Category: Show Reports

A teddy bear challenge – all entries to be judged and then donated to Bridport Community Hospital. An artwork in any medium A recycled item A five line stanza on ‘Our planet’

The St. Mary’s school children’s entry for the miniature garden is, of course, unfinished, because there were no children in school! The week before, the gardening club had made the ‘people’ by sowing cress seeds into an egg case. They then  placed them on the ‘football ground’ made of moss. If they had had time to finish it they would have grouped them together in a crowd adding faces and hats/scarves to the cress faces. They were also working on[…]

New Life Fast and slow Erosion Made of metal Hilltop(s) A spring flower or flowers

One jar of any jelly

Your favourite container, an arrangement therein – 45cm wide, 45cm deep, height unlimited:

The Spring Show may have been cancelled but exhibitors had been preparing months in advance. The following are some of the items which would have been displayed. Gold Club Challenge . . . . . . donated daffodil Jack the Lad (Mid-season), grown in a maximum 13cm (5”) pot. Angela Harding used a Chelsea grower’s trick – Four weeks in the fridge! Other Horticulture entries: One stem of a multi-headed daffodil, any variety One stem of a daffodil, any variety,[…]

On the day of the Show the United Church Hall in East Street is always a delight with the scent and colour of flowers, the wonderful vegetables large and small and all the fruits of the labour of Bridport Gardening Club members and friends over the summer. With figures overall very similar to last years with 59 exhibitors and 471 exhibits, a record number of entries in the horticulture classes made sure the Show was a success.  Fine entries in[…]