HMP Maidstone wins RHS backed garden competition

HMP Maidstone in Kent has been named winner of the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) backed Windlesham Trophy Competition 2014 for the best-kept prison garden in England and Wales. This is the prison’s second victory in the competition’s 30-year history; previously it won the trophy in 1991. RHS President Sir Nicholas Bacon presented the Windlesham Trophy, a specially engraved brass Green Goddess fire-engine bell, to Maidstone’s prisoners and staff during a special ceremony at the prison on 5 September 2014. Competition judges, Fiona Crumley, Michael Hickson VMH and RHS Council Member Jon Wheatley, praised both the 15 prisoners and the Maidstone garden staff for their extensive knowledge of plant cultivation, across vegetables, bedding plants, herbaceous borders, wildflowers, trees and shrubs, as well as their general enthusiasm for plants. The winning garden impressed the judges with its combination of formal and informal planting. ‘Garden rooms’ used both naturalistic, wildflower meadow planting and more formal, structured designs.
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