At the Flower Show
Yesterday was the Horticultural Society’s ‘Spring’ Show. It’s been the worst growing season I can remember and yesterday the worst day for a show: relentless rain and the kind of wind that blows your umbrella inside out. Nevertheless, the people who grow to show managed to produce a wonderful display. I chickened out; just couldn’t face crawling around in the cold and wet to find the perfect primroses for the bench. Instead, for the first time ever, I entered some knitting.
I won first prize!
I was very pleased, but still wished I’d grown these.
The flowers are rather beautiful. It's supposed to be warm and sunny here today. It's sunny but not warm enough for me just yet!
Sun? Lucky peeps. It's grey and miserable as ever here. I keep deleting commercial emails exhorting me to buy summer brights, dress for the warmer weather, be ready for summer etc. I find it hard to believe in summer.
I am entering four (or maybe five) classes at the County Show this year. Entry fee is 50p but first prize is £10! Last year I won a first and a second prize. And you get a free ticket to the show if you enter four classes, which is definitely worth it.
Our entry fee is 20p per class and has been for years. No wonder the show often makes a loss.
PS Happy Birthday! LJ didn't remind me but Dr Bear did.
Edited at 2013-04-16 01:25 pm (UTC)
Our garden centre newsletter thanks loyal customers for their support. They must be making more money from coffee and the events they hold than from selling plants. I think they're big enough to survive, but a few garden businesses are bound to go under.