RHS CHELSEA FLOWER SHOW 2025

The 2025 garden celebrated collaboration between artist and designer, sculpture and setting, material and meaning. We were excited to work with Saatchi Gallery and multi-disciplinary artist Darcey Fleming. Three Coverings combined woven sculptural forms and naturalistic planting to create an immersive space, inviting connection. The sculptures, made from locally sourced, repurposed baling twine, referenced communal traditions, gatherings and the quiet power of shared rituals. The garden honoured those moments of coming together, joy, and collective energy.

A winding gravel path guided visitors through soft grasses and wildflowers, towards a conical sculpture and a suspended wall-hanging, encouraging exploration and pause. Echoing the abundance of colour, texture, and volume of the material that Fleming employed, the garden abounded with repeated patterns of plants. The theme of duality also played a significant role. Digitalis purpurea (common foxgloves), like the reams of recycled plastic waste product that made up Fleming’s twine, were pretty but poisonous. Lamium orvala (balm-leaved red deadnettle) carried pairs of dark, pointed, strongly-veined leaves with spikes of whorled pinkish-purple flowers. Here, it was used to represent nettles, notorious for their sting, and known to offer protection in some folkloric traditions by warding off evil. All of this pointed towards the power in Fleming’s work of taking something toxic and turning it into something unexpected and ‘playful’.