A ROYAL visitor dropped in to Malvern for the renowned RHS Spring festival. 

The Princess Royal was at the event today to present the award for best exhibit in the floral marquee.

Southfields Cactus Nursery won and Princess Anne presented the award to Linda Goodey.

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Harriett Baldwin, the MP for West Worcestershire, met her at the event, held Three Counties Showground.

She said: "It's a great honour to welcome the Princess Royal back to Malvern."

Others visiting the festival at Malvern were excited to see Princess Anne, not expecting to bump into royalty on their day out.

The RHS tweeted to say that a garden was created to honour the upcoming Platinum Jubilee.

 

They said: “The Platinum Jubilee Garden at #RHSMalvern has been created to mark the Platinum Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and will live on after the show as a new permanent garden on the site.

“Look out for Lily of the Valley, one of the Queen's favourite flowers.”

The RHS Spring Festival Malvern celebrates local plants, flowers and gardens.

There are talks held, special guests, trade stand listings and a focus on sustainability.

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There are six different featured gardens to visit and over 50 exemplary plant nurseries at the Floral Marquee.

There are also plant arcades for people to browse and plants for sale.

Special guests scheduled to attend the RHS Spring Festival every day are Matthew Perry, Reg Moule, Ellen Mary, Jonathan Moseley, Valentine Warner, James Alexander Sinclair and Mark Diancono.

Guests attending selected days of the festival are Jo Whiley, Jeremy Pang, Frances Tophill, Sabrina Ghayour, Sue Kent, Carol Klein, Raymond Blanc, Monty Don and Arit Anderson.

The details of which guests will be attending and when can be found on the RHS Malvern Spring Festival website.

Many of the guests will be giving talks, the most popular of these talks being outlined by festival organisers as the Gardeners’ Question Time talk.

The show started on Thursday and will run until Sunday, May 8.