Tom Stuart-Smith: The blueprint of a Chelsea Flower Show garden - Episode 274

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Sarah Raven

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4.7 • 843 Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2026

⏱️ 21 minutes

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In this episode of ‘grow, cook, eat, arrange’, Sarah Raven welcomes renowned garden designer Tom Stuart-Smith to uncover his visionary new garden for Tate Britain and how he’s reimagining it for the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. They explore his bold, foliage-rich planting, ingenious water features, and a remarkable new memorial garden at Badminton that promises to be one of the RHS’s most ambitious show gardens yet. In this episode, discover: How Tom Stuart-Smith is transforming a neglected...

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0:00.0	This podcast is brought to you by sarahraven.com, which is home to everything you need for a truly
0:06.3	beautiful and productive garden. You'll also find great and essential gardening kit and stylish,
0:12.9	lovely things to have in your house to bring the outside indoors, all inspired by the garden
0:19.8	and the house being tied together. There's also plenty of
0:23.1	garden inspiration, how-to videos and specialist growing guides. So head over to sarahraven.com
0:29.1	today to discover even more. Welcome to Grow Cookie Arrange, the podcast of me, Sarah Raven.
0:44.7	And today I am joined by an old friend who I was brought up with,
0:49.5	the really internationally famous and genius garden designer Tom Stewart's mate.
0:53.8	Well, don't lay it on too thick, Sarah.
0:56.8	Or I'll play the same tricks on you.
1:00.6	I can lay on very thick.
1:03.3	So the reason that Tom is here today is that we're going to hear all about his garden at Chelsea.
1:10.0	So this is going to come out over Chelsea time.
1:13.0	And I literally know nothing.
1:15.9	And so I'm going to rely on Tom to tell us all about it,
1:20.1	why he's done it, what the themes are, where it's going to go,
1:23.4	all that kind of stuff, Tom, if that's all right.
1:25.3	Great, yeah.
1:26.3	Good.
1:27.2	So off we shoot. What's the right? Great, yeah. Good. So off we shoot.
1:28.4	What's the theme?
1:29.4	Well, the garden is about Tate, about the garden we're making at Tate Britain, which is pretty thrilling.
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