The sun broke through the clouds and shone down on Parwich Open Gardens this year. Despite the closed road on the B5056, several hundred people visited the gardens this Sunday, making the event a huge success. Thank you to everyone who entered the horticultural show and well done to those who won prizes!
Members of the Horticultural Society manned the plant sale which generated much interest amongst the visitors.
Plant sale at the Memorial Hall
Cream teas were provided thanks to the hard work of the backroom staff and thanks to those who baked scones and helped prepare for the ‘hungry hoards’.
A scene from the 'engine room' of the cream tea production facility
Brisk business was done in the Memorial Hall
Thanks as well to those who opened up their gardens and provided so much inspiration to us all. It is not possible to provide photographs of every garden, but click ‘continue reading’ below to view a gallery of snaps taken during the afternoon. Each picture can be enlarged by clicking on it. Return to the gallery by pressing the ‘back’ button.
Here’s the gallery of Parwich Open Gardens 2009….
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- Jill in her fantastic garden
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- Flower bed in Jill’s garden
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- A honey bee at Creamery Cottage
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- Kevin relaxing at Creamery Cottage
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- Magnificent roses at Croft Avenue
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- Thriving raised beds at Croft Avenue
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- Lupins at Croft Avenue
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- Cup of tea anyone?
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- Entrance to Church View
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- Newly designed garden at Church View
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- Church View foxgloves
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- The view of the Church from (you guessed it!) Church View
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- Church View vista
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- Robert & Ben enjoying the sun
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- Entrance to The Fold
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- Hugh Gibson
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- Hugh Gibson (2)
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- Beautiful beds at The Fold
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- Vegetable beds at The Fold
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- Interesting shapes in the hedge at The Fold
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- Gargoyle at Flaxdale House
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- Flaxdale House patio
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- Front garden at Flaxdale House
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- Front garden at Flaxdale House (2)
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- Foxgloves at Flaxdale House
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- Front garden at Flaxdale House (3)
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- Flaxdale House foxgloves
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- Flaxdale House foxgloves (2)
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- Beds at Parwich Hall (1)
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- Beds at Parwich Hall (2)
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- Vegetable beds at Parwich Hall
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- Sculpture at Flaxdale House
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- Parwich Hall vista (1)
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- Sculpture at Flaxdale House (2)
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- Parwich Hall vista (2)
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- Box hedge at Parwich Hall
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- Keith & Avril at the garage sale
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- Parwich Hall summer house
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- Relaxing at Town Head
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- Relaxing at Cosheton
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- Cosheton style
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- Living willow structure at Cosheton
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- Raised beds at Cosheton
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- Photographer spotted at Cosheton!
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- The trophies!
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- Fruit and vegetable animals
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- Beautiful arrangements
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- Beautiful arrangements (2)
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- Gingerbread families!
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- Nia in fine form!
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- Treasurer Ben
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- Another cream tea order!
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- Rachel & Heather in deep conversation
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- The winning decorated jam jar!
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- Prize giving
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- Prize giving (2)
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- Chilling in the Hall
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- Prize giving (3)
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- Yummy biscuit!
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- Jill & Mike
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- Peter T manning the plant sale
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- Brisk business was done in the Memorial Hall
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- A scene from the ‘engine room’ of the cream tea production facility
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- Plant sale at the Memorial Hall
And finally…..our roving reporter would like to give a special mention to Jill and her wormery! What a great way to dispose of kitchen scraps. Good on you Jill!
- Jill and her world famous wormery!
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What a fantastic set of photographs. Thankyou for getting them on the blog so quickly. A very big Thankyou to everyone who opened their gardens, helped out in the kitchens and provided plants for the stall. We had a bumper day and raised well over £1,500 which will be ploughed back into supporting other worthy causes in the village.