Chelsea success
It's been a successful Chelsea Flower Show for several exhibitors from around the Calendar region.
Leeds University's sustainable ecological garden - which aims to show how even the smallest garden can make a difference - won a Gold Medal in the Royal Horticultural Society's Environment Category.Welcome To Yorkshire's Bronte Garden, inspired by the landscape around Haworth - the home of the Bronte sisters - also took Gold in the Artisan Garden category, and "A Rural Muse", the brainchild of Lincolnshire designer Adam Frost, took Gold in the most prestigious category of all - the Show Gardens.Meanwhile the Royal Bank of Canada's Blue Water Show Garden - designed by Sheffield University Professor Nigel Dunnett - won Silver Gilt, and "Out Of The Blue" - a roof garden designed by Alan Gardner and York lawn turf company, Lindum - took Bronze in the Fresh Garden category.
John Shires talks to Roger Moore, of Lindum, the York turf company, whose garden "Out of the Blue" took a Bronze Medal at Chelsea.
John Shires talks to Tracy Foster - the designer of The Brontes Yorkshire Garden - and Welcome to Yorkshire's Chief Executive, Gary Verity.
John Shires talks to Adam Frost, the designer of the Gold Medal winning Show Garden "A Rural Muse".
John Shires talks to Martin Walker, the designer of Leeds University's Environment Garden.
John Shires talks to Professor Nigel Dunnett of Sheffield University about his Blue Water Show Garden for the Royal Bank of Canada.