Timeline

• 2023
  2023 proved to be a challenging but also highly rewarding year. At RHS Malvern Spring Festival we received a Silver-Gilt for our display, followed by Platinum at BBC Gardeners World Live, a Silver-Gilt at RHS Hampton Court, and a Silver-Gilt at RHS Tatton Park. We finished the year on a high at our final RHS show with a Gold Award at RHS Malvern Autumn Show.

  2022
  Another award winning year for David Cheshire Nurseries Ltd started with a Gold Medal for our display at RHS Chelsea Flower Show. This was soon followed by a Platinum Award at BBC Gardeners World Live and Silver-Gilt Award at RHS Hampton Court.

  2021
  David Cheshire Nurseries Ltd has a sucessful year working in partnership with Larchfield Trees winning Gold Medals at RHS Chelsea Flower Show, RHS Tatton Park and RHS Hampton Court. At BBC Gardeners World Live our display won a platinum award plus the Geoff Hamilton Award for Best Floral Display. We also won BBC Gardeners World Plant of the Year Award for our Japanese Yew Niwaki.

  20??
  David moves to Baginton near Coventry in the West Midlands taking on John Gilles Rare and Unusual Plants, renaming the nursery 'David Cheshire Nurseries Ltd'.

  20??
  David sets up 'David Cheshire Bonsai'.

  20??
  David spent time in Japan studying bonsai, training with some of the top bonsai professionals.

  2014
  David joined the Friends of the National Bonsai Collection (FNBC) committee to help and support the work required with the national collection at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens.

  2012
  David joins The Ingleby Foundation, a charity working with vulnerable adults and children with disabilities. Here they set up Ingleby Foundation Bonsai Nursery, where David worked with students teaching them horticultural skills and bonsai.

  2010
  David joined the committee of the Federation of British Bonsai Societies (FoBBS) after attending the FoBBS AGM in 2010. At the time, FoBBS were recruiting new people to join the committee, so David put himself forward and he has worked hard over the years helping to organise events while promoting bonsai in the UK.

  2001
  David worked with the BBC on several TV programmes including Charlie’s Gardening Neighbours and Home Front in The Garden, helping source and advise on plants for gardens while also working on screen, planting and building gardens.

  20??
  Worked for Mike Statham Ltd as a horticultural and arboriculture advisor.

  20??
  Set up Astley Nurseries near Nuneaton where he specialised in the production of rare and unusual plants, supplying both retail and trade customers.

  20??
  David returns to the committee of The Ambion Bonsai Club becoming their show manager for a number of years, achieving numerous awards for the club including RHS Gold Medals at BBC Gardeners World.

  20??
  David was Awarded the International Plant Propagators Society Award for outstanding achievement whilst studying horticulture at Warwickshire College.

  20???
  David steps down from the committee of The Ambion Bonsai Club to focus on his studies.

  20??
  Studies horticulture at Warwickshire College where he expanded his interest in plants to include rare and unusual alpines and perennials.

  1995
  Aged 17, David joins the committee of The Ambion Bonsai Club and soon became their librarian.

  1991
  Aged 13, David was introduced to The Ambion Bonsai Club based in his hometown of Nuneaton, where he became an active member participating in tree collecting trips to places like Cannock Chase. Soon, he took on an allotment encouraged by his neighbour with the intention of growing on young trees. David still has a number of these trees that he started growing more than 25 years ago.

  1990
  David's interest in bonsai began when he was about 12 years old after his mum Christine who still helps out on the Nursery bought him a book (Complete Book of Bonsai by Harry Tomlinson) on the subject for his birthday.