Wednesday 8th January
Members Fish and Chips Supper
followed by a talk from
Ranger Jim Stevenson
We started the evening with a lovely fish and chip super
supplied by Rumbles of Brampton. This was followed by
an illustrated talk from Ranger Jim on his life as a ranger
at Paxton Pits Nature Reserve. Jim very kindly stepped in at the last minute when Stephen Hall cancelled due to bronchitis.
A great evening much enjoyed by the members.
Wednesday 5th February
Tim Meakin
Working with Nature
Working with Nature
As a firm favourite with our members Tim did not disappoint!!
A lovely evening of floral art.
Please see Joe's blog for more details
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| Photos Maggie Horne |
I think I would perhaps not be the only person to think that Keukenhof in the spring is probably one of the most beautiful gardens in the world.
It turns out somebody agrees with me....
so I introduce you to the
professional landscape photographer
Albert Dros
Famous for his photos of these gardens promoting the tulips to the world, this year he has had the very unusual opportunity to take his photographs without people, as the gardens are closed for the 1st time in 71 years. With such beautiful weather in April this years display is supposedly one of the best!
The following photos are what he produced in collaboration with "Visit Keukenhof" and he wants the world to be able to see them.
I make no apology for the number of pictures, I hope you enjoy them but I do apologise for the quality which has suffered in my transferring them through to you.
I hope you found that interesting.
Please also try and follow our Facebook page if you can as there are plenty of things on there at the moment of interest.
Its Garden Day on 10th May and and there will be
an interactive theme posted.
Stay safe and stay healthy
Til next time
all the best
Maggie
"Let Hope Bloom" has been launched by theflowercouncil.co.ukbringing people and flowers together.It's well worth a look at the site as there are many interesting
things on it.
Our next meeting:
Hello again to all our members and visitors to this page.
As June bursts onto the scene we should have all been enjoying our
strawberry cream tea on Wednesday night for our social evening.
Our chairman Janet has suggested that perhaps we could still enjoy a cuppa and a scone and think of all our friends we are missing.
We usually have a flower arranging competition on these social evenings so we wondered whether you would be prepared to try something a little different.......
We are asking you all to make an arrangement titled
"In Isolation"
You are allowed to use one flower only and your imagination!
If you could then take a picture of it and email it to me at
margaret.horne@me.com I will put the photos on this page next month and then ask you all to judge them blindly by emailing me.
I can then announce who you have chosen and if we get a reasonable amount of entries, award a prize to the winner.
Good luck ladies.
We also do a quiz on our social evenings so I am putting a couple of things on here for you to try......
Can you solve these Dingbats?
Can you name these flowers?
Can you find the frog in this picture?
If you go to "Our last club meeting"
you will find the answers to the above puzzles
Finally a word search on flowers
Please also try and follow our Facebook page if you can as there are plenty of things on there at the moment of interest.
Stay safe and stay healthy
Til next time
all the best
Maggie
Answers to the June puzzles
Dingbats:
1 London Underground
2 No through road
3 More often than not
4 Look both ways
5 In complete control
6 I hate you
7 Kiss and makeup
8 4 wheel drive
9 Mixed up kid
10 Fair and square
11 Drunk & disorderly
12 Emergency stop
The flowers are from top left across
1 Hyacinth
2 Zinnia
3 Rose
4 Orchid
5 Iris
6 Freesia
7 Hydrangea
8 Hyacinth
9 Snapdragon /Antirrhinum
The frog is just below halfway down on the right hand side edge of the picture.
August
Hello again to all our members and visitors to this page.
We hope you are all keeping well.
I will start this month by announcing the winners
of the "In Isolation" competition.
1st Place
Christy Fowler £10 prize
 | ||||
Number 1Joint 2nd Place
|
 | ||
Number 4Joint 2nd Place
|
 |
Number 5Thank you to everybody that entered .... |
 |
| Number 2 Janet Dobie |
 |
| Number 3 Jill Desborough |
 |
| Number 6 Pam Pritchard |
 |
| Number 7 Val Moran ____________________________________________ |
The Foam Debate Results
Thank you to everybody for your thoughts on foam.
I am pleased to say that in general most of you felt that although we need to be more
conscious of our environment we hoped that OASIS could come up with a better biodegradable foam soon so we did not have to stop using it.
We are all willing to try alternatives but foam does enable great creativity in design.
In the meantime most of you wanted demonstrators to still do 3/4 of their
flowers using foam and perhaps just one or two arrangements using alternative measures.
