The brand new garden, which is set to be called Aphrodite’s HotHouse, will feature a series of sexy and playful plants, a big foam cannon and a clam with a pearl in it.
22:11, 19 Mar 2026Updated 22:13, 19 Mar 2026
Will you be visiting the so-called sex garden?
While no stranger to hoes, bushes and more than a bit of dirt, the prestigious Chelsea Flower Show has never been an especially sexy place, unless what rocks your socks is a decent bit of topiary.
This year’s show might be a little bit more on that side of things however, or at least it will be in a new Aphrodite-themed “pleasure garden”, complete with a sex-toy company sponsor and a string of sexy plants and flowers.
The erotic garden was unveiled by Royal Horticultural Society this week, and will apparently boast an ‘Aphrodite cannon’ that shoots foam and a big clam with a pearl inside.
The garden’s sponsors are Lovehoney, a brand that’s no stranger to the X-rated, and make their money flogging all manner of adult products from latex suits to adult toys.
The man behind the garden, which is set to be named Aphrodite’s Hothouse, is the award-winning horticulturalist James Whiting, who runs the company Plants By There.
Whiting told the Guardian that he hoped to break taboos.
The garden is set to have playful, pink plants like this Flower of Orchid
“Chelsea flower show is the perfect stage for storytelling with plants, and I’ve never been one to play it safe.
Creating the ultimate pleasure garden with Lovehoney was too irresistible to pass up. Gardens should spark curiosity, break a few taboos and make people stop in their tracks.
Houseplants, much like pleasure, are something we should celebrate openly and abundantly.”
Whiting added that he hoped to incorporate flirty” and “playful” plants into the garden too, especially ones that are pink and red in colour, as well as a series of orchids.
A Lovehoney spokesperson stated that they and the Aphrodite Hothouse were there to surprise and disrupt.
Lovehoney primarily sell sex toys and other adult products(Image: Lovehoney)
“You don’t expect to see a sexual wellness brand at Chelsea flower show and that’s precisely the point. We’re always looking for cultural spaces to show up in and new ways to tell stories about sexual wellbeing, especially where it’s been absent.
“An immersive, unexpected pleasure garden designed to spark curiosity and challenge expectations, because if we want to change the conversation around sex, we can’t stay in our lane”, they said.
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