South Africa has won Gold at the Chelsea Flower show as well as the President’s Award. This marks the 35th gold medal win for South Africa!
The model of the exhibit was revealed on the 21st of April and the public were in absolute awe of it! It was designed to celebrate the diversity of South African plant life. Using flowers and plants from 10 different botanical gardens.
“South Africa is home to nearly 10% of the world’s plants and contains three regions that have been declared global biodiversity hotspots, so it is fitting that we celebrate this heritage this year at Chelsea.” – Dr Tanya Abrahamse, SANBI CEO
The exhibit showed the diversity of the nine biomes of South Africa and displayed them to over 150,000 people who visited the Chelsea Flower show. It was designed by the multi-award-winning team of graphic designer David Davidson and landscape designer Raymond Hudson.
“We’ve done well (over the years) in winning 34 gold medals and the Huxley Trophy for the best exhibit. One of the exhibits was about climate change. We hope for another gold,”
Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens shared the fantastic news on their Facebook page with a photo of the entire team and captioned it,
We just received the fantastic news from London that we have received a gold medal, as well as the President’s Award at the #RHSChelsea Flower Show! Here’s to our Chelsea team!
The Facebook page also shared a few photo’s of the flowers at our exhibition.
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