Summer Show 2024
Froxfield and Privett Garden Club welcomed members and visitors to its recent Summer Show at Froxfield Village Hall. Exhibitors entered a wide range of fruit, flowers and vegetables. These along with the flower arrangements provided a colourful display in the hall.
The judges were complimentary about the standard of the entries. The entry numbers were on a par with last year with the additional vegetable and photography entries compensating for fewer entries in the fruit and flower arranging classes.
Chairman Elizabeth Houghton-Connell welcomed visitors and gave a resume of the club’s activities over the past few months. She complimented exhibitors on how well they have coped with the difficult growing conditions this year.
The winner of the Banksian medal this year for the most points over both our Spring and Summer shows was Les Watson with a large range of quality vegetables and flowers.
This year the show was held two weeks later than in recent years, which resulted in a large entry in the Dahlia classes and the class for any other flowers, all of which were closely contested.
The flower arrangement classes provided a variety of entries. The large arrangements on the theme of ‘By the Seashore’ were the dominant feature of the end wall of the hall, with the trophy for the best arrangement in the show going to Jan Cole for her arrangement in this class.
The children at Froxfield Primary School provided pictures of their favourite garden plants. Froxfield Pre-School children made ‘Farm Animals’ and those from Privett Montessori produced items found ‘In the Garden’.
Elizabeth Houghton Connell closed the event by thanking the committee for their hard work in setting up the show and the exhibitors for producing the entries.
