The nation's top flower judge is so impressed with Dartmouth's floral ambitions that he has invited the town to enter a major municipal display in the huge annual Tatton Park Flower Show in Cheshire next year. The Royal Horticultural Society is even offering the town's floral team up to £2,000 to support the project. And Dartmouth could be one of the smallest towns in the country ever to be handed such an invitation. The display could even include the HMS Britannia floral ship in Royal Avenue Gardens if South Hams Council – which paid £7,000 for the flower boat – says okay. The invitation came after the RHS's top judge, Bob Sweet, toured the town with other judges last week, as they were deciding on Dartmouth's place in a national section of the Britain in Bloom competition. Dartmouth Green Partnerships chairman Stevie Rogers said that Mr Sweet had asked if the town would put together a municipal display. 'They liked the sort of displays that we did. 'They also liked the work that we did and the way we worked together as a town, and saw an opportunity for us to do something on a bigger scale,' she said. 'It is quite a big thing for the town to be asked to do. 'We would be one of the smallest towns ever to do it. It is usually open to the big municipal boroughs, cities such as Birmingham. 'For us to do it as a small town is an honour and would be quite a feat.' The Tatton Park Show along with the Chelsea Flower Show and the Hampton Court Show are the biggest RHS shows of the year. Neighbour Torbay had taken part in the Tatton Park Show in previous years, said Ms Rogers. She said the bloom team would have to work with the town to see just what kind of display they could come up with. And she said it could include the HMS Britannia feature – put together to mark the 150th anniversary of the Royal Navy's links with the River Dart – if everyone was okay with that. She said the RHS judges had been assessing the HMS Britannia floral feature in Royal Avenue Gardens when they came up with the invitation. 'We would have to come up with something that was relevant to us and the Britannia boat could be a part of it,' she explained.