E: 30/04 (noon) Mini-break Alnwick Gardens, Northumberland worth £1000

GlitterFizz

http://www.gardensillustrated.com/webform/win-mini-break-worth-%C2%A31000-alnwick-garden

Answer: Collingwood Ingram ? (can someone please confirm?)

If you win the first prize you’ll enjoy:
A personal tour of The Alnwick Garden with head gardener Trevor Jones
Two nights accommodation at the Hogs Head Hotel for two people sharing a room
An evening meal in the Treehouse Restaurant worth up to £150
A cream tea in the Pavilion Caf!
One copy of The Making of the Alnwick Garden
Four runners up will also win a copy of The Making of the Alnwick Garden.

lfc4eva

I can only find Collingwood Ingram too...

That was the beginning, but the real craze started later because of Collingwood Ingram, who was so mad about cherries that even the Japanese recognised that he knew more about their national tree than they did. In 1926 he was invited to give a talk to members of the Japanese Cherry Society, where he was shown a painting of a superb cherry with huge white flowers, sadly extinct. Or so he was told. But Ingram recognised the tree, because he had seen it (on the point of collapse) in a garden in Sussex. On his return, he took cuttings from this ancient specimen, which is how the legendary 'Tai Haku' was reintroduced to the country that had created it.

From https://www.independent.co.uk/property/gardening/big-in-japan-springtime-brings-the-lovely-sight-of-cherry-trees-bursting-into-blossom-8577205.html

Karen xx

thecross

I agree!
The famous cherry enthusiast Captain Collingwood Ingram reintroduced this fine tree back to its native Japan in 1932 after he found a specimen growing in a Sussex garden.

http://www.barchampro.co.uk/trees-for-sale/buy-great-white-cherry-prunus-tai-haku