South Africa has won Gold at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025 for its fynbos display created by Leon Kluge and Tristan Woudberg. All eyes were on this creative team after they stole the hearts of all South Africans and 3 gold awards at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2024 last year and now they have done it again! The nation has been watching with interest to see whether the flowers of the Cape Floral Kingdom would steal the show again and they have! Two towering mountain slopes draped in the textures, scents and hues of 25’000 stems of fynbos blooms, divided by a watery ravine magically capture the essence of a secret Cape waterfall in springtime.
Four Grootbos staff ambassadors joined Leon and Tristan’s creative build-team in London to pull off this artistic floral exhibit and they will build it all over again in the village of Stanford for all of South Africa to enjoy. Chelsea Flowers in Stanford will be open to the public in spring from 10-24 September 2025 and will offer locals the opportunity to visit an exact replica of this bodacious floral design in which Tristan and Leon stretch the very boundaries of what can be achieved in floral exhibitions. The flowers in the exhibit will be of the finest quality to showcase the incredible springtime bloom that occurs naturally at that time of year in the Western Cape. Tickets cost R200 per person and will be available on Webtickets and at Pick ‘n Pay.
Guests will be able to meet Leon and Tristan as well as the Grootbos staff ambassadors, Chris Lochner, Bulelani Bashe, Shiluva Khosa and Amy Williams, along with other conservationists and artists. Botanical art from the Grootbos Florilegium collection will add visual flourishes to the exhibit, all completely different from the artworks exhibited at Chelsea Flowers in Stanford last year. Chelsea Flowers in Stanford is a proud participant in Stanford in Bloom, a village-wide festival built to celebrate spring. All funds generated from the replica flower exhibit will be donated to Grootbos Foundation, a registered Non Profit Company which delivers ongoing fynbos landscape conservation and youth development programmes in the region and towns surrounding Grootbos Private Nature Reserve.
Congratulations and thank you to the sponsors who made the Flora of South Africa exhibit possible in London at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025: Grootbos Private Nature Reserve, Hazendal, Rupert Nature Foundation and Southern Sun.
