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Guest editor sets off for Chelsea
Country Life UK
|November 26, 2025
COUNTRY LIFE's guest editor Sir David Beckham is taking his passion for gardening in an exciting new direction by helping to create the RHS and The King's Foundation Curious Garden for the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026 (May 19–23).
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Horticulturist, author and television presenter Frances Tophill will design the garden—her first at Chelsea—with Alan Titchmarsh an ambassador. The overa
This story is from the November 26, 2025 edition of Country Life UK.
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