PERHAPS the most famous door in the country, this festive season Number 10 Downing Street will be decked out exclusively by Herefordshire.

Two county companies last week won the honour of providing the wreath and Christmas tree to be displayed outside the Prime Minister’s London residence this year.

It is the second time that Dinmore Hill Christmas Trees will have their tree pride of place in Downing Street – an honour given to the winner of the Champion Tree category in the annual British Christmas Tree Growers’ Association awards.

Davina Griffith, who runs the Wellington-based company with her husband Colin, said: “It’s great to think that when you are watching the news, that will be our tree.

“And it’s nice that it’s been a double-success for Herefordshire.”

It will be the first time family-run Allensmore Nurseries have featured on the famous door.

Brian Taylor has been making wreaths for around eight years, just south of Hereford, with his business now making around 100,000 wreaths each year.

For the award-winning wreath he carefully selected a Noble Fir from Scotland, before adding local holly.

He said: “It’s a wonderful accomplishment – it means a lot, personally, to have been selected from the many wreath suppliers who entered.

“For a good wreath the foliage is the most important thing, and this particular variety with a blue-ish tint really gets the job done.”

Both decorations will be on show from December 4, with both the Taylors and Griffiths invited for a tour of Downing Street the following week.

Dinmore Hill Christmas Trees will also be providing the tree in Hereford High Town, as well as Ludlow and the Celtic Manor in Newport, which earlier this year played host to the likes of Barack Obama at the NATO summit.

And Mrs Griffith believes that real Christmas trees are still the nation’s favourite, having fought off the challenge of their synthetic counterparts.

She said: “Around the country the British Christmas Tree Growers’ Association are finding that real trees are what people are going for.

“That’s what makes it a ‘real’ Christmas.”