"It's a brilliant garden." Joe Swift, BBC Gardeners' World (Friday 8th May, 2026)

 

The ONE Garden at the RHS Malvern Spring Festival is Tythorne Garden Design's third show garden, and follows on from our show gardens at RHS Malvern in 2024 & 2025. Inspired by the more than 8 million people living alone in the UK, this is a garden for a single private individual who chooses to share their outdoor space with plants and nature rather than with other people.

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It's a GOLD!

We are absolutely delighted to have received a much-coveted RHS GOLD medal for the ONE garden, as well as Best Show Garden and the RHS Environmental Innovation Award. These accolades are really important, and are testimony to the incredible hard-work of the entire team. Massive thanks must go to our exceptional landscaping team, our extraordinarily talented planting team, and to our very generous suppliers for the huge contribution they all made to this very special garden.

 

Celebrating sustainable choices

Continuing on from our previous RHS show gardens, ONE celebrates sustainable choices with reclaimed, recycled and repurposed materials taking centre stage. A series of raised beds have been constructed using innovative and sustainable K-Briqs (made with 95% compacted construction waste and recycled colour pigments), 'stitched' to a durable and sustainable framework of timber boards (Medite Tricoya Extreme) using durable and weather-resistant polyester rope. We believe this is the first time this method of cement-free construction has been seen at an RHS show. Elsewhere, end-of-life scaffolding boards have been repurposed to create an attractive and functional boundary screen, creating a sense of enclosure and privacy and providing a backdrop for the soft and textured planting.

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Speaking about the RHS Environmental Innovation Award, Malcolm Anderson (Head of Sustainability for the RHS) said:

"ONE' is a project distinguished by its intelligent, considered use of materials, delivering a visually arresting design that is contemporary but not naturalistic, and ultimately aspirational in its vision for sustainable, forward-thinking garden spaces."

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Shade-tolerant planting

The ONE has been designed so that it faces north, and so much of our planting celebrates partial shade. Often the 'unsung heroes' of our gardens, shade-tolerant plants deserve to be highlighted, and so we have purposely focused on showing a variety of plants that will thrive in partial or dappled shade. Shrubs including Deutzia 'Strawberry Fields', Taxus baccata and Fatsia japonica provide height and structure, whilst perennials, grasses and ferns including Polystichum, Anemanthele, Geranium & Dicentra  offer texture and seasonal interest. The planting is intentionally green and calming, but soft pink and white floral highlights create additional interest and atmosphere. Three beautiful multi-stem Betula 'Fascination' provide height, movement and glorious dappled shade. A provisional planting list is provided at the bottom of this page

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A team effort

Inevitably, show gardens require a team of talented and dedicated group of people, and we are hugely grateful to have collaborated once again with our brilliant landscaping contractor Pickwell Paving. Thank you to Lee, Charlie and Josh, and to our planting team- Hannah, Nicola & Nikki.

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Thank you also to our wonderful suppliers: Kenoteq, AllGreen, Landscapeplus, In-Lite, Core LP & Majestic Trees

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