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The year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show saw us heading to SW3 once again, for our twenty-ninth year at the show. It may not have been our first rodeo, but the buzz of RHS Chelsea never gets old. Our stand on Main Avenue is a tremendous place from which to watch all the comings and goings, the celebs and the designers, the film crews and the paparazzi.
And best of all, we get to meet the thousands of real gardeners who visit us on our stand! Some already love our tools, some are just discovering us. It’s always a pleasure to talk gardens and gardening, recommend tools, and try to solve real gardening problems. And when we can’t solve a problem, we try to invent something that will help! Did you know that we developed our fluorescent RHS-endorsed FloraBrite collection in response to requests from RHS Chelsea visitors for unlosable tools?
This year’s show started in wind and rain and ended with 30-degree heat, but as ever, we loved every minute of it. Here are our favourite things from RHS Chelsea 2026.
The Lost Oasis
Architectural Plants’ exhibit in the Great Pavilion was quite frankly a marvel. Epic in scale, ambition and impact, this exhibit under the towering obelisk recreated the curiosity and fascination of the Victorian plant hunters – complete with pith helmet to set the scene! The centrepiece was a show-stopping cloud pruned Taxus Media Hicksii Niwaki (yew). Stairs climbed past towering palms to a platform overlooking the show – with a rather fabulous antique sofa to rest and take it all in. This spectacular exhibit was rewarded with a well-deserved gold medal.
Our stand!
This year on our Main Avenue stand, we went BIG on colour and creativity! Thinking about a garden as a canvas to be filled with colour, we took ‘The Art of Planting’ as our theme. Our towering centrepiece featured an artist’s easel, as well as two brushes with flowers instead of bristles. On the walkway, a magnificent floral display leapt through its frame into glorious 3D. The visitors loved it, the bees loved it – and so did we. What a place to call home for a week!
The Breathing Space Garden
We had provided some tools for the build of this garden, so of course we wanted to go along and explore it. Supported by Project Giving Back and highlighting the work of Asthma and Lung UK, the garden was a tranquil woodland edge retreat and provided a place for visitors to slow down, breathe more deeply and reconnect with nature. Elements throughout the garden highlight the act of breathing. A ‘lungs’ sculpture rested on a plinth made from coal dust sweepings. A peaceful platform for sitting, tai chi or yoga rested on supports made from recycled oxygen cylinders. Even better, the garden was to be immediately relocated to the Breathing Space community lung rehabilitation hospital in Rotherham, close to home for our Sheffield HQ and a beautiful and important addition to the local community. Congratulations to the team on their silver medal.
The rocking horses
A stand near ours had the most delightful display of traditional rocking horses. Stevenson Brothers has been making the world’s finest rocking horses for over 40 years. Our attention was initially drawn by the unusual choice of a ‘rocking zebra’ – a natural choice as the brothers behind the company had grown up in Kenya. The stand also featured a beautiful replica of Emma, the late Queen Elizabeth’s beloved black fell pony. Emma stood watch at Windsor Castle as the funeral procession passed by, one of her owner’s signature Hermes scarves laid across her saddle. The display too featured a silk square on the saddle, a touching tribute.
The Missing Collector Garden
We’d provided some items for the Plant Heritage team to help with their Chelsea build, for us this was another must-see. A garden to delve into, the display highlighted the work of the National Collections, saving plant varieties that may be lost. There are 742 national plant collections across the UK, and this garden represented 25 of them. Bright planting in jewel tones represented the treasures in the collection. Drawer-style planters gave the feel of a cabinet of curiosities, treasures to be cared for. With a number of plant groups still without a national collection, a fantastical empty chair represented the missing collector. Could it be you?
The washing machine
We loved this Great Pavilion exhibit from Sparshalt College. Entitled ‘Washday Hues’, it was a journey into colour, exploring the ancient relationship between plants and fabrics. Many of the plants in the display could be used for dyeing, whether from roots, flowers, leaves or berries. The display took the visitor through the various steps of dyeing and we found the whole thing fascinating. The giant washing machine was especially eye-catching, together with the colourful line of washing dyed using different natural colours. Congratulations to the Sparshalt team on achieving a Chelsea silver-gilt.
And then it was all over. The Chelsea Pensioners marched through the showground, the bell range and flurry of the plant sell-off began. It’s a tiring week, but a magical one, and we’re already looking forward to next year. See you there!