South Africa’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show design stole the show and won gold for the second year in a row. In exciting news for all who celebrated the win, the display is coming home for spring!
South Africans celebrated in a big way last week when we learned that our flora display at this year’s ever-prestigious RHS Chelsea Flower Show won gold! This marked our second year back at the world’s top-tier flower show following a lengthy hiatus. And we won gold both times, continuing the legacy of the nearly forty medals South Africa claimed before our hiatus era.
The design this year took visitors to the sea by exploring the influence that two oceans (the Indian and the Atlantic) have on the flora in our natural heritage-rich Western Cape. The arrangements boasted around 25,000 stems, hauls of fynbos and other cliff-dwelling plants to create what acclaimed horticulturalist and lead on the display, Leon Kluge, deemed a celebration of South Africa as the ‘flower basket of Africa’.
In exciting news for everyone who perused the display’s photos many times over, these gold-claiming Chelsea Flower Blooms are coming back home for South Africans to enjoy in real life!
The Grootbos Foundation and the Grootbos Private Nature Reserve have announced that the display will be replicated in Stanford, Western Cape; set to be recreated by the same team who earned gold in London. Last year, the same occurred for the ‘slice of the mountain’ display.
The magnificent flora art from the Flower Show will be a part of the Standford in Bloom Spring Festival, so mark your calendars for 10-24 September.
WHAT: RHS Chelsea Flower Show design
WHERE: Stanford, Western Cape, South Africa
WHEN: 10 – 24 September 2025
INFO: Grootbos Foundation VISIT | Grootbos Private Nature Reserve VISIT