I think we all wanted to go home with a beautiful arrangement from the raffle
rather than just a bunch of flowers!!
Other news, I hope you have all received your monthly update email from Jan.
We are sad to have to cancel the rest of this years monthly meetings
but lets hope for a wonderful year next year
as it will be our Sapphire Anniversary.
Please try and follow our Facebook page if you can
as there are plenty of things on there of interest.
Also NAFAS has there own flower arranging channel on YouTube if you fancy
watching some demonstrations.
Stay safe and stay healthy
Til next time
all the best
Maggie
Stay safe and stay healthy
Til next time
all the best
Maggie
November
Hello again to all our members and visitors to this page.
November should have been our AGM but this year we have
had to approach it slightly differently.
You should have received a 6 page document either by post
or email with the Officers' reports in and the Financial statement.
Please read through at your leisure and get in touch with
the committee if you have any questions or problems with it.
Please let me know if you haven't received anything.
I have a few things to put on this month.
I thought I would start with a rather nice poem written
by a member of Londonderry and District Floral Art Society.
I think it sums up how a lot of us feel at the moment.
As I write this, we are back into Lock Down for another month,
so I thought a couple of quizzes would perhaps
pass a little bit of time for us all!
so I apologise in advance!
I have put the answers on
"Our last club meeting" post.
Finally as Jan mentioned in her November
email to you all, we are hoping to run a
Christmas Sales Table morning
on Saturday 5th December
at the Community Hall in Brampton.
However, this will very much depend on whether we
come out of lock down on 2nd December!
We will let you know but it will be quite short notice.
Thank you again for all your support for the club.
Til December, stay healthy and happy.
Maggie
Please try and follow our Facebook page
there are plenty of things on there of interest.
Answers to the November Quizzes
1 Cowslip
2 Primrose
3 Phlox
4 Stock
5 Thrift
6 Wallflower
7 Red Hot Poker
8 Foxglove
9 Anemone
10 Busy Lizzie
11 Snowdrop
12 Sweet William
13 Canterbury Bells
14 Carnation
15 Sweet Pea
16 Star of Bethlehem
17 Snapdragon
18 Hyacinth
19 Delphinium
20 Dog Rose
21 Crocus
22 Marigold
23 Forget me Not
24 Love Lies Bleeding
25 Old Man's Beard
26 Petunia
27 (Shrinking) Violet
28 House Leek
29 Geranium
30 Aster
31 Orchid
32 Daisy
33 Buttercup
34 Love in the Mist
Dingbats:-
1 Annuals
2 Low Maintenance
3 Mixed borders
4 Weeding
5 Ivy
6 Laying a lawn
7 Exotics
8 Double digging
9 Forsythia
10 Hybrids
11 Scented Rose
12 Conservatory
13 Growing bags
14 Thyme
15 Staking border plants
16 Potter around the garden
17 Herbaceous border
18 Raised beds
Hello again to all our visitors to this page.
Happy February and goodbye to what I always think is the worst month of the year .... January! We are still no nearer to getting a date for restarting meetings. Presently, we have cancelled our programme to the end of March.
This month I decided I would do a feature on:
Dubai Miracle Garden.
Probably the biggest flower garden on earth, it sits in the middle of a very hot desert in the Middle East! Opening in February 2013 it reportedly took 60 days to create, with 400 people working hard and at a cost of $11 million dollars. It covers an area of 775,000 sq ft.
There are over 100 million flowers blooming here and it holds the Guinness World Record for the largest vertical garden. One of the most impressive displays is a replica of an Emirates Airbus A380 where over 500,000 fresh flowers and plants thrive, even going further to roughly 5 million flowers when it's blooming season.
Maybe when we get out of this pandemic it's a place I'll get to, but til then here are a few photos to give you an idea of this amazing place.
ALL PHOTOS ARE CREDITED TO DUBAI MIRACLE GARDEN
Til next month stay safe
Maggie
Wednesday 8th January
Members Fish and Chips Supper
followed by a talk from
Ranger Jim Stevenson
We started the evening with a lovely fish and chip super
supplied by Rumbles of Brampton. This was followed by
an illustrated talk from Ranger Jim on his life as a ranger
at Paxton Pits Nature Reserve. Jim very kindly stepped in at the last minute when Stephen Hall cancelled due to bronchitis.
A great evening much enjoyed by the members.
Wednesday 5th February
Tim Meakin
Working with Nature
Working with Nature
As a firm favourite with our members Tim did not disappoint!!
A lovely evening of floral art.
