MHS members’ event
A talk by Nigel Gibson who has worked for Provender Nurseries, a wholesale nursery and plant supply service in Swanley, for  the last12 years and is currently a Sales Executive//Plantsman.

He has worked in professional Horticulture for the last 47 years, in various capacities. First working for local authorities, then as a landscaper working on commercial and private gardens. He has also worked in garden design and the nursery stock industry. 

Nigel was part of a company that won the overall top prize and a RHS Gold Medal at Chelsea Flower Show 1983(with John Vellam Gardens), and has also worked on many other show gardens at Hampton Court (Provender Nurseries, Courtyard Garden Design and Scenic Design Company).  Nigel also helped design and build a garden at the San Francisco Garden Show 1997 (Andy Hibben Gardens-Gardens with an English Accent), which won joint top prize.

Nigel has had two articles published in The Garden Design Journal on ‘Grasses’ and ‘Hemerocallis’.

In this talk Nigel will tell us about choice perennials and grasses which flower in late summer and beyond.

Nigel will have plants for sale.