First gardens announced for new RHS Wentworth show

by Bethany Vann | 04 Jun 25 | Garden Design, News

Hazlewood Barn, designed by Lee Bestall © RHS

Taking place in Yorkshire, the first ever gardens for the new RHS Flower Show Wentworth Woodhouse have been revealed; exploring themes of wellbeing, sustainability, and the beauty of gardening.

After celebrating 25 years of RHS Flower Show Tatton Park last year, it was announced that the flower show would be hitting the road, starting at Wentworth Woodhouse in Sheffield instead, followed by the Sandringham Estate; not returning to Tatton Park for three years.

This year the show looks to capture the local area’s roots, drawing on Yorkshire’s rich history and spotlighting Northern talent.

Feature Gardens

One of the show’s first Feature Gardens, RHS Teenager Dirt Park, designed by Rachel Platt creates a planted green space inspired by the young people of BMX Rotherham, part of Rotherham’s Children’s Capital of Culture 2025.

Designed with sustainability and functionality in mind, the community garden boosts a central structure of dirt tracks for rollers.

Platt, who is a Pro Landscaper 30 Under 30: The Generation alumni, earned a hat-trick of awards at the 2023 RHS Tatton Park show, with her garden J. Parker’s Chained to Tech, which was relocated to the Manchester Metropolitan University last year.

RHS Teenage Dirt Park, designed by Rachel Platt © RHS

Designed by Chris Myers, the RHS Miner’s Garden looks to honour the history of the Fitzwilliam family ownership of the Wentworth Woodhouse estate.

With allotment style planting to represent edible gardening and old-fashioned cut flower varieties and bedding plants to immerse visitors in a time since passed.

While Matt Biggins and Richard Hill’s RHS Work With Your Garden explores planting archetypes and sports an unorthodox planting style, with the designers opting to choose plants dependent on local nursery availability.

West Yorkshire’s rhubarb industry will be brought to life in the RHS Rhubarb by Candlelight installation by Jordan Lister, transporting visitors into Rhubarb Triangle Forcing Sheds where perennial planting will be illuminated by candlelight.

RHS Miner's Garden, designed by Chris Myers © RHS
RHS Work With Your Garden by Matt Biggins and Richard Hill © RHS
RHS Rhubarb by Candlelight, designed by Jordan Lister © RHS

Show Gardens

Show Gardens at the event will include an array of designs dedicated to charitable causes, from The Greenfingers Charity Together Garden by Phil Hirst and Jo Charlton, to The Macmillan Legacy of a Lifetime Garden by Pandora Ryan, and An RNIB Legacy Garden by Paul Hervey-Brooks.

The Greenfingers Charity Together Garden, designed by Phil Hirst and Jo Charlton © RHS
RNIB Legacy Garden, designed by Paul Hervey-Brookes © RHS
The Macmillan Legacy of a Lifetime Garden, designed by Pandora Ryan © RHS

At home gardening will also take centre stage in the Show Garden category, with Urban Pollinators by Richard Browning, and Hazlewood Barn | Reimagined by Bestall & Co by Lee Bestall.

While Hyeyoung Choi and Yungil Choi’s Garden Whispers looks to blur the line between nature, art, and architecture.

Young Designer Gardens

The Young Designer Gardens category also returns, with three designers making their debut to the world of show gardens: Drakkars Drift by Luke Coleman, The Dune Garden by Jacopo Ducato Ruggeri, and A Potted History: Echoes of Rockingham by Sam Dryell

Last year’s Young Designer of the Year was awarded to Ashleigh Aylett – another Pro Landscaper 30 Under 30 alumni – for her The Woodland Trust: 49% Garden.