Grower Richard Mann poses for a photograph with his pumpkin, weighing 291.7 kg, which won first prize in the heaviest pumpkin category of the giant vegetable competition, on the first day of the Harrogate Autumn Flower Show held at the Great Yorkshire Showground in Harrogate, northern England, on Friday. The Harrogate Flower Show is widely regarded as the U.K.’s biggest and most prestigious independent gardening event.Xinhua |