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FEATURE

ANOTHER GOLD FOR SOUTH AFRICA

AT CHELSEA FLOWER SHOW 2025

A monumental display of South African flora at this year’s Chelsea Flower Show

in London produced another gold award for horticulturist Leon Kluge and artist-
gardener Tristan Woudberg.

The South African display was awarded the Lawrence Medal, presented for the best floral exhibit at all RHS shows throughout the calendar year.
hey led a team of passionate President of the Royal Horticultural design, cutting through a mountain of
volunteers who prepared and Society Keith Weed, CBE, also presented proteas to reveal numerous waterfalls and
Tarranged 25 000 stems of fynbos. This Kluge and his team with the Lawrence cliffs which were planted up with cliff-
year’s display was inspired by South Africa’s Medal, awarded for the best floral exhibit dwelling plants of the eastern escarpment.
two oceans, the Indian and the Atlantic, throughout all RHS shows during the Some of the feature plants in this section
which have given rise to a multitude of calendar year. This is the first time South of the display included Streptocarpus (an
habitats from the fynbos of the Cape to the Africa has received this award. indigenous relative of the African violet)
sub-tropical greenery of KZN. A dramatic canyon dominated the and the iconic Disa orchid, which emerged

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