Exhibitors
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Floral exhibitors in the Great Pavilion
Images: Martin Mulchinock
Sheila Chapman Clematis
Somerset Postal Flowers
Floral arrangements
South West Carnivorous Plants
Southfield Nurseries
Cacti and succulents
Squire's Garden Centres
This year Squire’s is celebrating its 70th anniversary. Mr D J Squire established Squires in 1936 after he was made redundant as head gardener at the police orphanage in Twickenham. Today the company is still family-owned; Colin Squire, D J’s son, is Chairman and Colin’s daughter is HR and Marketing Director.
This exhibit pays tribute to the 1930s with an Art Deco inspired display combining landscape and planting styles of the 1930s. West London was an Art Deco hot spot at this time with many fine buildings and structures still remaining today. Designers at that time like Geoffrey Jellico transferred many of these themes and ambitions into garden projects.
In this design the central elegant and decorative brickwork Moongate with ornamental walling and Yorkstone crazy paved path are typical of the style of the period using angular and symmetrical geometric forms. This appearance is repeated in the design of the borders and selection of clipped and tailored specimen trees and shrubs combining with free flowing forms of ornamental under planting and climbers.
Key plants within the garden are climbing roses, clematis, lavender, clipped box, yew and holly with ornamental underplanting.
Tendercare Nurseries
Mature and formal hardy plants
The Botanic Nursery
Foxgloves
The Carnivorous Plant Society
This exhibit features a great variety of carnivorous plants and aims to show the differences, according to their geography, of the different species.
The Carnivorous Plant Society was set up in 1978 and is run by enthusiastic amateurs who are committed to the cultivation and conservation of carnivorous plants and education.
The Cottage Herbery
Hardy perennials & aromatic plants
The Cottage Herbery is celebrating its 30th anniversary of growing peat-free plants organically.
Owners Kim and Rob Hurst have been organic and peat-free since they first started in 1976 as Kim strongly believed that all plants grown for uses such as flavouring, healing and fragrance, should be grown organically.
The Cottage Herbery exhibit replicates a natural garden setting with an emphasis on companion planting and natural growing techniques. The display features a selection of cottage garden flowers, herbs, native plants and unusual vegetables.
The Horticultural Society of Trinidad & Tobago
The Romantic Garden Nursery
Topiary
A slice of Rosemoor at Chelsea- a cottage garden
This exhibit is intended to celebrate the local distinctiveness of the Society’s gardens, and has been inspired by three different areas of Rosemoor, the Cottage Garden, the Fruit and Vegetable Garden and Lady Anne’s Garden, which the RHS inherited when it accepted the garden in 1988.
The team aims for a display which is as sustainable as possible: all the plants are being raised at Rosemoor, the wild flower meadow turf will be 'borrowed' from Lady Anne’s Arboretum and the oak fencing is being constructed using recycled oak boards, which were packing crates from a delivery at Rosemoor. Even the paths in the exhibit are being built with bricks salvaged from a wall that fell down in Lady Anne’s garden.
The Sun Newspaper/Writtle College
Thorncroft Clematis Nursery
Thorncroft Clematis Nursery is a family run business, started from a hobby, by Ruth Gooch in the early 1980s
Three Counties Nurseries
Aquilegias