Please see Joe's blog for more details
|
| Photos Maggie Horne |
I think I would perhaps not be the only person to think that Keukenhof in the spring is probably one of the most beautiful gardens in the world.
It turns out somebody agrees with me....
so I introduce you to the
professional landscape photographer
Albert Dros
Famous for his photos of these gardens promoting the tulips to the world, this year he has had the very unusual opportunity to take his photographs without people, as the gardens are closed for the 1st time in 71 years. With such beautiful weather in April this years display is supposedly one of the best!
The following photos are what he produced in collaboration with "Visit Keukenhof" and he wants the world to be able to see them.
I make no apology for the number of pictures, I hope you enjoy them but I do apologise for the quality which has suffered in my transferring them through to you.
I hope you found that interesting.
Please also try and follow our Facebook page if you can as there are plenty of things on there at the moment of interest.
Its Garden Day on 10th May and and there will be
an interactive theme posted.
Stay safe and stay healthy
Til next time
all the best
Maggie
"Let Hope Bloom" has been launched by theflowercouncil.co.ukbringing people and flowers together.It's well worth a look at the site as there are many interesting
things on it.
Our next meeting:
Hello again to all our members and visitors to this page.
As June bursts onto the scene we should have all been enjoying our
strawberry cream tea on Wednesday night for our social evening.
Our chairman Janet has suggested that perhaps we could still enjoy a cuppa and a scone and think of all our friends we are missing.
We usually have a flower arranging competition on these social evenings so we wondered whether you would be prepared to try something a little different.......
We are asking you all to make an arrangement titled
"In Isolation"
You are allowed to use one flower only and your imagination!
If you could then take a picture of it and email it to me at
margaret.horne@me.com I will put the photos on this page next month and then ask you all to judge them blindly by emailing me.
I can then announce who you have chosen and if we get a reasonable amount of entries, award a prize to the winner.
Good luck ladies.
We also do a quiz on our social evenings so I am putting a couple of things on here for you to try......
Can you solve these Dingbats?
Can you name these flowers?
Can you find the frog in this picture?
If you go to "Our last club meeting"
you will find the answers to the above puzzles
Finally a word search on flowers
Please also try and follow our Facebook page if you can as there are plenty of things on there at the moment of interest.
Stay safe and stay healthy
Til next time
all the best
Maggie
Answers to the June puzzles
Dingbats:
1 London Underground
2 No through road
3 More often than not
4 Look both ways
5 In complete control
6 I hate you
7 Kiss and makeup
8 4 wheel drive
9 Mixed up kid
10 Fair and square
11 Drunk & disorderly
12 Emergency stop
The flowers are from top left across
1 Hyacinth
2 Zinnia
3 Rose
4 Orchid
5 Iris
6 Freesia
7 Hydrangea
8 Hyacinth
9 Snapdragon /Antirrhinum
The frog is just below halfway down on the right hand side edge of the picture.
August
Hello again to all our members and visitors to this page.
We hope you are all keeping well.
I will start this month by announcing the winners
of the "In Isolation" competition.
1st Place
Christy Fowler £10 prize
| ||||
Number 1Joint 2nd Place
|
| ||
Number 4Joint 2nd Place
|
|
Number 5Thank you to everybody that entered .... |
|
| Number 2 Janet Dobie |
|
| Number 3 Jill Desborough |
|
| Number 6 Pam Pritchard |
|
| Number 7 Val Moran ____________________________________________ |
The Foam Debate Results
Thank you to everybody for your thoughts on foam.
I am pleased to say that in general most of you felt that although we need to be more
conscious of our environment we hoped that OASIS could come up with a better biodegradable foam soon so we did not have to stop using it.
We are all willing to try alternatives but foam does enable great creativity in design.
In the meantime most of you wanted demonstrators to still do 3/4 of their
flowers using foam and perhaps just one or two arrangements using alternative measures.
I think we all wanted to go home with a beautiful arrangement from the raffle
rather than just a bunch of flowers!!
Other news, I hope you have all received your monthly update email from Jan.
We are sad to have to cancel the rest of this years monthly meetings
but lets hope for a wonderful year next year
as it will be our Sapphire Anniversary.
Please try and follow our Facebook page if you can
as there are plenty of things on there of interest.
Also NAFAS has there own flower arranging channel on YouTube if you fancy
watching some demonstrations.
Stay safe and stay healthy
Til next time
all the best
Maggie
Stay safe and stay healthy
Til next time
all the best
Maggie
November
Hello again to all our members and visitors to this page.
November should have been our AGM but this year we have
had to approach it slightly differently.
