Gold for Blue Diamond and Taylors Bulbs
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The Blue Diamond Garden Centres garden
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Baroness Fookes and Raymond Evison
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Taylors Bulbs winning 'Gold' for its 32nd year
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David Austin Roses
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First ever Chelsea display by Frank P Matthews Trees
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David Austin's Kings Rose
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Bruce Harnett on the Kernock Plants stand, returning after 18 years
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The Blue Diamond Garden Centres garden
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The RHS Chelsea flower show is the opportunity for Garden Centres and their growers to reach a wider audience. Highlights included Gold for Blue Diamond Garden Centres, David Austin Roses, Raymond Evison and Taylors Bulbs.
Frank P Matthews Trees earned a silver-gilt in their first ever exhibit at the show and Kernock Plants claimed a silver on their return after an 18 year break.
Great Pavilion Gold medal winners include:
- Alchemy Plants: Hardy ferns and tree ferns
- Blackmore & Langdon Ltd: Begonias and delphiniums
- Bowden Hostas: Hostas
- David Austin Roses Ltd: Roses
Highlight of their stand was the launch of the ‘Kings Rose’ - Jacques Amand Int: Bulbous plants and flowers for woodland, garden and home
- Jacques Amand Int: Tender and indoor bulbous plants incluing Hippeastrum, Scadoxus and Glorisa
- Peter Beales Roses: Garden roses
- Raymond J Evison Ltd: Clematis
Crowds gathered to witness the presentation by Raymond Evison to Baroness Fookes of a new clematis bearing her name. It has rich purple-blue blooms and flowers from May-July. - Taylors Bulbs: Narcissus
This Gold Medal is the companies 32nd at Chelsea Flower Show and their 30th consecutive Gold with the first being won in 1986.
The display of 38 varieties and over 1100 flowers covers 12 weeks of flowering and is the result of over 30,000 bulbs grown in controlled conditions - The Blue Diamond Group: Herbaceous, shrubs, roses, alpines, specimen trees and houseplants
The garden featured in Monday night's BBC broadcast from the show, with Carol Klein walking viewers through the garden. Most of the plants in the spectacular display with many unusual plants were grown in Blue Diamonds own nurseries.
Silver-gilt
- Architectural Plants: Hunt for plants with shape and form
- Burncoose Nurseries: Trees shrubs and perennials
- Claire Austin Hardy Plants Ltd: Bearded Irises
- Frank P Matthews Trees: Ornamental Malus and trained fruit trees
Exhibiting for the first time at Chelsea. - Glendoick Gardens Ltd: Glendoick-bred rhododendrons and azaleas
- Hadlow College: No such thing as a toadstool
- Harkness Roses: Roses
- Pheasant Acre Plants: Tulips
- Sparsholt College Hampshire: The ugly bug ball
Silver
- Claire Austin Hardy Plants Ltd: Hybrid peonies
- Kernock Park Plants: Perennials
Kernock Park Plants returns to Chelsea after an 18 year break.
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