Honiley & District Flower, Fruit & Vegetable Autumn Show 2017 Wren Hall, Wroxall Saturday 9 th September 2017 Artwork by Susan Gibson Wren Hall, School Lane, Wroxall, CV35 7ND www.wrenhall.org
Honiley & District Flower, Fruit & Vegetable Autumn Show 2017 SHOW PROGRAMME Staging of exhibits Judging Show opens Tea & homemade cakes Presentation of prizes to include scarecrow competition End of Show auction (time to grab a bargain!) 9-11:30am 12:00pm 2:30pm 2:30pm 4:00pm 4:15pm If you have any surplus produce (fruit, vegetables, eggs, jams, chutneys and flowers) and would like to donate it for our produce stall, please bring along to Wren Hall on the Saturday morning of the Show. New - Community Card Competition see Family Class in Schedule 2
Rules 1. All entries are 50p per entry. Junior section is 20p per entry. 2. Prize money only awarded for junior sections 1 st prize 1.75, 2 nd prize 75p and 3 rd prize 50p. 3. All floral arrangements not to exceed 45cm. 4. All entry forms must be submitted by Wednesday 6 th September. 5. The judges will have the power to withhold prizes when the competition is insufficient or the exhibits are deficient in merit and to award additional prizes at their discretion. The judges decisions are final. 6. All exhibits must be the exhibitor s own produce. This does not apply to the Floral Art or the Junior Sections. 7. An exhibitor may enter more than one entry per class. 8. Exhibitors may enter all the classes for which they are eligible. Children may enter any classes and their age will be taken into consideration during judging. 9. All exhibits must be staged between 9am and 11.30am and must not be removed before 4.15pm. 10. In the event of more than one exhibitor gaining the most points to win a cup, it will be at the judge s discretion to select the best exhibitor. 11. Exhibits must not have been entered in any previous Honiley and District Flower, Fruit and Vegetable Shows. 12. Cups and Trophies must be returned one month before the following year s show. 3
VEGETABLES 1. Collection of home grown vegetables 3 each of 3 different types, not to exceed 45x60 cm. 2. 5 potatoes, coloured 3. 5 potatoes, white 4. 3 carrots 5. 3 beetroot, as grown 6. 3 onions, as grown 7. 7 shallots all one size 8. Heaviest marrow 9. 5 tomatoes, large 10. 5 tomatoes, small 11. 3 leeks 12. 6 runner beans 13. Longest runner bean 14. 6 beans, dwarf, French, traditional or coloured 15. The Ugliest vegetable 16. Collection of 5 herbs (named) 17. 2 courgettes 18. 2 cucumbers 19. 2 squashes same variety 20. 3 sweetcorn 21. 3 sweet or chilli peppers 22. Any other vegetable not included above, two of the same variety Cole Cup presented to exhibitor with most points in Vegetable Section (except classes 8, 13 and 15) FRUIT 23. 5 desert apples 24. 5 culinary apples 25. 5 plums 26. Collection of 4 kinds of home-grown fruit, arranged for effect 27. Any other fruit not included in the above, 2 of the same variety 4
FLOWERS 28. Roses 3 stems 29. Roses 7 stems with any foliage arranged for effect 30. Dahlias 5 blooms, one variety 31. Dahlias 3 blooms, three different varieties 32. Dahlias 3 blooms, same colour, can be different varieties 33. 3 gladioli 34. 5 annuals, one variety 35. 5 perennials, one variety 36. Collection of mixed garden flowers 37. 1 Indoor plant either flowering or foliage 38. 1 Cactus or Succulent max 6 pot S. Smith Cup to be presented to winner of class 28 E.A. Ede Bowl to be presented to winner of class 29 Peter Davy Trophy to be presented to winner of class 30 FLORAL ART 39. An arrangement to reflect 50 Years of Gardeners World 40. An arrangement to incorporate a vintage kitchen utensil 41. Celebrate an arrangement in a champagne glass 42. Table arrangement - In the Pink, 35cm max height Katrina Bass Memorial Trophy presented to exhibitor with most points in classes 39-42 ARTS, CRAFT AND PHOTOGRAPHY Class Exhibit 43. Animal Magic, a photograph displayed on a cardboard mount, maximum A4 44. Fun times a photograph displayed on a cardboard mount 45. A picture any medium, not a photograph, framed or unframed (must be your own work) 5
46. An item you have hand knitted in the last 12 months 47. Something New from something Old 48. An article made from Wood 49. Any other item you have made HOME PRODUCE 44. Coffee and Walnut cake, no larger than 8 (20cm) diameter. 50. 6 Muffins name variety 51. 6 Cheese Scones 52. A cake with seasonal fruit (named) as an ingredient 53. Fruit pie, pastry top and bottom. No decoration 54. Pot of homemade jam or jelly 55. Pot of homemade marmalade 56. Jar of homemade chutney 57. 6 new laid eggs. One will be cracked by judge 58. A bottle of sloe or damson gin/vodka Jubilee Cup presented to exhibitor with most points in classes 44-58 Raymond Ray Wood Memorial Prize 5.00 to the winner of Class 52 JUNIOR SECTION 10 and under (please state age) 59. Make a Monster use anything from your recycling 60. A decorated stone- use any medium 61. A Finger painting A4 62. Anything made from Lego Janet Frost Memorial Cup presented to exhibitor with the most points in classes 59-62 Junior section under 10years, prize money kindly sponsored by Ben Tebby, Landscaping and Gardening Services, Rouncil Farm, Kenilworth 6
JUNIOR SECTION 15 and under (please state age) 63. Something you have made this year any medium 64. Decorate a jam jar using any medium 65. 6 Cupcakes made by you 66. Write a Poem entitled My Best Friend Janet Frost Memorial Cup presented to exhibitor with the most points in classes 63-66 Junior section under 15 years, prize money kindly sponsored by Barn Close Nurseries, Shrewley FAMILY CLASSES 67. Community Card A picture to reflect our community, in any medium, a sketch, painting, photograph. All exhibits will be on display and judged by visitors to the Show. The three pictures with the highest number of votes will be made into greeting cards to be sold to raise funds for Wren Hall. 68. Tallest Sunflower, displayed as a photograph with a family member standing next to the sunflower please state height of the family member and height of sunflower 69. Knitted 6inch/15cm square, any colour/s and any type of knitting, to be judged. All knitted squares will be donated to a charity to be sewn into a blanket Roger Tilley Challenge Cup presented to the exhibitor with the outstanding exhibit 7
HINTS FOR EXHIBITORS Pick exhibits as close to show day as possible. Avoid splits, pest or disease damage. Samples, evenly sized and clean. Fruit Leave natural bloom intact, show single variety, and leave some stalk attached. Vegetables Show single variety, display on plate/dish if you wish. Potatoes Equally matched specimens, clean and unblemished Onions, dressed - well ripened bulbs, roots trimmed, tops tied with raffia. Onions, as grown leave roots and tops intact. Carrots and parsnips leave tap root intact and trim foliage back to 3 (7cm). Leeks, as grown leave tops and roots intact. Runner and French beans slender, straight, no prominent seeds, short stalk attached. Tomatoes uniform size and colour, leave calyx (stalk) attached Sweetcorn cylindrical cobs with fresh green husk, intact silks and up to 1 (2.5cm of stalk). Pull down husks and tuck under the cob. Jams, marmalade & chutney jars, labelled with contents and date, to be filled to the top in plain jars. Wren Hall, School Lane, Wroxall, Warwick, CV35 7ND www.wrenha ll.org 8