Charting our Chelsea story from humble beginnings to Main Avenue, collaborations with some of the biggest names in horticulture, and a smattering of GOLD!
Gallery through the years
2022
Gold Medal & President’s Award for the Best Exhibit in the Great Pavilion. Peter Beales Classic Roses and Redwood Stone – a match made in heaven! Below are a couple of videos from early on the first morning of…
Our Latest:
In 2017 we started to introduce our Italianate Garden designs. Here is our Cloister Window with lovely Barley Twist Mullions and Composite Capitals, oh, and a couple of old stars posing behind. #redwoodstone #RHSVirtualChelsea #RHS
In 2018 our Italianate Arches provided a suitable backdrop to…
Tim's Favourite:
Our 2004 Main Avenue exhibit remains my personal favourite, if only for it’s ambition. Our Manor House Gate Piers provide a suitably grand entrance with the fine Obelisk view and Garden Room beyond. #chelsea2004 #redwoodstone #folly #stoneexhibit #RHSVirtualChelsea #RHSHampton #chelseamainavenue
Here is the Secret Chapel & Cloister from the…
Show Partners:
Redwood Stone have supplied to so many Show Gardens over the years I can’t mention them all here, but it was an absolute pleasure to work with designer ‘Capability’ Chris O’Donoghue on his ‘The Pilgrim’s Rest’ artisan garden in 2009. He writes a…
The First Follies:
In 2001 I decided, along with my colleague and good friend Steve, that we needed a Redwood Stone signature design and that a Gothic Folly would be the perfect solution. We loved it but were a little anxious about whether anyone else…
Weathered Stonework:
Walking out of Chelsea on that first evening in 1992 I had a Eureka moment. On a famous antique company’s stand was a Redwood Stone ‘Kissing Cherubs’, a bit ‘weathered’ (aged), at 5 x’s the price in our brochure – and it was…
Celebrities:
Chelsea sometimes gives you the opportunity to meet your heroes, but often it’s someone else who catches your eye. #redwoodstone #chelseathroughtheyears #chelseaflowershow #rodstewart #RHSVirtualChelsea #RHSHampton
I’ve known Chris Robshaw, Ex England Rugby captain, since he and my son played for the same school team from ages 11 to 18.…
How it all started:
One first step into the Chelsea experience is to work on another exhibit, in this case Tim promoting hand made English Teak furniture. How basic the stands were back in the day! #redwoodstone #chelseaflowershow1989 #RHSVirtualChelsea #RHSHampton
Our first stand, offered to us at three…
