Popular crumble comeback

WITH bustling crowds expected throughout this week, exhibitors yesterday completed the last of many days of preparation.
By The Newsroom
Published 13th Jul 2010, 11:51 BST
Updated 13th Jul 2010, 11:52 BST

On the Welcome To Yorkshire stand – the "rebranded" face of what used to be the Yorkshire Tourist Board – a team under the direction of Neil Whitaker of Aire Valley Landscaping Services was coming to the end of seven days reconstructing the garden they took to the Chelsea Flower Show.

The Rhubarb Crumble and Custard Garden won the Silver Award overall and was People's Choice according to votes from BBC viewers and members of the Royal Horticultural Society.

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It was a proper Yorkshire effort all round. Kate Dundas from Gillespie's of Leeds, landscape architects, was there to celebrate the second completion yesterday because it was one of the designs she helped to put together, joining Gary Verity, chief executive of Welcome to Yorkshire, Palmer Plants of Leeds and Swaledale sculptor Peter Cummings, of Reeth, who provided the garden furniture.

The garden is set against a dry-laid Yorkshire sandstone wall (the "crumble") and features two varieties of rhubarb from its traditional home in the market gardens of the Wakefield area – Stockbridge Arrow and Victoria. Custard is represented by an underbed of yellow sedum.

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