Drimpton Show Day Pictures 2012

Drimpton village hall ready for the show,
some exhibits in place already

Young People's exhibits come under judge's scrutiny

Deciding on the winning photographs

Flower judging

So many vegetables (despite the dodgy seasons), so little time!

Chief washer-upper

Likely lads on parking duty

John and Margaret calculating all the prizes

Ann ans her sister Sue's wonderful lunch for
judges, stewards and helpers

Viv with the prize winning team exhibit: "The Princess and the Pea" which
she created with Jane and Christabel

Another of Viv's prize winning exhibits,
winner of the Capewell Cup for best Floral Arrangement

Poetry in fabric

Blooming flowers

Photographic exhibits

Victoria has her sponge, now in Jubilee year,
new recipes were created for the Elizabeth Sponge

Linda, Rosemary and Dreda ready to open the doors to the public

Tea and cakes in the marqee

Why weren't my potatoes the heaviest crop?

Potatoes harvested and weighed,
the winner grew 2.75kg of potatoes from one seed potato!

Caught on cam!
Show Secretary Rosemary hampered in her efforts
to walk off with the raffle prize.

Michael Vickery - in a class of his own!
THE STRAWBRIDGE CUP: For the most prize money in the Vegetable section. THE MANOR CUP: For the best Vegetable Exhibit.THE JUBILEE CUP: For the best Organic Vegetable Collection. THE SOCIETY’S PERPETUAL CHALLENGE TROPHY: For the competitor winning the largest amount of prize money in the Flower and Vegetable sections.

Kate Hesketh
Dorset Federation of Horticultural Societies Guild of Show Judges
Certificate of Merit

Rosemary Clayton
THE SHEPHERD CUP: For the heaviest Potato crop (Adult)

Jasmine West
THE CLAPTON CUP: For the most prize money
(young people 10 to 15 years)

Matthew Medley
THE SOCIETY'S CUP: For the most prize money
(young people up to 9 years).
THE DUMMETT CUP: For the heaviest Potato crop
(Young people)
Joint first with Abigail Lock,
their crops weighed exactly the same.

Dreda Corlett
THE LYMINSTER CUP: For the best exhibit in the Photographic section. 

Mary Stack
THE DIANA SPRENT TROPHY: For the best exhibit in the
Art section.

Roger Franklin
THE COLLARD CUP: For the best exhibit in the
Handicraft section.

Jane Dickie
THE DRIMPTON SALVER: For the best exhibit in the Homecraft section 

Norman Marsden
THE KNORR CUP: For the best exhibit in the
Preserves section

Rosemary Coates
THE GREENHAM ROSE BOWL:
For the rose with the best scent

Jenny Beck
THE CRAVEN CUP:
For the Best Flower Exhibit

Barbara Wright
THE MARTINEAU CUP: For the most prize money in the
Flower section

Gift of flowers, to our past Chair, Mary Razzell,
who kindly presented all the awards

Rosemary Shepherd, Show Secretary and general inspiration for a brilliant Show,
presentated with flowers

Team GB? - Not exactly, but winners all.

Here are the Flower Show winners of trophies and awards for 2012, well done to everyone who took part.

THE SOCIETY’S PERPETUAL CHALLENGE TROPHY
For the competitor winning the largest amount of prize money in the Flower and Vegetable sections
Mr Michael Vickery

THE MARTINEAU CUP
For the most prize money in the Flower section
Mrs Barbara Wright

THE CRAVEN CUP
For the Best Flower Exhibit.
Mrs Jenny Beck

THE GREENHAM ROSE BOWL 
For the rose with the best scent
Mrs Rosemary Coates (Yet again! As the Chairman said, if it were the World Cup, she'd be able to keep it by now).

THE STRAWBRIDGE CUP
For the most prize money in the Vegetable section
Mr Michael Vickery

THE MANOR CUP
For the best Vegetable Exhibit
Mr Michael Vickery

THE JUBILEE CUP
For the best Organic Vegetable Collection
Mr Michael Vickery

THE CAPEWELL CUP
For the best Floral Arrangement
Mrs Vivienne Watts

THE BAKER CUP
For the most prize money in the Homecraft section
Mr Norman Marsden

THE DRIMPTON SALVER
For the best exhibit in the Homecraft section
Mrs Jane Dickie

THE KNORR CUP
For the best exhibit in the Preserves section
Mr Norman Marsden

THE COLLARD CUP
For the best exhibit in the Handicraft section
Mr Roger Franklin

THE DIANA SPRENT TROPHY
For the best exhibit in the Art section
Mrs Mary Stack

THE LYMINSTER CUP
For the best exhibit in the Photographic section
Mrs Dreda Corlett

THE SOCIETY'S CUP
For the most prize money - young people up to 9 years
Matthew Medley

THE CLAPTON CUP
For the most prize money - young people under 15 years
Jasmine West

THE DUMMETT CUP
For the young person with the heaviest Potato crop 
(Matthew and Abigail both had exactly the same weight of potatoes).
Matthew Medley
Abigail Lock

THE SHEPHERD CUP
For the Adult with the heaviest Potato crop
Mrs Rosemary Clayton

THE DORSET FEDERATION OF HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES 

GUILD OF SHOW JUDGES CERTIFICATE

This Certificate is awarded as an appreciation of the outstanding merit of an exhibit, 

and is a tribute to the skill of the Exhibitor

Mrs Kate Hesketh

Mr Michael Vickery

Summer Show Sunshine

Was it the sheer grit and example of Olympic athletes, or the hope of teas and trophies that brought in so many exhibitors to the Show, determined not to let the adverse weather in the months before ruin their chances of a great day in Drimpton?  Whatever the reason, the people of Clapton, Wayford, Drimpton and beyond: 75 of them (one of our highest number entering exhibits) brought all manner of things from cakes to cards, paintings to plants and flags to flowers, to face the rigours of the judges.

On the day, the sun shone, the space on the grass and in the marquee was filled with tea-tables with people enjoying delicious home made cakes, whilst in the village hall visitors strolled and examined the fruits (in some case literally) of labour of gardeners, cooks, artists, photographers and many more talented people.

Look out in a few days time for the list of winners of the cups and trophies and photographs of the Show. 

We tried something new this year, selling off some of the exhibits (with the permission of exhibitors, of course) to add the proceeds to our produce stall to support our chosen charity - Seeds for Development: from the gardens and tables of Dorset and Somerset to the fields of Uganda. So, thank you to everyone who agreed to allow their produce to be sold, and thank you to all participants and helpers and also to the weather, which made a good day even better.