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How Hill Farm Orchards -April 2020
In February of this year we were fortunate enough to have a trip to How Hill Farm where Nick Coller kindly gave us a lesson and lots of tips on how to prune fruit trees.
It was a very interesting morning.
We were invited back this Spring to come and view the Orchards whilst they were in flower. But obviously due to the present social restrictions we unfortunately will be unable to do this.
So Nick has thought of us and very kindly sent us some photo's.
These two photo's are of the Russet orchard where we were able to practice pruning
This photo is of the Cherry tree.
Let us hope it wont be too long before we get an opportunity
to visit Nick at How Hill Farm again.
2019 Annual Autumn Show- Click here to see photos
Entry numbers to the show were good, around
350 plus which was better than last year, even due to the very dry growing
conditions and members being on holiday.
The hall looked stunning with a mass of colour from the numerous dahlia
exhibits, flowering pot plants and flower arrangements, a real feast for the
eyes.
Joanna
Berry did exceptionally well by winning Most Points
in Section Cut Flowers, Most Points in Section Pot Plants, Best in Section Floral
Art and finally Most Points in Show. A
magnificent haul for all her dedication and efforts.
Tim
Taylor dominated the Wine classes winning Most Points in Section and Best in
Section for his wine.
Numerous fruit
and vegetable entries saw some close competition with Graham Makepeace winning Best in Section for his superb plate of mixed fruit and Most Points in this
Section too. This was capped by Graham
finishing as Runner Up for Most Points in Show. A big well done to him.
Margaret Wait faced stiff competition in the
cookery classes but won Most Points in Section, whilst Pat Reid won Best in
Section Cookery, for her very impressive fruit cake.
Hilary Warner had a successful show with
several first places and won Best in Section Cut Flowers for her three gladioli
stems.
Frances Brunning shone in the pot
plant classes winning Best in Section Pot Plants & Best
in Show Horticulture for her stunning pots of three individual orchids.
Tracy
Chapman won the People’s Choice Award (voted for by the visitors) for her
stunning flower arrangement entitled Rusty Richness.
The craft classes saw a win for Steve
Pratchett with his stunning painting who then went on to win Best in Section
Craft and Best in Show Non-Horticulture.
Susan Carter won Most Points in Section Craft for her numerous entries
in this section.
Janice Green was victorious in the Grow a
Plug Plant Geranium with a magnificent specimen.
First time entrants Donna Griffiths won the
Novice Class for Flower Arranging and son Leo won Most Points in Section
and Best in Show for the under 6 years of age classes.
A vote of thanks goes to all the people who gave up their time, which
helped to make the Show possible and to the individuals and local businesses
who donated raffle and tombola prizes.
