RHS Malvern Spring Festival

RHS Malvern Spring Festival Awards

Congratulations to all 2026 RHS Malvern Spring Festival medal and award winners – well-deserved recognition of your talent and dedication

Best in Show: Gardens

Show Garden medals

Indoor Plant Garden medals

Blooming Border medals

RHS People’s Choice Award

Best in Show: Florals

Floral medals

Floral medals
Gold
  • Alchemy Ferns: Ferns
  • Alpine Garden Society: Alpine gardening in small spaces
  • Bluebell Cottage Gardens: Hardy perennials with foliage and flowers for spring interest
  • CDS Plants: Orchids and other houseplants
  • Chrysanthemums Direct: Chrysanthemum
  • Craig House Cacti: Cacti and other succulents
  • Dan’s Plants: Cumbrian-grown, peat-free cottage garden plants
  • D’Arcy & Everest: Alpines and perennials
  • Derbyshire Bonsai: Bonsai trees
  • Dibleys Nurseries: Streptocarpus, begonias and other houseplants
  • Driftwood Bonsai: Bonsai trees
  • Farmyard Nurseries: Carnivorous plants, shade-loving herbaceous and shubs
  • G&K Carnations: Carnations
  • Garth Cottage Herbs: Herbs
  • Hampshire Carnivorous Plants Ltd: Carnivorous plants
  • Hardy Eucalyptus at Grafton Nursery: Eucalyptus trees
  • Hardy’s Cottage Garden Plants: Spring-flowering herbaceous perennials
  • Harts Nursery: Lilies
  • Hewitt-Cooper Carnivorous Plants: Tropical and temperate carnivorous plants
  • Hogarth Hostas: National Collection of Hosta
  • Hoyland Plant Centre: Agapanthus and Nerine
  • Hoyland Plant Centre: Clivia
  • Jurassic Plants Trading Limited: Rare and unusual fruit, edible trees and shrubs
  • Laurence Hobbs Orchids: Orchids
  • Lincolnshire Pond Plants Ltd: Pond plants
  • Mike’s Hostas: Hostas
  • New Forest Ferns & Foliage: Ferns and other foliage plants
  • New Forest Hostas: Hostas
  • Norfield Nurseries Ltd: Japanese maples
  • Ottershaw Cacti: Cacti and other succulents
  • Pershore College: Student-led display and plant sales
  • Pheasant Acre Plants Ltd: Spring-flowering bulbs
  • Piccolo Plants Nursery: Tender succulents
  • Plantagogo: Heuchera, x Heucherella and Tiarella
  • Plants Let’s Grow: Sedums, Sempervivum and Hylotelephium
  • Primal Plants: Palm trees and succulents
  • Primrose Hall Peonies: Peonies
  • Roualeyn Fuchsias: Fuchsias
  • Sienna Hosta: British-grown hostas
  • South Devon Chilli Farm: Chillies – a world of colour, flavour and heat
  • Staddon Farm Nurseries: National Collection of Epimedium in a woodland setting
  • Taylors Bulbs: Narcissus through the seasons
  • The Tetbury Flower Company: The evolution of a Dahlia plant
  • Tynings climbers: Hardy and tender climbers
  • Wack’s Wicked Plants: Carnivorous plants in a formal setting
  • West and Midlands Iris Group: Iris
Silver-gilt
  • Brogues Gate Nursery: Japanese maples
  • Brookfield Plants: Hostas
  • C&K Jones: Roses
  • Calamazag Plant Nursery: Dianthus
  • CDS Plants: Acers and hydrangeas
  • East Of Eden Nursery: Geums
  • Floyds Clematis and Climbers: Spring-flowering clematis
  • Gardeners Delight Nursery: Perennials for bees and pollinators
  • Green Jjam Nurseries: Flowering perennials and Penstemon
  • Growing Crazy: Pelargonium
  • Hare Spring Cottage Plants LLP: Seasonal hardy perennials, container gardens
  • Home Farm Plants: Elatum Delphinium
  • Kitchen Garden Plant Centre: Herbs and edible plants
  • Leafy Lytham: Early-flowering perennials and shrubs
  • Ledburns Cottage Garden Plants: Perennial cottage garden plants
  • Mandy Plants: Nemesia hybrids
  • National Vegetable Society Midlands Branch: Vegetables
  • Rosemeade Nurseries: Trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants
  • Skerne Alpines: Alpine and rockery plants in containers
  • Strete Gate Camellias: Camellias and their care
  • The British Fuchsia Society: Fuchsias
Silver
  • Ashcrofts Perennials: Ornamental grasses
  • Keith Partington: Rock garden plants
  • Pellies n Smellies: Scented leaf Pelargonium
  • The Rose Society UK: Roses
  • ZC Succulents: The diversity of Echeveria
Bronze
  • National Dahlia Society: Dahlia
Plant Village medals
5
  • A & J Plants: Seasonal perennials and ornamental grasses
  • Beech Tree Farm Plants: Herbs
  • Blue Diamond Garden Centres: Seasonal plants, home grown in Blue Diamond nurseries
  • Harts Nursery: Flowering bulbs
  • Ice Alpines: Alpines
  • Kitchen Garden Plant Centre: Herbs and edible plants
  • P&K Davis Nursery: Homegrown alpines and perennials
  • Petrichor Bulb Specialists: Flowering bulbs and bulbous plants in season
  • Proctors Nursery Ltd: Spring-flowering perennials and shrubs
  • T D Thursfield Ltd: Flowering cornus, shrubs and perennials
4
  • Austins plants: Hydrangeas, seasonal perennials and unusual shrubs
  • Bean Place Nursery: Perennials, ornamental grasses, hardy garden ferns
  • Broadway Road Nurseries: Acers, shrubs and climbers
  • Broadway Road Nurseries: Acers, climbers and shrubs
  • Cornerways Nursery (The Yard House): Geraniums
  • Culinary Herb Co: Step into the spring herb garden
  • Middleton Nurseries: Savlias
  • Middleton Nurseries: Salvias and perennials
  • Paradise plants: Shrubs and trees
3
  • Basma’s Plant Centre: Tropical, exotic and perennial plants
  • Cook’s Garden Centre: Hydrangeas and hardy perennials
  • Dominic Kaye Plants: Ferns and perennials
  • Dutch Garden Bulbs: Spring-flowering Mediterranean plants
  • Leafy Lytham Ltd: Spring perennials focusing on wind tolerant plants
  • Malvern Salvia Collection: Perennial salvias
  • Pheasant Acre: Bulbs for the cutting garden
2
  • Torri Nursery: Annual and perennial plant
Floral Tablescaping medals
Gold
  • Ashley Edwards: At the Threshold: The Garden Comes to the Table
Silver-gilt
  • Poppy Cottrell and Margaret Fox: Wind In The Willows
Silver
  • Emily Rodriguez-Martin: A Quintessentially English Afternoon Tea
  • Demelza Leng: The Woodland Restaurant
  • Kate Hurst: Victorian Woodland Tablescape

