EMILY THOMPSON FLOWERS EMILY THOMPSON FLOWERS

RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025


We were so fortunate to be invited by The Royal Horticultural Society to take part in Creative Spaces, a new area in the Chelsea Flower Show installations that asks us to imagine the future of floristry. 

Our design was titled Remnants, a living eulogy to a sculptural fallen pine. The tree had become gnarled and severed from its roots, but new life flourished in a habitat cradled by its snaking branches. Through this specimen and the environment we imagined for it, viewers were invited to embrace the natural world in all its stages of reproduction and rot.

The pine came from a beautiful wood on Worcestershire, hauled from the hillside and assembled with crutches created from a fallen pine and a neighboring Yew tree. Wetland gardens are nestled in meadows, pushing up through decaying lichen covered cherry branches. 

Photography: India Hobson