You should have received a 6 page document either by post
or email with the Officers' reports in and the Financial statement.
Please read through at your leisure and get in touch with
the committee if you have any questions or problems with it.
Please let me know if you haven't received anything.
I have a few things to put on this month.
I thought I would start with a rather nice poem written
by a member of Londonderry and District Floral Art Society.
I think it sums up how a lot of us feel at the moment.
As I write this, we are back into Lock Down for another month,
so I thought a couple of quizzes would perhaps
pass a little bit of time for us all!
so I apologise in advance!
I have put the answers on
"Our last club meeting" post.
Finally as Jan mentioned in her November
email to you all, we are hoping to run a
Christmas Sales Table morning
on Saturday 5th December
at the Community Hall in Brampton.
However, this will very much depend on whether we
come out of lock down on 2nd December!
We will let you know but it will be quite short notice.
Thank you again for all your support for the club.
Til December, stay healthy and happy.
Maggie
Please try and follow our Facebook page
there are plenty of things on there of interest.
Answers to the November Quizzes
1 Cowslip
2 Primrose
3 Phlox
4 Stock
5 Thrift
6 Wallflower
7 Red Hot Poker
8 Foxglove
9 Anemone
10 Busy Lizzie
11 Snowdrop
12 Sweet William
13 Canterbury Bells
14 Carnation
15 Sweet Pea
16 Star of Bethlehem
17 Snapdragon
18 Hyacinth
19 Delphinium
20 Dog Rose
21 Crocus
22 Marigold
23 Forget me Not
24 Love Lies Bleeding
25 Old Man's Beard
26 Petunia
27 (Shrinking) Violet
28 House Leek
29 Geranium
30 Aster
31 Orchid
32 Daisy
33 Buttercup
34 Love in the Mist
Dingbats:-
1 Annuals
2 Low Maintenance
3 Mixed borders
4 Weeding
5 Ivy
6 Laying a lawn
7 Exotics
8 Double digging
9 Forsythia
10 Hybrids
11 Scented Rose
12 Conservatory
13 Growing bags
14 Thyme
15 Staking border plants
16 Potter around the garden
17 Herbaceous border
18 Raised beds
Hello again to all our visitors to this page.
Happy February and goodbye to what I always think is the worst month of the year .... January! We are still no nearer to getting a date for restarting meetings. Presently, we have cancelled our programme to the end of March.
This month I decided I would do a feature on:
Dubai Miracle Garden.
Probably the biggest flower garden on earth, it sits in the middle of a very hot desert in the Middle East! Opening in February 2013 it reportedly took 60 days to create, with 400 people working hard and at a cost of $11 million dollars. It covers an area of 775,000 sq ft.
There are over 100 million flowers blooming here and it holds the Guinness World Record for the largest vertical garden. One of the most impressive displays is a replica of an Emirates Airbus A380 where over 500,000 fresh flowers and plants thrive, even going further to roughly 5 million flowers when it's blooming season.
Maybe when we get out of this pandemic it's a place I'll get to, but til then here are a few photos to give you an idea of this amazing place.
ALL PHOTOS ARE CREDITED TO DUBAI MIRACLE GARDEN
Til next month stay safe
Maggie
Wednesday 9th January 2019
Members Social Evening
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Alan Lewis with his presentation on Bees
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Competition arrangements brought in by members
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Ist Lyn Whittington
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2nd Diane Brim
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3rd Janet Dobie
Wednesday 6th FebruaryStephanie Laingpresented "On the Move"
A wonderful evening where Stephanie kept everybody entertained with the story
of her recent move in the flowers she arranged for us.
Wednesday 6th MarchDavid Wrightpresented "It's an Education"      |
Wednesday 3rd April
Hazel McGregor
presented "Floral Fusion"
Easter Workshop with Tim Meakin
April 2019
What a wonderful morning we had with Tim Meakin.
A creative workshop where we all felt we had enjoyed
his personal help and advice. He had only just
moved home a couple of days before so even more
amazing he was on such good form!
April 2019
What a wonderful morning we had with Tim Meakin.
What a wonderful morning we had with Tim Meakin.
A creative workshop where we all felt we had enjoyed
his personal help and advice. He had only just
moved home a couple of days before so even more
amazing he was on such good form!
Wednesday 1st May
Pat Barton
presented "Where in the World"
Wednesday 5th June
Members Social Evening celebrating NAFAS Diamond Anniversary
Jim Stevenson
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| Jim Stevenson |
Wednesday 3rd July
Lynne Sharpe
presented
"Car Boot Collection"
What a wonderfully entertaining evening with Lynne.
