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First, a BIG THANK YOU to everyone who made the 2022 Garden Show such fun – our stewards, the judges, everyone who delivered fliers round the village and placed schedules far and wide, the LASS furniture movers, the kitchen trio, the results team, the indefatigable family display voting monitors, the raffle ticket sellers and all who donated raffle prizes, our treasurers, the cup steward, everyone who sponsored a class, and most of all to our exhibitors, who brought more than 480 entries (not counting the Handwriting) to the Village Hall on Sunday morning and to all who came to admire and enjoy the spectacle.  
 
We really did not know what to expect after two years without a “proper show”.  Would people want to make jam and take photos and write limericks any more?  Then for fruit and flowers and veg the weather was so unhelpful – weeks of rain followed by weeks of baking sun to challenge growers everywhere.  However, a little trickle of entry forms turned in to a flood, and we were off!
 
It would be great to know what you thought – what classes we should add or take away, how we could encourage more people (especially children) to take part, anything you think we could do to make 2023 an even greater success.  Email gardenshowllangynidr@gmail.com with your views.
 
And we are always looking for volunteers to help organise the Garden Show, either on the day or in the weeks before. If you could offer a few hours, please get in touch.
 
We look forward to seeing everyone at the garden show in 2023!
 
Llangynidr Garden Show Committee: Margery Davies, Julie Ellis, Susan Hankey, Julie Jobbins, Helen Phillips, Heather Tyrrell, Christopher Vulliamy.

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​Lady Fedden Rose Bowl
Most points in rose classes
Susan Hankey/Susan Ballantine

Forster Challenge Cup
Mammoth marrow
Lewys Ralph

Mary Potter Cup
Most points for cut flowers
David Shelton

Howard Llewellyn Cup
Most points in Horticultural section
Gil Chambers

Sandeman Cup
Most points in Horticultural section Llangynidr residents only
Gil Chambers

Llangynidr Garden Society Cup (Horticultural)
Runner up to Sandeman Cup
Christopher Vulliamy

Fuchsia Cup
Colin Jones

Pam Free Trophy
Best rose exhibit
Susan Hankey

RHS Banksian Medal
Most money won in Horticultural section
Gil Chambers

Best Vegetable Entry
Colin Morris

Best Flower Entry
Gil Chambers

​McDonald Perpetual Cup
Best display of vegetables
Hilary Barratt

Llangynidr Dahlia Bowl
Best vase of smaller garden dahlias
David Shelton
Ford Cup
Floral art
Jean Dunning

Glaisfer Trophy
Best Family Display, judged by visitors to the Show
The Harries family

Giles Cup
Most points in Domestic and Craft sections (points won in both)
Helen Phillips

Llangynidr Garden Society Cup (Domestic)
Most points in Domestic section
Helen Phillips

Silver Dish
Best Domestic exhibit
Sue Evans

WI Trophy
Best Craft exhibit
Julie Ellis

Llangynidr Garden Society Cup (Craft)
Most points in Craft section
Alf Dobbs

Gilyeat Cup
Best woodwork exhibit
Alf Dobbs

Lady Fedden Silver Vase
Most points in Youth section
Lowri Hughes

Moesan Cup
Best exhibit ages 5-6
Nico Gibbs

Joan Hughes Award
Best exhibit ages 7-8
Lowri Hughes

Eddie Davies Cup
Best exhibit ages 9-10
Aled Davies

Medal
Best exhibit ages 3-4
Osian Davies
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I met a young farmer from Wales
Who took up as a breeder of snails
With numbers stupendous
The outcome horrendous –
All gardens laid waste in the vales

I met a young farmer from Wales
With pink hair and immaculate nails
Her skill on a tractor
Was truly X-factor
And the envy of all of the males

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HORTICULTURAL
1
CARROTS
RODNEY REAMS

