This year's medals for the exhibits in the Great Pavilion at RHS Chelsea Flower Show have been announced.
The exhibits are awarded each year, with recognition going to exhibits in categories including Florist of the Year, President's Choice and Best GreenSTEM exhibit. Each exhibit is also awarded gold, silver-gilt, silver or bronze in floral and floristry exhibits.
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This year's Best Exhibit in the Great Pavilion award went to Leon Kluge Garden Design, with a large exhibit that focused on the flora of South Africa. The South African landscape artist Leon Kluge created a display inspired by 'Life After Fire' following the recent devastating wildfires which swept across South Africa's Cape region. The exhibit features orchids, bulbs wildflowers and more growing from a charred landscape.
The President's Choice Award went to Sienna Hosta, for their display of British-grown hostas, which marks their ten year anniversary at the show. The display featured 10 hosta varieties released during each year since they began.
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Jade Loftus Floral Design got the coveted RHS Chelsea Florist of the Year for the Floral Creations Exhibit: Nature Magnified. There are two floral categories this year, Creative Spaces and Floral Creations, with the overall theme being Floristry Laboratory. Jade Loftus Floral Design's exhibit took visual clues from microscope slides and cellular forms.
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The best GreenSTEM exhibit was Scents and Sensors: sniffing out plant pests and diseases by the Animal and Plant Health Agency. The GreenSTEM exhibits are a celebration of where horticulture intersects with science, technology and the environment. The Animal and Plant Health Agency's exhibit is an immersive, three-walled space which moves from woodland to formal garden planting and explores how humans, dogs and electronic noses detect odours.
The New Design Award went to Ottershaw Cacti in collaboration with ScanLAB Projects for their display of succulents. The Surrey-based nursery was founded by Daniel and Jo Jackson following Daniel's first succulent purchase, aged 11, which still exists in their nursery today.
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Elsewhere exhibits were awarded gold, silver, silver-gilt and bronze medals, including in the Plant Fairs Roadshow Nurseries, a collective of specialist nurseries exhibiting in the Great Pavilion at RHS Chelsea Flower Show. Ottershaw Cacti was one of the nurseries featured within the Plant Fairs Roadshow Nurseries, alongside Daisy Roots, Pelham Plants, Miles Japanese Maples and Moore and Moore Plants - all of which won gold.
The Plant Fairs and Roadshow Nurseries will continue to tour following RHS Chelsea, arriving next at Inner Temple in London on 31 May. The day sees the group and a wider collection of nurseries exhibiting to the public.
The full list of medals in the pavilion is below
Full list of medals in the Great Pavilion 2026
Floral exhibit medals in the Great Pavilion
GOLD
- Alchemy Plants: Hardy ferns and tree ferns
- Animal & Plant Health Agency: Scents and sensors: Sniffing out plant pest and disease
- Architectural Plants: Plants with shape and form
- Ashcrofts: Ornamental grasses and perennials
- Barbados Horticultural Society: Cut-flowers from Barbados
- Baugaarden Living Art: A world of living art made of willow
- Blackmore & Langdon Ltd: Delphiniums and begonias
- Blue Diamond Group of Garden Centres: An immersive walkthrough of our home-grown collection
- Burncoose Nurseries: Trees, shrubs and perennials
- Caley Brothers: The world of your plate: Beyond the button
- CDS Plants: Exotic orchids and other houseplants
- Chrysanthemums Direct: Cut-flower bloom and spray chrysanthemums
- Craig House Cacti: Cacti and other succulents
- Daisy Roots: Perennials and grasses
- David Austin Roses Ltd: Roses
- Dibleys Nurseries: Streptocarpus, begonias and other houseplants
- Driftwood Bonsai: Bonsai trees
- English Sweet Peas: Sweet peas and foliage
- Eric Yound Orchid Foundation: Orchids
- Federation of British Bonsai Societies: Bonsai trees
- Frank P Matthews Trees: Malus blossom from bud to full bloom
