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Spring Show Schedule 2026
The 2026 Spring Show will take place on Sunday 22nd March at 2:30pm. Prize giving and auction at 4:00pm. |
Many thanks to Ashridge Manor Garden Centre
for their support with our Spring Show. |
If you want to enter the show, go to the end of the list below and list your entry details in the 'List your entries' section. You will need to state your name and classes you wish to enter.
The schedule of classes you can enter are:
Spring Show - Section A - Flowers, etc.
Classes 1 to 11 – One bloom per stem excluding classes 6 and 11
Daffodil divisions are shown on pages 3 and 4
Class Title Variety
1 2 Vases of 3 Daffodils (Division 2) One per vase
2 3 Daffodils (Any Division) One
3 5 Daffodils (Any Division) One
4 5 Daffodils (Any Division) Mixed
5 1 Specimen Daffodil (Division 1)
6 3 Daffodils (Multi headed) (Division 5, 7 or 8) One
7 3 Daffodils (double) (Division 4) One
8 3 Daffodils (novice) (Any Division) One
9 5 Stems Miniature Daffodils (single headed) One or more
10 5 Stems Miniature Daffodils (Division 5, 7 or 8) One or more
11 My Best Daffodil
12 5 Tulips (One bloom per stem) (novice) One or more
13 3 Stems Miniature tulips One or more
14 5 Tulips (one bloom per stem) One or more
15 3 Tulips (one bloom per stem) One
16 1 Camellia bloom
17 Bowl/pot not to exceed 23cm growing
any one species of Bulb/Corm /Tuber One or more
18 3 Sprays of Polyanthus (same colour) One
19 5 Sprays of Polyanthus Mixed
20 Chairman’s Challenge (No entry fee) One
21 1 Cut spike of Hyacinth
22 Flowering Orchid
23 An exotic plant (excluding orchids)
24 3 Specimen blooms in a decorative vase
(both bloom and vase to be judged). One cultivar
25 1 Vase of ornamental foliage Min. 5 kinds
26 1 Vase of flowering shrubs/trees Mixed
27 1 Vase of Spring flowers (No shrubs) Mixed
28 5 Grape Hyacinths Mixed
29 Pot plant in flower (excluding cacti & orchids)
30 Foliage pot plant (pot not to exceed 25cm) Excluding succulents
31 5 Stems of wallflowers One or more
32 1 cactus or Succulent pot plant
33 3 Sticks of Rhubarb – (natural) One
34 3 Sticks of Rhubarb – (forced) One
35 A tray of your own homemade compost
Spring Show – Section B – Floral Arrangements
NO LATE ENTRIES ALLOWED
See class for space allowed
As nondegradable Oasis has been banned by the RHS, please use a more environmentaly alternative.
Novice Classes
Class Title
36 An Easter Basket
Space allowed: height unlimited x depth 30cm x width 40cm
37 'Sweetness'
A round arrangement in a sugar bowl (or similar).
Space allowed: height unlimited x depth 25cm x width 25cm
Open Classes
Class Title
38 'Springtime'. A modern exhibit in a shallow container.
Space allowed: height unlimited x depth 45cm x width 45cm
39 'Gold & Silver'. An arrangement in a container of your own choice.
Space allowed: height unlimited x depth 30cm x width 30cm.
Please refer to the explanation of terms set out at the back of the schedule
Spring Show – Section C – Young Exhibitors’ Section
Photographs must be submitted digitally no later than the Friday
before the show.
Class Title
Aged 7 and Under.
40 Junior photography – ‘Spring Flowers’.
Aged 8 to 11 inclusive
41 Junior photography – ‘A Winter Walk’
Spring Show – Section D – Domestic
Class Title
42 5 Oat biscuits. To your own recipe.
43 Ginger Cake with lemon frosting
Ingredients:
120g Butter or Margarine
60g Golden Syrup
180g Black treacle
2 medium eggs
60g Brown Sugar
150ml milk
240g plain flour
1 rounded tsp mixed spice
1 level tsp bicarbonate of soda
2 level tsp ground ginger
Method:
Grease and line an 8” (20cm) appx. square cake tin. Using a large saucepan, warm together the butter, treacle, syrup and sugar. Add milk and allow to cool. Beat eggs and blend with cool mixture.
Sift dry ingredients together into a bowl, add the cooled mixture folding in gently. Turn into the greased and lined tin.
Bake in a slow oven 170°C (150°C fan) Gas Mark 2 for 1-1¼ hours. Turn out and cool on a wire tray before icing.
Icing
50g icing sugar sifted
1 tsp finely grated lemon zest
1 tbsp lemon juice
Method
When the cake has cooled mix together the icing sugar and lemon zest and then gradually add the lemon juice until a dropping consistency.
Drizzle icing in a zig-zag pattern on top of the cake
44 A Goats Cheese quiche
45 5 Decorated Cupcakes
46 5 Coconut Macaroons
47 A jar of fruit jelly
Spring Show – Section E – Handicrafts
Class Title
48 A greetings card (Not shown @ CGC before)
49 A picture to be coloured Picture to be supplied.
50 Any item of needlework (Not shown @ CGC before)
51 Any item of handicraft excluding needlework
(Not shown @ CGC before)
Spring Show – Section F – Photography
Photographs must be submitted digitally no later than the Friday
before the show.
Class Title
52 A Winter Scene (to be presented digitally)
53 New Beginnings (to be presented digitally)
Spring Show – Section G – Writing
54 'From Winter to Spring'
No more than 100 words.
Entries should be submitted by 12 noon on Saturday 22nd March. Entry fee 25p per class (excluding photography classes).
All exhibits should be staged by 10:45am (judging starts promptly at 11:00am).