Ministry of Botany

Historian, Orchid specialist, Speaker

Ministry of Botany

Join us at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025!

“Did you know that the orchid family, the largest in the plant kingdom, is also among the most endangered? This tragic paradox is rooted in the legacies of Western colonialism, which continues to impact both people and environment today.

Help Shape Tomorrow: Join us in exposing how Conservation, Colonialism and Environmental History are intertwined, and discover their lasting impacts at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025!

We will get the dark side of imperial botany and exploitation of Indigenous people into the spotlight, whilst starting conversations how to protect livelihoods, planet and wild orchids in the future.

“Orchid Obsession: A Love Through Time”

This crucial story of orchids needs your support.

I’m thrilled to share that I have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to present an educational exhibit at the 2025 Chelsea Flower Show (May 19-24), one of the world’s most prestigious horticultural events. To turn this vision into reality and ignite a conversation for change, I need your help now!”

This crucial story of orchids needs your support.

Join us in exposing how Conservation, Colonialism and Environmental History are intertwined,

and discover their lasting impacts at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025!

Crowdfunding

Chelsea Flower Show 2025

Ministry of Botany will be present at Chelsea Flower Show 2025 from 19th - 24th May 2025

RHS Chelsea Flower Show is filled with amazing garden designs, gorgeous floral displays and exclusive shopping. The Royal Horticultural Society is the UK’s leading gardening charity.

Garden design excellence

Show Gardens curl round Main Avenue and Royal Hospital Way. A stroll along this route will take you past some of the finest examples of garden design at the world’s most prestigious flower show. As well as inspired plant combinations and cutting-edge landscaping, these Gardens serve as a barometer of current gardening trends and key issues facing horticulture.

Dino's approach and Objective

Dino Zelenika - Historian, Orchid specialist, Speaker

Dino Zelenika’s journey is a testament to the transformative power of passion and resilience. Born in Bosnia and finding a new home in the United Kingdom at the age of seven, Dino developed a profound connection with the delicate and extraordinary world of orchids – a connection that would become the driving force of his life’s work.

RHS Chelsea Flower Show

Supporting Dino’s journey to the RHS Chelsea Flower Show is an investment in ecological education, cultural exchange, and the celebration of nature’s most exquisite performers.