Joe Perkins Design Returns to Chelsea Flower Show 2025
Joe Perkins Design Returns to RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025
We’re thrilled to be working in partnership with The Kings Trust (formerly The Prince’s Trust) to bring a Main Avenue garden to the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in May 2025!
Inspired by the incredible impact of The King’s Trust’s work across the UK and internationally, we’ve designed The King’s Trust Garden: Seeding Success to celebrate the resilience and potential of young people, showcasing how they can overcome adversity and thrive when given the right opportunities. We sincerely hope that this garden inspires support for young people during these challenging times.
About Our 2025 Show Garden
Inspired by volcanic landscapes, Seeding Success is a garden rooted in hope, growth, and resilience. Just as seeds hold the promise of life in challenging environments, the garden draws parallels with young people’s ability to overcome adversity and thrive when given the right opportunities.
Generously supported by Project Giving Back, a grant-giving charity that sponsors gardens for good causes at RHS Chelsea, the garden aims to celebrate nearly 50 years of The King’s Trust empowering young people to build confidence, gain employment, and shape brighter futures.
Jonathan Townsend, UK Chief Executive of The King’s Trust, has expressed his excitement for the project:
This generation of young people needs our support more than ever, having shown incredible resilience and courage to battle the devastating impacts of recent years on their education, early careers, and livelihoods.
With a focus on climate adaptation, the garden showcases plants that thrive in harsh environments, from extreme rainfall to drought. The design includes coloured, screen-printed glass panels illustrating different seed dispersal methods, symbolising social mobility and the opportunities The King’s Trust provides for young people facing challenges. Visitors will be guided along basalt pathways that wind through the garden, leading to a sunken communal area and a quiet space beneath a 12-metre Pinus nigra tree, reflecting the nurturing environment that helps young people flourish.
The garden design emphasises sustainability, with materials that are recycled, recyclable, or reclaimed. Hard surfaces and walling materials will use ‘unbound’ construction techniques to avoid cement, addressing the need for permeable landscaping to manage the effects of increased rainfall. Structural plants such as Ostrya carpinifolia and Phillyrea angustifolia, along with drifts of resilient subshrubs, grasses, and perennials, will create a naturalistic palette of muted greys and greens accented with vibrant bursts of colour.
Many of the chosen plant species are known for their adaptability and ability to regenerate in difficult conditions, including those that can thrive within a single season or recover after fire, embodying the spirit of resilience that the garden seeks to convey.
Where the Garden Will Go Next
Following the show, The King’s Trust Garden: Seeding Success will be relocated to Uxbridge College, West London. Here, it will be a valuable resource for young people enrolled in The King’s Trust programs, students, and the local community. The garden will continue to evolve and serve as an educational and inspirational space, reinforcing The King’s Trust’s mission to help young people build the confidence and skills they need to realise their potential.
With an impressive track record of three in four young people moving into work, education, or training after participating in The King’s Trust programs, the organisation remains committed to supporting the next generation as they navigate an increasingly uncertain world.
We hope you will join us at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show from May 20-24, 2025, to explore The King’s Trust Garden: Seeding Success. Stay tuned to our socials to see the garden evolve and meet all the fantastic collaborators and Kings Trust young people that we’re working with!
Credit: Renders by Sam North for Joe Perkins Design
Looking Back at Past Chelsea Highlights
We previously designed the award-winning Meta Garden at RHS Chelsea 2022 – explore it here.