King's Lynn Horticultural Society klhs.co.uk
August 2020 Volume 7, Issue 2
KLHS News
A jumble of beautiful yellow daffodils (narcisseae) is always a joy to see.
Show memories
VIRTUAL SHOW FOR SUMMER 2020
mixed soft fruit 3. A display of three different types of vegetables, any number of each
Although we are unable to hold our normal event this 4. Five tomatoes of any year, you can still have the one variety chance to show off your 5. Longest and shortest horticultural and artistic runner bean – skills, mainly just for fun. photograph your entry But you never know, there with a ruler/tape may be a prize or two on measure alongside offer…... The categories for the show are: 1.
6. Peas in a Pod –how many have you grown in one pod?
Mixed flowers, 7 stems 7. of at least two kinds
2. Any size plate of
Most Unusual container –growing either (Continued on page 2)
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INSIDE THIS ISSUE Virtual Show
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Plant Fair update
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Royal Visitor
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A Lockdown Project
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Farewell Cyril 4
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vegetables or flowers 8. Potato in a Bucket –photograph your biggest crop of potatoes from one root together with an A4 sheet displaying the weight in kg/g, and ideally include yourself in the photo 9. Jam jar of flowers
AUTUMN PLANT FAIR CANCELLED King’s Lynn and West Norfolk Borough Council have confirmed the plant and craft fair planned for Lynn’s Tuesday Market Place in the spring will not take place this year. The Council had hoped to reschedule the event for this autumn but have decided it is not advisable.
10. Floral art –‘From the Garden’, an arrangement of flowers and foliage A whole host of other events have in a vase fallen victim to the coronavirus - the 11. Chocolate cake –any size from cup- Society’s main annual open show, cake upwards, decorated/filled as and the trip to RHS Hyde Hall, arranged for May. you choose Don’t forget to share this with your family and friends too, we will be delighted for them to take part as well. Please photograph your entries and submit by email to me, Secretary, Kevin Ayres: klhs.secretary@btinternet.com. Closing date will be Sunday 16th August.
The annual meeting and several committee meetings were abandoned. It was decided the current officers and committee would continue in post. Membership subscriptions have been waived.
bakery’s trade is wholesale and most of that disappeared when the shop Society President, Paul Brandon, en- had to close. The bakery had to furtertained a Royal visitor to his bakery lough some staff but established a shop in King’s Lynn as coronavirus delivery service selling new lines of restrictions were eased . products such as flour and sugar to meet local residents’ demand for bakThe Duke of Cambridge discussed ing ingredients. with Paul and his wife, Teresa, how they had been coping during the 11 Paul and Teresa presented Prince weeks of lock-down imposed to stop William with a football themed birththe virus spreading. day cake for his birthday on June 21st. Paul revealed a lot of the High Street
ROYAL VISITOR
A LOCKDOWN PROJECT Society Vice President, Elizabeth Nockolds, describes how she has kept busy over lockdown. “This area of our garden is at the side of our house and cannot be viewed from the front or back of the house unless I walk round the water butt and walk along the side of our conservatory. It has always been left untidy for the last 18 years. As I have the time I decided I would do something with it. I started moving the soil from the middle and found some bricks laid underneath. I kept on scraping the soil away and realised it was a path and continued to clean it up to a natural path of old bricks. On the left of the bricks the soil is sloped up to next door’s fence. I added some old recycled wooden logs to the edge of the slope.
ums, Forget-Me-Nots, Periwinkle which will eventually cover the ground and 3 Foxgloves.
It doesn't get a lot of sun as it’s the After realising Belford Garden Centre west side of the house so next year I was open for phone orders and then will see how it looks.” collections I ordered 5 shrubs, SkimStay safe, mia, Verbena, flowering Black Currant, Red Robin and a Buddleia. In Elizabeth the sloped area were already 2 self seeded Holly bushes which I have If anyone has any other isolation idekept. as or stories, please contact us at kingslynnhorticulturalsociety I have also taken plants out of my @googlemail.com existing garden such as wild Gerani-
WE SAY FAREWELL TO CYRIL, ONE OF OUR LONGEST SERVING MEMBERS Long-time member of the Society, Cyril Route, died in July. In recent years, Cyril, who was 96 and who lived in King’s Lynn, had been made a life Vice President. As well as having a love of all things horticultural, Cyril was well known for the annual collections he carried out in King’s Lynn in aid of the Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal.
he was in his nineties. He was thought of as a warm, friendly man. He died at the Swaffham Community Hospital on July 18th. A graveside funeral service was held on July 31at, at Gayton Road cemetery. Cyril began supporting the Poppy Appeal in the 1960s and he and his wife, Joan, hand made the old, wire poppies and sold them door-to-door. Cyril was presented with a plaque for his efforts in 2016.
He also spent many years raising funds for the appeal at the King’s Lynn town centre Sainsbury’s store and it is here that people can leave Cyril continued to work on his allotment near his North Lynn home until messages of condolence for the family at a special memorial table. Cyril’s Army career began when he was almost 18 in 1941 and he served in the East Surrey Regiment, in Africa, where he was part of Field Marshal Montgomery’s Guard. He was part of the Desert Rats, delivering ammunition to the troops before being shipped to Italy towards the end of WWII. He finished his service with the regiment and returned home in 1947. As well as his wife, Cyril leaves a son, Peter, two grandchildren and three great-granddaughters.
