West Country celebrates golden


success at a golden Chelsea by Vivienne Lewis


It was by any standards a vintage Chelsea.


Finally the sun shone and despite one of the most challenging build ups in living memory which meant a mighty battle with the elements this spring Chelsea Flower Show finally all came together magnificently


For the West Country it was a golden few days for medal winners from all over Devon, Cornwall, Somerset and Dorset as nurseries and growers celebrated medal success.


Fernwood Nursery joins Chelsea elite


Howard and Sally Wills were also among the Chelsea elite this year, winning a gold medal for their display. They specialise in growing houseleeks and phormiums at their three-acre smallholding near Great Torrington in Devon, just five miles from RHS Rosemoor. They hold National Collections of both plants, with their houseleeks collection now at a staggering 1100 varieties.


They propagate plants from the collections for sale at the nursery and by mail order (Sempervivum, Jovibarba and Rosularia only), sending out mail order plants towards the end of April and continue until the end of October. They say that they will send out plants during the winter but they will not show their best colour or form at this time and will be slower to establish.


Howard and Sally also attend plant fairs and shows round the country.


Fernwood Nursery, Torrington, Devon Tel: 01805 601446. www fernwood-nursery.co.uk


Desert to Jungle provide spectacular Wollemia nobilis


The Stephen Hawking garden for motor neurone disease at Chelsea Country Gardener


Desert to Jungle, one of the UK’s leading growers of exotic, architectural and specimen plants came away from Chelsea will tons of kudos after supplying plants for a number of gardens at Chelsea. The Taunton based nursery took plants for a range of gardens – none more impressive than the Stephen Hawking Garden for motor neurone disease which reflected the passage of time through the evolution of plants. Desert to Jungle supplied the magnificent Wollemia nobilis with fern like leaves and a bubbly park – a plant discovered 16 years ago in almost an impenetrable rainforest gorge in the Blue Mountains of Australia. Ferns for the garden were supplied by Kelways.


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