A garden with a brick and wood raised flower bed, filled with green plants and small trees, surrounded by lush greenery and flowers, with a brick wall in the background.

RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026

Medal Winners

The Sightsavers Garden:

We Start With Sight But We Don’t Stop There

A space designed for every sense and for everyone

Inspired by Sightsavers’ mission to protect sight, eliminate disease, and champion disability rights, this garden reimagines an intimate urban space as a richly layered haven alive with sound, scent and texture. Everyday materials, multi-sensory planting and a central turning circle designed for wheelchair users welcome visitors, inviting them to connect , and to imagine a more inclusive and sustainable world.

The planting has been carefully selected to be pollinator friendly, drought tolerant and to engage all of the senses. Visitors can enjoy the sensation of tactile foliage, breathe in or taste aromatic herbs, feel the warmth of sunlit brick, and listen to the sounds of wildlife and the gentle fall of water.

Planters are created from interlocking 3 hole everyday red house bricks - an innovative, cheap and sustainable design. The bricks are personalised by artists, staff and supporters symbolise resilience and collective strength. At the heart of the garden a corten-steel halo gathers rain, releasing it into a cooling pool that fills the space with a quiet calm.

Various pink and purple flowers with green foliage in a garden or natural setting.
Close-up of small pink and purple flowers with green foliage in the background.
Three people sitting closely together outdoors, surrounded by green plants and flowers, holding a certificate or medal, smiling at the camera.

The Design Team:

Sarah Fisher and Janice Molyneux

(Ostara Garden Design) and

Peter Karn (Barker Langham)

Our Partners

This garden was designed in collaboration with the brilliant design team at Barker Langham.

SIghtsavers and the Belonging Forum made it possible to create this very inclusive garden for RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026.

Legacy

The garden has been relocated to Chailey Heritage School as part of the new Bradbury Den development where it is supporting the wellbeing of children and young people with complex physical disabilities alongside the wider community.

You can read more about the garden in The Guardian article

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/may/19/chelsea-flower-show-accessible-sensory-garden-sightsavers

Queen Elizabeth II participating in the opening of The Bradbury Den, holding a bouquet of flowers while standing near a sign about the event on June 3rd, 2026.
Three people holding umbrellas stand among brick planter beds filled with plants and flowers, with a wooden fence behind them, on a rainy day in a garden or outdoor space.