Press Coverage:
Houseplants have a habit of turning heads… and we're delighted that our work has too! From award-winning displays at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show to commercial plant design projects across London, Plants By There has been featured by leading newspapers, magazines, broadcasters and design publications. Whether we're transforming workplaces with office plants, creating immersive brand experiences or championing the power of interior landscaping, we're passionate about showing just how inspiring houseplants can be. Browse our latest press coverage, interviews and features to see where our work has been making headlines.
Recently Featured:
The New York Times
‘A sexy garden ruffles the Chelsea Flower Show’
At the marquee event of the U.K. gardening calendar, one designer wants horticultural enthusiasts to consider the birds and the bees.
Leo Sands
May 2026 - Online
The Guardian
‘Sex garden to ‘break taboos’ at Chelsea flower show as gnome ban ends’
Lovehoney sponsors Aphrodite-themed ‘pleasure garden’ full of flowers associated with love and sex.
Helena Horton
March 2026 - Print & Online
BBC News
‘The garden designs helping Chelsea Flower Show 'move with the times’
The designer of a pleasure garden full of plants associated with love and romance has said his "super sexy" display aims to help Royal Chelsea Flower Show "move with the times".
Sascha Bigwood
May 2026 - Online
The Independent
‘Gardening has always been a hotbed of sex – Chelsea’s first ‘pleasure’ garden just confirms it’
Poets and novelists have long put gardens at the heart of their lovers’ trysts and TV gardeners are some of Britain’s top crushes – the only surprise about sex coming to Chelsea Flower Show is that it’s taken this long.
Rowan Pelling
March 2026 - Print & Online
More Press Features:
The Times
Pleasure garden? Chelsea Flower Show partners with sex toy maker.
A tropical display celebrating love, beauty and desire has become an unlikely hit among visitors at this year’s famously traditional event.
May 2026
The Sun
Hornyculture.
Chelsea Flower Show to feature SEX GARDEN for first time in ‘new era’ for iconic event.
March 2026
The English Garden
The one low-effort houseplant Chelsea Flower Show experts say is becoming the must-have indoor plant trend of the year
Of all the houseplant trends at Chelsea this year, it was anthurium that really caught the attention, not least because of those flowers.
May 2026
The Telegraph
No shrinking violets as Chelsea Flower Show gets sexy.
‘Ultimate pleasure garden’ designed to inspire curiosity and break taboos at this year’s RHS event.
May 2026
Good Housekeeping
“Chelsea’s cheekiest garden yet”: What’s most surprising about this year’s “taboo-breaking” pleasure garden.
Expect raised eyebrows...
April 2026
The Sun
SEEDY TIMES?
Inside sexiest Chelsea Flower Show ever, where pleasure themed garden stuffed with vibrators left my heart racing.
May 2026
Daily Star
Vibrator company given green light to open sex garden at Chelsea Flower Show.
The brand new garden, which is set to be called Aphrodite's HotHouse, will feature a series of sexy and playful plants.
March 2026
Bangkok Post
Love, lust and gnomes as top UK flower show bursts into bloom.
Shaking up the normally genteel world of gardening, Aphrodite's Hothouse is described on the RHS website as "the ultimate pleasure garden... lush, fragrant and just a little bit naughty".
May 2026
Pro Landscaper
Lovehoney makes Chelsea debut in celebration of Aphrodite and inclusivity.
Sexual wellness brand Lovehoney has partnered with Plants By There for a RHS Chelsea Flower Show Houseplant Studio for the first time this year.
March 2026
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Plants By There is a London-based interior plant design studio specialising in commercial plant design, interior landscaping, storytelling with plants, houseplant styling and creative horticultural installations. Founded by designer James Whiting in 2023, the studio has created award-winning displays at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival and RHS Badminton Flower Show alongside plant installations and styling projects for offices, hotels, restaurants, retail spaces, brands and events.
James is available for press interviews, expert commentary, features, photography, design stories and horticultural content, with particular expertise in houseplants, interior planting, commercial interiors, plant styling, horticulture and the creative use of plants in design.
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