Exhibitors
Floral exhibitors in the Great Pavilion
The rare, the fascinating and the beautiful fill the Great Pavilion - the spectacular centerpiece of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. World-class nurseries, growers and plant specialists dazzle Chelsea visitors with displays of colour and fragrance from some of the world’s finest plant collections.
Some of the companies have provided links to their websites; click on the exhibitor's name to visit the site.
New plant launches at the show
Images: Martin Mulchinock
Cardiff County Council
Cardiff County Council will create A Garden in Time feature celebrating one of the region’s most successful recent exports, Doctor Who, which is made by BBC Wales and filmed extensively in Cardiff. The garden will feature the Tardis as the centerpiece of the dual garden contrasting a typical 1960s urban garden (when Doctor Who was first on our screens) with a modern day garden emphasising an awareness of sustainability, recycling and climate change.
Carnivorous Plant Society
Cayeux Iris
The display, Menu du Jour, will display seasonal irises straight from the fields of France. Flowers in the display will include bi-colours, plicatas, amoenas and pure one-colour cultivars. In preparation for this year’s show, Cayeux Iris also sent rhizomes of the most recent Cayeux hybrids from France to Woottens of Wenhaston nursery in Suffolk last August. Here they are being grown in pots ready for the show (Cayeux has no greenhouse or tunnel facilities to do this).
New plants
Churchtown Nurseries
Restios
First time at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show.
City of Durban
The display depicts scenes of Natal’s flora, fauna and rich culture.
Claire Austin Hardy Plants
Irises, peonies
Culm View Nursery
Herbaceous plants, perennials
First time at Chelsea. Culm View Nursery is based on the Blackdown Hills in Devon and grows all plants in peat-free compost. The exhibit - called Real Winners - will display a range a tough and easy maintenance plants, which are reliable and look great, giving pleasure and a real lift to a garden year after year. Among a colour scheme of pinks, purples and whites with dramatically contrasting foliage, key plants include Achillea ‘Christal’, Astrantia ‘Hadspen Blood’, Campanula punctata ‘Rubra’, Libertia formosa, Sanguisorba menziesii and Saxifraga stolonifera. Due to being based in the Blackdown Hills (almost 1,000ft above sea level) the ambient temperature is 2-3 degrees lower and sometimes unpredictable, which makes it a real challenge to ensure plants will flower at the right time.
D'Arcy & Everest
Alpines & rock garden plants
D’Arcy & Everest is creating a courtyard display of alpine troughs suitable for all gardens, including drought-tolerant sempervivums and delospermas.
New plants
David Austin Roses
The display includes a mixture from the nursery’s range of English Roses, Old Roses and other shrub roses, including ‘Strawberry Hill’, ‘Tea Clipper’ and ‘Lady Emma Hamilton’ in a mix of formality and informality, quality blooms and strong fragrances. The family-run nursery has one of the largest breeding departments in the world and produces around 250,000 seedlings each year for the five or six cultivars introduced at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show each year.
New plants
Devine Nurseries
Alliums
Dibleys Nurseries
Begonias, streptocarpus
New plants
Downderry Nursery
Lavender
This year’s display is based on lavender as a gift - for the senses, for the garden, for its medicinal properties and its culinary uses.
New plants