National Garden Scheme Garden

We are delighted to be returning to RHS Chelsea Flower Show in collaboration with the National Garden Scheme, sponsored by Project Giving Back. The show 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. Following the show, it will be relocated to Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, to become the garden of a new Maggie’s Centre for people undergoing cancer treatment.

With a woodland edge theme, a drift of gentle underplanting is laid out through a hazel coppice and is designed to give a sense of calm and a connection to nature. A selection of plants have been donated by National Garden Scheme garden owners and incorporated into the design, exemplifying the spirit of generosity that is woven through the relationship the charity has with its supporters.

A hut for volunteers, clad on the outside with cleft oak and on the inside with planed beech is central to the garden design and to the idea of bringing visitors and volunteers together. It has been designed by architect Ben Stuart-Smith and created by woodworker Fenton Scott-Fielder.

The garden has been built by Crocus, who are also supplying the plants.

Plant List

Angelica dahurica
Anthriscus sylvestris
Aralia cordata
Asarum europaeum
Astrantia major ‘Shaggy’
Athamanta turbith
Blechnum spicant
Boehmeria sp.
Carex remota
Cenolophium denudatum
Convallaria majalis
Dicentra formosa ‘Aurora’
Digitalis purpurea f. albiflora
Disporopsis pernyi
Disporum longistylum ‘Night Heron’
Dystaenia takesimana BSWJ12627
Epimedium x versicolor ‘Sulphureum’
Euphorbia schillingii
Farfugium japonicum
Galium odoratum
Geranium pratense ‘Mrs Kendall Clark’
Gillenia trifoliata
Hosta ‘Devon Green’
Iris sibirica ‘White Swirl’
Kirengeshoma palm. Koreana Group
Leptinella squalida
Maianthemum flexuosum BSWJ9150
Maianthemum paniculatum
Maianthemum racemosum
Maianthemum tatsienense
Melica altissima ‘Alba’
Mitella breweri
Nectaroscordum siculum
Paeonia lactiflora ‘White Wings’
Peltoboykinia watanabei
Podophyllum peltatum
Polemonium ‘Lambrook Mauve’
Polygonatum giganteum
Polygonatum x hybridum
Polystichum munitum
Rhododendron ‘Daviesii’
Rodgersia aesculifolia
Rodgersia pinnata ‘Alba’
Saruma henryi
Smyrnium perfoliatum
Uvularia grandiflora var. pallida

Hedging
Acer campestre
Carpinus betulus
Cornus mas
Corylus avellana
Crataegus monogyna
Viburnum lantana

Trees
Corylus avellana