Show gardens

Best Show Garden: The Daily Telegraph, designed by Tom Stuart-Smith.

Gold: Chris Beardshaw Ltd; Bradstone; Cancer Research UK; The Daily Telegraph; Fleming’s Nurseries; Saga Insurance; Savills plc.

Silver-Gilt Flora: 4head; Kent Design & Ross Allan Designs for GardenAfrica; Lake Forest Garden Club; Laurent-Perrier (UK) Ltd; Tourism New Zealand.

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Chelsea Flower Show 2007 winners

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Silver Flora: Barnsley House; Halifax plc; Marshall-James Ltd/Abbotsbury Sub-Tropical Gardens; Outdoor Design Unit in association with Pavestone Ltd; Zoological Society of London (ZSL).

Bronze Flora: Homes and Garden Architecture & Garden Design; Leeds City Council.

Chic gardens

Best Chic Garden: Kazahana Co Ltd

Gold: Kazahana Co Ltd; Scenic Blue (UK) Ltd.

Silver-Gilt Flora: Jo Gardens.

Silver Flora: Arthritis Research Campaign supported by Seven Seas.

Bronze Flora: Alistair Kirt Bayford; Gardenshrink; The London Garden Design Company; The Sunday Mirror/Domoney Ltd.

City gardens

Best City Garden: Natural Elements

Gold: Natural Elements.

Silver-Gilt Flora: National Savings and Investments; Warwickshire College.

Silver Flora: Dirt; Henley Salt Landscape & Architecture; Hewitt Landscapes Ltd; Mencap; Ian Rochead’s Landscape Design Services.

Bronze Flora: Nada Habet; Barry Holdsworth & Rock Unique.

Courtyard gardens

Best Courtyard Garden: Cyrus Design @ Leeds Metropolitan University in association with HBG Properties Ltd.

Gold: AW Gardening Services; Cyrus Design @ Leeds Metropolitan University in association with HBG Properties Ltd.

Silver-Gilt Flora: Berkshire College of Agriculture.

Silver Flora: Sue Bradbury & Catherine Jago; Landscape Management Services.

Bronze Flora: Pershore College, Jane Rose Garden Design; South West Garden Designers Group.

Themed gardens

Gold: Campania Region, Italy

Silver-Gilt Flora: Squires Garden Centres

RHS Garden Rosemoor: The RHS does not award medals to its own exhibits, but the judges complimented Rosemoor staff on their Gold Medal-standard garden.

Great Pavilion

The President’s Award: Bournemouth Borough Council

Gold: Ainsworth Displays; Jacques Amand International; Avon Bulbs Ltd; Barbados Horticultural Society; Peter Beales Roses; Bloms Bulbs; Borneo Exotics; Bournemouth Borough Council; Bowden Hostas; Burncoose Nurseries; Burnham Nurseries Ltd; The Cottage Herbery; Craig House Cacti; Dibleys Nurseries; Downderry Nursery; Raymond J. Evison Ltd; Fernatix; Fernwood Nursery; Hampshire Carnivorous Plants; Hardy’s Cottage Garden Plants; Harts Nursery; Harveys Garden Plants; Hillier Nurseries Ltd; the Horticultural Society of Trinidad & Tobago; Howards Nurseries; H. W. Hyde & Son; Jekka’s Herb Farm; Kilmurry Nursery; Kirstenbosch; Knoll Gardens; A. B. Longden; Matthewman Sweet Peas; Mauritius — RHS Members; McBeans Orchids; National Association of Flower Arrangement Societies; National Chrysanthemum Society; Notcutts Garden Centres & Mattocks Roses; The Romantic Garden Nursery; South West Carnivorous Plants; Southfield Nurseries; Brian & Pearl Sulman; UK Horticulture; Walkers Bulbs @ Taylors; W. S. Warmenhoven.

Silver-Gilt Flora: Claire Austin Hardy Plants Ltd; David Austin Roses Ltd; Barnsdale Gardens; Blackmore & Langdon Ltd; Blooms of Bressingham Ltd; Broadleigh Gardens; Bushukan Bonsai; Sheila Chapman Clematis; D’Arcy & Everest; Eagle Sweet Peas; Federation of British Bonsai Societies; Fleur de Lys Conservatory Plants; Grenada; Herons Bonsai Ltd; Graeme Iddon “Maureen Iddon Hardy Plants”; Jamaica Horticultural Society — Chelsea Group; KobaKoba; W & S Lockyer; Mendip Bonsai Studio; Millais Nurseries; Penhow Nurseries; J. S. Pennings “De Bilt”; Potash Nursery; Rhodes & Rockliffe; Roualeyn Nursery; Thorncroft Clematis Nursery; Three Counties Nurseries; Vacherot & Lecoufle; Westcountry Nurseries; Westdale Nurseries.

Silver-Gilt Hogg: Ken Muir Ltd

Silver-Gilt Knightian: W. Robinson & Son (Seeds & Plants) Ltd

Silver Flora: Aldo Ciampittiello; Angarrack Nursery; The Botanic Nursery; The Carnivorous Plant Society; Cayeux; Choice Landscapes; Devine Nurseries; Foxgrove Plants; Hardy Plant Society; R. Harkness & Co Ltd; Hippopottering; Isle of Wight Lavender Ltd; Kapiteyn BV; Kelways Ltd; C. S. Lockyer (Fuchsias); Helen & David Millner; Orchid Society of Great Britain; Pembroke Farm Nursery; Pop’s Plants; The Sun Newspaper/Writtle College; Tendercare Nurseries Limited; Wilford Bulb Co Ltd.

Silver Grenfell: David Austin Roses Ltd.

Bronze Flora: City of Edinburgh Council; Crawford’s Seeds in conjunction with Owl’s Acre Sweet Peas; Fibrex Nurseries Ltd; Fuchsiavale Nurseries; Rougham Hall Nurseries.

Lifelong Learning in the Garden

Gold: Sparsholt College Hampshire; Warwick HRI, University of Warwick; Writhlington Business and Enterprise School.

Silver-Gilt Lindley: The Royal College of Pathologists, The University of Reading, Writtle College.

Silver Lindley: Association of British Fungus Groups; British Mycological Society; Capel Manor College; HDRA The Organic Organisation; Historic Roses Group; Society for General Microbiology.

Bronze Lindley: British Fuchsia Society; Chichester College — Brinsbury Campus; The London Group of the NCCPG; Merrist Wood Campus, Guildford College.

Floral arrangement (session1)

Best Floral Arrangement (session 1): Barbados Flower Arranging Society

Gold: Barbados Flower Arranging Society.

Silver-Gilt Grenfell: Bungay Flower Club; Diana Holman; SAFU — South African Flora Union; Stamford Floral Arrangement Society; Maggie Temple; Elizabeth Dawn Weaver.

Silver Grenfell: Aylsham & District Flower Club; Farnham Floral Society; Sheila Holland; Alison M. Lowe; Phoenix Design.

Bronze Grenfell: Dumfries & District Flower Club; Godalming Flower Club; Helen Sinclair; South Berkshire Floral Society.

Floristry (session 1)

Best Floristry Exhibit (session 1): The Country Garden

Gold: The Country Garden; Sarah Horne Flowers.

Silver-Gilt Grenfell: Linda Cottee; On Show Designs.

Silver Grenfell: Liz & Claire Cowling Floristry.

Bronze Grenfell: Freelance Designer Florist; Louise Florist.

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