Chelsea show highlights

Have you, like me, exclaimed that RHS Chelsea Flower Show should be “all about plants”? Well, this year it seems we will have our way: there is a new category of show garden called just that, where 75 per cent of the area is devoted to plants. Pollyanna Wilkinson is opting for a joyful palette in her Mothers For Mothers garden (above); shades of green will predominate in Charlie Hawkes’s restful and thought-provoking Wilderness Foundation UK garden; and Andy Smith-williams champions sociable shared-space gardening with native hedging and wild flowers in his Core Arts Front Garden Revolution. For cottage garden lovers, Ruth Willmott’s Morris & Co show garden looks a real treat, celebrating William Morris’s designs in earthy reds, apricots and blues.

RHS Chelsea Flower Show, 24-28 May (rhs.org.uk).