In 1925, Old Shirburnian Major John Bowater Vernon won the Silver Cup at the Chelsea Flower Show for the most attractively laid-out formal garden.
That same year he designed a garden at Lyon House which included elements of his Chelsea prize-winning garden.
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Posted 24 May 2023 by Sherborne School Archives
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