Rose & Sweet Pea Show and Garden Fete

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The 2011 Show will take on place on Saturday 25th June.



Photo by John Marsh The annual Rose & Sweet Pea Show and Garden Fete will take place as usual on the last Saturday in June in the Church Hall Garden and in the Priory Church.

Photo by John Marsh

The horticultural show, from which the event takes its name, includes competitions for displaying a variety of exhibits from a single rose to a vase or bowl of sweet peas as well as awards for fruits and vegetables and baking a cake. There are competitions for children as well as for adults. Competitions for children will include making a “Lego” space vehicle and writing a poem on the theme of weddings.

Entries are limited to residents of the Deepings, those on the Priory Church electoral role and members of the Priory youth and children’s groups.

The “Beauvale Ensemble” will be playing for an hour in the Church for the first time this year and is something we will hope to repeat.

The Deepings in Bloom award for the most innovative planting in an unusual container will again take place with the hope that entries this year will greatly exceed last year's.

Photo by John Marsh For the Garden Fete there will be many of the usual fete activities including arena performances by children from the local schools and, by no means least, the Crowning of the 2011 Rose Queen.

Photo by John Marsh

There will be an array of stalls selling plants, cakes, bric-a-brac and white elephant as well as a tombola, a range of children’s activities and food and drink.

Not to be forgotten is the Grand Prize Draw with, once again, some excellent prizes including £100 cash, a £50 John Lewis token, meals at Maharanis in Deeping St James, Tolthorpe theatre tickets, a family ticket for Burghley House, a bird feeder and bird food from Vine Farm, a hanging basket from Swine’s Meadow, hampers and fish and chips!

Grand Draw tickets are already on sale at 50p each (£2 for a book of four) and will also be available to purchase on the day. The more you buy the better chance you have of winning! Our thanks go to all the local firms and individuals who have donated such an array of wonderful prizes.

Gates to the show open at 1pm.

Photo by John Marsh

Contacts:-
Horticultural Show: Richard Gamman 01778 344926
Garden Fete: John Marsh 01778 347330

Click here to see the class lists for the Horticultural Show.

(All photographs, from the 2010 Show, are reproduced by kind permission of the copyright holder, John Marsh)