Houseplant Studios return to RHS Chelsea

Awarded Best Houseplant Studio at RHS Chelsea 2022

Guests headed to the Happy Houseplants x The Plant Rescuer’s display for a daily Plant Clinic, where they could learn to better care for houseplants in an immersive, interactive space.

The Plant Clinic featured plants with sculptural beauty, which were also affordable, readily available and easy to look after. The jacuzzi acted as a propagation tank with bubbles of oxygen helping cuttings grow roots.

A living-room-inspired design filled with indoor plants – some may have been recognisable from your own houseplant collection, and others were rarer, which you may have only seen on social media.

Designed by The Aroid Attic, Social Media Versus Reality was filled from floor to ceiling with greenery. Spanish moss and orchids climbed over a vintage ladder, a glass cabinet was packed with unusual plants and a living chandelier was created from orchids, airplants and gnarled wood.

A sensory showcase, Botanical Rhapsody, designed by The Edible Bus Stop and sponsored by Close Brothers Asset Management, used technology known as bio-sonification to translate the bio-rhythms of living organisms into sounds.

Visitors played a part in the plant’s ‘music’ by seeing how they responded to being touched, with the experience being enhanced by dynamic lighting changing throughout the day.

This display provided a moment’s break with its heart offering a social space surrounded by climbing and twining plants and rattan.

Designed by The Planted House, A Room To Dance was an aerial indoor garden to be marvelled at – visitors could look up and see trailing, vining and epiphytic plants co-mingling, climbing or cascading from handmade stoneware pots.

Over the last couple of years many of us have created work-from-home offices, searching for a way to balance productivity and downtime in our home environments. The Plant Workshop’s The Grass is Greener Where You Water It was bursting with houseplant delights and fantastic foliage, which created a nurturing, productive and stress-reducing space – perfect for filling a home office.