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medals haul for baLI members at
Chelsea Flower Show
BALI members at the 2016 RHS Chelsea Flower Show have been awarded a total of 19 medals - six Gold, seven SilverGilt, five Silver and one Bronze – with BALI Registered Designers, Contractors and Training Providers (colleges) all
celebrating.
T
he weather for judging day was
perfect and the Show Gardens,
Fresh Gardens and Artisan
Gardens look magnificent as
the show officially opens today.
In the Show Gardens category,
BALI Registered Designer Andy Sturgeon
achieved Gold for the Telegraph Garden,
as did Designer and Honorary BALI
Member Chris Beardshaw for the Morgan
Stanley Garden for Great Ormond Street
Hospital, and Landform Consultants for
The Chelsea Barracks Garden. There was a
clutch of Silver-Gilts – The Outdoor Room
for the Cloudy Bay Garden; Landform
Consultants for The Hartley Botanic
Garden; and Landscape Associates for the
Royal Bank of Canada Garden.
In the Fresh Gardens category The
Outdoor Room won Gold for The Modern
Slavery Garden; Silver-Gilts were won
by Cube 1944 Ltd for The AkzoNobel
Honeysuckle Blue(s) Garden, and by
Garden Builders for The World Vision
Garden; and BALI Registered Designer
Lee Bestall achieved a Silver medal for
The Sir Simon Milton Foundation Urban
Connections Garden.
In the Artisan Gardens section, Frosts
Landscapes achieved Gold for The
Garden Bed – a partnership with Asda
30 Landscape & Urban Design Issue 20
garden, as did Belderbos Landscapes
for the Viking Cruises Mekong Garden,
which has also been named Best Artisan
Garden. Landform Consultants were
awarded Silver-Gilt for the Papworth Trust
– Together We Can garden, and Living
Landscapes received Silver for the Pro
Corda Trust – A Suffolk Retreat garden.
BALI’s Training Provider college members
also did well, with Sparsholt College
receiving Silver in the Discovery category
for their exhibit ‘Plant Heritage – The
People’s Plants’, and Capel Manor College
a Bronze for their exhibit ‘Beans Beans’,
which linked in to the UN International
Year of the Pulse. BALI Registered
Contractor Bowles & Wyer Contracts
received Silver-Gilt for The Lifeworks
Global Garden.
This year for the first time in the show’s
history the contractors who build the
wonderful gardens will be recognised
with the Best Construction Award. This,
together with the Best Show Garden
announcement, will be made at Chelsea at
1 p.m. today.
BALI Affiliate (supplier) members’ products
were, of course, out in force on virtually
every garden at the show. Their products
also grace the BALI information stand on
Eastern Avenue with living pictures from
Mobilane, artificial grass flooring complete
with BALI logo from Evergreens UK, and
timber for the bench seating and planters
from AHS Ltd. Plants were supplied by
Hortus Loci and a metal garden obelisk
from Agriframes has been donated for the
visitor competition.
All Chelsea medal winners can be found at
www.rhs.org.uk/shows-events/rhschelsea-flower-show/awards
BALI’s Chief Executive Wayne Grills
commented from the show this morning:
“Another terrific year for BALI members at
Chelsea who have done the association
and its wider membership proud with
their medal achievements. Every BALI
Contractor and Designer has excelled
themselves this year and our Affiliate
members will be delighted with how their
products have been used to create these
wonderful gardens.
I am immensely proud to be able to
share in our members’ success and to
have the opportunity to promote their
professionalism and exquisite attention
to detail from the BALI stand on Eastern
Avenue to the thousands of visitors who
will visit the show this year. On behalf of
every BALI member I offer all the medal
winners, including our Training Provider
colleges, my very sincere congratulations.”