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The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) has awarded 34 Gold Medals at the first ever RHS Chatsworth Flower Show, partnered by Wedgewood.
A total of 79 medals were awarded to the gardens and floral exhibitors across two Floral Marquees, which included 26 Silver-Gilt Medals, 15 Silver Medals and four Bronze Medal.
The IQ Quarry Garden, by multi award-winning designer Paul Hervey-Brookes, was awarded a Gold Medal and the coveted title of ‘Best Show Garden’. Inspired by the life cycle of a quarry, this contemporary garden is divided into sections to contrast the bountiful floral and naturalistic planting with other more severe and uncompromising features.
On his award, Paul Hervey-Brookes said: "I am absolutely thrilled. This was the last project I worked on with my partner before he passed away and I wanted to make sure it was something he was proud of."
Shows Judging Manager, Joanna Shirley, said: “it is an exceptional garden, fantastically innovative and hugely atmospheric, with many special moments to linger and enjoy. The beautiful sculptural wall is unique and very effective in framing the garden against this beautiful landscape here at the show.”
Butter Wakefield’s Belmond Enchanted Garden also received a Gold Medal, along with The Wedgewood Garden – a Classic Re-imagined, which was designed by RHS Young Designer 2014 winner Sam Ovens. In addition, two Silver-Gilts, one Sliver and two Bronze Medals were awarded across the eight Show Gardens.
The award for Best Exhibit in the Floral Marquees was given to Pheasant Acre Plants, while Roualeyn Fuchsias scooped the new Design Award, and the title of RHS Master Grower went to Hoyland Plant Centre. Within the two Floral Marquees 71 medals were awarded in total, including 31 Gold, 24 Silver-Gilt, 14 Silver and 2 Bronze Medals.
For a full list of medal-winners visit: press.rhs.org.uk
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Notes to editors
For more information, please contact the RHS Press Office on 020 7821 3364 or pressoffice@rhs.org.uk
Images of the RHS Chatsworth Flower Show are available to download at www.photoshelter.com. Please email the RHS Press Office at showspr@rhs.org.uk for instructions on how to create an account.
Full details of all exhibitors are available on the RHS Media Centre. Please visit press.rhs.org.uk/
To apply for media accreditation to the RHS Chatsworth Flower Show, please visit press.rhs.org.uk/
RHS Chatsworth Flower Show (7-11 June 2017)
6 June Press Day
7 June RHS members only
9 – 11 June RHS members and non-members
7 – 10 June 10am - 6.30pm
11 June 10am – 5pm
Venue: Chatsworth, Bakewell, Derbyshire, DE45 1PP
To book tickets 0844 995 9664* or www.rhs.org.uk/chatsworth
* Calls cost 7p per minute plus your phone company’s access charge.
Ticket prices range from £21.50 to £39. Tickets are on sale now.
About the RHS
The Royal Horticultural Society was founded in 1804 by Sir Joseph Banks and John Wedgwood to inspire passion and excellence in the science, art and practice of horticulture. Our Vision is to enrich everyone’s life through plants, and make the UK a greener and more beautiful place. We believe everyone in every village, town and city should benefit from growing plants to enhance lives, build stronger, healthier, happier communities and create better places to live.
We held our first flower shows in 1820, were granted a Royal Charter in 1861 and acquired RHS Garden Wisley, our flagship garden, in 1903. From our first meetings in a small room off London’s Piccadilly, we have grown to become the world’s largest gardening charity. At our gardens and shows and through our scientific research, publications, libraries and our education and community programmes we inspire a passion for gardening and growing plants, promote the value of gardens, demonstrate how gardening is good for us and explain the vital roles that plants undertake.
