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African garden wins Tatton Park show 
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Thursday, July 19 2007 12:18:35 by Editor
Lancaster City Council was celebrating last night as its ground maintenance team picked up a gold medal at the RHS Tatton Park flower show.
"Out of Africa", designed to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade, was announced as a winner yesterday in the National Flower Bed category.
The garden, depicting a slave ship about to depart an African beach, is planted with petunias, lobelia and marigolds. Council boss Paul Cocker proclaimed himself "absolutely delighted and shocked" by the success.
Almost fifty gardens are in competition at the 29 acre showground near Manchester this week.
Preparations for the show had been disrupted by heavy rain, with head gardener at Tatton Park itself Sam Youd, who himself won two silver gilt medals yesterday for his Canaletto-inspired design, telling the press yesterday that although "keeping morale up has been difficult", the gardeners have "achieved what we wanted to achieve".
"I think the quality of what we have and the quality of the plants and what they've done with the plants considering the season we've had has been amazing and to all intents and purposes it has been a good year. There's a tremendous variation of styles."
The show is to welcome 100,000 visitors over the course of its four days.
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