Inspiration from 2012: Joe Swift’s design for the Homebase Teenage Cancer Trust garden (above left); the M&G Garden designed by Andy Sturgeon (right)


insurers, is ‘risk’. ‘Risk is the theme that links our two businesses,’ explains Andrew McIndoe, Hillier’s Managing director and designer of the garden. ‘Beazley insures against risk, while at Hillier Nurseries, we have to engage all our experience and skills to overcome risk to create successful and award-winning plants, exhibits and, ultimately, thriving gardens for our customers.’


Kelways – there from the start Kelways, one of the oldest nurseries in the UK, was an exhibitor at the first RHS Chelsea Flower Show in 1913. They won a Silver-Gilt Banksian Medal for their herbaceous flowers. Since then, they have taken home an impressive haul of 127 Chelsea medals. Experienced horticulturalist James


Kelway started the nursery in Langport, Somerset, in 1851 and established a worldwide reputation for both vegetables and flowers. His first love was gladiolus, but he also worked on other herbaceous plants such as delphiniums, pyrethrums, and, of course, peonies, which were to become Kelways’ flagship product.


18 HTAnews I May 2013 I www.the-hta.org.uk Plant of the Centenary


As part of the celebrations, the RHS will be choosing the plant of the centenary. Ten key plants that have been either been launched at Chelsea or developed by a Chelsea exhibitor will be selected by an expert panel and then put on show in the Great Pavilion to give visitors to Chelsea and the RHS website a chance to vote for their favourite. The winning ‘Plant of the Centenary’ will be announced at the end of Chelsea week. For garden centres this offers a great opportunity to run some linked displays.


_For further information about the RHS Chelsea Flower Show visit www.rhs.org.uk/shows-events


Part of the Scott’s Miracle Gro’wers garden at Chelsea 2012


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