RHS Chelsea 2025 – The Seawilding Garden
The Seawilding Garden, sponsored by Project Giving Back, will bring the ocean’s only flowering plant to RHS Chelsea Flower Show in 2025. The garden, designed for the UK’s first community-led native oyster and seagrass restoration project, Seawilding, has been inspired by one of the charity’s key objectives; To restore lost biodiversity.
Inspired by the landscape at Loch Craignish, home to Seawilding, a saltwater pool planted with seagrass, emerges from sandstone rocky outcrops. A viewing window at the front of the garden offers a glimpse into the underwater world of Loch Craignish, inspiring conversations about marine restoration.
The garden planting is wild in character, with native species that are found in, or should be found around loch Craignish. A stone path leads past a pebble beach area and the saltwater environment, separating it from a freshwater bog area that leads to an informal seating space.
Framed by native trees at the rear of the garden, a 2.5m high seagrass sculpture made from recycled scrap metal rises from the landscape and gently flows over the seating rocks, visually connecting the land-based garden to the seagrass at the front.
Learn more about the Seawilding Garden and its journey to the RHS Chelsea Flower Show on the official RHS website.
Discover more about the Seawilding Garden and its story at RHS Chelsea with our detailed press pack, including the design, project insights, and press release.
“This garden is more than a design – it’s a reflection of the delicate balance between land and sea, and a call to restore what’s been lost. I hope it inspires people to see the beauty and importance of our marine ecosystems.”
– Ryan
Project Giving Back
Project Giving Back (PGB) is a unique grant-making charity that provides funding for gardens
for good causes at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. PGB 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.
PGB will fund 10 gardens at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in 2025 and intends to fund a total
of 60 gardens inspired by a range of good causes from 2022 to 2026.
PGB aims to boost UK-based good causes by giving them an opportunity to raise awareness of their work at the high-profile RHS Chelsea Flower Show, as well as supporting the relocation of the gardens to permanent homes after the show where they can continue to benefit the charities and their communities.
And with great thanks to the help from our other partners
Seagrass sculpture: Artfe
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Landscape Contractor: Frogheath Landscapes
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Plants by: Kelways
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Seagrass grown and cared for by: Ocean Conservation Trust
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Stone from: CED Stone
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Rare plants from: Rare British Plants
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Seagrass tank manufactured by: Aquarium Technologies Limited
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Moss from: Moss Clerks
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Supported by: The William Grant Foundation
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