Cotswold designers at 2025 RHS Chelsea Flower Show

There’s a golden feeling for the Cotswolds at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show.

In the Great Pavilion, the Kitchen Garden Plant Centre and GreenJJam Nurseries both got the top award, as did the Blue Diamond Garden Centres display  designed and built by Huntley-based Leaf Creative Gardens.

Julia Mitchell of GreenJJam Nurseries (Image: Mandy Bradshaw) Outside, Longhope firm Innocrete3D printed the concrete structure of Baz Grainger’s gold medal-winning show garden.

The Alpine Garden Society from Pershore got silver-gilt for their Great Pavilion display, while Nailsworth landscape architect Rachael Emous-Austin’s design for the Society of Garden and Landscape Designers got a four-star award. 

Niamh and Neil Jones of the Kitchen Garden Plant Centre. (Image: Mandy Bradshaw) For Neil and Niamh Jones of the Kitchen Garden Plant Centre in Newent it is the second RHS gold medal in 10 days having won a top award at the RHS Malvern Spring Festival. Having shown herbs in pots at Malvern, their Chelsea display is a garden setting.

“Wow, I can’t quite believe it,” said Neil. “It’s our third Chelsea gold medal in a row.”
Julia Mitchell, whose nursery is based at Upton upon Severn, was equally thrilled with the judges’ verdict.

“I’m a bit gobsmacked. I did think it deserved gold but you never know. I’m just so pleased.”

Angiela Delaney and Peter Dowle, founders of Leaf Creative Gardens, on the Blue Diamond Garden Centres display. (Image: Mandy Bradshaw)

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She specialises in penstemon but this year’s display was for the other side of her business, plants with white flowers or foliage. Both have now won a Chelsea gold.
Leaf Creative Gardens were celebrating two awards for the exhibit they created. As well as a gold medal, it also got the best tree in the show award for a mature acer from their collection used in the display.

“It’s been a great journey for us and the team, said Peter Dowle, Leaf Creative Gardens founder. “It’s been so good to have worked so closely with the ever-supportive Blue Diamond garden centre team to deliver their first Chelsea gold!”

The Killik & Co ‘Save for a Rainy Day’ Garden with walls and foundations 3D printed by Longhope firm Innocrete3D (Image: Mandy Bradshaw) Innocrete3D’s striking terracotta coloured structure for the Killik & Co ‘Save for a Rainy Day’ garden incorporates troughs to catch rainwater, part of the water-wise message of the garden. Some of the printing was done on-site at Chelsea during the build.

Rachael Emous-Austin won a competition run by the SGLD to design their stand.
“I have so enjoyed doing this,” she said. “It’s been an absolute pleasure.

“Everyone on site has been so generous with their plants and things that we needed at the last minute to make it happen.”

The Alpine Gardening Society’s display showcases how these dainty plants can be displayed in pots and troughs.

Part of the display by the Pershore-based Alpine Garden Society. (Image: Mandy Bradshaw)