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RHS London February Flower Show

All images Tim Sandall/Toplinc Imaging

Spring came to London early this month in the form of the latest RHS London Show.
The Lawrence Hall was a riot of colour as some of the country's leading
exhibitors put on some stunning displays.

Ashwood Nurseries made it two Gold Medals in a row, this time with a stunning display of hepaticas acompanied by dwarf flowering cherries and Cyclamen coum.

Hepaticas and dwarf flowering cherries form the backbone of this worthy Gold Medal exhibit from Ashwood Nurseries.

A drift of Cyclamen coum to accompany the hepaticas on Ashwood's stand.

Hepatica nobilis var japonica form Magna seen on Ashwood's stand.

Broadleigh Gardens also won a Gold for a fine exhibit of early flowering bulbs which included Galanthus, Narcissus, Iris and Cyclamen all
beautfully displayed in a woodland setting.

All the colour of spring on the Broadleigh Gardens display.

Galanthus were also exhibited by Foxglove Nurseries who's display included Galanthus nivalis 'Blewbury Tart' - an unusual double form - and Galanthus plicatus subsp. byzantinus 'Trym'.

	Galanthus nivalis 'Blewbury Tart' one of more unusual double forms of snowdrop.
Galanthus plicatus subsp. byzantinus 'Trym' exhibited by Foxglove Nurseries one of the many delights of the show.

A third Gold was awarded to Southcombe Gardens for its Willow Glade - an exhibit of some 30 varieties of willow showing different stem colour and catkins.

Here are the winning results.

Gold

Ashwood Nurseries: Hepaticas & hardy cyclamen
Broadleigh Gardens: A collection of snowdrops, cyclamen & other spring-flowering bulbs in a woodland setting
Southcombe Gardens: Willow glade

Silver-Gilt Flora

Avon Bulbs: Spring-flowering bulbs, especially snowdrops
Burncoose Nurseries: Trees, shrubs & other ornamental plants
Edrom Nurseries: Bulbous, spring-flowering plants, set beneath an open canopy of woody subjects
Foxgrove Plants: Exhibit of galanthus
Heather & Brian Hiley: An exhibit of ferns, tender perennials & grasses
Lincluden Nursery: Conifers
Long Acre Plants: A display of snowdrops, hellebores, ferns & other spring-flowering plants
Rushfields of Ledbury: Perennials for the February garden
Trehane Nursery: Camellias & pieris

Silver Flora

Bluebell Arboretum & Nursery: Rare trees & shrubs
The Botanic Nursery: Winter-flowering shrubs, early spring perennials & evergreens as in-filling. All lime tolerant
Dibleys Nurseries: Begonias & gesneriads
Hardy's Cottage Garden Plants: Early spring herbaceous perennials
P W Plants: Bamboo, grasses & other hardy plants
Pazuzu Extreme Flora: Carnivorous plants, orchids, bromeliads & other strange plants
Potash Nursery: Primroses
Potterton & Martin: Garden display of dwarf bulbs including anemone, iris, narcissus, cyclamen & many other species
Rougham Hall Nurseries: A display of cut flower hardy perennials
Sadlers Gardens: Restios & other rare plants
Brian & Pearl Sulman: An exhibit of scented leaf pelargoniums

Silver Grenfell

NAFAS: Floral arrangement
Park Green Nurseries: Hostas - morphology & cultivation

Bronze Flora

Coghurst Camellias: Display of container-grown camellias
Heather Bank Nursery: An exhibit of ferns, primulas, hellebores & sarcococca
W E Th Ingwersen: Salix daphnoides with early spring-flowering bulbs & plants
Wilford Bulb Co: A display of liliums

Botanical Art Awards

Gold

Moya Davern: Watercolour paintings of hellebores
Pauline Dean: Watercolour paintings of crocus
Junko Iwata: Watercolours of autumn berries & fruits
Martha G Kemp: Graphite pencil drawings
Catharine Nicholson: Pen & ink drawings of plants in architecture
Lizzie Sanders: Watercolour paintings of climbing plants

Silver-Gilt Grenfell

Blackpool School of Art & Design: Botanical illustrations
Tamlin Blake: Watercolour paintings of cremnophytes of southern Africa
Marguerite Harris: Watercolour paintings of primulas
Denise Hart: Watercolour paintings representing Begonias
Valerie A Kneebone: Watercolour paintings
Val Mays: Pencil & watercolour studies of orchids
George Olson: Pencil & watercolour studies of native American prairie plants
Maryrose Milford Rintoul: Watercolour paintings of Geraniaceae
Susan Staniforth: Watercolour paintings of flowers in renaissance paintings
Marina Virdis: Watercolour paintings of famous Hemerocallis & their breeders
Wendy Walsh: Watercolour & pencil studies of the flowers of Mayo
Simon Williams: Paintings in gouache
Judi Stone: Paintings & line drawings of orchid species

Silver Grenfell

James Husband: Watercolour paintings of bromeliads
David McNally: Watercolour paintings of hibiscus
Lorna Minton: Watercolour paintings of Narcissi
Josephine Newman: Watercolour paintings of camellias & irises
Valerie Price: Pencil & watercolour studies of leaves throughout the year
Beryl Turner: Watercolour paintings of Paphiopedilum species

Bronze Grenfell

Wendy Taubert: Watercolour paintings of Mediterranean wild orchids