NEWS
De Wildt reader wins Chelsea competition
T
he winner of the
Hadeco-Garden
World-Kirstenbosch Chelsea Flower Show
competition which we ran
over the past two editions is
Maria du Toit of De Wildt,
northwest of Pretoria.
She wins a copy of Hadeco's
magnificent coffee-table
manual on South African
bulbs entitled simply The Bulb
Book, plus a hamper of
Hadeco bulbs for her summer
garden and, to keep the sun
off her while she plants her
bulbs, a Smallholder cap.
The answer to our question
“In which city is the Chelsea
Flower Show held?” elicited a
variety of answers. Some
thought it was in Krugersdorp,
others in Muldersdrift (a city?),
others at Garden World, and
others still simply said
Chelsea.
If you visit the show, you will
travel to the extensive park-
like grounds of the Royal
Chelsea Hospital, which is in
the Royal Borough of Chelsea
(London's equivalent of a
suburb). But you will have
had to have travelled to
London first. Thus, the answer
is “London.”
A recreation of the South
African exhibit, traditionally
designed by horticulturalists
attached to the SA National
Botanical Gardens at
Kirstenbosch, which is in
Cape Town, is constructed at
Garden World in Muldersdrift
after the Chelsea show, as a
focal point of Garden World's
annual Spring Festival.
While it is an exact replica of
the London design, the plant
material used in the exhibit is
fresh, ie not that which was
used in London, and Garden
World horticulturalists refresh
the exhibit up to three times
during the course of the sixweek long festival.
VACCINE
From page 5
Detail of this year’s SA Chelsea exhibit at Garden World in Muldersdrift
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