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”

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!”

• The Dark Side of Beauty: How Victorian plant hunters decimated entire ecosystems and exploited indigenous people in their ruthless pursuit of exotic orchids and still continues to this day
• Hidden Heroes: The story of Edmond Albius, an enslaved African boy from Reunion who revolutionized the vanilla industry by discovering how to hand-pollinate the vanilla orchid (yes, vanilla is an orchid!)
• Crisis Point: How orchids became the planet’s most endangered plant group, with over half of all species on the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature), Red List