It was celebration time on Tuesday morning as Alec White and Kate Gould celebrated a silver medal for Primrose Hall Nursery’s exhibit, ‘The Timeless Elegance of the Peony’. After all the excitement of the build, the challenge of keeping over one thousand cut flowers looking their best for the judging and balancing blooms from the magnificent bespoke chandelier, the wait was finally over and the hard won medal was in the bag.

Highlights of the show included BBC filming of the exhibit which was broadcast on Wednesday afternoon, a visit from Gardeners World presenter Zephaniah Lindo, press photographers snapping the display in their multitudes and of course the reactions of the public who have ordered Peonies by the dozen after being wooed by the sight of so many beautiful blooms.

The best-selling Peony of the show has proved to be Peony lactiflora ‘Duchesse de Nemours’ AGM , possibly due to the fact that this particular bloom was Monty Don’s bloom of choice at RHS Malvern when he bought some from us for his scented garden and featured it shortly afterwards.

Don’t forget you can order now for 2017 if you want to get some of these highly scented flowers in your garden next year.