Saturday 29th July 2023

Volunteers 

The flower show could not happen without the help of a group of wonderful volunteers.  Please help !  Either on the day by baking a cake, donating plants, Bricabrac, raffle prizes or bottles for the Tombola.  We also need help putting up gazebos, tables and chairs and running stalls.  If you’d like to get involved with planning the show then please get in touch.  The team would be happy to hear from you. Volunteers are eligible to borrow our new RHS discount card which gives a 50% discount for 2 people to visit any RHS garden (excluding during Flower shows and special events)  Please register your interest by becoming a member.   Click on Become A Member tab or contact any of the committee members to express an interest.  

Competition Classes Following review of competition entries in recent years, competition classes for the 2023 show are being streamlined to concentrate entries into the more popular classes.  The list of Classes is below 

SECTION A – Flowers	SECTION B – Vegetables and Fruit
A1 – Roses – Vase of 3 stems	B1 – Runner Beans – 6 pods
A2 – Sweet Peas, mixed vase, max 7 stems	B2 – Courgettes, 3, approx 15cm long.
A3 – Perennials (excluding Roses and Dahlias), 9 stems, mixed kinds	B3 – Tomatoes – 6 Large/Standard
A4 – Dahlias – Vase of 5 blooms	B4 – Tomatoes – Cherry – a bunch of 4 or more Cherry Tomatoes, as grown.
A5 – Posy in a jam jar	B5 – Rhubarb, 3 sticks, with 7.5cm of leaf
A6 – Hardy’s Plugs (donated by Hardy’s Nursery, grown and shown by you)
	Section D – Photography
Section C – Domestic	D1 – Print – Landscape scene
C1 – Victoria Sponge with Raspberry Jam	D2 – Print – Bird, Insect, Animal or Flower
C2 – Lemon Drizzle	D3 – Print – Amusing/comic photograph
C3 – Flapjacks – 6 pieces
C4 – Loaf of home-made bread – Any type	Section E – Children – TBC
C5 – Jam, or Marmalade – Any type
C6 – Chutney, Any type	Soil Health Competition
C7 – Home Made Beer or Wine	– Holey Pants (bury cotton pants in your garden bring them to the show for judgement in July).
C8 – Sloe Gin

Prizes: The flower show is on the second Saturday of the school holidays giving kids plenty of time to get crafty. More trophies and prize money will be on offer for children’s classes.  The prize money for both Adults and Children  will be £5 for 1st, £3 for 2nd and £2 for 3rd places.

Free Seeds & Plugs

To encourage budding gardeners to participate in some healthy competition,  Hardy’s Nursery, our fabulous local nursery and winners of 24 RHS Chelsea Gold Medals, are supplying free seeds and plant plugs which will be available in the village shop from March onwards.

Saturday 29th July

8.00 am –                Car Park gates open.

8.00 am – 9.45 am Bring Flowershow Entries to the Marquee

9.00 am –               Volunteers needed to prepare the Showground

10.00am – Cakes to the cake stall and to the Tea ladys in the hall, unused treasures to the Bric-a-brac, second hand books to the book stall etc

12.30 pm –              Show declared OPEN.

1.00 pm –                First Dog Show Class

2.00 pm – 4.00 pm Teas served in the Village Hall

4.00 pm – 4.15 pm Remove your exhibits from the Marquee

4.00 pm –                Raffle Draw

5.00 pm –                Volunteers needed to tidy up the Showground

 

If you would like to get involved or are interested in advertising space please contact Abby Millar 

If you would like to have a stall in the showground please contact Richard Long

Usual stalls and shows will be set up on the Playing Field.

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