Events

RHS September London Flower Show

Defensive plants

Through evolution many plants have become adept to defending themselves in their various habitats. The show included fantastic displays of both hardy and tender plants with spikes or thorns ranging from Rubus to exotic varieties of Cycas.

The winners

Gold

Cookoo Box Nursery: Capsicums
Culm View Nursery: Hardy herbaceous perennials
Desert To Jungle: Plants for exotic effect
Devine Nurseries: Gladioli
Harveys Garden Plants: Autumn-flowering herbaceous perennials
National Chrysanthemem Society: Chrysanthemums
Tynings Nursery - National Collection of Passiflora: Passiflora
Winchester Growers: Cut-flower dahlias from the National Collection

Silver-Gilt Flora

Aldo Airplants: Airplants
Barnsdale Gardens: Perennials & shrubs
Churchtown Nurseries: Restios
Dibleys Nurseries: Streptocarpus, foliage begonias & other houseplants
Foxgrove Plants: Ornamental grasses
Hardy's Cottage Garden Plants: Autumn-flowering herbaceous perennials
HW Hyde & Son: Lilies
C S Lockyer (Fuchsias): Fuchsia species new & old, & foliage cultivars
Pembroke Farm Nursery: Cacti & succulents
Southcombe Gardens: Alpines, ferns & grasses

Silver-Gilt Knightian

Newlands Nursery: Herbs

Silver-Gilt Lindley

Dibleys Nurseries: Chiritas

Silver Flora

Bluebell Arboretum & Nursery: Trees & shrubs
The Botanic Nursery: Lime-tolerant evergreens, woody shrubs & perennials
Longacre Nursery: Perennials, grasses & ferns
Oaktree Nursery: Penstemon
The Old Walled Garden: Plants from the Southern Hemisphere
Pennard Plants: Plants from the Southern Hemisphere
Rushfields of Ledbury: Late summer perennials for sun & moisture

Bronze Flora

W E Th Ingwersen: Seasonal flowering & foliage alpine & other hardy plants

Exhibitors: sundries

Access Garden Products: Lean-to mini greenhouses & cold frames
Carpenders Park Nursery: Gardening sundries
Ceramica D'Arte: Sicillian ceramics & gift items
Field & Garden: Garden wildlife products
Garden Gadgets: Garden sundries
Gardening Goods: Garden ties
Ivelet Books
Mike Park Limited: Gardening and Botany books
RHSE - The Wisley Shop: Gardening books & gifts
Snape Stakes: Iron plant supports & gifts
Wells & Winter: Plant labels, ties, supports & planters
Winchester Growers: Cut flower dahlias fron the National Collection