{"id":10726,"date":"2011-09-04T01:05:37","date_gmt":"2011-09-04T08:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10726"},"modified":"2011-09-25T03:32:47","modified_gmt":"2011-09-25T10:32:47","slug":"local-show-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/growing-easy-plants\/local-show-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Show Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/6056767234\/\" title=\"Cynara cardunculus \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6198\/6056767234_d73edcb4f9.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Cynara cardunculus\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I entered 10 classes in our village show including a vase of flowers with these Cynar cardunculus. The rules were to have a minimum of three varieties so I included some Sedum and Buddleia to give an Autumn feel to the vase. On the &#8216;basis of less is more&#8217; I threw away a lot of flowers I had taken but didn&#8217;t use. I ended up with a second prize to a marvelous display of umpteen varieties in an airy display.<\/p>\n<h2>Local Show Tips on Time<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Arrive for benching within the stipulated hours and remember it will take you longer than you expect. It gets just as rushed as Chelsea even for your village show.<\/li>\n<li>Allow time for tweaking your exhibits, turning to best advantage and cleaning around your exhibit.<\/li>\n<li>Judging will be at a set time when everyone had to leave the hall and our show opened to visitors in the afternoon.<\/li>\n<li>Speeches, raffles and prize giving took up &#8216;gardening time&#8217; towards the end of the show before the uncollected exhibits were auctioned off.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Local Show Tips &#8211; Presentation<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Standard vases were provided for floral displays but fruit, vegetables and potted plants used your own imagination.<\/li>\n<li>Onions were displayed on sand or rings except some giants that stood out on there own.<\/li>\n<li>I entered 3 fruit classes and stood the apples on squares of white paper. I left the natural &#8216;bloom&#8217; on the apples and came second, again, to some highly polished smaller fruit. (What to do next year?)<\/li>\n<li>Several exhibits were mounted on doilies which probably says something about the age of our village. (Seriously with lots of classes for children there were lots of young villagers around.)<\/li>\n<li>The best tip I have is aim for zero imperfections, a good small one will beat a big imperfect specimen.<\/li>\n<li>Keep the exhibit clean and tidy using only black or white presentation aids.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Local Show Tip &#8211; Keep Too Schedule<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Read the schedule if it says 5 items they do not mean 4 or 6, even if you think it looks better.<\/li>\n<li>Make sure you are in the right class and leave the correct marker. We are give a reference ticket to leave under our exhibit so the judges do not know whose entry they are judging but can get a subsequent reference back.<\/li>\n<li>I may have been disqualified in the french bean class when I entered flat pole beans, anyway they were nowhere near good enough.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>End of the Show<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>I may not have thanked the organisers and volunteers adequately at the <strong>Menston 2011 Show<\/strong> so I do so now.<\/li>\n<li>Our show will donate the proceeds to the Royal British Legion 90th anniversary appeal. They had a stand, bunting and poppies on display<\/li>\n<li>Local shows are for fun and it is the taking part rather than the winning.<\/li>\n<li>However you can get a first by being the only entry in a class or in my case by being lucky on one entry. ( not my Pelargoniums or Fuchsias unfortunately)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/3130532533\/\" title=\"11.11.Poppies \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3114\/3130532533_1ba3fb76e1.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"11.11.Poppies\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read more about <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/prize-gladioli-growing-showing\/\">Growing Show Gladioli<\/a><\/strong> and <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/tips\/shallots-for-showing\/\">Show Shallots.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Check out <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/vegetables-herbs\/pumpkin-growing\/\">Giant Pumpkin Growing Tips<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tips for showing at your local show, keep to schedule present well and have a good time&#8230;.. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[233],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-growing-easy-plants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}