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The GFGS Stand at the RHS Malvern Spring Festival 2018

On Tuesday 8th May 2018, I travelled across to the Three Counties Showground with Tom Price to start putting together the GFGS Stand for the RHS Malvern Spring Festival 2018.

Having arrived and located our space in the National Plant Societies Area we assembled our hardware ready for the plants the following day, once again a couple of hours well spent in our opinion.

On Wednesday 9th May, along with Tom Price and Stuart Rowe having collected plants on route we travelled in convoy to Malvern with baskets of plants to finish staging the display. Baskets and/or plants had been provided by the following gardening clubs or societies.

AGS Cotswold & Malvern Alpine Group (provided by Eric Jarrett & Pauline Carless)
Cheltenham & District Allotment Holders Association (Colin & Rosemary Smith)
Cheltenham & District Orchid Society (provided by Tom Price & Rod Wells)
Churchdown Horticultural Society (basket provided by Rebecca Henwood)
Cotswold Fuchsia & Pelargonium Society (provided by Robert Champion)
Hucclecote Horticultural Society (provided by Jan Broadway & Alan Cursue)
Slimbridge Horticultural Society (provided by Carole Jeffes)
Thornbury Horticultural Society (provided by Dot Culverhouse)

All the baskets, plants etc., were arranged and lists with the names of the Clubs that had supplied them displayed. This was finished off with our display boards and some GFGS promotional leaflets, posters and Club literature that I had been supplied with.

Along with my long suffering wife, I arrived bright and early on Thursday 10th May just to make sure everything was okay and to my surprize discovered that the stand had been awarded a RHS Silver Medal..!

During the show the stand was stewarded by a number of members from local clubs and societies who were kept busy answering questions from people visiting the show.

On Sunday 13th May Alan Cursue, Jan Broadway, Stuart & Val Rowe who came for the day also stayed on to help us pack up and assist with the transportation of plants for which I知 most grateful. We were lucky to have Tom & Rose Price there with their handy carts which allowed us to transport all plants, props etc., out to our vehicles and once again we were driving out of the car park at about 5 pm!

My thanks to all those who supplied baskets, plants etc., and stewarded the stand, without their help and hard work we would not have produced a stand which was admired by many attending the show.

A special thanks to those mentioned above who had made the baskets up on behalf of their clubs/societies. We also potentially gained a few new members for Affiliated Societies and had a number of enquiries about grants for school gardening clubs and the Federation.

Rod Wells

You can also see pictures from earlier shows: