Award winners announced
The list of award winners is now available as Adobe Acrobat pdfs.
List of Floral Marquee awards (36KB)
List of show garden awards (32KB)
Enjoy freshly made herbal teas from ‘herb guru’ Jekka McVicar
Jamie Oliver called her the ‘Queen of Herbs’ after she transformed his garden into a foodie’s treasure trove. Rick Stein made her one of his distinguished Food Heroes for her unparalleled work with herbs. And at last year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show Jekka McVicar added a 59th gold to her record-breaking collection of medals.
Jekka will be at the show on Friday 18 April at 2pm with fresh herbal teas for visitors to taste, she will be also be answering questions and talking about her top tips for growing herbs.
Slugger Off! Help is at hand for gardeners hoping to tackle the UK’s No. 1 garden pest.
Slugs and snails were the UK’s most troublesome garden pest of 2007, according to members of the RHS. The wet and cloudy summer of 2007 played a big part in letting slugs and snails run riot in gardens, where they wreaked havoc among the foliage and flowers of established plants and devoured seedlings along the way.
Help is at hand for visitors to the show who are struggling to tackle the onslaught of slugs. Glamorgan-based Anthea Guthrie has designed Slugger Off - a slug-resistant garden. Anthea’s garden is a lesson in slug avoidance without using slug pellets and it resists these creatures by planting slug-resistant plants and encouraging slug eaters such as birds and hedgehogs to the garden.
Anthea is one of the rising stars of the horticultural world and is back at Cardiff after winning a Gold Medal last year. Last year she designed gardens at the RHS Flower Shows of Cardiff, Chelsea and Hampton Court palace and most recently, she featured in the BBC Series A Passion for Plants.