Caversham Horticultural Society

Our Autumn Show

Saturday 2nd September 2023

Saturday 2nd September 2023

Our Autumn Show was on Saturday 2nd September 2023 at Emmer Green primary school, Caversham. 

We hope you enjoyed coming to see the exhibits, plants and bulbs as well as the refreshments and raffle.

How to Enter

We aim to encourage all levels of exhibitors and there are classes for everyone, from fruit and veg growers, to flower growers and arrangers, classes for the budding Bake-off contestant and a handicraft section too. 

See the schedule below for ideas for next year's show (September 2024).


Download the autumn show schedule

Show Schedule 2023

Vegetables

Class 1: 5 salad tomatoes
Class 2: 3 beef steak tomatoes
Class 3: 7 cherry tomatoes
Class 4: truss of green tomatoes
Class 5: 3 potatoes, white
Class 6: 3 potatoes, coloured
Class 7: 6 potatoes, 2 each of 3 varieties

Class 8: 3 onions globe <7.5cm

Class 9: 3 onions flat < 9cm

Class 10: 7 shallots

Class 11: 3 beetroot

Class 12: 3 carrots

Class 13: 6 runner beans

Class 14: 7 french beans

Class 15: 2 sweetcorn 

Class 16: 2 cucumbers

Class 17: 3 courgettes

Class 18: any other vegetable

Class 19: any four vegetables

Class 20: 3 kinds salad vegetables

Class 21: 6  stems culinary herbs
fruit

Class 22: 3 dessert apples
Class 23: 3 cooking apples
Class 24: 3 pears
Class 25: plate of 3 mixed fruit
Class 26: any other fruit
Class 27: 6 soft fruit
Flowers

Class 28: 3 blooms large flowered roses
Class 29: 3 stems cluster flowered roses
Class 30: bowl of roses
Class 31: rose bloom floating in a bowl
Class 32: 3 blooms mixed dahlias
Class 33: 3 blooms dahlias single variety
Class 34: specimen bloom dahlia
Class 35: specimen stem pelargonium
Class 36: vase annual single variety
Class 37: case annual mixed varieties
Class 38: 3 multistems cosmos
Class 39: 1 bloom sunflower
Class 40: vase 3 stems fuchsia mixed varieties
Class 41: specimen stem fuchsia
Class 42: vase of perennials
Class 43: vase foliage (min 3 varieties)
Class 44: fuchsia in a pot
Class 45: foliage pot plant
Class 46: flowering pot plant
Class 47: succulent or cactus
Novice

Class 48: 3 runner beans

Class 49: 3 potatoes

Class 50: 3 tomatoes
Class 51: any other vegetable
Class 52: 2 apples
Class 53: any other fruit
Class 54: vase mixed flowers
Class 55: vase one kind flowers
Class 56: novice floral arrangement "Coronation"
Domestic

Class 57: jar of jam
Class 58: jar of chutney
Class 59: small bottle homebrew beet
Class 60: 3 cheese scones
Class 61: 5 sausages rolls
Class 62: 5 ginger biscuits
Class 63: victoria sandwich
Class 64: lemon drizzle cake (see full schedule for recipe)
Miscellaneous and handicraft

Class 65: longest runner bean
Class 66: home made compost
Class 67: ugliest vegetable
Class 68: Michael Howes challenge cup (seniors only)
Class 69: Jean Sawyer cup
Class 70: photo of butterfly(ies)
Class 71: photo of tree(s)
Class 72: photo of coronation
Class 73: item of knitting
Class 74: item of embroidery
Class 75: painting of seascape
Class 76: piece of pottery
Floral Art

Class 77: "The Coronation"
Class 78: "Beauty without flowers"
Class 79: "Twists and Twirls"
Class 80: Petite (<25cm)
Class 81: Miniature (<10cm)
Children (12 and under)

Class 82: garden in half a seed tray
Class 83: monster from fruit/veg
Class 84: vase of any flower
Class 85: any vegetable
Class 86: a playdoh pet
Class 87: cress in an unusual container
Class 88: drawing of a caterpillar
Class 89: photo of a butterfly
Class 90: gingerbread person

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