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
Hampshire Carnivorous Plants
Hardy Plant Society
This exhibit celebrates the Hardy Plant Society’s 50th Anniversary. The Hertfordshire Group brings this festive occasion to Chelsea with its Jubilee Party exhibit. This celebrates the formation of the Hardy Plant Society and is a tribute to its late President, Alan Bloom, who introduced the concept of island-bed planting to the UK.
The party themed exhibit is a circular open-sided and open-roofed wooden marquee. Within are two island beds surrounded by turf and the hardy plants within these beds represent ‘party guests’.
'Celebrity' plants will include: Bergenia ‘Margery Fish’; Dicentra ‘Adrian Bloom’;Diascia barberae ‘Hopleys Apricot’; Geranium ‘Bob’s Blunder’, G. sanguineum ‘Alan Bloom’, G. maculatum ‘Beth Chatto’; Hosta ‘Diana Grenfell’, H. ‘Mrs Minky’, H. ‘Silver Spray’; Veronica peduncularis ‘Georgia Blue’ (Roy Lancaster’s introduction).
New plants
Hardy's Cottage Garden Plants
Herbaceous perennials
New plants
Harkness Roses
Chelsea regular Harkness Roses returns with a display entitled Roses for Successful Gardening - interlocking rose beds planted on a scale and format easily achievable in any private garden.
New plants
Harts Nursery
Lilies
Harveys Garden Plants
Ferns
Hewitt-Cooper Carnivorous Plants
Hillier Nurseries
Trees and shrubs
Hillier’s display, Planting with Trees, uses more than 3,000 plants and trees, 10 tons of bark chips and 750 hand-written labels! It demonstrates the versatility of trees from naturalistic settings, formal and urban gardens, in groups and in containers. Key trees featured include cultivars of birch, acer, maple and hornbeam. Visitors can look out for Prunus maackii ‘Amber’ with its polished bark, Prunus serrula the Tibetan cherry grown as a mahogany-barked multi-stem tree, and Quercus ilex the best broadleaved evergreen oak suitable for UK conditions. The display, in association with The Dove Clinic, also highlights the benefits to plant health of micro-organisms in the soil and visitors are able to view amplified images of soil micro-organisms as part of the display.
New plants
Hippopottering Nursery
Acers
Howards Nurseries
Perennials
H W Hyde & Son
Lilies
New plants