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Gold rush for exhibitors choosing Rolawn Products at RHS Chelsea 2018

Gold rush for exhibitors choosing Rolawn Products at RHS Chelsea 2018

Media release

01 June 2018

A hugely successful RHS Chelsea Flower Show was enjoyed by companies using Rolawn products,Rolawn's Medallion®turf, Blended Loam topsoil, Landscaping Bark, and Soil Improver - or a mixture of all fourat this year's event. Rolawn helped 20 exhibitors achieve show accreditation including one silver award, 4 silver-gilt and 7 gold awards.

Scooping the top prize for ‘Best in Show' was Chris Beardshaw's garden forThe NSPCC, who once again used Rolawn. ‘Best Construction' went to the‘Welcome to Yorkshire'garden depicting a slice of rural Yorkshire Life complete with a stone bothy and stream. Chris Beardshaw and Welcome to Yorkshire benefitted from ‘Britain's Finest Turf' Rolawn Medallion®and Blended Loam topsoil. The Welcome to Yorkshire garden also proved popular with television viewers and visitors alike claiming the BBC/RHS People's Choice Award.

Mark Gregory's headline-grabbing ‘Welcome to Yorkshire' garden was inspired by the stunning Yorkshire Dales. Mark chose to use 60 square metres of Rolawn's Medallion due to its ability to establish quickly and provide a high quality and wear resistant carpet of home-grown turf to complement the truly Yorkshire scene. 

Birmingham City Council's topical, Empire Windrush Garden, created by TV presenter and campaigner, Baroness Floella Benjamin also scooped gold in the show with a floral depiction of the sailing vessel that brought a generation of Caribbean migrants to the UK post World War Two. The Windrush Garden benefitted from Rolawn topsoil.

Rolawn products also enhanced the gold winning entries once again for Bloms Bulbs, Hillier, Peter Beales Roses and Blackmore & Langdon.

Jonathan Hill, Sales and Marketing Director of Rolawn comments: "This has been an outstanding year for Rolawn at RHS Chelsea and it's a thrill that so many of the industry's finest incorporated our products into their designs, helping to make the floral displays and gardens truly wonderful.The passion, knowledge and innovation which goes into our products is the reason so many of the horticultural elite turn to Rolawn not just when prizes are up for grabs but as part of their routine throughout the year." 

The full list of Chelsea 2018 award winners using Rolawn products is as follows:

Gold

Chris Beardshaw - Morgan Stanley Garden for the NSPCC and Best Show Garden

Welcome to Yorkshire - Welcome to Yorkshire and Best Construction

Birmingham City Council - Empire Windrush

Bloms Bulbs

Hillier

Peter Beales Roses

Blackmore & Langdon Ltd

Silver-gilt

Sarah Eberle - British Council Garden - India: A Billion Dreams

Burncoose Nurseries

Guernsey Clematis Nurseries

Terraforma

Silver

Harkness Roses

 

ENDS

Editor's Note

High res images available

For further information please contact:

Darren Laws 
Public relations 
01634 671167 
darren.laws@zesttheagency.com 

About Rolawn

Rolawn is the UK's leading turf grower and supplier of Britain's Finest Turf. Also, Rolawn is renowned for its market leading high quality topsoils and barks. The company is proud of its reputation for professionalism, reliability and integrity, which, allied to a culture of innovation and constant improvement, has resulted in the Rolawn brand becoming the industry benchmark of quality and service. As market leaders, they are also well-known for keeping a sharp focus on the future trends and issues that will affect the industry.

In August 2017, the brand achieved two significant milestones, delivering its160 millionth roll of turf andone millionth tonne bag of topsoil. The company recently put a further stake in the ground for the future when it moved its offices to a new purpose-built 21-acre warehouse and workshop site in Seaton Ross, East Riding of Yorkshire - seven miles from Elvington, just outside York, home to Rolawn since it began in 1975.

Rolawn has provided turf and topsoil to many much-loved events and sporting occasions across the UK, including Wimbledon, Royal Parks and Palaces and The Science Museum in London. Its reputation and ability to supply a diverse clientele reaches across all customer sectors and in all corners of the UK.