Coming up roses, onions...
Last updated 05:33, Friday, 15 August 2008
Prize-winning roses, dahlias and other specimen flowers don’t just happen by accident. These blooms have been carefully selected and nurtured to be the very best.
Blooming proud: Mr Dawes and Mr Walton at Carlisle Flower Show in 1966
As these pictures show, green-fingered Cumbrians have long delighted in showing their brilliant blooms and perfect vegetables – some of them real giants.
The glow of pride on the growers’ faces maybe gives away the weeks and months of hard work and worry that has been devoted to these plants.
