Pictured: Pughs managing director, Peter Forrest, celebrates
the silver medal at the Shrewsbury Flower Show
A Shrewsbury company has been awarded a prestigious medal for
its charity garden efforts.
Pughs of Shrewsbury is celebrating after the garden it created
for this year's Shrewsbury Flower Show scooped a silver medal - the
third year in a row it has been recognised by the show judges.
Managing director, Peter Forrest, said: "We're absolutely
delighted to have won another medal - it's fantastic news and we're
very grateful to the judges for their seal of approval."
And even better, the award-winning garden will not go to waste,
as now the show is over it will be dug up and replanted at Hope
House in Oswestry.
Pughs, which is based in Longden Coleham, has previously donated
one of its show gardens to Severn Hospice at Bicton Heath, and
replanted another at its riverside offices in the county town.
They worked on the design and planting of the gardens for 2010
and 2011 with Andi Way from Boningale Garden Creations, in
Albrighton.
This year's recipient of the show garden, Hope House, said they
were very pleased to be chosen.
Gilda Davis said: "We're very grateful that Pughs have made such
a generous offer. The garden will be in our courtyard which is an
area of the hospice used for many play and fun activities."
Pughs of Shrewsbury was established by Jabez Pugh in 1890 and is
now run by the fourth generation of the Pugh family.