Daffodils To London

Press, Volume CX, Issue 32396, 8 September 1970, Page 14

Daffodils To London

Daffodils from Templeton will be a featured display at the Royal Horticultural Society’s autumn exhibition in London this month. They will be the first New Zealand spring flowers to be exhibited at the British show. Mr S. W. Gower, vicepresident of the Canterbury Horticultural Society, was at the Chelsea flower show while on holiday in Britain this year and found that British daffodil growers and exhibitors were keen to compare New Zealand blooms with theirs. He was urged to try to arrange a display. Qantas Airways agreed to co-operate if they could obtain suitable flowers and the airline will stage the exhibit.

The blooms will come from Mr D. Bell, one of the leading raisers of new varieties of daffodils and one of the country’s leading growers. Qantas will give the flowers special care on the flight. They will be picked and packed at Templeton on September 19 and flown to Sydney from Christchurch that evening, to be trans-shipped and flown to London where they will arrive by midday on September 21. The exhibit has aroused so much interest Tn Britain that Mrs L. Richardson, of Waterford, In the Republic of Ireland, who is one of the world’s leading growers and exhibitors of daffodils, will fly to London to ensure that the Templeton flowers are properly displayed.