The Royal Horticultural Society Announces Major Garden Winners for the 2025 Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival
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The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) has announced the winners for the Show Garden and Special Garden categories of the 2025 RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival. Gardens conveying messages of climate response, community healing, and biodiversity received attention during this year's judging.
The RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival is a representative garden event in the UK known for its large-scale show gardens and planting exhibitions. (Source: Royal Horticultural Society)
The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) announced the results of the garden category for the recently opened 2025 RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival. This event is a large-scale garden festival held at Hampton Court Palace in southwest London, and is considered a stage for showcasing experimental landscaping and large-scale planting on a site larger than the Chelsea Flower Show.
According to the official results released by the RHS, this year's judging took place in several categories, including Show Gardens, Get Started Gardens, and All-Daining Gardens. The judging criteria encompassed design completeness, planting quality, thematic interpretation, and construction standards, and in addition to the medal awards, the best gardens in each category were selected separately.
This year's entries stood out for planting strategies responding to climate change, biodiversity designs considering pollinators and wildlife, and spatial compositions themed around community recovery and mental well-being. This demonstrates that the British garden industry is recently placing importance on resilient landscaping and social functions alongside aesthetic completeness.
The Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival serves as a venue for the general public to showcase the latest garden design trends and plant trends, while providing the industry with a platform to implement experimental ideas on a real-world scale for evaluation. In particular, the large-scale show gardens are noteworthy for presenting current issues such as water management, shade design, soil improvement, and ecological planting through a concrete design language.
Along with the award results, the RHS announced that it is operating various garden and planting exhibitions and expert programs during the event. The announcement of this year's winners goes beyond the mere disclosure of results and is interpreted as an indicator showing the social and environmental agendas at the center of British garden design's evolution.