The RHS is committed to bring the joy of gardening to millions more people, inspire the next generation of gardeners and invest in the future to safeguard a £13 billion industry employing more than 300,000 people. We are entirely funded by our members, visitors and supporters. RHS membership is for anyone with an interest in gardening. Support the RHS and help us secure a healthy future for gardening. For more information call 020 3176 5820, or visit rhs.org.uk/join
RHS Registered Charity No. 222879/SC038262
Latest press releases
Artist Helps Viewers See the Beauty of the Wind, Aided by Dichroic Film from 3M
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Preparations in full swing for RHS Chatsworth Flower Show 2017
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About the RHS
The RHS believes that gardening improves the quality of life and that everyone should have access to great garden experiences. As a charity we help to bring gardening into people's lives and support gardeners of all levels and abilities; whether they are expert horticulturists or children who are planting seeds for the very first time.
RHS membership is for anyone with an interest in gardening. Support the RHS and secure a healthy future for gardening. For more information call: 0845 130 4646, or visit www.rhs.org.uk
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Friday 2 June 2017
• Every day sold out except Sunday • Joseph Paxton’s Great Conservatory pinnacle of the showground • Gardens and FreeForms take shape in third week of installation
The Royal Horticultural Society Chelsea Flower Show may be over after another successful year, but there is no rest ahead - teams across the world’s biggest gardening charity are busy working with hundreds of exhibitors and contractors to bring the next major show to fruition. The first RHS Chatsworth Flower Show, held in the grounds of the Chatsworth Estate, opens next Wednesday and runs until Sunday 11 June. Nearly 90,000 tickets have already been sold, and the show is now sold out on all days except Sunday.
Celebrity florist Jonathan Moseley is currently working to decorate The Palladian Bridge with a giant willow serpent that rises up from the depths of the river Derwent and entwines around the bridge. Visitors can take a beautiful hidden walk through to the other side of the bank.
The Great Conservatory, a re-imagining of the one created by Joseph Paxton in 1841, has been erected at the heart of the showground. The 14-metre high inflatable dome was installed over five days using a 130-ton crane. An interior installation, ‘Heart of Glass’ by Cityscapes, focused around a central rotating glitter ball, will be installed on Friday.
The Show Gardens and FreeForm installations – a new category for RHS Flower Shows – are fast taking shape on the showground. A giant pair of hands made of hay, measuring over 2m high, have been brought from Italy by Barbara Negretti & Elisa Tomat for their show garden Behind the Scenes, which celebrates the hard work and dedication of those who do all the practical work and hard graft building professional gardens.
The floral marquees are a hive of activity as 76 nurseries populate the floral marquees with plants including curious, collectible and intriguing plants, cut flowers and edibles. Several are exhibiting for the first time at an RHS show including The English Iris Company, who will be selling award winning British Tall Bearded Irises raised in a Nottinghamshire garden.
Anna Skibniewski-Ball, Assistant Show Manager, said: ‘We are in the final stages of build-up and with only a few days until the show opens to the public, the show site is a hive of activity. We have now welcomed most of the show features and tradestands and are seeing the beginnings of the floral exhibitors populate the floral marquees. The Show Garden and FreeForm meanwhile are continuing their third week of creating their masterpieces.
‘Our over-arching theme of Design Revolutionaries is prevalent throughout the show, from our re-imagining of Joseph Paxton’s Great Conservatory with fantastic tropical planting, to our Palladian Style Bridge spanning the river Derwent. We are really hoping the good weather will see us into next week so that everyone can enjoy what we hope will be a truly wonderful and inspiring horticultural event.”
Over the weekend the site will be brimming with yet more floral exhibitors and the lifestyle exhibitors, selling wares from cushions to candles, arriving to set up their stands. By Monday, apart from the final installation of some show features such as the well dressing displays, most of the show should be complete and ready to welcome visitors on Wednesday.
artisan
IQ Quarry Garden and designer Paul Hervey-Brookes
The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) has awarded 34 Gold Medals at the first ever RHS Chatsworth Flower Show, partnered by Wedgewood.
