Chipping Show is blooming wonderful!
AN increasingly popular village horticultural show has been described as another phenomenal success.
Secretary of Chipping and District Horticultural Society's 26th Annual Show Frank Hoyle said: "It was absolutely sensational again.
"My worries about the adverse weather affecting the show were ill founded. It was just beyond belief.
"I know I say this every year that the show gets better and better, but it does."
More than 60 exhibitors from "all over" - including the Wirral, Lake District, Cheshire, Manchester and Yorkshire - as well as from Chipping, flocked to the show with no less than 450 exhibits.
And not only was the show bursting at the seams - in a year when other shows have suffered poor turnouts and cancellations due to the wettest summer since records began - but standards were once again as high as ever, with national champions exhibiting.
Franks says the show - dubbed 'Little Harrogate' - continues to grow as word spreads amongst potential exhibitors and one of his biggest worries is where to put all the entries!
And while standards are exceptional, he says local growers still shine through, winning prizes and trophies and he would like to encourage any would-be growers not to be put off entering because he believes they can learn so much from the national champions.
"One of our exhibitors - Arthur Preston from Chipping - has been exhibiting at shows around and about for over 70 years and he entered his dahlias against the national champions and came third and he was over the moon," said Frank, adding that Raymond Freeman from Chipping won the new Heane Trophy for the best exhibit in the carrot classes and the Jack and Ruth Towers Memorial Trophy for the most points in the vegetable section.
R Pye from Chipping won the Mr and Mrs E Hoyle Trophy for the best fuchsia exhibit.
This year saw a phenomenal 50 entries in the onion classes with exhibits weighing between three and eight pounds each, with17 entries in the big onion class alone. Frank said they also enjoyed the best display of leeks ever and that the new class for a trug of vegetables was well supported.
"All in all the vegetables were sensational... and the flowers were just mind blowing - how people can grow flowers like that and get them to that stage and quality is beyond me," said Frank.
He said Sunday's rain led to the crowd of visitors being quite thin on the ground at first, but by mid afternoon, "the place was heaving".
Each year the show raises funds for the village hall and Frank is hoping this year's proceeds will match the £600 raised by last year's event.
Plans are already under way for the 2008 show and Frank would like to say a big thank you to the show's sponsors and to all the people who help out - be it the ladies from the WI who work in the kitchen or those who run the raffle and man the door.
"They are the unsung heroes who make the show," said Frank.
RESULTS
The Ribble Farm Fare Trophy for most points in the potato classes - M Lewis, Blackpool. The Heane Trophy for the best exhibit in the carrot classes - R Freeman, Chipping. The Leyland Trophy for the best exhibit in the shallot classes - J Robinson, Kendal.
The Jack and Ruth Towers Memorial Trophy for most points in the vegetables - R Freeman, Chipping. The National Vegetable Society Silver Medal for the most meritorious vegetable exhibit - D Metcalfe, Nelson with a tray of three leeks, three parsnips and three onions who also won the society shield for the best vegetable exhibit with the same entry.
The new Tom Henshaw Trophy for the best dish of onions - D Metcalfe, Nelson. The Wilf Blezard Shield for the best dahlia exhibit and the National Dahlia Society Silver Medal for the best dahlia exhibit - I Sutherland, Blackburn.
The National Dahlia Society Bronze Medal, awarded at the judge's discretion and the Timothy Procter Rose Bowl for most points in the dahlia classes - J McCosh, Irby, Wirral. The R Whitaker Memorial Trophy for the best gladioli exhibit, the British Gladiolus Society Silver Medal for the best gladioli exhibit, the Anderton Medal awarded to the best gladiolus spike and the Wolfen Hall special prize of a teak bench for the best vase of two gladioli - N Roscow, Bury. The British Gladiolus Society Bronze Medal awarded at the judge's discretion - G Plumpton, Blackpool.
The Percy Seed Memorial Trophy for the best vase of chrysanthemums, the National Chrysanthemum Society Silver Medal for the most meritorious chrysanthemum exhibit and the Berry's rocking chair - B Bickerdyke, Staley Bridge, Cheshire.
National Chrysanthemum Society Bronze Medal awarded at the judge's discretion - E Shepley, Cheshire. The John Whalley Memorial Shield for the best exhibit in class 65 and the Gees Trophy Centre Shield for the best pot plant - K Dewhurst, Littleborough.
The Mr and Mrs E Hoyle Trophy for the best fuchsia exhibit - R Pye, Chipping. The Colin and Eileen Carefoot Cup for the most points in sections in 2, 3, 4, and 5 - J McCosh, Irby. The Shield for the best flower exhibit - B Bickerdyke, Staley Bridge.
The Saddle Trophy for most points in the show - J McCosh, Irby. The Forrester Trophy chosen by the guests of honour, Ted and Kathleen Brewer, went to D Metcalfe with his tray of vegetables.
The O'Hara fire pit special prize for a kilo and a half of onions - D Metcalfe. The Martin Carefoot rib of beef special prize for the best vase of waterlily dahlias - J Gott, Milnthorpe.
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