Tuesday 5th August 2025
2.00 – 5.00pm
It’s that time again – we’re revving up to this year’s Flower & Produce Show, Wootton Courtenay Village Hall’s biggest annual event, and one of the most enjoyable. It is not necessarily winning prizes that is the thrill, it is taking part and contributing to the benches full of beautiful exhibits which creates such a jolly atmosphere in the hall and brings us all together!
Schedules
The Schedules for this year’s Flower & Produce Show are in the village shop now. Please come and collect one – don’t miss out. There are many different classes to suit everyone. If you don’t have much of a garden, you can bake, knit, sew, take photographs, and/or create a flower arrangement to enter for the Show. If you do have a garden, why not take a look at the Schedule and consider how many classes you might enter for the show?
Exhibitors’ Advice Sheets
Our advice sheet offers guidance on what the judges hope to see when they assess your entries. This is just a friendly guide, intended to help entrants, not discourage them! Click here to read the advice sheet. There will also be a copy on display in the Villagers’ Stores.
Photography Topics
Get creative with your cameras and phones! This year’s themes are:
‘Village Life’
‘Vegetables’
‘Decay’ (think stone, wood, old buildings, etc)
ONE photograph in each category only, please, and photographs must have been taken since the last Flower & Produce Show in 2024. The pictures should be unmounted and the largest size of paper that they may be printed on is A4.
Hanging Baskets
If you’d like to enter a hanging basket to be judged at the Show, please contact Marion Jay at marion@garden84.net and she will provide you with a basket which you can fill with your choice of plants. Entries must be in the baskets provided. This year’s colour theme is: Red, Pink & Purple.
Raffle Prizes
Could you donate a prize for the Flower Show raffle? The raffle is a popular and important part of the Flower Show. This year, we are looking specifically for foodie treats – bottles of drink (alcoholic or otherwise), chocs, biscuits, etc – and gardening-related items. If you can help with any of those, please drop your donated prize off at the Villagers’ Stores next time you’re in there.
Cakes for the Refreshments Table
If you’re willing to make a cake to grace the refreshments table, please contact Linda Stenner at whit.ps1954@gmail.com and let her know what kind of cake you will be bringing. All donated cakes very gratefully received.
Winners’ Cups
Would last year’s winners please return your cups to the Villagers’ Stores by Saturday July 12th. Cups must be cleaned before returning.
The Gardening Club will cover the engraving costs for all winners’ cups. Cups will be gathered at the end of this year’s Show and engraved together.
Proceeds of the Show
The Flower & Produce Show provides the main source of income for the village Gardening Club. To find out how that money is used, click here to go to the Club page of the village website. In addition, any fruit and vegetables not claimed by exhibitors will go to the village shop to be sold in aid of the West Somerset Food Cupboard.
Many thanks to Sarah and Mark for acting as a collection hub for exhibitors’ entries, raffle prizes, etc., and for selling the surplus fruit and veg in the shop. We couldn’t do this without you!
Pick up your copy of the Schedule this week. And good luck!
Ingrid Popplewell
Chairman, Flower & Produce Show
Wootton Courtenay 