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Good enough to eat
As leading seed suppliers announce that vegetable seeds sales are outstripping flower seed sales, there has never been a better time to grow your own, and the RHS Spring Flower Show, Cardiff, can provide the inspiration you need to get started.
The South Rise Leisure Gardeners’ Society garden - Fork Handles and Some Hoes - celebrates the allotment. The garden is intended to promote the lifestyle benefits of allotment gardening, by demonstrating not only what can be grown, but also the benefits of exercise and social interaction that it brings.
RHS Gold Medal-winning Thompson & Morgan will be at the show with a display of vegetables including many out-of-season cultivars. Included in the display will be several new vegetable introductions; dwarf bean ‘Speedy’, cauliflower ‘Avalanche’, courgette ‘Cavillfi’, courgette ‘Paradorfi’, winter squash ‘Celebration, and tomato ‘Roncardo’.
New exhibitors, new plants
Philip Tivey & Son has been exhibiting at RHS shows since 1983, and has won a clutch of medals during that time. The nursery will be making its first visit to the RHS Spring Flower Show, Cardiff, with a spectacular display of cut Alstroemeria flowers. The nursery will be promoting some excellent border and container cultivars at the show, including Alstroemeria ‘Charm’, A. ‘Serenade’ and A. ‘Tanya’, which are all tall varieties to make a striking addition to a border.
And the winner is....
Snowdonia-based specialist fuchsia grower, Roualeyn Nursery, will be bringing a feast of fuchsias to the show. With a stand supporting 100 plants in a variety of colours ranging from single whites to large double imperial purple exotics, the display should certainly catch the eye!
The nursery has been growing fuchsias for the past 27 years, and has exhibited at many RHS flower shows with great success. At the RHS London Flower Show in March, to recognise its achievements at BBC Gardeners’ World Live, Roualeyn Nursery will be awarded the Anthony Huxley Trophy. This is an RHS award, given for the best group exhibit of tender plants at a show judged by the RHS Tender Ornamental Plant Committee.
