By Jeremy Sollars
RECENT springtime rain across the region is being celebrated by our gardening enthusiasts, not least of which is Warwick Horticultural Society president Graham Gillam.
Mr Gillam wants to get the word out there about the society’s annual Spring Flower Show and floral window display competition, held to coincide with Rodeo week with the society now in its 108th year.
Speaking to the Free Times during wet conditions in his Glennie Heights garden bursting with spring colour, Mr Gillam encouraged both experienced and novice flower growers and local businesses from the Rose City and surrounds to get involved.
“This is a great chance for people to show off the results of their gardening efforts now that spring has arrived,” Mr Gillam said.
“Our floral competitions are a long Warwick tradition, and we’d love to see a healthy lot of entries in 2016.”
Categories for the business floral window competition include floral trade display, floral window, rose display, rodeo display, picture window, school display, financial and professional institutions, foyer and waiting rooms, interior display and artificial display.
Entries for the floral window competition close on Thursday 27 October and judging starts the following Friday morning at 9am sharp, ahead of Rodeo weekend.
The Annual Spring Flower Show will be held the week before, over Wednesday 19 and Thursday 20 October at St Mary’s Hall on Wood Street.
There are no fees to exhibit at the show and all are welcome to enter, with classes including Floral Art, Children’s Classes, Roses, Cut Flowers and Flowering Native Plants, Orchids, Pot Plants and Vegetables.
Juniors and schools are especially encouraged to enter.
For more information about entry conditions for the annual Spring Flower Show call Graham Gillam on 4661 3156 or Margot Cory on 4661 1414.
To pick up an entry form for the floral window competition drop into the Free Times office at 70 Fitzroy Street.
