Sir David Beckham will help to design the King’s Chelsea Flower Show garden next year.
The former England football captain, 50, will support horticulturist and TV presenter Frances Tophill and the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) to create the garden.
Sir David, who has shared his passion for gardening and beekeeping, will be involved in the project through his role as an ambassador for the King’s Foundation.
He said: “My love for the countryside started when I was a child visiting my grandparents.
“I’ve experienced how rewarding gardening can be and that’s why I’m looking forward to working with The RHS and The King’s Foundation on their Curious Garden at the 2026 RHS Chelsea Flower Show.
“I hope we inspire people to get outside into nature and to try something new,” Sir David added.
It will mark the first Chelsea Flower Show garden that the monarch’s charity, which works to support people and the planet through a sustainable and holistic approach, has created.
The Curious Garden will aim to encourage visitors to discover the joy of gardening and the vital contribution plants make to the health of people and the planet.
Gardeners’ World presenter Tophill, who will be creating it, said: “I’m thrilled to bring my first Chelsea garden to life and explore my own curiosity about plants.”
Broadcaster Alan Titchmarsh will also be involved in the project, which runs from May 19 to 23 next year.
He said: “We will be highlighting how simply growing more plants helps mitigate both the biodiversity and climate crises, and, therefore, why gardeners are more important today than ever.”
King Charles, who established the charity in 1990, is one of the country’s most famous gardeners and proponents of organic gardening.
He has personally overseen a three-year restoration project at his 20,000-acre Sandringham estate in Norfolk, recently posing for a new portrait there.
The horticulturist and presenter Monty Don last year credited the King’s promotion of gardening as having helped embed the activity in the national consciousness.
“Our love of gardens becomes a completely unifying feature of the British personality if you have a monarch that clearly loves gardens and is good at it,” he said.
Part of the King’s charity’s work is to encourage the next generation to learn in and from nature, with gardening courses offered at The King’s Foundation headquarters at Dumfries House, East Ayrshire as part of their practical education programmes.
Garden apprentices and trainees from both The King’s Foundation’s gardens and the RHS will be invited to be involved with the Chelsea garden, as well as the charity’s students and graduates, who learn specialist traditional skills, like woodwork.
The Curious Garden’s final destination after the Flower Show will be aimed at young adults and designed to bring nature to an urban setting.