A total of 79 medals were awarded to the gardens and floral exhibitors across two Floral Marquees, which included 26 Silver-Gilt Medals, 15 Silver Medals and four Bronze Medal.
The IQ Quarry Garden, by multi award-winning designer Paul Hervey-Brookes, was awarded a Gold Medal and the coveted title of ‘Best Show Garden’. Inspired by the life cycle of a quarry, this contemporary garden is divided into sections to contrast the bountiful floral and naturalistic planting with other more severe and uncompromising features.
On his award, Paul Hervey-Brookes said: "I am absolutely thrilled. This was the last project I worked on with my partner before he passed away and I wanted to make sure it was something he was proud of."
Shows Judging Manager, Joanna Shirley, said: “it is an exceptional garden, fantastically innovative and hugely atmospheric, with many special moments to linger and enjoy. The beautiful sculptural wall is unique and very effective in framing the garden against this beautiful landscape here at the show.”
Butter Wakefield’s Belmond Enchanted Garden also received a Gold Medal, along with The Wedgewood Garden – a Classic Re-imagined, which was designed by RHS Young Designer 2014 winner Sam Ovens. In addition, two Silver-Gilts, one Sliver and two Bronze Medals were awarded across the eight Show Gardens.
The award for Best Exhibit in the Floral Marquees was given to Pheasant Acre Plants, while Roualeyn Fuchsias scooped the new Design Award, and the title of RHS Master Grower went to Hoyland Plant Centre. Within the two Floral Marquees 71 medals were awarded in total, including 31 Gold, 24 Silver-Gilt, 14 Silver and 2 Bronze Medals.
For a full list of medal-winners visit: press.rhs.org.uk
-Ends-
Notes to editors
For more information, please contact the RHS Press Office on 020 7821 3364 or pressoffice@rhs.org.uk
Images of the RHS Chatsworth Flower Show are available to download at www.photoshelter.com. Please email the RHS Press Office at showspr@rhs.org.uk for instructions on how to create an account.
Full details of all exhibitors are available on the RHS Media Centre. Please visit press.rhs.org.uk/
To apply for media accreditation to the RHS Chatsworth Flower Show, please visit press.rhs.org.uk/
RHS Chatsworth Flower Show (7-11 June 2017)
6 June Press Day
7 June RHS members only
9 – 11 June RHS members and non-members
7 – 10 June 10am - 6.30pm
11 June 10am – 5pm
Venue: Chatsworth, Bakewell, Derbyshire, DE45 1PP
To book tickets 0844 995 9664* or www.rhs.org.uk/chatsworth
* Calls cost 7p per minute plus your phone company’s access charge.
Ticket prices range from £21.50 to £39. Tickets are on sale now.
About the RHS
The Royal Horticultural Society was founded in 1804 by Sir Joseph Banks and John Wedgwood to inspire passion and excellence in the science, art and practice of horticulture. Our Vision is to enrich everyone’s life through plants, and make the UK a greener and more beautiful place. We believe everyone in every village, town and city should benefit from growing plants to enhance lives, build stronger, healthier, happier communities and create better places to live.
We held our first flower shows in 1820, were granted a Royal Charter in 1861 and acquired RHS Garden Wisley, our flagship garden, in 1903. From our first meetings in a small room off London’s Piccadilly, we have grown to become the world’s largest gardening charity. At our gardens and shows and through our scientific research, publications, libraries and our education and community programmes we inspire a passion for gardening and growing plants, promote the value of gardens, demonstrate how gardening is good for us and explain the vital roles that plants undertake.
The RHS is committed to bring the joy of gardening to millions more people, inspire the next generation of gardeners and invest in the future to safeguard a £13 billion industry employing more than 300,000 people. We are entirely funded by our members, visitors and supporters. RHS membership is for anyone with an interest in gardening. Support the RHS and help us secure a healthy future for gardening. For more information call 020 3176 5820, or visit rhs.org.uk/join
RHS Registered Charity No. 222879/SC038262
Latest press releases
Artist Helps Viewers See the Beauty of the Wind, Aided by Dichroic Film from 3M
1940s Gardeners Feed The School of Artisan Food at RHS Chatsworth
Medals announced at the inaugural RHS Chatsworth Flower Show
Preparations in full swing for RHS Chatsworth Flower Show 2017
The Moveable Feast Garden - Roll With It Baby!
