RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025 Creative Spaces - Floristry Ambassadors Award
- Jonathon Downes
- 6 days ago
- 2 min read
In the Great Pavillion there are two categories in the well-established floristry competition. Creative Spaces has no theme or brief at all, so cannot be judged, instead an exhibit is chosen by the RHS Floristry Ambassadors, Nikki Chapman and Simon Lycett.
This year at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025, the Floristry Ambassadors Award was awarded to Remnants By Emily Thompson Flowers. A creative treatment of life, decay and renewal within nature, this exhibit is a living eulogy to a sculptural fallen pine. The tree, now aged and gnarled, is in terminal decline, but new life is flourishing in a habitat cradled by its snaking lower branches: a mangrove forest loaded with bog-loving reeds, horsetail rushes and Trollius, alongside spring ephemerals like Podophyllum. Through this single fallen tree specimen, viewers are invited to reflect on the transience of organic lifecycles and to embrace the natural world in all its stages of reproduction and rot.
Remnants
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