Saturday 4 September 2010

Season of mists and horticultural shows!

I rather like horticulatural shows... Although I saw the schedule for this one in advance I didn't enter any of the classes.



This was a very small village show but had the usual "biggest and best" classes - the flowers ...



and the veg



As ever I was distracted by the chippy paint on the marquee poles.




One of the flower arranging classes was "Granny's attic" which had the grand total of 3 entries - two were inspired by old kitchen scales which were lovely but did make me wonder whether I couldn't have submitted an entry given all my treasures to use as inspiration!



Its always fun for the children to have a class to enter and



so here's an idea for all those with surplus veg in their gardens right now!



Great fun!



I particularly liked the arrangements in tea cups



simple but effective



and they seemed to be flowers from the owners' gardens rather some of the larger displays which had clealry had a lot of money spent on them



but what do I know - I rarely agree with the judges choice! They sometimes seem overly critical for what is supposed to be a bit of fun - or is it?



Anyway if you're wondering what to do with a spare marrow - use the picture below for inspiration and stuff it with flowers!



Love Wend

5 comments:

  1. Beautiful photo's love the scale and flowers, and so colourful a delight to the eye ;-))

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  2. Our village show was at the weekend. Every year we go and every year we don't actually enter. I decided this year that NEXT year is the year we participate, otherwise it might die out and that would be so sad...........

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  3. Oh what fun! Loved those animals especially the cauliflower sheep and those teacup arrangements were simply beautiful. I am surprised there were only 3 entries in the Granny's attic class but both the ones you show are very effective aren't they?

    Thanks for sharing.

    Jane

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  4. I'm a bit mentally scarred when it comes to Horticultural shows. When I was young, my dad was secretary at the Horticultural Society at the working mens club - a roll he took far too seriously!!! The rivalry for a plate displaying 3 perfect onions or tomatoes was fierce!!!xxxx

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  5. Do you know ... I've never been to one, but am going to look in the local press to find one now. They look quite amusing! Lovely pics.

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