Events

The RHS November London Flower Show 2004

The RHS November London Flower Show was held at the Horticultural Hhalls in Westminster and marked the end of this year's show season. The last show of 2004 did not fail to deliver the usual high quality of exhibits form all over the country.

Princess Alexandra, who made a surprise visit to the show, enjoys a conversation with Jim Arbury from the Fruit Department at Wisley

The show was moved to Friday and Saturday from the usual Tuesday and Wednesday which did nothing to detract visitor numbers. As well as the ever keen show-goers there was a surprise visit from Princess Alexandra who could be seen admiring the high standard of displays. These ranged from trees and shrubs, bamboos, cut flowers and exotic plants, plus a floral art exhibit staged by NAFAS as well as a competition of botanical art.

The judges on their final assignment of the year awarded four Gold Medals to the floral exhibits.

	This superb display of Hedera by Fibrex Nursery was the centre piece of the show and was awarded a Gold Medal
	Part of the Gold Medal winning exhibit of bamboos and woody plants by P W Plants
	A display of trees, shrubs and other ornamental plants from Burnoose Nurseries which the judges awarded a Gold Medal
	Colourful conifers exhibited by Choice Landscapes from Wisbech

	Crataegus persimilis 'Prunifolia' - just one of the autumn trees and shrubs that helped Bluebell Arboretum & Nursery win a Gold Medal
	Some of the colour at the show was supplied by this Cyclamen FI Hybrid 'Miracle Purple Flame' exhibited by Potash Nursery
	Pazuzu Extreme Flora from the Netherlands staged an exhibit of exotic plant including this Neoregelia concentrica 'Plutonis'

Here are the winning results

Gold

Bluebell Arboretum & Nursery: Trees & shrubs
Burncoose Nurseries: Trees, shrubs & other ornamental plants
Fibrex Nurseries Ltd: Hederas
P W Plants: Hardy bamboo & other woody plants

Silver-Gilt Flora

Choice Landscapes: Conifers
Dibleys Nurseries: Foliage begonias, gesneriads & other houseplants
Foxgrove Plants: Mature grasses in terracotta pots
Mary Green: Display of late autumn colour & evergreen foliage including ferns
Long Acre Plants: Ferns & woodland perennials
Pembroke Farm Nursery: Cacti & succulents
Potash Nursery: Cyclamen
Trehane Camellia Nursery: Autumn & winter flowering camellias

Silver-Gilt Grenfell

NAFAS: Floral art exhibit

Silver Flora

The Botanic Nursery: Winter stems & evergreens
Coghurst Camellias: Single genus of Camellia sasaugua
Pazuzu Extreme Flora: Exotic plants
Pennard Plants: Plants for foliage for the flower arranger in winter
Topiary Arts: Topiary in a small courtyard garden setting

Bronze Flora

W E Th Ingwersen Ltd: Late autumn flowering & foliage plants including dwarf & slow growing conifers
Rougham Hall Nurseries: Cut flower hardy perennials
Southcombe Gardens: Border, alpine & shade plants
Wilford Bulb Co Ltd: Winter display of lilies for growing through spring & summer

Botanical art exhibits

Silver-Gilt Grenfell

Laurie Andrews: Ferns of South Gippsland, Australia in watercolour
Sheila Clarke: Leguminosae in watercolour on vellum
Motoko Genjo: Watercolour paintings of medicinal plants in Japan
Shirley Gumpel: The reproductive system of four families in watercolour, pen & ink
Eiko Hamada: Vegetables in watercolour & pencil
Robert Howe: Watercolours of paphiopedilium
Kumiko Kosuda: Plants of Mount Fuji in watercolour
Margaret Muffet: Proteas in watercolour & gouache
Hedvig Wright Ostern: Fruits from an old Norwegian garden in watercolour
Wendy Ramirez: Watercolour paintings of material collected from the Devon countryside
Elaine Shimwell: Wildflowers in watercolour
Lisa Strachan: Watercolour of succulents indigenous to South Africa

Silver Grenfell

Kathleen Baker: Flowering plants with capsules in watercolour
Mary E Byatt: Tulips in watercolour
Jacqueline Dawson: Wildflowers of the riverbank, ditches & damp meadows in watercolour
Marguerite Harris: Flora of the New Forest in watercolour
James Husband: Arisaema in watercolour & pencil
Halina Steele: Watercolour paintings of Australia's native hibiscus
Patricia Stewart-Richardson: Watercolour paintings of dwarf bearded irises
Angela Wilson: Watercolour paintings of the plants of Sichuan, Western China