Festival Theme

The theme for 2025’s festival, ‘Plants & People’, invites both new and returning visitors to explore the myriad of ways in which plants impact our lives – from the food we eat and the air we breathe, to the fascinating impact they have on our mental and physical wellbeing.

Visitors can listen to insightful talks from horticultural experts on subjects including sustainable gardening and accessible plant care, gardening for wellbeing and ways to incorporate plants into your everyday life. Cultivation to consumption and soil to plate are topics that will also be explored by horticultural experts and complemented by foodie workshops and talks from some of the UK’s top TV and restaurant chefs, sharing delicious ideas of ways to cook with home-grown ingredients.

This year’s festival theme celebrates the notion that tending to plants is as much about nurturing ourselves and our communities as it is about caring for our planet.

Giant Welly

The 2025 Giant Welly will be designed by Anna Best from Chalk It Up.

The giant welly design celebrates the thriving Festival of Houseplants, hosted at RHS Malvern with Green Rooms Market. Explore this houseplant haven and shop for plants, pots and all things in between, get plant advice from propagation pros and join interactive workshops. New this year are the Indoor Plant Gardens, a brand-new RHS judged category where designers battle it out for a medal by creating beautiful indoor spaces packed with enviable plants and interiors.

Find out more about the Giant Welly and the tour it will be on to promote the show here.

About the Artist

Anna Best lives in Worcester with her husband and children and has spent almost three years building up her business as a muralist and typography artist, after deciding to move on from her role as an art teacher. She loves to experiment with colours and fonts to produce unique pieces for her clients, whether it be a hand lettered business sign or a large-scale residential mural. She has contributed towards local art installations such as the Worcester BID Christmas window project, and her work can be seen popping up around Worcestershire. Chalk It Up was born from Anna’s love of lettering and her desire to create artwork that celebrates each client’s unique vision and personality.

Anna has previously worked up beautiful designs for RHS Malvern Spring Festival 2024 and Malvern Autumn Show 2024.