Pavilion highlights
The Great Pavilion is the venue to head for to see exciting exhibits and features that are engaging and interactive.
Tuesday, February 07, 2012
The Great Pavilion is the venue to head for to see exciting exhibits and features that are engaging and interactive. They include:
RHS Environment
The popular Continuous Learning Section, RHS Environment returns, housing engaging exhibits about communities and the environment, pollution, biodiversity and many more related topics - look out for innovative vertical allotments.
The Great Pavilion Montage
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Exotic crops
Edulis Nurseries will be demonstrating a wealth of unusual perennial fruit and vegetables. Asparagus and apples may be household names but what about duck potatoes or buckhorn plantains? These are tasty crops that gardeners may consider as newcomers to their vegetable patch.
Alternative topiary and animals
Topiary forms of cubes, spheres and peacocks have always been popular. This year be prepared for something a little out the box from specialist tree nursery King and Co. – none other than Frank Williams Formula 1 car.
Not that animal-inspired plant creations will be absent this year. Prepare for water buffalos made of palm leaves to feature at this year’s Great Pavilion.
Troublesome plant pests in towns
Paul Stowe of FERA (Food and Environmental Research Agency) will be on hand to give advice on damage afflicted to trees and flowers. In particular, he will warn of plant pests and diseases that are at large in urban areas.
Hillier Olympic Fencing
Hillier Nurseries has won an amazing 66 consecutive Chelsea Gold medals, earned the title of “International Grower of the Year” in 2010, and has supplied more than 2000 British-grown trees to the Olympic Park for London 2012.
This year it will put on an exhibit on live fencing displays by members of the Beazley British Fencing team, marking the return of fencing to RHS Chelsea Flower Show for the first time in over 70 years.
In 1932 Ranelagh presented the Epee Club with the Ranelagh Cup, which has been fought for annually ever since in the grounds of the Hurlingham Club.
The Hillier exhibit is also a tribute to Her Majesty the Queen, the Patron of British Fencing, as the nation prepares to celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee just a week after the RHS Chelsea Flower Show.