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GROW IT
& SHOW IT
Oundle Horticultural Society
The 101st Oundle Horticultural Society’s (OHS) Summer Show is on 13th and 14th July, and the closing date for entries is the 10th July.
While loads of people flock to look at the many prize-winning plants, art and craft displays, photography, food entries, pottery and sculpture, the fun is also to compete.
You may not have the longest runner bean, or the most perfect rose, but perhaps this year your courgettes are amazing, or you have been working on a quilt or other handicrafts, woodworking, or taking photos that you are proud of.
and from garlic to beetroot, as well as fruit and everything in between – while the Master Gardener competition asks for exhibits of several kinds of flowers and vegetables. There is also a section for indoor gardeners, if you’re good at growing orchids or other pot plants.
Pick up a Show schedule available
from Oundle Library, Fletton House, or
on our website, for details about the hundreds of classes you can enter - it’s very simple!
Garden Treasures
This year has been a difficult one for gardeners, but the rain has helped growth considerably. The Show’s professional judges look for the best from your garden: from sweet peas to roses,
(for the budding junior masterchefs) a cookery section including cupcakes or biscuits. There are small money prizes for those who win, plus the Mayor’s Cup and two other cups for the very best. This is about having fun making things in the holidays, with the encouragement of parents and grandparents. So why not get together a group of young friends or family to enter?
The Show’s professional judges look for the best from your garden
Crafts for Kids
OHS is particularly keen to encourage children to come along and bring things they’ve made. The children’s entries are grouped in age ranges up
to 16, and feature pictures in paint or pencil, crafts that include making a necklace, a terrarium of live plants in a container, a photograph or a poem, and
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