We are thrilled to be creating an 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 Shanly 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.
Get behind the scenes at our Chelsea sneak peak event on Tuesday 21 April - spaces limited so sign up soon.
Find out moreThe Plant Heritage Missing Collector Garden
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. 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. Collection Holders from across the UK are contributing their plants and expertise including Geum, Boehmeria, Polypodium and Thalictrum. The garden will also include plants not yet safely in a Collection such as Aquilegia, Verbascum and Deschampsia grasses.
Why are we doing a Chelsea garden? And why do people become a Collector?
Go behind the scenes to hear from Plant Heritage chief executive Gwen Hines and our Planting Design Collective trio about how it all started and how it's going in this special episode of Sally Flatman's Our Plant Stories podcast. Meet the volunteers who are taking care of our plant heritage as National Collection holders, Plant Guardians and running local groups across the country in this episode.
Meet the people bringing the Missing Collector Garden to life
It takes a great team and a lot of hard work to create a garden for Chelsea. Find out more about the people involved.
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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