RHS Chelsea 2025
Returning to RHS Chelsea Flower Show with The Kings Trust
Joe Perkins Design returns to RHS Chelsea Flower Show 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.
Thanks to the generosity of Project Giving Back, we are proud to have our first-ever garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, helping us to celebrate the young people we have supported for almost 50 years to build confidence, get into work, and create a better future for themselves.
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.
Jonathan Townsend, UK Chief Executive of The King’s Trust
Designed with a sustainability
focus
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.
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.
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Where the garden will go next
Following the show, The King’s Trust Garden: Seeding Success will be relocated to Uxbridge College, West London.
As part of the college’s campus redevelopment, the garden will be transformed into a vibrant outdoor learning space, designed to support education, wellbeing, and hands-on experience for students. The relocation is more than just a move—it’s a unique opportunity to embed the values of The King’s Trust by involving young people in every stage of the transition.
Students from The King’s Trust programmes at Uxbridge College will play an important role in the garden’s planting and long-term care. Their involvement will offer valuable hands-on experience in horticulture and environmental stewardship, helping them build practical skills and a lasting connection to the space.
Join us and explore
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