Hardy Plant Society

2010 Chelsea Show

The Hardy Plant Society’s Chelsea Flower Show 2010 stand, presented by the West Yorkshire Group, was awarded a Silver Medal. The stand was entitled ‘True Yorkshire Grit’ and is subtitled ‘hardy plants for tough places’.

The photographs, below, show the team hard at work creating the 2010 Hardy Plant Society stand at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, being interrupted by the TV and radio people plus some views of the stand as it was being constructed.

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Arranging the plants - but where's your safety jacket?	Surrounded by plants on the stand.
Hard at work, tidying up the plants - Maggie, Gloria and Janet	Now where does that plant go?
Colour toning. Coming together for one part of the stand.	“Put a few plants together, and then consider.”
Dry shade area under development.	The hot and dry area, beginning to take shape.
Roy Lancaster was interested in this Verbascum from Marchants.	Some wildlife on one of our plants.
BBC filming on our stand.	Pat giving a radio interview
Roy Lancaster, conferring.	Polystichum polyblepharum on a corner.
Blue tones in part of the sunny, rocky area.	Part of the wet and boggy area
Lycnhis flos-cuculi ‘Jenny’ on the stand.	Sunny gold in the dry, shady area.

All photographs by Ruth Baumberg.

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You can see more details and photographs of the 2010 HPS stand at Chelsea by following these links:
- for a description and plant list
- for photographs taken on press day, showing HPS members and personalities on the stand
- for photographs of the stand
- for more photographs of the stand
- for yet more photographs of the stand
- for the personal experiences of a group member.