Lady Garden Foundation

Designed by RHS Gold Medal–winning garden designer Darren Hawkes, the Lady Garden Foundation’s ‘Silent No More’ Show Garden will be unveiled at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026 (19th–23rd May 2026). With its striking, immersive design – featuring forms and planting that subtly echo the female body – the garden invites curiosity and encourages open conversation about the five gynaecological cancers, which tragically claim the lives of 21 women every day in the UK.

The Ruddy Joinery team and Darren Hawkes have collaborated on the main structure of the garden, inspired by the sculpture La Casa del Poeta III by Eduardo Chillida. The team have brought Darren’s vision to life, an incredible engineering and creative challenge. In four 2.5m high parts, these structures give the garden a gravity and create a dynamism between the ‘inner space’ and the garden outside. They are designed to stop visitors in their tracks, simultaneously intriguing and captivating.

The structures have been built in the Ruddy Joinery factory, and will arrive at RHS Chelsea to be positioned on the Lady Garden Foundation ‘Silent No More’ Garden using large cranes. Once in place, they will be supported by steel brackets and rendered in clay. The clay renders are warm, smooth and tactile.

Ruddy Joinery is proud to support this great cause. As the first gynaecological cancer charity to exhibit on Main Avenue at RHS Chelsea Flower Show, the garden will help raise awareness of these devastating cancers – awareness and knowledge increases the chance of an early diagnosis that will save lives.

About the Lady Garden Foundation. Founded in 2014 by a group of women who have all been personally affected by gynaecological cancers, the Lady Garden Foundation charity is committed to ending the silence and stigma surrounding gynaecological cancer and is #silentnomore when it comes to bringing these ‘silent’ diseases into mainstream conversation.

Its mission is to break the taboos around gynaecological health and ensure women across the UK recognise the symptoms of the five gynaecological cancers (cervical, ovarian, womb, vaginal, and vulval).

Over the last ten years, the charity has developed an annual programme of events, wide-reaching national education programmes, high-impact awareness campaigns, and ongoing funding for cutting-edge research projects with global impact.