About the RHS
The RHS believes that gardening improves the quality of life and that everyone should have access to great garden experiences. As a charity we help to bring gardening into people's lives and support gardeners of all levels and abilities; whether they are expert horticulturists or children who are planting seeds for the very first time.
RHS membership is for anyone with an interest in gardening. Support the RHS and secure a healthy future for gardening. For more information call: 0845 130 4646, or visit www.rhs.org.uk
RHS Registered Charity No. 222879/SC038262
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Preparations in full swing for RHS Chatsworth Flower Show 2017
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RHS Shows > RHS Chatsworth Flower Show > Preparations in full swing for RHS Chatsworth Flower Show 2017
Friday 2 June 2017
• Every day sold out except Sunday • Joseph Paxton’s Great Conservatory pinnacle of the showground • Gardens and FreeForms take shape in third week of installation
The Royal Horticultural Society Chelsea Flower Show may be over after another successful year, but there is no rest ahead - teams across the world’s biggest gardening charity are busy working with hundreds of exhibitors and contractors to bring the next major show to fruition. The first RHS Chatsworth Flower Show, held in the grounds of the Chatsworth Estate, opens next Wednesday and runs until Sunday 11 June. Nearly 90,000 tickets have already been sold, and the show is now sold out on all days except Sunday.
Celebrity florist Jonathan Moseley is currently working to decorate The Palladian Bridge with a giant willow serpent that rises up from the depths of the river Derwent and entwines around the bridge. Visitors can take a beautiful hidden walk through to the other side of the bank.
The Great Conservatory, a re-imagining of the one created by Joseph Paxton in 1841, has been erected at the heart of the showground. The 14-metre high inflatable dome was installed over five days using a 130-ton crane. An interior installation, ‘Heart of Glass’ by Cityscapes, focused around a central rotating glitter ball, will be installed on Friday.
The Show Gardens and FreeForm installations – a new category for RHS Flower Shows – are fast taking shape on the showground. A giant pair of hands made of hay, measuring over 2m high, have been brought from Italy by Barbara Negretti & Elisa Tomat for their show garden Behind the Scenes, which celebrates the hard work and dedication of those who do all the practical work and hard graft building professional gardens.
The floral marquees are a hive of activity as 76 nurseries populate the floral marquees with plants including curious, collectible and intriguing plants, cut flowers and edibles. Several are exhibiting for the first time at an RHS show including The English Iris Company, who will be selling award winning British Tall Bearded Irises raised in a Nottinghamshire garden.
Anna Skibniewski-Ball, Assistant Show Manager, said: ‘We are in the final stages of build-up and with only a few days until the show opens to the public, the show site is a hive of activity. We have now welcomed most of the show features and tradestands and are seeing the beginnings of the floral exhibitors populate the floral marquees. The Show Garden and FreeForm meanwhile are continuing their third week of creating their masterpieces.
‘Our over-arching theme of Design Revolutionaries is prevalent throughout the show, from our re-imagining of Joseph Paxton’s Great Conservatory with fantastic tropical planting, to our Palladian Style Bridge spanning the river Derwent. We are really hoping the good weather will see us into next week so that everyone can enjoy what we hope will be a truly wonderful and inspiring horticultural event.”
Over the weekend the site will be brimming with yet more floral exhibitors and the lifestyle exhibitors, selling wares from cushions to candles, arriving to set up their stands. By Monday, apart from the final installation of some show features such as the well dressing displays, most of the show should be complete and ready to welcome visitors on Wednesday.