Friday, 6th May 2016

Gay Bream and Jane Pugh from Shrewsbury Flower Club represented Mercia and North Wales Area at the Show.  Click on the photo’s to see their lovely designs.

Congratulations to Kate Edwards, she gained a first for her design in class 9, “On Thin Ice”

Also to Joyce Cook 2nd in class 10 *Oh! What a Pantomime!”; Lieneke van der Veen and Margaret Leslie who were commended for their designs in class 13 “Celebration”.  and highly commended for Riley James-Smith for his design in Class 17 “Deck the Tree ” .

For a link to the list of winners click here

Also congratulations to Deborah Harris from Bayston Hill Flower Club who won 2nd & 3rd in the photography class ‘Indulgence’ and Patricia Bradshaw, highly commended.

View all the designs and photographs 

Several individuals who are members of our Club entered other classes. Below is a list of the winning entries.

Class                           Person                                  Award

“Gerberas”              Jane Pugh                           Second

“Diamond”             Tina Carser                         First – Rosa Perry Lloyd                                                                                                         salver

“Pearl”                      Debbie Wellington         Third

“A Hat for an Occasion” Tina Carser         First

“Linen”                     Tina Carser                          First

“Forever Love”   Jane Pugh                             Second

“Forever Love”   Debbie Wellington          Third

 “Book”                     Jane Pugh                             First

“Fitfy Shades of Grey” Jane Pugh               First & Colour Trophy                                                                                                             and Gordon Bradley Trophy

View our gallery page to see a few of our members designs. Congratulations to all our exhibitors and winners.

The Shrewsbury Flower Club Salver was awarded to Mrs S R Williams for her arrangement first in class “Lace”

Well Saturday dawned – I would love to say bright and sunny – but that wasn’t to be. The BBC weather reports gave a warning for floods and thunderstorms! Thankfully Friday stayed fine for the gardeners to cut the flowers.

Despite the rain the flower clubs made it to Attingham, quickly re-arranged the seating to keep the audience dry, and with a smile launched the Attingham in Bloom weekend in grand style with their arrangements. On Sunday the rain stopped and the sun even put in an appearance occasionally.

The clubs demonstrated their skills interpreting Attingham in Bloom to create a display using the bucket of garden flowers presented to them on the day.

Shrewsbury Flower Club added the sixth and final arrangement completing the exhibition along the west colonnade.  Jane used her own stand for the lovely white delphiniums, delicate pink peony “Sarah Bernhardt”,  Dutch iris “Hildegarde” and alliums together with fillers of sweet william, herbs, foxgloves, alchemilla mollis, ammi & nigella; this beside a low table bowl of peonies, herbs and nigella. Stunning, thank you Jane!

We had a lovely weekend of flower arranging, relaxed and friendly and in the splendid setting of Attingham Park.  One or two made the most of their day with afternoon tea too! What could be better?

Click on a picture or slideshow to see Jane’s designs.