The organisation behind the Hospice UK: Garden of Compassion at RHS Chelsea 2025, explain their mission and aims
Hospice gardens span the length and breadth of the UK, and our aim with Hospice UK’s Garden of Compassion is to celebrate and raise awareness of the immense restorative power of these wonderful spaces for patients approaching the end of their life, and their families. Most hospice gardens are largely staffed by volunteer gardeners, of whom there are thousands across the country. The hospice sector cares for around 300,000 patients each year.
See the Hospice UK: Garden of Compassion
Hospice care eases the physical and emotional pain of death and dying, letting people focus on living, right until the end. Hospice gardens play a central role in this care. But hospices have historically struggled to get the national profile that this amazing sector deserves. People find the idea of hospice care intimidating and even scary - and they don’t tend to understand what welcoming, joyful and beautiful places hospices and their gardens are. Through the Hospice UK Garden of Compassion at the
RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025, we will educate the public about the role and importance of hospice gardens, and of hospice care more widely. With hospice care and horticulture so closely linked, it is the perfect, once in a generation opportunity to celebrate the power of gardens for people approaching the end of their life and those who care for them.
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