The Royal Horticulture Society (RHS) and The King’s Foundation Curious Garden will celebrate a diverse range of planting and sustainability, intended to evoke gardening inspiration.

Championed by King Charles III, Sir David Beckham and RHS ambassador Alan Titchmarsh CBE, the garden will be designed by Frances Tophill for RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026.

Her first RHS Chelsea garden, Tophill explains: “With sustainability front and central for His Majesty, there are no man-made materials being used in the garden, and it will be a concrete free construction.

“As per The King’s Foundation ethos and education programmes, we will be showcasing artisan crafts and skills, including a very beautiful Artist Easel created by alumni from the charity’s furniture school.”

The garden will feature an oak building as its ‘museum of curiosities’, and delphiniums grown by the RHS and its Wisley garden, as His Majesty’s favourite plant and in celebration of his role as patron of the Delphinium Society.

Incorporating seven raised plant beds, the garden gives a nod to Beckham’s Manchester United and England national team number seven shirt.

With an intention to encourage the nation to discover the joy of “getting curious,” explains Tophill, the garden will feature a broad range of planting that contribute to the health of people, places and planet.

Apprentices and garden trainees from both the RHS and The King’s Foundation charities will be involved with the planting at the flower show.

Other gardens, such as Charlie Chase’s YoungMinds Garden, have invited young people to help produce and build the garden. “This acts as a launchpad for a career in horticulture,” says Chase.

Tophill has included edibles, such as herbs and vegetable plants, as a means of showcasing their own beauty while also being a form of practical planting. She also thanks all those involved in the making of the garden, including landscape contractors Jake Catling, plant supplier Jon Whealtey and RHS ambassador championing the garden’s relocation, Floella Benjamin.

The Curious Garden will find its forever home at a college to be used by young adults, while the dye garden plants are set to be used by fashion students and vegetable herbs by catering students.