Chelsea Flower Show winner grown here

A ROYAL garden fit for a King at Chelsea Flower Show was home grown here in Melbourne – and it was designed down the road and taken there by a local business too!

Businesses in our area came together to create a stunning, awardwinning display that was heralded as one of the wonders of Chelsea at this year ’s show

The garden, whose centrepiece was an enormous driftwood dragon, (pictured above) of Eco Garden Design in Shardlow, and the plants used to make it were lovingly grown at W Sharp & Sons of Kings Newton.

Then all the plants were taken down to London – on coronation day, no less – by DG Light Haulage of Kings Newton

The businesses came together after Lee struck up a partnership with the celebrated sculptor James DoranWebb, who is based in the Philippines, and was responsible for the spectacular dragon.

After the passing of Her Majesty the Queen last year, Lee and James began work on a royal themed garden for this year ’s Chelsea Flower

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To create the spectacular design which won a top five star accolade, Sharp’s was the setting for the growing of around a thousand ornamental grasses, along with numerous bedding plants These included golden marigolds used to create the King’s Crown which formed the centrepiece of the stunning garden

Martin Sharp said he had suffered a few sleepless nights worrying about whether the plants for the garden would be ready in time, but loved seeing the end result It was amazing to see it in position, with all the garden having been done by Lee,” he said.

“It was quite remarkable! Something to tick off our list ”

Lee said: “I was absolutely delighted! It all came together – everything was just amazing ”

Matt Bonner, from DG Light Haulage, said there were so many plants used to make the garden that they took up an entire eight-metre lorry, which had to be negotiated through central London to get to the event

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