See all the Floral Tablescaping >

Best in Show: School Gardens

School Garden medals

School Garden medals
Highly commended
  • Bridge School Malvern: The Wyvern
  • Pershore College (part of WCG): Mythical Plants and Where to Find Them
  • Wye Forest Federation: Redbrook C of E Primary and St Briavels C of E Primary: Whispers of the Wye
  • Tudor Grange Academy Worcester: Up the Airy Mountain and Down the Rushy Glen
Commended
  • Grace Kelly Childhood Cancer Trust: The Ladybird’s Path
  • The River School: The Garden of Arthur

Best in Show: Tradestands

Tradestand medals

Tradestand medals
5
  • Crown Pavilions
  • The Fair Trade Furniture Company
  • Rhino Greenhouses
  • John Moss – Mossart
  • Breeze House Designs
  • Mygind Design Scandinavia
4
  • Donkey Gloves
  • Great British Awning and Blind Co
  • Wilstone House & Garden
  • Garden Aquarium Ltd
  • Symonds of Hereford
  • Sophie Hamer Home & Design
  • Manteaux
3
  • African Masters of Stone Ltd
  • The Great British Bee Company
  • Premier Seeds 
  • Access Garden Products
  • The Kraabu Tree Ltd
  • Mr Fox’s Garden Ltd
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