JOHN BISSET/Stuff Builder and home gardener Malcolm Blackmun holding the rhubarb which won best in show at the Timaru Horticultural Society Summer Show. He got 36 placings out of 41 entries. Malcolm Blackmun’s hard work in the garden paid off, when he received 36 placings, out of 41 entries, in the Timaru Horticultural Society’s Summer Show. The Timaru builder and home gardener lost most of his vegetable garden, many of the plants about six weeks from harvesting, when it was shredded by Timaru’s November 2019 hail storm meaning he was unable to defend the title in the society’s kitchen garden contest.