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House & Home Chelsea Flower Show 2025 Special

Highlights to catch at the celebrated horticultural event, planting inspiration from show gardens, and the RHS’s peat ban under the spotlight. Plus, how to roll a games lawn, and a look at ‘peak bloom’ for the property market

Why the Chelsea Flower Show can’t quit peat
Preserving peatland is essential to the UK’s strategy to reach net zero emissions by 2050. But the RHS, the organisation behind the internationally celebrated garden show, has back-pedalled on its peat-free pledge. What will push horticulture to end its dirty habit?
Chelsea Flower Show 2025 highlights — from a five-decade veteran attendee
The annual event is wonderfully removed from reality; that’s why I love it. But there are still surprises to be found — just bring your own sandwich
A sneak preview of the gardens shaking up the Chelsea Flower Show
Project Giving Back’s partnerships between top designers and charities are uniting the ‘risky and experimental’ with the ‘real and purposeful’ — and turbocharging fundamental change
How to grow your own rainforest
Moss, ferns, lichens and native trees that ‘are a little bit wonky’ are the ingredients needed to set you off in the right direction, according to one of this year’s Chelsea Flower Show displays
From Kenya to Chelsea: the Gates Foundation imagines a vegetable garden of the future
Climate-resilient crops such as chickpeas and sweet potatoes are on the menu at London’s lauded flower show
Diary of a garden rescue: Patrick Grant rolls out a games lawn
‘Ten days of flattening stubborn lumps, humping rocks and sowing seeds has almost ended me — but I will play croquet, even if it kills me’

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