Roundup

Not the weedkiller, but a miscellany of pictures from the Hampton Court Palace Flower Show 2012.  A huge thank you to all our sponsors, supporters and volunteers for working with us to make the show a great success for Plant Heritage.  Here’s to 2013.

If you click on the first image you can scroll through the whole set of images

Before the Big Bang and the creation of the Five Continents

Joanna on top of the world

“You want it where?”

Mystic Meg – our tea tent

The build

Joanna enlisting help from the Bournemouth Council chaps with her Cleopatra roll of artificial grass

High Viz

Midge from Olives et Al – delicious

Corinna Hamilton, Joanna and Genevieve on Press Day

Gill and Alys Fowler

Caroline Mitchell

‘Watering the bubbly’

Mike and Edna Squires keeping warm

Helen Moorcraft and Angela Hepple

Joanna, Alys Fowler and Claudia de Yong

Sheila and Mike Alder

Michele Ridings and Judith Smith chewing the fat

Kalani with Eddie Mole and Emma Moore of Bristol Zoo

Joanna attended the RHS President’s Lunch where Susyn Andrews received the Veitch Memorial Award

Kalani blends into the background as she talks to Roger Parsons

The membership team take a photo of each other each year – Gill

and Gillian

Chris Evans in Bournemouth City Council’s show garden, Collection Holder of Abelia and Clethra

Michael Marriott of David Austin Roses and Joanna

Alys Fowler gets a sneak preview of the Seed Shop

James Wong describing the sun screen properties of the micro hairs on Edelweiss

The other side of the camera, Jo Swift and Janet Wright in the Seed Shop

Young visitors on Press Day

Annie Head peeking out of the Hart Canna stand

NCH Allan Pullen with his monograph on Kalmia

Janet Wright with some cheekily named seeds

Foreign beasties brought into the country on/in plants

Our guest compere, Victoria Melbourne Webb

Rain

Securing the last packet of Trochetiopsis ebenus after it was featured in the BBC coverage

Tudor Rose award won by Simon Charlesworth of Downderry Nursery

The most photographed flower, Dahlia ‘Twynings Revel’

Squires Garden Centre display