like the old tools that will be on display, were destined for the local tip before being rescued by the Hertfordshire based Sunnyside Rural Trust.
After RHS Chelsea, The National Garden Scheme Garden will be relocated to form part of a new garden for Maggie’s at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge.
In this video Maggie’s Chief Executive, Dame Laura Lee talks about why gardens are so important to their centres and the impact they have on people with cancer.
Discover the inspiration behind the design, the planting ideas and the final destination for our fabulous RHS Chelsea show garden in the initial proposal presented by Tom Stuart-Smith to Project Giving Back.
In 2024, Crocus will be the main partner supplying plants and build services for The National Garden Scheme Garden at RHS Chelsea Flower Show designed by Tom Stuart-Smith.
Crocus has a long history of working with the country’s leading Garden Designers to grow the plants and build the Show Gardens at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. Over the last twenty years, Crocus has grown and built 36 Show Gardens, won 33 Gold Medals and received 12 Best in Shows.
Project Giving Back gives charitable organisations in the UK the chance to exhibit a fully funded show garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, to promote their cause while supporting the horticultural industry.
In 2024, the National Garden Scheme will be working with landscape architect Tom Stuart-Smith and Crocus to create a show garden that will live on after the show to form part of the new Maggie’s cancer centre in Cambridgeshire.
The National Garden Scheme is thrilled to announce that we will have a show garden at the 2024 RHS Chelsea Flower Show next May. Designed by eight times RHS gold medal winner, Tom Stuart-Smith, and sponsored by Project Giving Back, the garden will exemplify the joy and associated health and wellbeing benefits of garden visiting that have been at the heart of the National Garden Scheme since 1927.
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