HIHS Spring Show Announced

- Fri 22nd Feb 2008

Hayling Island Horticultural Society, founded in 1886, is to hold its 2008 Spring Show on Saturday 29th March at the Hayling Island Community Centre. Despite the early start to spring, we hope that exhibitors will have plenty of beautiful daffodils and narcissi to enter. There are classes for everybody, including pot plants, garden flowers, vegetables and rhubarb.

If you are not into growing things, then you could perhaps try your hand at cookery, handicrafts, photography or floral arts. Mouths will be watering at the sight of one of the ten cookery classes - treacle tart, a lovely retro recipe. The handicrafts section includes sugarcraft, needlework and woodwork and one of the photography classes is “A Feature of Hayling”. Novice flower arrangers can try “Spring into Life”.

For the Juniors the theme is Seeds and New Life and one of the six classes involves growing two runner bean seeds in a jar. There is cookery too as the juniors can decorate purchased biscuits, a popular class retained from last year.

You don’t have to be a member to enter, as many classes are open and you can just enjoy the show from 2.00pm as a visitor for only 50p. Disabled visitors are admitted at 1.30pm to enjoy the show in peace. The teas with home made cakes are legendary!

For full details of this show plus two more this year and a schedule with entry forms and other society details, contact Jan Mitchell, HIHS Publicity Officer on 023 9246 5147.

By forum user, Merlot

Discuss this news item in our forum