LEAF CREATIVE
AT RHS CHELSEA FLOWER SHOW 2025
An RHS Chelsea Flower Show exhibit designed and built by Leaf Creative Gardens has won a gold medal.
The walk through display in the Great Pavilion for The Blue Diamond Group, the country’s biggest garden centre group, also picked up the ‘Best Tree in Show’ award for an Acer palmatum ‘Shishigashira’ that was borrowed for the exhibit from Leaf’s collection.
The display, which took nine days to put together, showcases the range of plants available at Blue Diamond outlets. It includes several new varieties, which were launched at the show, among them the first groundcover hydrangea and four new roses. Rosa ‘Stronger Together’ is being launched on behalf of charity Muscular Dystrophy UK while ‘Vianne’s Chocolat’ celebrates the publication of ‘Vianne’, a new book by best-selling author Joanne Harris.
Leaf Creative have taken several of their own large specimen plants to the display, including a 6m Wollemi Pine, one of the rarest plants that dates back to the time of the dinosaurs.
The Wollemi nobilis was believed to have been extinct with only fossils available until 1994 when around 100 trees were discovered in a secret gorge in Australia. The tree on the RHS Chelsea display is one of the original breeding programme specimens, propagated as part of a world-wide conservation project.
THE EXHIBIT INCLUDES
WOODLAND PLANTING
HOT, DRY BORDER
COTTAGE PLANTS
EXOTIC PLANTS
ARCHITECTURAL PLANTS
HOUSEPLANTS
RARE AND UNUSUAL PLANTS
Wollemi Pine
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The Wollemi Pine, Wollemia nobilis, is one of the rarest plants on Earth. First discovered in 1994 in a hidden gorge of Wollemi National Park, Australia, this extraordinary tree was believed to have been extinct for 200 years, known only through fossils, and was found in a population of just 100 trees.
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Currently listed as critically endangered on the IUCN Red List, efforts to the species include propagation and planting in botanic worldwide. Our exhibit showcased the Wollemi Pine alongside a variety of other Australasian plants suitable for growth in the U.K., including Tree Ferns and Libertias, as well as specimens from the original world breeding program.