A year of flowers

Breckland Flower and Garden Club

At the Annual General Meeting held in March members learned that the club had had another busy year with visiting demonstrators, speakers and workshops. The club is thriving with several new members joining during the year. The programme for the coming year contains a good variety of demonstrations and speakers together with some interesting titles for the flower arranging competitions and the table show. The club members were thanked for their continued support and the committee for 'making things happen'. Last year's committee was re-elected en bloc and Olive Hepple took over the president's badge.
Peter Gooch from Thorncroft Nurseries then showed some slides of some of their wonderful clematis grown locally at Reymeston.
Ursula Jackson won the President's trophy and voucher for gaining the most points in competitions throughout the year and Sally Westrup won the table show trophy.
Janet Skidmore and Susan Thurlow were joint winners in the March competition for ‘New Hands’ and Ursula Jackson was first of the ‘Old Hands’ with Margaret Smith second joint with Shirley Penfold.
The next meeting will take place at Old Buckenham Village Hall starting at 2pm on Thursday 14 April when Helen Bird will demonstrate, her title being 'A Passion for Flowers'. The competition will be for an arrangement entitled ‘Nostalgis’ - a tribute to Julia Clements - using a pinholder. The table show will be for a decorated hat for Easter.
Visitors are always welcome. Further details from Pat on 457305 or Sally on 788712.