A favourite of Royalty and celebrities alike, it also sets the tone for the gardening year.

And with our Housing Futures 2016 report putting walled gardens as the number one dream elements people want outside their home, we decided to take a look at some of the trends you can find at this year’s event.

What to expect this year?

Health, happiness and horticulture

The official theme behind this year’s event looks at how our gardens can help boost our health and happiness, with a particular focus on the benefits of transforming city spaces into green oases.

The aim is to inspire people in cities to green up grey spaces, helping improve lives and the environment. Whether this is a disused balcony, a community patch of land that could be transformed or the creation of a roof garden is up to you.

At the show, this manifests itself as a therapeutic garden for patients at Great Ormond Street Hospital and an interactive feature in the Discovery Zone that shows how hard a gardener’s muscles are working.

The natural remedies to be found in many gardens are also touched upon, with the St John’s Hospice garden using plants selected for their medical practices.

Juliet Sargeant, designer of the Modern Slavery Garden at this year’s show, describes how she sees gardens and landscapes as ‘central to the health and well-being of individuals and society as a whole.’

How to get it at home

Herb and vegetable gardens are a great way to bring a bit of healthy into your life. Use organic feed for best results.

Gardens come alive

Gardens will no longer be a passive space that we visit, but will become the centre of great performances.

Diarmuid Gavin’s garden for Harrods will spring to life every 15 minutes with box balls rising up and down and bay trees rotating. Meanwhile, an acoustic garden inspired by world-leading percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie will play musical notes to visitors.

The LG Smart Garden also touches on this theme with its interactive garden incorporating touch screens and tablets into its Scandinavian lifestyle garden.

How to get it at home

Think of your garden as another room – this could include installing a cinema screen, moving your kitchen outdoors or building a tree house for the kids.

Stones and the natural landscape

Structural designs are always big in Chelsea – last year’s winner Dan Pearson's garden for Chatsworth House included huge stones brought in from the estate.

And this year is no different. The Telegraph garden, designed by Andy Sturgeon, is inspired by the magnitude of geological events that have shaped and moulded our landscape over millions of years.

In the garden, huge bronze fins represent an ancient mountain range with a stream of melt water running in the gorge below.

The M&G Garden goes one step further with nearly 40 tonnes of stone. It has all been sourced from a quarry in the Forest of Dean, and includes a stone and gravel path with woodland-edge planting leading to a sunken terrace and pool. The aim is to provide a garden that doesn’t fight against the natural landscape but instead is inspired and embraces it.

How to get it at home

Too much stone can overwhelm all but the largest gardens – but a single, focus piece can transform a standard garden into something magnificent. Use stones that are local to your area to reflect the natural landscape.