Sightsavers at the Chelsea Flower Show 2026

We’re so proud to have showcased our sensory and accessible garden at the world-renowned event in London in May 2026.

The Sightsavers garden at the Chelsea Flower Show 2026. Image © Gary Morrisroe

The Sightsavers garden is for everyone. Inspired by our mission to reduce global inequality, inclusion and belonging are at the heart of our garden’s design.

By engaging the senses through aromatic, tactile plants and calming sound and water features, visitors are invited to pause, experience and connect with nature, themselves and others.

Vibrant, hand-painted designs adorn brick planters and walls around the garden, echoing the diversity of the people we support through our eye health, neglected tropical disease and disability rights programmes across Africa and Asia.

Visitors with visual impairments can listen to a detailed description of the garden. Other accessibility features include a wheelchair turning circle and a ground surface that is suitable for people who use white canes.

The Sightsavers garden embodies our 75-year legacy of improving lives and helping to create a more equal world. We start with sight, but we don’t stop there.

Find out about the plants in our garden

Download the plant list (pdf)

Using the play button below, listen to Dr Helen Anahita Wilson’s sound installation composed using botanical information and living data from plants.

Meet our partners

The design and horticultural team

The Sightsavers garden was designed and brought to life by Peter Karn from Barker Langham, and Janice Molyneux and Sarah Fisher from Ostara Garden Design, in partnership with the Belonging Forum.
Meet the designers behind our garden

Belonging Forum

This global initiative conducts groundbreaking research to understand experiences of belonging. It also convenes governments, businesses and the public to combat social isolation and build belonging at all levels of society.
Visit the Belonging Forum’s website

Sightsavers’ garden celebrates everyone and invites people to see, touch and experience the world in new ways.

Janice, Ostara Garden Design

Pictured from left to right: co-designers Peter Karn, Sarah Fisher and Janice Molyneux.

A man and two women talk while sitting in an outdoor space. There are lush, green plants behind them.

How to make your garden more accessible

Read our tips

Relocating our garden after the show

The Sightsavers garden will be moved to Chailey Heritage Foundation in Sussex. Chailey Heritage Foundation is a charity that runs an Ofsted-rated ‘outstanding’ school for children and young people who live with complex physical disabilities and associated health needs. It will be built within a redeveloped section of the therapy farm at the school, and will also be available to the general public.