Meet The Designer Behind Range Rover’s 2026 Chelsea Flower Show Garden

The RHS Chelsea Flower Show marks the start of the British summer season and has become much more than a gardening show. It’s a place for design, culture, and more often than not, some flowery fashion.

This year, Range Rover has taken a central role as headline sponsor, unveiling The Range Rover Cloister on Main Avenue and marking the first public look at the forthcoming Range Rover Electric ahead of its wider reveal later this year.

Alexandra Noble is the garden and landscape designer behind the Range Rover Cloister.

Conceived by garden and landscape designer Alexandra Noble, the installation tucks the new model in amongst hornbeam columns, reflective pools and layered planting. Noble established her studio in 2017 after a route into landscape design that began with art and architecture before moving into landscape architecture. ‘I absolutely loved it, I felt like I’d found my niche,’ she says of the move into garden design. ‘I was really fortunate quite early on to be invited to design a garden again at Hampton Court. When you’re starting out, people don’t really know your work or your style.’

Her own design aesthetic embraces a more natural approach, with gardens that are immersive and untamed. On her style, ‘I’d say it’s very naturalistic,’ Noble says. ‘Quite wild and romantic gardens, and actually quite fantastical style spaces. I don’t necessarily want them to be typical gardens. Although they are domestic spaces, I don’t really want them to feel overly domestic.’

The Belgravia Green finish of the Range Rover Electric informed planting and colour choices.

That same thinking runs through the Chelsea installation, too: Noble didn’t want to design a conventional show garden. Instead, she set out to create something engaging, and with a sense of escape. As such, visitors will see planting that hits at different heights, and structured forms that draw you into the space itself.

For the project, Range Rover proposed the idea of a cloister space, and Noble evolved the concept. ‘Because we had this incredible position on Main Avenue, I thought it would be great to create an immersive garden,’ she says. ‘People come to Chelsea to see planting and excellence in design, so it felt brilliant to showcase that and Range Rover in that setting.’

Structured forms draw you into the space itself.

The final scheme combines the best of both worlds, with structured forms set against softer planting, thanks to the dark-stemmed Anthriscus Ravenswing (commonly known as cow parsley), valerian and hornbeam columns. The Belgravia Green finish of the Range Rover Electric also informed planting and colour choices throughout the garden from the get go, balancing the more traditional countryside references associated with Range Rover and its newer electric direction.

‘I wanted everything to work together,’ Noble says. ‘I never want anything to clash in my gardens. I wanted the palette to feel harmonious. I find clashing colours quite stressful.’ That explains the soft, harmonious approach running through the garden, from the Belgravia Green finish to the planting choices around it.

The softer planting choices also serve a wider – and wilder – purpose, with pollinator-friendly planting which sits alongside Foeniculum vulgare ‘Purpureum’ (bronze fennel) and aromatic Artemisia that bring texture and scent into the space. Two Amelanchier trees also add height and structure, helping frame the garden itself. Take a look down and there are smaller details dotted throughout the space too. The stone paving is rotated vertically to create slimmer lines, plus elements of the water feature draw on the work of minimalist artist Carl Andre.

Alexandra Noble: ‘I find clashing colours quite stressful.’

With fixed dimensions and site limitations, Chelsea comes with its own practical restrictions, but Noble sees those constraints as part of the process. ‘Sometimes the more constraints you have, it’s actually easier to design, because there’s less to do,’ she says.

And while Chelsea lasts only a few days, the garden will live on, relocating to St Cecilia’s Care Home in Bromley through Leonard Cheshire after the show closes.

See more of Alexandra’s projects on alexandranoble.com