Welcome to Yorkshire’s Tour de Yorkshire garden has won a silver medal at this year’s Chelsea Flower Show.
The garden celebrates the county’s hosting of the Grand Départ of the Tour de France this year, as well as bringing together the best-known features of Yorkshire’s rugged rural and polished urban landscapes.
A little piece of real-life Yorkshire is also on show this year, in the form of a windswept hawthorn tree taken from the soil at Brimham Rocks in North Yorkshire, a National Trust-run site of special scientific interest.
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Gary Verity, Chief Executive of Welcome to Yorkshire, said: ‘‘This is the world’s greatest flower show, so to be awarded a silver medal is a proud moment for all the people who have worked on the garden, and it is also great news for Yorkshire people in the year that our county hosts the opening to the world’s greatest annual sporting event.’’
Designed by Alistair W Baldwin Associates based in Bedale in North Yorkshire, Tour de Yorkshire incorporates a two-sided, rural and urban design that evokes images of the wild North York Moors alongside images of Yorkshire’s honed, urban cityscapes – all of which are images that spectators and pro cyclists alike will witness when the Grand Départ of the Tour de France arrives in Yorkshire in July.
Alistair Baldwin, director of AWB Associates, said: “Silver at Chelsea is a great achievement for the garden, and the public’s reaction has been fantastic. Everyone is delighted to see a corner of Yorkshire represented at Chelsea again and to talk about the visit of the Tour de France. We now turn our attentions to the RHS People’s Choice award to try and win it for an historic fifth time.”
Welcome to Yorkshire has won the People’s Choice Award at the Chelsea Garden Show four years running.
To vote for the Tour de Yorkshire garden to win the RHS People’s Choice Award, visit Yorkshire.com/Chelsea
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