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RHS London November Flower Show

All images Tim Sandall/Toplinc Imaging

The November show in the Lawrence Hall brought some winter cheer on a cold foggy morning. Exhibitors from around the conutry turned out for the last RHS show of the year to put on a display that must have inspired anyone who attended.

The quailty of the show was high enough for the judges to award six Gold medals.

PW Plants from Norfolk was a worthy winner of a Gold medal for its large
display of bamboos and shrubs. Burncoose Nurseries, who travelled from Cornwall to put on a colourfull display of flowering shrubs, also won a Gold. Long Acre Plants came from Somerset with ferns and woodland plants which were also worthy of a Gold. Dibley's Nurseries won Gold for a display of begonias, and Saddlers Gardens' display of restios and Rougham Hall Nurseries' exhibit of antirrhinums all went to make a memorable end to the show season in the London Halls.

Just part of the colourful exhibit of flowering shubs staged by Burncoose Nurseries who the judges felt deserved a Gold medal

Nandina domestica 'Fire Power' provided some of the autumn colour on the Burncoose Nurseries' display

Rougham Hall Nurseries Gold winning exhibit of antirrhinums

Close-up of Rougham Hall's Antirrhinum 'Summer Spires' range

One of the highlights of the show was this Gold medal display from PW Plants of Norfolk

Ilex aquifolium 'Bacciflava' was just one of the delights on Bluebell Nurseries stand

Here are the winning results.

Gold

Burncoose Nurseries: Trees, shrubs & other ornamental plants
Dibleys Nurseries: Begonias & gesneriads
Long Acre Plants: Ferns & woodland perennials
P W Plants: Bamboos, grasses & hardy plants
Rougham Hall Nurseries: Cut flower antirrhinums
Sadlers Gardens: Tall restios

Silver-Gilt Flora

Bluebell Arboretum & Nursery: Rare trees & shrubs
Fibrex Nurseries Ltd: Hederas
Mary Green: An early winter display showing the use of evergreen foliage & cornus cultivars
Potash Nursery: Cyclamen

Silver-Gilt Grenfell

NAFAS: Autumn riches into Yuletide joy

Silver Flora

Coghurst Camellias: Container-grown, autumn-flowering camellias
Foxgrove Plants: Grass specimens in terracotta pots
W E Th Ingwersen Ltd: Dwarf & slow-growing conifers in wide variety
Southcombe Gardens: Late autumn & winter foliage, grasses & evergreen shrubs

Bronze Flora

The Botanic Nursery: Winter evergreens
Pennard Plants: Evergreen shrubs with coloured & variegated foliage
Topiary Arts: Topiary
Wilford Bulb Co Ltd: A display of oriental hybrid lilies

Bronze Knightian

Highdown Nursery: Display of thymes

Art Awards

Gold

Helen Fitzgerald: Watercolour paintings of Eucalyptus spp
Bridget Gillespie: Watercolour paintings of plums

Silver-Gilt Grenfell

Gillian Condy: Pictures of geophylic pelargoniums in watercolour, pen & ink
Jacqueline Dawson: Watercolour paintings of wayside flowers
Sarah Gould: Watercolour paintings of exotic fruit on vellum
Rosemary Horne: Watercolour paintings of the Petersfield Physic Garden
Dr Sue Nicholls: Pictures of members of the Ericaceae family in watercolour and pencil
Annie Patterson: Watercolour paintings of spring flowers
Christine Peer: Watercolour paintings of Roscoea
Miyako Takahashi: Watercolour paintings of fruits
Carolyn Worby: Pictures of decaying leaves in pencil
Masumi Yamanaka: Watercolour paintings

Silver Grenfell

Kathleen Baker: Watercolour paintings of Iris
Liz Copas: Watercolour paintings of parasitic plants & their hosts
Mrs P Furniss: Pictures of hostas through the seasons in watercolour and pencil
Alice Harman: Watercolour paintings of old fashioned sweet peas
Noboru Isogai: Watercolour paintings of Irises
Margaret Sanderson: Watercolour paintings of colourful climbers
Carole Vincer: Watercolour paintings of Passiflora

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