The first competitive trophy awarded at this year’s Great Yorkshire Show saw Doncaster Cup for the best exhibit at the Garden Show go to Harden Clough Nursery of Bolton-by- Bowland in Lancashire.

Ann Rycroft, of Harden Clough, said the nursery, which has won 27 consecutive medals including numerous Premier Gold awards at the Harrogate Flowers Shows, had brought to show the type of garden that they can create for anybody.

The display included a vintage Mini Austin van, which has proved a hit with visitors, so much so that the nursery has created a memory tree to collect the recollections of visitors who are keen to share their memories of their links to the vintage model.

Ms Rycroft said: “It was a fantastic acknowledgement of the work of the whole team. To come away with a Gold Medal was brilliant but then to win Best Nursery and Best in Show was amazing.”

Pictured Ann Rycroft of Holden Clough Nurseries with the Doncaster Cup on the award winning garden

placeholder image — Pictured Ann Rycroft of Holden Clough Nurseries with the Doncaster Cup on the award winning garden

The Garden Show also saw a new plant unveiled, by Wacks Wicked Plants, which chose the event to launch Sarracenia Yorkshire Sunset, which features a red and yellow pitcher.

The carnivorous plant that has been developed and nurtured at its Malton nurseries over the past 15 years.

Other nurseries exhibiting include Tynings Climbers, which specialise in tender and hardy climbing plants and are National Collection Holders of Passiflora, Jasminum, Mandeville and Thunbergia.

Nursery owners, Jane Lindsay and Toni O’Connor, said they are addicted to growing and collecting plants and their colourful displays have earned them 10 RHS Chelsea Flower Show Gold Medals and 50 gold medals at other shows.