As we had to cancel the Spring Challenge against Godstone, the Committee decided to invite Godstone Gardeners to enter the show. We would like to thank all of the Godstone members who entered and helped us put on this show. Godstone Gardeners are particularly adept at floral art, as the results show!
We are also very grateful to Sylvia Pocock, who agreed to judge the show in this rather unique medium. Judging from photographs is not without difficulties, and was an experience on its own, and we cannot put our thanks better than her response:
"Very well done to everyone who entered in this very odd year. It is good to see people determined to get going and make the effort. The quality of the entries was excellent, and I am so pleased that you took up the challenge to hold this show".
We have learned a great deal by staging this version, and we would love to hear your responses to it - whether this is thoughts as an entrant or a viewer, or both. We may have to hold our main September show this way, and any feedback you have is valuable. Please note that the comment fields under each entry are open but that comments do not appear immediately.
We have presented the show with each class as a separate post, with comments available on each class. One warning though - we have had over 180 entries, and you might like to take the stroll through it with a cup of tea (or something much stronger - Ed), for fortification! If in doubt, just keep scrolling on and don't forget to click the "Older Posts" button to move to the next page of classes …in addition, with so many entries, things can go wrong; while we are sure that we have all entries displayed, if yours is missing please accept our apologies and let us know so that we can correct it!
Anyway, on with the show ….
Thank you Jilly and Jeremy for putting this show together. I wasn't at all sure it would work online, but it did so wonderfully. Here's to the next one!
ReplyDeleteClaire (Treasurer Godstone GC)
Thank you Claire - and you are welcome! It will be a few weeks, and several glasses of wine, before we want to think about the next, but the September show is looking more and more likely in this form.....
DeleteAnother thank you Jilly & Jeremy - a surprisingly wonderful turnout from so many Hurst Green and Godstone members. I was unsure about the format but thanks to your brilliant efforts you’ve made it look so obviously “normal”.
ReplyDeleteThanks Alan - nice to know the format seems to "work".
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