Exhibitors
Lifelong Learning
The following are exhibiting.
British Memorial Garden Trust
This exhibit demonstrates how a British garden, which will honour British victims of 9/11, has been designed to meet the demands of New York City, such as colder winters, warmer summers and pedestrian traffic.
A team of professionals has been working together for over two years developing plans by British landscape architects Julian and Isabel Bannerman. This exhibition provides an idea of what the completed British Memorial Garden will look like.
The British Memorial Garden is being built to honour the 67 British victims of the World Trade Centre attacks and to celebrate the long-standing friendship between the United States and United Kingdom. The garden will be located in Lower Manhattan, three blocks from Ground Zero.
Capel Manor College with NCCPG
The National Council for the Conversation of Plants and Gardens helps conserve the vast range of cultivated plants we grow in our gardens.
For one reason or another, each year dozens of cultivated plants become unavailable to gardeners. Not only does this affect the range of plants that can be grown at home, but it also reduces the range of genetic material in the gene pool - material that could be used by breeders to improve the range of plants available.
The NCCPG and Capel Manor College have joined together to produce an exhibit. The theme is the famous plantsman Amos Perry, VMH, FLS, FZS, who introduced hundreds of plants to commerce, and owned one of the most celebrated nurseries in the world. We will be asking if anyone has information on the plants which are now unfortunately 'missing.
CIWEM - the Chartered Institute of Water & Environmental Management
This exhibit shows how horticulture and science can combine to bring about environmental improvement.
The exhibit features a new rooftop water recycling system, which uses plants to filter dirty water in homes so that it can be re-used. The display explains the scientific principles behind the system, details about the plants used and the environmental importance of this type of innovation.
Plants are central to this project, which stands to promote the value of including them in urban building design, thus increasing the green content of cities.
Chichester College - Brinsbury Campus
A display that investigates a range of containers planted to suit given locations within a garden.
This exhibit displays planted designs that offer the gardener diversity of colour, texture and form and some seasonal interest, while providing versatile options for the more tricky to plant locations in a garden.
This gardens aims to provide visitors with a visual display of best practice, while also offering an interactive demonstration combining a plant selector.
This interpretation is presented in conjunction with Southern Water.
Duchy College
What's in a name? Gardeners hate botanical names; plantsmen, botanists and professionals hate common names. But why give plants what often seems to be an over-complicated name when the colloquial common name would seem to suffice? The display gives an explanation and demonstration of the value and importance of using scientific names for plant identification. The examples on the stand show how these names are both interesting and informative.
HDRA The Organic Organisation
HDRA’s exhibit illustrates its ‘Organic Food for All’ campaign, which is a mentor-led programme aimed at enabling people on low incomes to grow their own fruit and vegetables.
The stand is composed of three windows, each representing a different social and cultural background. One window shows a celebration of vegetables from ethnic communities, which can be grown in this country. The second represents an inner city flat, which is complete with a recycled window box and the third is a mentor window with more unusual vegetables and fruit, which are harder to grow.
Each of the windows looks on to an interior decorated in the relevant style with the display of produce. In front of the windows are window boxes containing vegetables and herbs.
The exhibit aims to illustrate how people can be stimulated to grow their own organic vegetables, regardless of space or previous experience.
International Black Plant Society
‘Anything goes with Black'. Demonstrating some popular colours that look great with black plants, this exhibit aims to encourage gardeners to plant black by showing black plants grown with silver, gold and green.
Four square raised beds, with striking colour, demonstrate how black plants can be easily used in the garden. New plants in this display include Heuchera ‘Licorice’ and Hyacinthus ‘Midnight’.
John Innes Centre
‘Growing Plants in Microchips’. This exhibit is designed to look like the inside of a computer. Containers full of plants have replaced computer chips.
The plants, some of which are well known and some of which are more unusual, demonstrate the range of flower varieties that are produced.
The theme of this exhibit is based on cutting edge science, which allows scientists to understand the rules that plants use to control their growth and development.