We are thrilled to share the news of our All About Plants show garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in May 2026
The Plant Heritage Missing Collector Garden is designed by new trio The Planting Design Collective and sponsored by Project Giving Back with additional support from the Shanley Foundation. The garden will bring our mission to protect the UK’s garden plants to the heart of the world’s most famous flower show. Uniquely, we will also be in the Great Pavilion with the Plant Heritage zone showcasing 7 National Plant Collections, selling seeds, and offering advice on how you can get involved.
press releaseOver coming months we will keep you updated with our progress here and across our social media, including more about the people and plants involved, so keep an eye out for more announcements.
The Plant Heritage Missing Collector Garden
The Plant Heritage Missing Collector Garden
Planting Design Collective
Will Murray, Kate Campbell and Sally-Anne Rees, The Planting Design Collective
About the garden
It will be a woodland edge garden, filled with plants safely looked after in our living library of National Plant Collections® as well as those looking for someone to take care of them. Plant Heritage is no stranger to Chelsea but we have never done a show garden like this. By showing that National Collections can be part of a stunning garden and highlighting the collectors behind the plants, we aim to inspire more people to get involved in plant conservation as a National Collection holder or Plant Guardian, or to support our work in other ways.
More than 10 National Collection Holders from across the UK will contribute their plants and expertise to the garden. Featured collections will include Geum, Boehmeria, Polypodium and Thalictrum. The garden will feature plants not yet in a National Collection such as Aquilegia, Verbascum and Deschampsia grasses which are looking for their 'missing collector'.
About Project Giving Back
Project Giving Back is a unique grant-making charity that provides funding for gardens for good causes at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. It was launched in May 2021 in response to the Covid-19 pandemic and its devastating effects on UK charitable fundraising - effects that have since been exacerbated by the cost of living crisis.
Project Giving Back will fund 11 gardens at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in 2026 making a total of 62 gardens inspired by a range of good causes from 2022 to 2026.
About Shanly Foundation
The Shanly Foundation is a grant-giving charity funded by the Shanly Group of companies. Since 1969, Shanly Foundation and Shanly Group have contributed over £30 million to those in need of a helping hand, from youth clubs, schools, and woodland projects, to centres for adults with physical and learning disabilities. These good causes are primarily within the southeast of England but at critical times the Foundation also makes donations to worldwide disaster funds.
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