On Thursday 9 August Breckland Flower and Garden Club members gathered in Old Buckenham Village Hall for their monthly meeting. After weeks of unprecedented hot weather, the long awaited rain had arrived. But as the rain poured down outside once again the sun was shining inside. This month’s meeting was a flower demonstration by the “girls”, the club’s very own chairman, Joy Tunmore, president Christine Hewson, secretary Sheila Bullen and Maxine Mace (publicity) with a title “Summer time and the living is easy”. Christine began proceedings with a short recording of the song from which today’s title was created. She worked her magic creating beautiful arrangements with a summer garden in mind, every design was full of beautiful flowers. She also used a small wheelbarrow for an arrangement and finished her staged display with a piece of garden fencing. Joy selected a wedding theme for her arrangements and worked in her own style producing arrangements using an array of white flowers and masses of green foliage. Joy also created a pedestal and a posy all in keeping with the colour scheme of white and green. Next was Sheila who had decided on an outdoor buffet, using a steel bucket encased in wire with ivy threaded through. She chose cerise pink for her main colour with green for contrast and her arrangement ‘bubbled’ out from the top of the bucket. Then it was Maxine’s turn, her first time ever on stage doing an arrangement. Maxine arrived on stage wearing a bright multi-coloured dress, floppy summer hat and sunglasses, hoping to lighten the mood and to help her feel at ease. Using a small camping barbecue she created a parallel design, using a selection of foliage and flowers with red and yellow tones to represent heat and flames.
The afternoon concluded with refreshments and the raffle with several lucky ladies winning all the arrangements on stage. The competition for the month was “Summer table design” and the winners were Sylvia Briggs (advanced) and Jean Carnwell (new hands). The table show for three stems from the flower border was also won by Jean Carnwell.
The next meeting will be on Thursday 13 September with a talk by Melanie Collins on hostas.
On Thursday 6 September members and guests will be visiting RHS Wisley. Non members are welcome with a few places still available. The cost is £15 and for further information please contact Christine Hewson on 01953 454528 or on Sally Westrup 01953 788712.
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