King's Birthday Honours: RHS star Sarah Eberle awarded MBE
Introduction
One of Britain's most decorated garden designers has been recognised in the King's Birthday Honours. Sarah Eberle, a multi-award-winning RHS Chelsea Flower Show designer based in Witney, Oxfordshire, has been awarded an MBE for her services to horticulture. Speaking after the announcement, Eberle said she felt "deeply honoured and quietly humbled" by the recognition, capping a career in garden design that has now spanned more than 50 years.
What This Means for UK Gardeners
Eberle is a familiar name to anyone who follows Chelsea. She has designed award-winning show gardens for the RHS on multiple occasions, and her name is closely associated with gardens that push the boundaries of planting design while remaining rooted in real horticulture. Her MBE is a signal that the gardening world — and the wider public — recognise just how much skill, science and graft go into creating a great British garden. For home gardeners, it is a useful reminder that the show gardens seen on television are the work of lifelong horticulturists, not overnight successes, and that the planting principles behind them — choosing the right plant for the right place, working with soil and climate, and committing to long-term care — are the same ones that make a back-garden border thrive.
Key Points
- Sarah Eberle has been awarded an MBE in the King's Birthday Honours for services to horticulture.
- She is one of the most decorated designers in RHS Chelsea Flower Show history, with multiple major awards to her name.
- The honour recognises a career of more than 50 years in the garden design industry.
- Eberle is based in Witney, Oxfordshire, and runs her design practice from there.
- She has described the honour as a moment she finds both "deeply honoured and quietly humbled" to receive.
Further Reading
For more on the RHS Chelsea Flower Show and the designers shaping modern British garden style, browse our seasonal features and plant guides on GardenWizz. IMAGE_SCENE: an award-winning show garden display at a UK flower show with formal planting beds and polished hard landscaping
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