We’re thrilled to announce that the stunning National Garden Scheme garden at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show will feature a gorgeous AGA 60 in Olivine.
The garden has been designed by eight-time RHS Gold Medal-winner Tom Stuart-Smith OBE, brought to life by Crocus and fully funded by Project Giving Back.
Tom Stuart-Smith’s clients have included the Royal Horticultural Society, the Royal Academy of Arts and Queen Elizabeth II and the garden promises to be delightful.
Of course, every garden needs a shed, but not many will have one as considered and well-crafted as the one being prepared for this year’s show. Designed by architect Ben Stuart-Smith, the oak structure lined with beech and more oak was built by furniture maker and woodworker Fenton Scott-Fielder and his team and it is where the small but perfectly formed AGA 60 will have a starring role.
Kathryn Lowe of AGA said: “We’re huge fans of the National Garden Scheme and adore Tom Stuart-Smith’s garden designs and so are, of course, thrilled that AGA can play a small part in it. We very much look forward to seeing everyone enjoying tea in the shed by the AGA.”
With a woodland edge theme, the garden’s drift of gentle underplanting – made up largely of drought-tolerant woodland plants laid out through an open hazel coppice – is designed to give a sense of calm and a connection to nature. A selection of plants has also been donated by National Garden Scheme garden owners and incorporated into the design. 
As with much of Tom Stuart-Smith’s work, the garden will be one of juxtaposition and contrast: simple and complex, modern and romantic. He says: “I really do think when you first see this garden your heartbeat will go down. It’s about the calm you feel when you enter a woodland.”
And after its starring role as an integral part of the garden at Chelsea the structure is destined for the new Maggie’s garden at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge, where it will provide a calm sanctuary for those receiving cancer treatment and their families. 
Mary Berry DBE, President of the National Garden Scheme, said: “The hope is very much that the charity’s presence at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show with a garden designed by the incomparable Tom Stuart-Smith will inspire more people to visit National Garden Scheme gardens throughout 2024 and beyond, and to become part of the wider National Garden Scheme family by either opening their own gardens or volunteering, and helping to raise huge sums of money for nursing and health charities.”
The RHS Chelsea Flower Show runs from May 21-25
