RHS Chelsea Houseplant Studios
2026 marks the sixth year Malvern Garden Buildings has brought the Houseplant Studios to RHS Chelsea, celebrating the beauty and benefits of houseplants.
The Houseplant Studios have become a visitor favourite at the world’s most famous flower show.
These showstopping indoor gardens delight all who visit the show, watch the BBC coverage, or see them shared on social media.
Malvern Garden Buildings sponsors the Houseplant Studios because these indoor gardens offer valuable gardening inspiration, while giving us the chance to get creative, explore our wilder side, and indulge our passion for nature.
The Houseplant Studios 2026
RHS Silver Medal
Designer: Martha Krempel
Exhibit: The Composer’s Cabin
Building: Bespoke studio
About the Design
The Composer’s Cabin celebrates music, horticulture, and peatland preservation. Set among West Penwith’s wild, boulder-studded moorlands and peat bogs, the cabin features a Steinway baby grand surrounded by abundant indoor planting to soften the acoustics and soothe the spirit. Outside, pathways, a pond, seating, and a planted roof of delicate sphagnum mosses and ferns create spots for quiet contemplation and dissolve the boundaries between studio and landscape.
RHS Gold Medal
Designer: James Whiting of Plants By There
Exhibit: Lovehoney presents: Aphrodite’s Hothouse
Building: Victorian Greenhouse
Sponsors: Lovehoney
About the Design
Conceived as the ultimate pleasure garden, Aphrodite’s Hothouse is lush, fragrant and a little naughty. Visitors step inside a hothouse dripping with sultry orchids, glistening anthuriums, pendulous nepenthes and wandering vines. Beyond the exuberant foliage, sculptural forms peek out, subtly blurring the line between botanical curiosity and boudoir wink. Expect a few raised eyebrows. It won’t be just the Philodendron erubescens blushing!
RHS Gold Medal
Designer: John Kitchin of hugo and green
Exhibit: Heliotropic Carousel
Building: Kew Summerhouse
Sponsors: Ladybird Plantcare
About the Design
Heliotropic means turning toward the sun or embracing a positive outlook. In the Heliotropic Carousel, the plants rotate in a calm, merry-go-round fashion to maximise or reduce exposure to sunlight. The room becomes whatever you need as the sun moves – a place to catch the early rays with a coffee, a place to work quietly and enjoy the greenery, a space to meditate or entertain as the sun sets.
RHS Gold Medal
Designer: Conservatory Archives
Exhibit: An Ode to Endurance
Building: Studio Pavilion
About the Design
From harsh arid landscapes to the discomfort of our front rooms. Honouring these otherworldly stalwarts, ’An Ode To Endurance’ is curated to inspect the idiosyncratic forms of succulents, developed as a response to endure and even thrive in their extreme natural habitats. Exploring their place in the modern houseplant collection, and our continuous fascination with some of the most curious and unique plants.
RHS Silver Gilt Medal
Designer: Botanica Studio
Exhibit: The Hanging Gardens of Botanica
Building: Studio Pavilion
Sponsors: Bergs Potter
About the Design
Inspired by the mythical Hanging Gardens of Babylon, this houseplant studio exhibit features vertical gardens in terracotta pots, suspended both inside and outside the studio to emulate the water cycle. Visitors will learn about the process of evapotranspiration while discovering creative ways to arrange and care for houseplants at home, including using rainwater harvesting to keep them healthy and thriving.
RHS Silver Medal
Designer: Petersham Nurseries
Exhibit: The Conservatory
Building: Astwood Pavilion
About the Design
The elegant conservatory at Petersham House guided the design for this Houseplant Studio exhibit, cocooning visitors amid tree ferns, philodendrons, and climbing jasmines. Walls bloom with flowering climbers, creating a serene escape for entertaining, creativity, or mindful contemplation, enveloping guests in colour, scent and calm.
What is a Houseplant Studio?
A RHS Chelsea Houseplant Studio is an indoor garden set within a garden room. We collaborate with top plant stylists and indoor garden designers to create garden buildings that bring these concepts to life, showcasing creative ways to style houseplants at home and inspire those without outdoor space to green up their interiors.
The Houseplant Studios are located on the plateau in Ranelagh Gardens next to the eateries.
Each Houseplant Studio is available for purchase as an ex-display, giving these garden buildings a life beyond the show.
Carefully relocated to their new owners’ gardens, they become a little piece of Chelsea to enjoy at home. For more details, ask the team on the Malvern Garden Buildings’ trade stand on Royal Hospital Way at the show.
Find out moreTake a look at exhibits from previous years
Visit RHS websiteFor everything you need to know about the Houseplant Studios at RHS Chelsea
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