Recycled garden ideas from the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2024...

There were recycled or upcycled things on many of the gardens at RHS Chelsea this year, so here's my pick of the ones that would work in real gardens. The RHS Chelsea Flower Show is the most famous of the British gardening shows. It's the equivalent of Paris Fashion Week for gardens.

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[penelopehammerton]

I have used the backs of very tall metal garden chairs to make a fence and gateway to divide my garden up. This video really appeals to me, l must watch it again to see if there is anything else l can repurpose. Thank you Alexandra.

[dewdandnd]

🫶Such great garden interests
throughout, with, up and recycling 🎉💞

[verawallace]

I like the old chairs i have one and looking for more ❤

[kerryjean]

I am so grateful you show these things as I am an avid anti landfill. I also don't trust recycling....I mean think about it....there is not the hired staff to recycle anywhere near what people put into their bins.

[kareharpies]

Designers make such grand structures out of recycled things because they have immediate access to it and the resources (whole teams of people) looking out for supplies. The normal homeowner has given themselves a weekend or two to tackle a project, so chooses materials readily available which is often found at the store. Even when the rhs is trying to spread a better message the creations are so grandiose and unhumble that it still isn't applicable to me. Look how big that shed is! It would take months (or years?) to source non toxic reclaimed wood that is all the same dimensions for a shed that size. And one year they had quite a few gardens with steel sourced from railroads 🙃. I understand that the show is about inspiration not imitation; all I ask for is some practical homescale solutions thrown in with the ludicrous ones.

[LouciferFlump]

I love re-using old rustic things. I’ve an old stable door from my family’s farm days that has wire over it and now supports a crazy honeysuckle! It’s gone nuts, which is great, you can hardly see the door now. I even made sections of trunk from a huge conifer that had to be felled into fairy houses and rustic seats. I felt bad it was causing subsidence and had to go, so I wanted to honour its life in some way!

[DJSupaflyguy]

It’s easier to buy plastic straws than it is to get hold of pallets and crates never mind other recycling ♻️ materials these days. 😂 But definitely my preferred option use anything you got.🫡