The Royal Horticultural Society Announces ‘Plant of the Year’ for the 2025 Chelsea Flower Show
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At the recently held RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025, the Royal Horticultural Society selected the Plant of the Year. Beyond the introduction of new varieties, it is also attracting attention as an indicator for gauging climate adaptability and garden planting trends.
The RHS Chelsea Flower Show is a representative garden event for identifying new varieties and planting trends. (Source: Royal Horticultural Society)
The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) recently announced the ‘RHS Plant of the Year 2025’ at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025 held in London. This award is selected based on a comprehensive evaluation of garden quality, freshness, and cultivation value among the submitted plants, and is considered one of the key plant news items of the Chelsea Flower Show.
The list of nominees and the award results released by the RHS go beyond simply introducing new varieties to show which plants the current horticultural industry is focusing on. In particular, over the past few years, Chelsea has consistently attracted attention for plants that withstand strong climate variability, plantings that aid pollinators, and garden varieties with low maintenance burdens.
This year's announcements are also serving as a practical reference for garden designers, the cultivation industry, and botanical garden visitors. Since the Chelsea Flower Show is a stage that confirms the commercial and horticultural potential of plants themselves as much as it does for exhibition gardens, award-winning plants often quickly gain attention in the garden markets of the UK and Europe.
During the event, the RHS announced the Garden of the Year award, as well as results for Florist and Exhibition Garden, in addition to Plant of the Year. This award system is significant in that it demonstrates landscape design and plant selection not as separate entities, but as a single trend in garden culture. In fact, Chelsea's plant awards are interpreted in alignment with the climate response, biodiversity, and small-scale urban garden solutions presented in the exhibition gardens.
This announcement reaffirmed the recent trend in the global garden industry of placing greater emphasis on long-lasting planting structures and creating resilient gardens rather than on flashy exhibitions. The plant award results of the Chelsea Flower Show 2025 are being accepted as a signal that reflects the tastes of this year's garden market, while also providing an indication of which planting strategies will become prevalent in both public and private gardens.
