Flavourfresh Salads scooped the highest award at Southport Flower Show at the weekend.
To mark the event’s 80th year, the organisers took the show back to the very beginning, in the 1920s.
Flavourfresh Salads created a 1920s shop full of fresh, delicious and colourful tomatoes, all grown at its nurseries near Southport.
The display earned the Flavourfresh team a Large Gold Medal.
Visitors were encouraged to taste tomatoes grown by the Flavourfresh team. One said: “I wasn’t maybe expecting it, but they really do taste as good as they look!”
Mick Fradsham, managing director of Flavourfresh Salads, said: “We are delighted to have won the Large Gold Award; it’s the first time in 13 years of trying that we have managed it. After the gold medal for our display at the RHS Tatton Park show last month, it’s the crowning glory. It is also a great way to play our part in promoting the British tomato industry in the north of England.”
Julie Woolley from the British Tomato Growers’ Assocation (TGA) added: “In spite of, or maybe because of the recession, the progamme of shows attended by TGA members this year has been a resounding success.
“The public loves to try British tomatoes and at almost every show we have sold out of fruit by the end of each day. The creative displays produced by the teams at Flavourfresh Salads and our other members create a huge amount of interest and prove you can buy great-tasting tomatoes in this country - just as long as they are grown in this country.”
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