Bugg’s life for Tatton winner

THE award-winning garden

YOUNG gardeners triumphed with dazzling displays on yesterday’s first day of the Royal Horticultural Society’s Tatton Flower Show.

Twenty-three-year-old Hugo Bugg, from Cornwall, scooped an amazing double when he was crowned the show’s first ever Young Designer of the year and also won the coveted Best Show Garden award.

His winning design was based on the regeneration of Liverpool’s Albert Dock, while Young Designer runner-up, William Quarmby, was inspired by the West Pennine moors on Oldham’s doorstep.

Crowds flocked to the colourful and inventive gardens designed by green-fingered primary schoolchildren, who drew their ideas from nursery rhymes.

And the best suggestions from hundreds of girl guides were brought together to create a Back-to-Back garden — the popular category which shows what can be created in a small space.

The world-famous Christie Hospital, which has a £17 million radiotherapy unit in Oldham, won a silver-gilt medal for its stunning show garden — a tranquil place for cancer patients and their families to relax.

It’s annual entry raises awareness of the hospital’s reliance on fund-raising to aid its groundbreaking research which was boosted when it teamed up with the Chronicle in a £100,000 appeal last year.

Celebrity-spotters weren’t disappointed, with some of the big names in gardens, doing the rounds as they filmed for TV.

The show runs until Sunday at Cheshire’s Tatton Park. Highlights will be shown on BBC2 tonight at 7pm, and tomorrow at 8pm.

For more information, visit the RHS website at www.rhs.org.uk/tatton