RHS Malvern Spring Festival celebrates the very first award-winning gardens of the 2025 floral show season
Today marks the launch of the 2025 RHS Show season across the UK, with the much-anticipated start of RHS Malvern Spring Festival at Three Counties Showground in Malvern, Worcestershire, running from Thursday 8th - Sunday 11th May. Boasting eight outdoor show gardens, alongside two brand-new feature gardens, plus the introduction of the very first RHS-judged indoor plant gardens at RHS Malvern, this year’s festival is a spectacular horticultural showcase.
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The focus of this year’s RHS Malvern Spring Festival is ‘Plants and People’ and visitors will find plenty of inspiration for gardening both inside and outside to bring beauty and a greater sense of wellbeing to our lives, and make a positive contribution towards combating the effects of climate change.
RHS Malvern Spring Festival has a long-standing reputation as the trailblazer of the RHS Floral Show season, leading the way in cutting-edge horticultural design, the latest gardening developments and trends, showcasing both creative and practical ways to incorporate the many benefits of horticulture into our lives. The results of this year’s top award-winners are:
Awards at RHS Malvern Spring Festival 2025
Best Outdoor Show Garden:
‘Biosis: Mode of Life’ designed by Frantisek Zika, Jenny Rafferty and Jim Goodman of Shropshire-based Humble-Bee Gardeners.
A water-wise, rural garden making the most of captured rainfall filtered through a blackthorn tower into a wildlife pond. This garden blurs the wild and tamed, with a mix of medicinal and edible plants and recycled materials, to increase biodiversity.
RHS Environmental Innovation Award:
‘Biosis: Mode of Life’ designed by Frantisek Zika, Jenny Rafferty and Jim Goodman of Shropshire-based Humble-Bee Gardeners.
Designer Frantisek Zika said: “The idea of the garden is to showcase to the public how you can reuse materials and make them look pretty. Around 90 to 95% of what’s in the garden is re-used scrap and leftovers. Gardens account for five per cent of the land mass and if we can rebuild half a per cent we can make enormous corridors for the wildlife and, by using re-used materials, there’s no CO2 impact. We hope this garden will be an inspiration to others.”
Best Construction Award for an Outdoor Show Garden:
‘Biosis: Mode of Life’ designed by Frantisek Zika, Jenny Rafferty and Jim Goodman of Shropshire-based Humble-bee Gardeners.
Jane Edwards, Head of Shows at Three Counties Showground, said: “RHS Malvern Spring Festival is the start of the annual RHS show garden season and this year is a sheer joy, with an array of both outdoor show gardens and for the first time ever at Malvern, RHS judged indoor plant gardens, creatively demonstrating how horticulture can be incorporated into even the smallest and most urban of spaces, and the myriad of benefits to having plants in our lives.”
For more information about this year’s RHS Malvern Spring Festival, see https://www.rhsmalvern.co.uk/
