7th Gold Medal at Chelsea Flower Show 2017

Our 7th Gold Medal at Chelsea Flower Show 2017.

We were delighted to walk into the exhibit and find this 7th Gold Medal this morning.

We dressed the exhibit differently this year which always feels like a risk until the judges verdict comes in. The waterlilies took more of a central place in the pond.

We all really liked the new look with more space and reflections between the plants. The reaction of both judges and public that have visited us this morning has been great too.

Thanks to everyone for all their appreciative comments!

Click on these images to enlarge and see views of the exhibit:

We had a great 8 minute piece on the Friday of Chelsea Flower Show 2017 on BBC TV. View this video below:

We filmed a 'walk around' of the Nursery to show customers how our aquatic plants are grown in different depths of water on our Nursery.

This 7th Gold Medal at Chelsea Flower Show was particularly welcome as we built and developed our new Nursery over the Winter of 2016 in the lead into this exhibit. We had to move all the planted baskets across the village to the new site. We have more troughs and tunnel space to allow us to propagate all we need to grow so we have plenty of all plant varieties ready for our website orders.

As we send all our plants (except oxygenating plants) as ready rooted in a mesh basket we have to produce them all the year before ready for early sales. The camera team could see all the troughs containing hundreds of baskets of a species of plant all ready to go.

When the BBC visited in April this year they brought an underwater camera with them and filmed newts in our waterlily tanks. They loved the damselflies they filmed flying around the Caltha palustris (Marsh Marigold) in one tunnel too.

The camera crew visited the new Nursery to film us but we are afraid that we are not open to the public because of planning regulations.

All our plants leave us by mail order.

View our BBC programme video here: