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Garden Retail ‘Best New Plant’ 2012 Award goes to

Garden Retail ‘Best New Plant’ 2012 Award goes to foxglove 'Illumination Pink'

It’s a Hat trick for ‘Illumination Pink’.

Thompson & Morgan is thrilled to have won the 2012 Garden Retail ‘Best New Plant’ award for its exclusive and unique foxglove, ‘Illumination Pink’.

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Photo competition winners announced!

2012 photo competition winners announced

The winners of Thompson & Morgan’s 2012 photo competition have been announced! This year we received hundreds of entries for each category – thank you to all who participated. The decisions were made much more difficult by the high quality of photos that we received. Thompson & Morgan’s judges, with the help of local garden and plant photographer Michael Warren, chose the following winners:

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Father and son win prestigious Bicester in Bloom 2012 awards

Bicester in Bloom 2011 - Best Kept Back Garden

Bicester in Bloom 2011 – Best Kept Back Garden

When Thompson & Morgan customer Eugene Baston and his son Reuben first entered their back garden into the Bicester in Bloom 2011 awards, they had no idea that they might win a prize… but, to their surprise, they won the Gold Award for Best Kept Back Garden!

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Potato Setanta is voted ‘Best Roastie’

Potato Setanta - voted best roastie

Potato Setanta – voted best roastie

Tasty red-skinned potato comes out on top

When certain employees at Thompson & Morgan received an internal email from Paul Hansord, managing director, asking them to meet him in the staff canteen, they were unsure of what to expect.

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Thompson & Morgan trials team member wins gold!

Jean Willis' Container Garden

Jean Willis’ Container Garden

Jean Willis, a dedicated and valued member of Thompson & Morgan’s trials team, recently won Gold Award First in the Best Container Garden category of Bournemouth in Bloom 2012.

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Don’t blame gardeners for potato blight

Don't blame gardeners for blight

The potato plants on the left show the devastation caused by blight. The plants on the right are Sárpo.

Farmers should grow blight-resistant Sárpo potatoes

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