2
LEEKS
No entries

3
COURGETTES
JOHN GIBBS

4
ONIONS
DAVID SHELTON

5
POTATOES
COLIN MORRIS

6
BEETROOT
COLIN MORRIS
7
BEANS
COLIN MORRIS

8
ANY OTHER VEGETABLE
HOLLY DUNNING

9
BEST WONKY VEGETABLE
ROSEMARY EVANS

10
TOMATOES
PAUL THOMAS

11
TRUSS OF TOMATOES
PAUL THOMAS

12
CUCUMBERS
HELEN HARRIES

13
APPLES
JENNY MULHOLLAND

14
PLUMS
SYLVIA KUKAINIS

15
PEARS
CHRISTOPHER VULLIAMY

16
CULTIVATED BERRIES
GRANT BARLOW

17
ANY OTHER FRUIT
ROB DUNNING

18
COLLECTION OF CULINARY HERBS
GIL CHAMBERS

19
LONGEST RUNNER BEAN
ALYS EVANS

20
LONGEST STICK OF RHUBARB
JENNY MULHOLLAND

21
MAMMOTH MARROW
LEWYS RALPH

22
DAHLIAS, 3 SAME TYPE
DAVID SHELTON

23
DAHLIAS, 3 DIFFERENT TYPES
COLIN MORRIS

24
VASE OF SMALLER GARDEN DAHLIAS
DAVID SHELTON

25
SWEET PEAS
No entries

26
HYDRANGEAS
PETER BRADSHAW

27
PERFUMED ROSE
SUSAN BALLANTINE

28
ROSES
SUSAN HANKEY

29
POT PLANT (FLOWERING)
CHRISTOPHER VULLIAMY

30
POT PLANT (FOLIAGE)
SUE EVANS

31
PLANTED RECYCLED CONTAINER
SUE EVANS

32
VASE OF CUT FLOWERS
GIL CHAMBERS

33
DISPLAY OF VEGETABLES
HILARY BARRATT

​FAMILY DISPLAYS
34
FAMILY DISPLAY
HARRIES FAMILY
FLORAL ART
35
FLORAL ART ‘A JUBILEE’
JEAN DUNNING

36
FLORAL ART ‘A POSY FOR THE QUEEN’
EDWYN WILLIAMS

DOMESTIC
37
LOAF OF BREAD
MARJORIE JONES

38
LOAF OF BREAD (TIN)
BEV ROLLEY

39
FOCACCIA
JENNY MULLHOLLAND

40
GINGER BISCUITS
SUSAN BALLANTINE

41
WELSH CAKES
ANITA HARRIES

42
VEGETARIAN QUICHE
CHARLOTTE HUGHES

43
CHEESE SCONES
SUE EVANS

44
CURD TARTS
HELEN HARRIES

45
COFFEE CAKE
SUE EVANS

46
APPLE CAKE
PAUL THOMAS

47
A PUDDING IN A JAR OR GLASS
PENNY HUGHES

48
POT OF JAM
SUSAN BALLANTINE

49
POT OF JELLY
HELEN PHILLIPS

50
POT OF MARMALADE
TIM EVANS

51
POT OF LEMON CURD
MARGARET DAVIES

52
POT OF CHUTNEY OR RELISH
HELEN PHILLIPS

53
HOMEMADE WINE
N/A

54
CIDER OR PERRY
ANITA HARRIES

55
OTHER HOMEMADE ALCOLHOLIC BEVERAGE
JAN SMITH

56
EGGS
JENNY MULHOLLAND

CRAFT
57
ANY ARTICLE WORKED IN CROSS STITCH OR EMBROIDERY
MARGERY DAVIES

58
A CROCHET ARTICLE
ANN DAVIES

59
A HAND KNITTED ARTICLE
MAXINE HILL

60
A LAMPSHADE DECORATED WITH CARDBOARD OR FABRIC
No entries

61
A QUILTED ARTICLE OR PATCHWORK
JULIE ELLIS

62
A PICTURE
CLAIRE MORTON

63
A PHOTOGRAPH ‘FOOD GLORIOUS FOOD’
EMMA MORGAN

64
A PHOTOGRAPH ‘BIRDS IN MY GARDEN’
TIM EVANS

65
AN ARTICLE MADE FROM WOOD
ALF DOBBS

66
A DECOUPAGE BOX
HELEN PHILLIPS

67
ADULT COLOURING
LILWEN GIBBS DAVIES
LIMERICKS
68
LIMERICK
HILARY BARRATT

69
JUNIOR LIMERICK (AGES 16 AND UNDER)
BARNEY BRYAN

YOUTH SECTION
70
GARDEN DESIGN (14 to 18 years)
No entries

71
VIDEO CHALLENGE (14 to18 years)
GEORGINA HILL

72
A PHOTOGRAPH ‘THIS MADE ME LAUGH’ (11 to 13 years)
No entries

73
A FILM OR TV POSTER (11 to 13 years)
No entries

74
AN ARTICLE MADE FROM WOOD (11 to 13 years)
No entries

75
MINI GREENHOUSE (9 to 10 years)
No entries

76
DECORATED FAIRY CAKES (9 to 10 years)
ALED DAVIES

77
A MONSTER MASK (9 to 10 years)
ALED DAVIES

78
COLOURING SHEET (7 TO 8 YEARS)
LOWRI HUGHES

79
DECORATED BISCUITS (7 to 8 years)
LOWRI HUGHES

80
AN ANIMAL MADE OF VEGETABLES (7 to 8 years)
LOWRI HUGHES

81
COLOURING SHEET (5 to 6 years)
NICO GIBBS

82
POTATO PRINT PICTURE (5 to 6 years)
ESME GITTINGS

83
A DECORATED FLOWER POT (5 to 6 years)
EDWYN WILLIAMS

84
DECORATED HAT MADE FROM CARDBOARD (3 to 4 years)
OSIAN DAVIES

85
POTATO PRINT PICTURE (3 to 4 years)
DAFYDD HUGHES

CHILDREN’S HANDWRITING
86
HANDWRITING YEAR 5
ALICE LANCASTER

87
HANDWRITING YEAR 4
FRANCES JACOBY

88
HANDWRITING YEAR 3
CARA FISKE DE GOUVEIA

89
HANDWRITING YEAR 2
THEO GILES

90
HANDWRITING YEAR 1
Big Butterflies
JACOB HOWELLS

90
HANDWRITING YEAR 1
Small Butterflies
ROSANNA FISKE DE GOUVEIA
If you can't see the schedule above, please download it from here:
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2021 Alternative Show Report

Photos courtesy of Peter Childs
Here are the excellent Limericks submitted by a highly talented set of entrants:
show_21_limericks.pdf
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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

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