2022 Garden and Craft Show
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If you can't see the schedule above, please download it from here:
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2021 Alternative Show Report
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Photos courtesy of Peter Childs
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Here are the excellent Limericks submitted by a highly talented set of entrants:
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Covid-19 prevented our holding a big Agricultural and Garden Show again this year. But what a lovely time we had with the Alternative Show 2021! Two days of splendid displays, open gardens, trails, raffle, plant sales, stalls and scrumptious teas.
As well as having fun, together we raised £1344 for the primary school. Happily this is more than enough to replace the school’s broken projector, which is used every day in school and by visiting groups such as U3A.
On the sunny Sunday we saw 30 wonderful displays around the village and a dozen gardens open for everyone to explore. Up at the School parents, families and teachers sold tickets for a bottle stall and a raffle, plants and cream teas.
The variety of animals made out of vegetables, scarecrows, fairy gardens, prime tomatoes, imaginative arrangements of flowers, vegetables and fruit, and the truly funny wonky things people had grown in their gardens was amazing to see.
We asked visitors to give marks to the displays they visited. Not surprisingly, the children won all the prizes for the front gate displays!
First Prize Edwyn Williams
Second prize Tilly Glasspool
Third prize Katy & Emily Morton
Highly commended: Seren Maddox, Joe & Eve Powell, George Gibbs, Poppy & Michael Mason, Oliver Duggan,
Eirwen Jones, Bobbie & Fletcher Powis, Charlie & Layla Jones and the
Lewis/Jenkins family: Freya, Catrin, Aaron, Maisie & Evie
Limericks
Every Llangynidr show needs Limericks. This year’s first lines were:
I admit that I‘m bad with a rake and
There was an old man who grew peas.
Lots of these were scattered through the displays and are here on the website – highly recommended if you are in need of a chuckle.
What did the Very Hungry Caterpillar eat?
Hidden in the displays were pictures of food the Very Hungry Caterpillar ate, for children to seek out in trails round the Upper and Lower village. Huge thanks Emily, Willis, Eve, Joe, Evie and Seren who made the fantastic art work. Everyone who took a completed trail form back to the hubs got a small reward and a certificate.
Families bought maps to help to find the displays, especially useful if you were also trying to discover the caterpillars leading to the pictures on the trails.
Monday was different: two routes through a variety of gardens, again guided by maps, with tea and cake on offer.
The walk along Cyffredyn Lane and the Canal took you to the impressive setting of The Old Rectory, in course of restoration to show what the gardens might have been like when the rectory was built in the 1830s – a beautiful setting for coffee and cookies. Thanks to Marcus Russell and Sue Harris. Then visitors could walk along the lane to a display of country items (with an educational angle) at Usk Cottage, arranged by John and George Gibbs with help from other family members. At the far end of the lane William Gibbs opened Croft Penderren Orchard, which hides some wonderful modern sculptures among the trees along the banks of the Usk.
The Gardens on Nant Glaisfer allowed visitors to admire displays in unusual containers hiding a lovely small cottage garden at Pentre Cottage, then gorgeous mature planting at Cae Felin and finally to reward themselves for the climb up the hill with tea and cake in the large and varied garden at Ty Cerrig with superb views to the mountains around. Thanks to Heather Tyrrell, Ann Jessopp and Susan Hankey.
Thank you to the families who produced the splendid displays, to those who opened their gardens, to everyone who worked so hard to organise the activities and to all who explored the village over the Bank Holiday. Let’s see what 2022 brings!
The Friends of Llangynidr School and the Garden Show Society Committee
As well as having fun, together we raised £1344 for the primary school. Happily this is more than enough to replace the school’s broken projector, which is used every day in school and by visiting groups such as U3A.
On the sunny Sunday we saw 30 wonderful displays around the village and a dozen gardens open for everyone to explore. Up at the School parents, families and teachers sold tickets for a bottle stall and a raffle, plants and cream teas.
The variety of animals made out of vegetables, scarecrows, fairy gardens, prime tomatoes, imaginative arrangements of flowers, vegetables and fruit, and the truly funny wonky things people had grown in their gardens was amazing to see.
We asked visitors to give marks to the displays they visited. Not surprisingly, the children won all the prizes for the front gate displays!
First Prize Edwyn Williams
Second prize Tilly Glasspool
Third prize Katy & Emily Morton
Highly commended: Seren Maddox, Joe & Eve Powell, George Gibbs, Poppy & Michael Mason, Oliver Duggan,
Eirwen Jones, Bobbie & Fletcher Powis, Charlie & Layla Jones and the
Lewis/Jenkins family: Freya, Catrin, Aaron, Maisie & Evie
Limericks
Every Llangynidr show needs Limericks. This year’s first lines were:
I admit that I‘m bad with a rake and
There was an old man who grew peas.
Lots of these were scattered through the displays and are here on the website – highly recommended if you are in need of a chuckle.
What did the Very Hungry Caterpillar eat?
Hidden in the displays were pictures of food the Very Hungry Caterpillar ate, for children to seek out in trails round the Upper and Lower village. Huge thanks Emily, Willis, Eve, Joe, Evie and Seren who made the fantastic art work. Everyone who took a completed trail form back to the hubs got a small reward and a certificate.
Families bought maps to help to find the displays, especially useful if you were also trying to discover the caterpillars leading to the pictures on the trails.
Monday was different: two routes through a variety of gardens, again guided by maps, with tea and cake on offer.
The walk along Cyffredyn Lane and the Canal took you to the impressive setting of The Old Rectory, in course of restoration to show what the gardens might have been like when the rectory was built in the 1830s – a beautiful setting for coffee and cookies. Thanks to Marcus Russell and Sue Harris. Then visitors could walk along the lane to a display of country items (with an educational angle) at Usk Cottage, arranged by John and George Gibbs with help from other family members. At the far end of the lane William Gibbs opened Croft Penderren Orchard, which hides some wonderful modern sculptures among the trees along the banks of the Usk.
The Gardens on Nant Glaisfer allowed visitors to admire displays in unusual containers hiding a lovely small cottage garden at Pentre Cottage, then gorgeous mature planting at Cae Felin and finally to reward themselves for the climb up the hill with tea and cake in the large and varied garden at Ty Cerrig with superb views to the mountains around. Thanks to Heather Tyrrell, Ann Jessopp and Susan Hankey.
Thank you to the families who produced the splendid displays, to those who opened their gardens, to everyone who worked so hard to organise the activities and to all who explored the village over the Bank Holiday. Let’s see what 2022 brings!
The Friends of Llangynidr School and the Garden Show Society Committee
