Events

RHS London february Flower Show

From bulbs to blossoms

This show sees the launch of the RHS Bicentenary with displays celebrating 200 years of great gardening. The show will also feature the last Botanical Art Exhibition of the season and the British Iris Society's Early Spring Competition.

Admire displays of Camellia, Pieris, Hepatica and rid yourself of the winter blues by looking forward to the spring with early flowering bulbs such as Anemone, Eranthis, Iris and Narcissus.

Here are the winning results

Gold

Ainsworth Displays: Palm trees
Ashwood Nurseries: Hepatica, cyclamen & other spring flowering plants
Burncoose Nurseries: Trees, shrubs & other ornamental plants
Rupert Golby: The snowdrop enthusiast's garden
NAFAS: Let's celebrate 200 years

Silver-Gilt Flora

Avon Bulbs Ltd: Galanthus & hellebores
Broadleigh Gardens: Cyclamen, snowdrops, crocus & irises in a woodland setting
Dibleys Nurseries: Begonias, gesneriads & other houseplants
Lincluden Nursery: Conifers
Long Acre Plants: Woodland perennials & bulbs
McBeans Ltd: New & historical hybrids
P W Plants: Hardy bamboos & associated plants
Pottertons Nursery: Woodland alpines, dwarf bulbs & dwarf herbaceous plants
Trevena Cross Nurseries: Restios
Writhlington School: Orchids

Silver Flora

Bluebell Arboretum & Nursery: Trees & shrubs
Edrom Nursery: Spring flowering bulbs
Fibrex Nurseries Ltd: Hellebores, hardy ferns & hederas
Foxgrove Plants: Snowdrops
Hardy's Cottage Garden Plants: Odorata violas & early spring herbaceous perennials
Pantiles Plant & Garden Centre: Plants new to Britain in the last 200 years
Potash Nursery: Primroses
Rougham Hall Nurseries: Perennials
Southcombe Gardens: Willow
Brian & Pearl Sulman: Scented leaf pelargoniums
Three Counties Nurseries: Hose-in-hose polyanthus
Trehane Camellia Nursery: Camellias & pieris

Bronze Flora

The Botanic Nursery: Chimonanthus & saraccocoa with grasses & perennials
Coghurst Camellias: Container-grown camellias, species & hybrids
W E Th Ingwersen Ltd: Early spring flowering bulbs
Topiary Arts: Topiary - recreating an Edwardian display
Wilford Bulb Co Ltd: Lilies

Botanical art awards

Gold

Evelyn Binns Botanical Watercolours: Botanical watercolours of hellebores
Christabel King, Georita Harriott & Joanna Langhorne: A selection of lavenders in watercolour from the genus Lavandula
Catharine Nicholson: Pen & ink studies of a pedunculate oak tree
Barbara Oozeerally: Magnolia seedheads in watercolour

Silver-Gilt Grenfell

Linda Francis: Floral grandiosity in watercolour
Sanae Hattori: Waterside plants of Japan
Junko Iwata: Watercolours of English roses
Patricia Newman: Watercolour & pencil drawings of rosehips
Derek Norman: Wildflowers of the tall grass prairie in pen & ink
Eriko Yamada: Watercolours entitled trees with fruit

Silver Grenfell

Brent McGuire: Water garden waterlilies series in coloured pencil
Rosalind M Timperley: Common wayside flowers in watercolour
Sue J Williams: Seasonal change - fruits & seedpods in watercolour & pencil
Helen Wood: Edible flowers in watercolour

Bronze Grenfell

Rosemary Mason: Lathyrus in watercolour
Julie Price: Squashes in watercolour
Shirley Inez Richards: Carnivorous plants in watercolour
Keiko Sasaki: Flowers of Mount Yastugatake in watercolour
Ann Smith: True & false poppies in watercolour
Kathryn Wood: Violas, violets & pansies in watercolour