RHS Malvern Spring Festival 10 May 2018 - 13 May 2018

[Maggi Young]

The RHS Malvern Show  begins tomorrow.   The following photos come from the Huntleys of Hartside Nursery of their display at the show, to which they are just putting the finishing touches. 

They  say " Nearly finished setting the plants on our display @MalvernShows , labeling and finishing to do now. See us here from Thursday until Sunday."

[Maggi Young]

Today : "Just about finished @MalvernShows , final tidying to do. Pleased to include Corydalis 'Craigton Purple' raised by Ian Young, past president of @ScottishRockGC . Other plants to look out for include Cornish suecica as well as Trilliums and Uvularias."

Exciting to see more @ScottishRockGC connected plants making Show debuts! Best of luck to @HartsideNursery for their display and success @RHSMalvern.  Fun to see autocorrect of Cornus suecica to Cornish !!


Corydalis 'Craigton Purple' at the front - earlier than in it's home  and looking a bit blue in the photo!

[Maggi Young]

Lots of  luck to exhibitors at Malvern - Hartside,  Jacques Amand  International and  Avon Bulbs, for a start!

Hartside's  award card.... Silver Gilt

[Maggi Young]

The Avon Bulbs stand at RHS Malvern is finished - no judging or medals this time, because Avon are  are the Mastergrowers** at this show - Show is on here untiltil Sunday.

Maxine Grice of Avon Bulbs has been kind enough to allow me to share her photos of Avon's  lovely stand here....
 






 Full of colour!

Cheers, Maxine!

** RHS Master Grower is a special feature within RHS Floral Marquees this year. A different nursery is featured at each show. These exhibits are not judged. 
RHS Master Grower celebrates peerless nurseries that are exemplary in all aspects of their business practice, singling them out for much deserved attention. Master Growers grow or propagate the majority of their plant material using ethical and sustainable practices. 

[Maggi Young]

D'Arcy and Everest won Gold for a display of alpines, succulents and  unusual perennials and a Silver Gilt for their  25th Anniversary exhibit Sempervivum and drought tolerant plants. 

Hartside won Silver Gilt for a table garden of   alpine and woodland plants  including Trillium.
 
Jacques Amand  were out in the flower mall, rather than competing in the floral hall and were awarded  "3 flowers"



 

See all the results  here :  https://www.rhsmalvern.co.uk/whats-on/results/

[Maggi Young]

More from Malvern -  Border Alpines  have this  ....
Cypripedium ventricosum



Epimedium ‘White Hart’



Dodecatheon pauciflorum ‘Comet’,


Primula sieboldii ‘White Buttons’

They were awarded "5flowers"  in their category, Plant Arcade.

[ian mcdonald]

The bbc dis-allowance of alpines and alpine nurseries is still in place as seen in GW tonight.

[Maggi Young]

Via a photo from Janet Benjafield on Facebook, I gather that this pic is of Ice Alpines display - which seems to have won the award for the Best Exhibit in the Plant Arcade ....



must admit I know nothing of this  nursery ....  https://www.icealpines.co.uk/
 ICE ALPINES
LYE HEAD ROAD
BEWDLEY
WORCESTERSHIRE
DY12 2UW

[ian mcdonald]

I think they were at some of the plants fairs last year.