THERE were over 100 people who went through the doors of the Bemboka hall on Sunday, October 28, to see the flowers at the 23rd Flower Show of the local club.
Winners were Roses: Red - 1st Carole Willebrand, 2nd Noni Stanborough. Pink - 1st , Cheryl Alcock, 2nd Carole Willebrande. White or cream - 1st Carole Willebrand, Fancy - 1st Pat Jones, 2nd Gwen Vickers. Collection of roses 1st Carole Willebrand. Yellow - 1st John Rheinburger, 2nd Pat Jones. Any rose in full bloom 1st Elaine Bateman, 2nd Carole Willebrand. Floribunda 1st Carole Willebrand, 2nd Elaine Bateman. Miniature rose - 1st Carole Willebrand. Old or Nostalgia rose - 1st Joan Guthrie, Rose in 3 stages 1st Gwen Vickers 2nd Brad Bobbin. Collection of garden roses 1st Carole Willebrand 2nd Sue Johnston. Any other colour or bicolour 1st Carole Willebrand, 2nd Mary Stevens. David Austin Light - 1st Annette Scanlan 2nd Elaine Bateman. David Austin Dark - 1st Annette Scanlan, equal 2nd Carole Willebrande and Elaine Bateman. David Austin Light - 1st Annette Scanlan, 2nd Elaine Bateman. David Austin NND 1st Elaine Bateman, 2nd Annette Scanlan.
Climbing rose - 1st Carole Willebrand, 2nd Pat Jones.
Cut Flowers: Annuals - 1st Joan Guthrie, Collection of garden flowers 1st Joan Guthrie, 2nd Sue Johnston. Flower not mentioned in schedule 1st. Sue Johnston, 2nd Joan Guthrie. Perennials - 1st Sue Johnston, 2nd Elaine Bateman. Pansies - Elaine Wilton, 2nd Margaret Clune. Protea, Leucodendron, Leucospermum - 1st John Rheinburger, 2nd Julia Alcock. Grevillea - 1st Joan Guthrie, 2nd Gwen Vickers. Callistemon - 1st Elaine Bateman, 2nd Margaret Woolley.Annual or Biennial of the one kind - 1st Joan Guthrie, 2nd Sue Johnston.Flowering shrub not native - Pat Jones, 2nd Sue Johnston. Flowering Shrub white or cream 1st P. Addison, 2nd Sue Johnston. Native shrub or hybrid not callistemon or grevillea - 1st Margaret Clune, 2nd Cheryl Lloyd. Geranium or Pelargonium - 1st Gwen Roberrtson, eaual 2nd Joan Guthrie, Gwen Robertson. Ivy Geranium, - 1st Joan Guthrie, 2nd Elaine Bateman.
Spring bulb, corm or rhizome not iris 1st Julie Alcock, 2nd Julia Alcock. Single iris in wine glass - 1st Pat Jones, 2nd Nicky Bateman.
Iris not bearded - 1st Joan Guthrie, 2nd Annette Scanlan. Bearded Iris - 1st Annette Scanlan.
Champion Rose was won by Carole Willeband who also won most successful exhibitor and she was awarded the Mona Campbelle Memorial Shield.
Children's arrangements
Fairy or Dinosaur garden - Bailey Young with his dinosaur garden. A Highly Commended certificate was awarded to Natasha Duthie for her garden. "Arrangement in a pretty mug" 8 - 13 years - 1st Bailey Young and 2nd Samantha Alcock, Fairy Garden - 1st Natalie Alcock.
Novice arrangments
Flowers for the home and Posy sitting in a jar - 1st Mary Stevens.
Open arrangemets
Geometric - 1st John Rheinberger Pretty perfumed posy - 1st Annette Scanlan, 2nd Joan Guthrie, Float Bowl - 1st Joan Guthrie, 2nd Mary Stevens.Spring Splendour - 1st Carole Willebrand, 2nd John Rheinberger. Reach for the sky in green and white - 1st John Rheinberger, 2nd Carole Willebrand. Inspired by a song - 1st You are my sunshine by Carole Willebrand, 2nd Mary Stevens Only a bird in a guilded cage.
The winner of the raffle, a wheelbarrow packed with gardening goodies was Gemma Green.
The next meeting of the Bemboka Flower Show will be on November 5, 2007 and is to be a "Rose Night" so there will be a lovely perfume in the hall again.
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