I was intrigued to talk to one of the exhibitors in the Grand Pavilion, where it’s a different story altogether. He looked with envy and disbelief at one of his neighbours who had turned up on the Sunday evening (the day before judging) and put together their stand in a couple of hours. They were one of 50 (including my friend, I’m pleased to say) who were awarded a gold in the Grand Pavilion. As it happens, the stand in question was that of the Palm Centre, with their display of bamboos. The Palm Centre supplied many of the plants for Yewbarrow House, when I was first getting going and they gave me the very valuable advice to use Phyllostachis Bissetii as the ideal bamboo for a hedge. Their advice was spot on and the resultant hedge still looks splendid, ten years on. That’s worth a gold, of anyone’s money.
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