SUMMER SHOW 

                                                                  SATURDAY 11TH  JULY 2026

WEST HORSLEY VILLAGE HALL

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The hall will be open from 8.30am. Entries must be in place by 10.30am.

Judging will commence at 10:45 am.

 

The show is open for viewing from 2:00 pm until 4:00 pm followed by presentation of awards

Entry for this show is free and open to members of the Society
All children & grandchildren are also welcome to enter the show

 

Prizes in each class:
1st £2.00
2nd £1.00
3rd 50p

A small gift prize is awarded to each child who

enters the children’s competition

 

Judges

 Flowers and Fruit & Vegetables

Belinda Allen

 

Home Crafts

Rosemary Hucker

 

Children’s Entries

Jane Lazenby

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 Members may make more than one entry in classes marked with * but with different varieties

Division 1 - Flowers

1.   Roses, large- flowered and grown for fragrance - one bloom*

2.   Roses, large- flowered and one or more varieties - three blooms*

3.   Roses, cluster- flowered - three sprays

4.   Roses, one variety - one bud, one bloom, one blown*

5.   Sweet peas, mixed - five stems

6.   Annuals or biennials, any kind or variety or mixed - five stems*

7.  Herbaceous perennials, single variety not suited to other named class – three sprays

8.  Best flower in the garden other than a rose - one bloom or spray

9.  Bulbs or corms, one variety, five stems

10.  Flowering shrub or tree, one spray in bloom*

11.  Shrub or tree – grown for foliage, one spray*

12.  Clematis - five blooms

13.  Mixed flowers, not as an arrangement - no fewer than four kinds

14.  Mixed foliage, not as an arrangement - no fewer than four kinds

15.  Indoor pot plant, any - pot must not exceed 20cm width

16.  Outdoor pot plant, any - pot must not exceed 20cm width

17.  Dahlia various – three blooms

18.  Flower arrangement in an ‘Unusual container’ (see  HGS schedule ‘Rules for exhibitors’ page 10, item 19)

 

Division 1 – Fruit​

19.  Soft fruit other than currants or gooseberries, one variety - dish of nine *

20.  Currants red or black, 150 grams of similar sizes – one variety*

21.  Gooseberries, one variety - dish of nine *

22.  Rhubarb, foliage cut to 10 cm - three sticks

 

Division 1: Vegetables​

23. Broadbeans sixpods–one*

24. Runner beans, six pods - one variety*

25. Beans other than broad or runner, six pods - one variety*

26. Peas, nine pods - one variety*

27. Lettuce, one variety - two lettuces *

28. Potatoes, one variety - four potatoes*

29. Culinary herbs, four different named herbs - not in flower - not to exceed 30cm high

30. Any other vegetable/salad – one variety *

31. Collection of vegetables, three examples of four different kinds

32. Ugliest vegetable

 

Division 2: Homecrafts  

Cookery

33. Marmalade - one jar*

34. Soft fruit jam - one jar*

35. Fruit jelly- one jar*

36. Chutney – one jar*

37. Fruit curd * (see Hints for exhibitors, HGS Schedule on page 11, Homecraft- item 5)

38. German apple cake (see sample recipe on HGS Schedule on page 21 & 22)

39. Vegetarian savoury tart - own pastry

40. Malted bread – one loaf (see HGS Schedule for sample recipe at: https://fussfreeflavours.com/basic-malted-loaf/)

41. Coffee and walnut butterfly cakes - plate of four (see HGS Schedule suggested recipe on page 20 & 21)

 

Craft

42. Art or photography – A single flower

43. Art or photography - Flowers from my garden

44. Any other medium – A single flower
 

Division 3: Children

45. Decorated flowerpot person (see HGS schedule sample ideas on page 19)

46. Vegetable vehicle (see HGS schedule sample ideas on page 19)

47. Iced fairy cakes with a ‘Bug’ theme – plate of four (see HGS Schedule for sample ideas on page 19)