Gold at Chelsea Flower Show 2015 exhibit

We won another Gold Medal for our Chelsea Flower Show 2015 exhibit - our 5th and we are so delighted. The whole team has worked hard to achieve this and we are so proud.

This year our plan was to show more British Native plants for both ponds and surrounding moist areas. We have used 14 different British Native species on the exhibit and also showed one container pond with only British Native pond plants in it.

The shape of the exhibit pond remains the same as last year. It uses the arched bridge over the water with the sculpture by Ian Gill Sculptures of Mother and child.

On Monday the BBC came with Joe Swift to compare 'water in the outside Show Gardens' and 'water in the Floral Pavilion'.  We are still the only Nursery showing aquatic plants in the Chelsea Grand Pavilion.

He picked out the 3 Typha plant groups in the exhibit - the Typha lugdunenis (Typha gracilis as it was previously), Typha latifolia Variegata and the miniature Typha minima.

He described that each of these Typha pond plants likes to have a different depth of water over its crown. This can be vital to each plant types survival.

Typha latifolia Variegata  likes 6-12" of water over the basket, Typha lugdunenis (Typha gracilis) likes 0-9" and Typha minima likes between 2-4"of water over the basket.

Remember - Planting depth over the top of the basket is the key to the success of all pond plants.

Look at our Gold winning Chelsea Flower Show 2015 exhibit:

We do not leave our Nursery in Sharnford these days. The only time this year is at Chelsea Flower Show.  Here are the people that grow and despatch your plants from the Nursery -  Angela, Oliver, Imogen, Phil and Linda.

Thanks to Ian Pickering Photography from Sharnford who took these photos for us.