Some lovely displays and some amazing finds at car boots!!
presented
"Car Boot Collection"
Some lovely displays and some amazing finds at car boots!!
Wisley RHS Gardens Trip
Wednesday 10th July 2019
https://www.rhs.org.uk/gardens/wisley
Members had a very enjoyable trip to these wonderful gardens.
Just a few photos from the gardens:
https://www.rhs.org.uk/gardens/wisley
Members had a very enjoyable trip to these wonderful gardens.
Just a few photos from the gardens:
Members had a very enjoyable trip to these wonderful gardens.
Just a few photos from the gardens:
Farewell To Pat Manyweathers
A farewell afternoon tea for Pat was held at Frosts Garden Centre.
Pat has been a hard working, long standing member of the club
and we wish her well in the USA.
A farewell afternoon tea for Pat was held at Frosts Garden Centre.
Pat has been a hard working, long standing member of the club
and we wish her well in the USA.
and we wish her well in the USA.
Wednesday 4th September
Jo Poulter
"All Shapes and Sizes"
Jo Poulter
"All Shapes and Sizes"
Jo has a wonderful way of presenting her floral arrangements and the members
had a very enjoyable evening. Some beautiful displays
taken home by the lucky raffle winners!!
Open Evening at The Priory Centre, St Neots
Wednesday 2nd October 2019
Coral Gardiner
presented
"Nature's Autumn Palette
A wonderful evening of floral design with Coral keeping the audience
entertained with her witty commentary.
A wonderful evening of floral design with Coral keeping the audience
entertained with her witty commentary.
My thanks to Margaret Smith and Lyn Whittington
for these photos
Karen Armstrong
Jo's blog gives full details so please read rather than
me repeat it all here!
Members Floral Arrangement Competition
"Bonfire Night" (20" x 16" max)
Members entries for the competition
The raffle was a super Christmas food hamper
won by Heather Boylan.
Wednesday 6th November
ANNUAL AGM
followed by a talk byKaren Armstrong
Jo's blog gives full details so please read rather than
me repeat it all here!
Members Floral Arrangement Competition
"Bonfire Night" (20" x 16" max)
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| The winners were 1st Maggie Horne, 2nd Val Moran 3rd Christine Harradine |
Members entries for the competition
The raffle was a super Christmas food hamper
won by Heather Boylan.
Wednesday 4th December
Susan Horne
Susan Horne
"Oh No It Isn't"
What a wonderful evening we had with Susan and her "pantomimes"
We were kept entertained with stories as her flowers represented various characters.
The flowers were beautiful and considering Susan was still getting over a chest infection and had
had a terrible journey to get to us it was a brilliant evening.
Diane Brim - one of many lucky members winning one of Susan's beautiful floral designs
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| Susan Horne |
"Oh No It Isn't"
What a wonderful evening we had with Susan and her "pantomimes"We were kept entertained with stories as her flowers represented various characters.
The flowers were beautiful and considering Susan was still getting over a chest infection and had
had a terrible journey to get to us it was a brilliant evening.
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| Diane Brim - one of many lucky members winning one of Susan's beautiful floral designs |
Saturday 7th December
Barbara Collins
Offords Village Hall
10am to 1pm
22 members attended what will be one of Barbara's last workshops
for us for a while as she he is now East of England NAFAS Vice President.
This was the first time we had used the Offords Hall and with its Christmas decorations up
everybody was impressed with it and truly in festive mode.
Barbara is always one of the club's favourites for workshops and we weren't disappointed as she guided us through a long arrangement with a Christmas ring running through the middle.
Teas, coffees and mince pies and stollen cakes were served by Linda Richardson
and Barbara very kindly donated her arrangement to Linda at the end of the workshop
as she has not been too well.
So all in all a super way to end another year of all things floral here at Brampton Flower Club.
Offords Village Hall
10am to 1pm
22 members attended what will be one of Barbara's last workshops
for us for a while as she he is now East of England NAFAS Vice President.
This was the first time we had used the Offords Hall and with its Christmas decorations up
everybody was impressed with it and truly in festive mode.
Barbara is always one of the club's favourites for workshops and we weren't disappointed as she guided us through a long arrangement with a Christmas ring running through the middle.
Teas, coffees and mince pies and stollen cakes were served by Linda Richardson
and Barbara very kindly donated her arrangement to Linda at the end of the workshop
as she has not been too well.
So all in all a super way to end another year of all things floral here at Brampton Flower Club.
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