This year, the RHS Chelsea Flower Show gardens, big and small, are set to live on across the UK after the show, in hospitals, charity centres, schools, community gardens, in a hospice, a churchyard, a botanic garden and more. For some time now, all those involved in creating a show garden have known that the practices of the past, when materials and plants were often thrown into skips as gardens were being dismantled at the end of show week, are just not acceptable any longer. When Project Giving Back (PGB), the sponsorship scheme that pairs charities with designers, launched in 2021, it specified that the chosen gardens should be 'repurposed in permanent sites for the benefit and enjoyment of local communities'.
Since 2023, the RHS has made it a condition of all show garden applications that each