- G & K Carnations: Dianthus
- Hare Spring Cottage Plants: Area of outstanding natural beauty set in Devon
- Harts Nursery: Lilies
- Hogarth Hostas: Hostas
- Home Farm Plants: Elatum delphiniums
- Hoyland Plant Centre: Clivia
- Hoyland Plant Centre: Agapanthus, Amarine and Nerine
- Jacques Amand Int: Hippeastrum, Scadoxus, Gloriosa and other tender bulbous plants
- Jacques Amand Int: Bulbous plants and flowers, including woodlanders for the garden and home
- Jonathan Sheppard: British-grown Cosmos
- Kelnan Plants: Restios and South African plants
- Kent Wildflower Seeds: Wildflowers without borders
- Kevock Garden Plants: Alpine, woodland and damp-loving plants
- Kitchen Garden Plant Centre: Herbs and edible plants
- Leafy Lytham: Coastal perennials
- Leon Kluge Garden Design: The flora of South Africa
- Letham Plants: Intersectional peonies and Astrantia
- Lincolnshire Pond Plants: Pond plants
- Little Cornish Glasshouse (Alford and Sowter): Anemone cornoaria
- Miles Japanese Maples: Growing Acer from seed
- Moore & Moore Plants: Plants for shade, woodland and clay soils
- New Forest Hostas: Hostas, ferns and other foliage plants
- Norfield Nurseries: Japanese maples
- Orchid Conservation Chelsea: The orchids of China – Beauty and conservation
- Orchid Society of Great Britain: Orchids
- Ottershaw Cacti: Cacti and other succulents
- Pelham Plants Nursery Ltd: Hardy herbaceous perennials and grasses
- Peter Beales Roses: Roses
- Primrose Hall Peonies: Peonies
- Proctor’s Nursery: Summer-flowering perennials
- Pure Grenada: Spice Isle of the Caribbean
- Raymond Evison Clematis: Clematis cultivars
- Roualeyn Fuchsias: Fuchsias
- Sea Spring Seeds: Container-grown vegetables
- Sienna Hosta: British-grown hostas
- Summerdale Garden Nursery: Primula auricula cultivars
- Surreal Succulents: Succulents
- Taylors Bulbs: Narcissus through the seasons
- The Brantwood Trust and Cumbria Wisteria: National Plant Collection of Wisteria
- W.S. Warmenhoven: Alliums
- Wack’s Wicked Plants: Carnivorous plants
SILVER-GILT
- Bluebell Cottage Gardens: Hardy perennials in a naturalistic display style
- Chelsea Physic Garden Florilegium Society: Botanical painting with accompanying plants
- Darren Everest Sweet Peas: Sweet peas
- Flowers from the Farm: A miniature flower farm
- Gardeners Delight Nursery: Perennials for bees and pollinators
- Green JJam Nurseries: White-flowered perennials
- Greenways Pelargoniums: Species and scented leaf pelargoniums
- Growing Crazy: The diversity of pelargoniums
- Harts Nursery: Tulips
- House of Wayward Plants: Plant exchanges and adoptions
- Kernock Park Plants Ltd.: Ornamental plants
- Majestic Trees: Trees for future climatic resilience
- Middleton Nurseries: Salvias
- Orchid Conservation Chelsea: Chinese Cymbidium species
- Plant Heritage: The missing collector
- Riviera: Zantedeschia
- She Grows Veg Ltd: Heirloom veg meets fantasy woodland dining
- Sparsholt College Group: Washday hues
- Strete Gate Camellias: Camellias and their care
- The Botanic Nursery: Digitalis from the National Collection
- The Harkness Rose Company: Roses
- University of Lincoln Institute for Agri-Food Tech: Robocrops: Plant selection, beyond the visible
- Woburn Farm Plants Ltd: Alstroemeria
SILVER
- Barry Clarke: The National Collection of Rubus species
- Blast Eco Shield, Cranfield University: Nature-inspired protective engineering
- Hadlow College: The magic of maths in botany and garden design
- UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH): UKCEH: Nature decoded
Floristry exhibit medals in the Great Pavilion
GOLD
- Fusion & Fission, by Helen Pannitt, Helen James Flowers
- Nature Magnified, by Jade Loftus Floral Design
- Nature as Laboratory, by Vanessa Merwood, Vanessa Jayne Floral Design
SILVER-GILT
- Banksia Evolution: From seed to full bloom by Dawn Allen, Peninsula Wildflower
SILVER
- Botanical Alchemy, by Anita Li, A&F Floral Art and Design
- The Celestial Meadow, by Emma Mcgeehan, Orchis Floral Design
- Under The Microscope, by James Edward Buswell
- Floral Evolution: From Seedling to Symphony, by Nikki Wright Floral Design
BRONZE
- The Breath of Beginnings, by Hanako Motoya, hanaikebito
- Choreographical Honey 2026, by Hedy Leung
