Over 500 entries at Ebrington Show
THERE’S something about a traditional British summer show where flowers, fruit, veg and green-fingered growers take centre stage and once again Ebrington’s summer show was full of all of these.
The show on Saturday at the Washbrook Barn had 21 classes of vegetables, including French beans, runner beans and broad beans and lots of carrots.
There were 40 classes of flowers including dahlias but, unusually, not many sunflowers this year.
“We had a lot more entries but we’ve got a lot more newcomers in the village,” said John Clarke, vice-chairman of Ebrington Gardening Club.
“There were over 500 entries in the show so the judges were kept very busy and the club is grateful for their hard work and professionalism. There was also plenty of tea and cake on offer for visitors some of who were from Yorkshire and Copenhagen visiting family and decided to pop in.”
The club was very pleased with the number of entries in the children’s classes aged two to 14 years, John added.
Entries included poems, paintings, drawings, painted pebbles, flowers and vegetables and decorated biscuits.
Thanks to the Gloucestershire Federation of Gardening Societies, the winners of the children’s flowers, fruit and vegetable categories each received a certificate and some spending money.
