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GFGS 5th Open Sweet Pea Show

The Federations 5th Open Sweet Pea Show was held at Shurdington Social Centre in conjunction with the Cotswold Fuchsia & Pelargonium Society’s Annual Fuchsia Show.

The Sweet Pea Show was a riot of colour and scent, this year it was judged by Mr George Alway from Bristol who has many years’ experience of growing and showing sweet peas. Word is getting out about this ‘Open’ Sweet Pea Show, this year we had a new exhibitor Mrs Jenny Morgan who had travelled from Abergavenny and although fairly new to exhibiting won ‘Best in Show’ with a mixed bowl of sweet peas, a trial run for her next outing at the Royal Welsh Show where they hold the National Sweet Pea Championship of Wales! Congratulations to Jenny and good luck at the Royal Welsh Show.

Jenny Morgan and her 'Best in Show' sweetpeas

Our thanks to the Cheltenham Horticultural Society for the loan of bikini vases for the sweet pea show.

As well as the sweet pea show the Cotswold Fuchsia & Pelargonium Society were also holding their Annual Fuchsia Show at the same venue, so two shows for the price of one!

The GFGS information stand

Some quite spectacular fuchsias were on show, so a difficult job for the judge Mr Arthur Phillips, President of the British Fuchsia Society.

These shows would not take place without all those who take the trouble to exhibit, to the winner’s congratulations and to the runners up better luck next time. We must not forget all those unsung heroes who work tirelessly behind the scenes to make these shows a success, so we say a big thankyou to the Show Secretaries Colin & Rosemary Smith and all members of the Cotswold Fuchsia & Pelargonium Society for providing refreshments, running the raffle, tombola, plant sales etc. To the GFGS Guild of Judges who provided stewards.

On a historic note the staging used at the show was made by Dowty Maintenance Department for the first provincial show of the national Sweet Pea Society outside London in 1975, forty years and still going strong!

The images have kindly been supplied by Lewis Morgan, Syd Reed and Rod Wells.

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