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Thank you to Nia for the following write up and to Mike H and Peter for the photos:

Parwich and District Horticultural Society had a very successful day on Sunday as visitors poured into the village to take a stroll around 12 delightful gardens, rest in the memorial hall with a delicious cream tea and take a look at the exhibits in the children’s show.

The weather was perfect and despite the closure of the B5056, there were more visitors than in the last 5 years. The gardens ranged form the extensive Parwich hall gardens to the smaller cottage gardens, some of which had recently been redesigned. This allowed frequent visitors to the village open gardens to see how gardens had developed over the year.

The hard working volunteers in the kitchens of the Memorial Hall were inundated with orders for the fantastic cream teas throughout the afternoon. The tombola and plant stall provided much enjoyment for the children needing a change of fun and for the grown ups wanting to get hold of cuttings from some of the plants in the gardens.

The standard of entries in the children’s show was as high as ever and the 2 judges, Margaret Woods and Hayley Wilkinson, were hard pushed to choose worthy winners. All children in the village can enter but are judged according to their age group.

The winner of the school poster competition went to Amy Goldsworthy (U7) and Jacob Buckley (8-11yrs).

The Matthews cup is awarded to the child getting the most amount of points in each group. The U7s was won jointly by Maisy Edge and Hollie Fentem. The 8 – 11yrs was won by Joe Austin and the 12 – 16 yrs was won jointly by Rannoch Linnell, Sam Hughes and Will Beesley.

The Crompton – Inglefield cup was awarded to Joe Austin for scoring the most points in the show.

The Tallis trophy was awarded to the exhibit that most caught the judge’s eye and this year went to Lucy Dickinson for her inventive use of fruit and vegetables to make a sea creature.

The best painting in show went to Hollie Fentem.

All children in Parwich School and pre-school were given a geranium cutting in April and were encouraged to care for them and bring them to the show to be judged for size, colour, flowers etc. The 2 winners this year were Emily Pitts and Elizabeth Beesley.

The society is extremely grateful to everyone who helped and supported this event and we expect it to have raised over £1,500 which will be ploughed back into supporting other village activities.

More photos in a slideshow will be available soon.