Hartley Flower Club made decorated spoons at their July workshop with dried or artificial materials. They will be displayed at the village's September Show. Photos sent by Jean Hoar We are delighted to launch our photography competition for 2023. There are some really exciting titles in this competition to head to the Photography page by clicking here to download the schedule
'Kent Floral Club Day' was held at Elham Village Hall on Saturday, 16th July. In the morning we were entertained by one of the original 'Calendar Girls', Tricia Stewart, who had has all laughing with the background stories of the success of the calendar, the film, the screen play and the musical. In the afternoon Delyth Price, National Demonstrator, thrilled us all with stunning floral designs and her stories of farm life, her joy of flower arranging & travels.
A massive thank you to everyone who helped in making this a truly successful day - a great team effort! There are photos on the Gallery page go to 'MORE' and click on GALLERY. Thanks go to Mary Wheatley and her team for organising a successful floral art competition at the Kent County Show. Thanks also go to the competitors, stewards and those who did talks on the stage showing what to do with a supermarket bunch of flowers. The full results are on the County Show page of this website and photos of all the exhibits are on the Gallery page
The Show is now over. Many thanks to all those who contributed:
competitors, judges, Kent Garden Show organisers and committee, who gave up their time over the staging and show, ably led by Mig Kimpton who devised the theme and layout. Congratulations to the prize winners and well done to all. Photos and results can be found on the Gallery page of this website under 'more' and on the Kent Floral Art facebook page. A fantastic 194 photographs from 23 competitors were entered into this year’s competition, compared to 143 photographs from 17 competitors in 2021. The talented Janet Susan Kent A.R.P.S. (Associate of the Royal Photographic Society) and member of Bexley Photographic Society, has kindly been our judge again.
Judges overall comment on entries was “An uplifting variety of wellproduced photographs which were a pleasure to judge. All competitors should be proud of their entries.” The winner of the Carolyn Raisbeck Trophy is awarded to Laura Benson who entered this year for the first time. Laura won 1st prize in Class 1 “Kent Landscape or Seascape” and Class 6 “Wish you were here” and gained the most points overall … well done Laura! Well done to everyone who entered. All the placed entries can be seen on the Gallery page under the 'MORE' heading. A full list of the entrants and judges comments can be found on the Photography page under the JSDEP heading Thank you to all our members who sent in daisy inspired designs for our Virtual Daisy Chain for National Flower Arrangers Day. All of the designs are on our Facebook page and the gallery page of this website. Click here to visit the gallery. Click on the small photos to see larger versions
The Spring Newsletter is now available for downloading. You can find it on the Kent News page of this website. Click here to go to the page
We have four "Kent" articles in Flora this quarter.
Robin's design from the area show is on P72 Gill Smaggasgale has an article on pages 48 and 49 about flowery things to do in Kent. Trudie Easton has a design on pages 40, 41 and 71 Well done for our demonstrators promoting Kent Floral Art Nationwide We were given a fun filled day of laughter and fabulous flowers on March 30th for JDSEP day at Ditton. Alan Haines had us heckling , singing and most of all laughing to the well remembered times of the baby boomer generation.
Robin White wowed with his usual wonderful designs and described how he decided on the theme which led him to win Designer of the Year in 2019. His finale was truly astounding, reminding us that he had originally planned to celebrate Kent Floral Art's Diamond Anniversary. He asked that we video the unveiling to allow all those who couldn't attend a chance to see what they missed view here: https://youtu.be/TqP3bCiNwoc On Thursday 17th March representatives from club committee's joined the Executive and JDSE&P teams for a fun day in Hothfield while dealing with problems facing clubs. There were ideas for things to do at clubs, chances to meet people from other clubs, breakout sessions for treasurers, programme secretaries and chairman to address some of their concerns, a mini-workshop, a mini-talk and a demonstration with a difference...... oh and there was lots of cake!
Many members arrived looking nervous as not sure what to expect but went away smiling having made new friends More photos on the Gallery page. Click here |
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