King's Lynn Horticultural Society klhs.co.uk
October 2019 Volume 6, Issue 4
KLHS News
The prize winners at the 2019 show.
STANDARDS REMAIN HIGH AT SHOW
mals conjured out of fruit and vegetables as well as other items of craft and cookery.
This year’s annual show at South Wootton Village Hall maintained its high standards despite slightly fewer participants.
Prizes were presented by the Deputy Borough Mayor, Mrs Margaret Wilkinson, and her consort, Mrs Sandra Collop.
Indeed, all the Society’s trophies were awarded this summer.
Mrs Wilkinson was amazed that people could find the time to prepare all their entries. They had clearly worked very hard, she said.
Thirty-two people took part on August 10th, four less than last year and they Overleaf are pictured a brought along 248 items prize winning painting, to display. children’s animals and Junior exhibitors contribplants in a bus. uted some brilliant ani-
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Late season colour is provided by Michaelmas Daisies (Aster).
INSIDE THIS ISSUE 2019 Prize Winners
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Christmas Dinner Menu 3 Vicky’s 10C anniversary
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PRIZE WINNERS AT THE 2019 SHOW E Ogden Cup
Jill Walker
Mrs Kenneth Bush Cup
Jill Walker
Mr Coates Cup
John Hipkin
West Norfolk Produce Cup
Penny Hipkin
90th Birthday Cup
Jill Povey
Audrey Brooks Rose Bowl
Terrie Hill
Lord Fermoy Cup
Penny Hipkin
Cobbold Cup
Selina Povey
Mrs W R Sadler Cup
Selina Povey
Members’ Cup
Goodwins Hall
Twaite Cup
Selina Povey
Kenneth Bush Challenge Trophy
Selina Povey
A Anderson Cup
Selina Povey
Ray Smith Memorial Bowl
Selina Povey
R Doubleday Plaque
Goodwins Hall
Mrs F E Fox Cup
Goodwins Hall
Sylvia Brundle-Todd Cup
Lucy Mills
Victory Cup
Edward Mills
Mr Wilkin Shield
Isobel Mills
Jubilee Cup
Isobel Mills
Barbara Baker Cup
Selina Povey
George Skipper Cup
Penny Hipkin
Jean Anderson Cup
Stella Mills
Ray Garner Memorial Cup
Stella Mills
Banksian Medal
Jill Walker
Perry Cup
Jill Walker
Caithness Crystal Vase
Jill Walker
Amberley Hall Care Home Trophy Penny Hipkin West Norfolk Cup
Terrie Hill
CHRISTMAS DINNER The Society’s Christmas dinner is taking place at the Stuart House Hotel, in King’s Lynn, on Sunday, December 1st. Please arrive at 12.30pm ready to sit down at 1pm. The meal costs £18.95 per person for three courses. Telephone Steve Barker on 07771902182 to book. Please let him know by November 20th. Food tolerances are indicated below; Gluten free ( ble ( ) and vegetarian ( House.
), gluten free availa-
) - others can be requested from Stuart
☑ STARTERS
Vegetable soup with crusty bread
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Pork terrine, cranberries and pistachios with sweet port sauce and toasted ciabatta
☐ Thai fish cakes with sweet chilli sauce, on a bed of leaves ☐
Deep fried camembert served on a bed of leaves with Cumberland sauce
☑ MAIN
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COURSE
Roast Norfolk turkey with roast potatoes, Yorkshire pudding, pigs in blankets, stuffing and gravy
☐ Slow roasted pork shoulder stuffed with apricot and thyme served with Yorkshire pudding, roast potatoes and gravy ☐
Baked cod with dill and cream sauce, roast potatoes and herbed new potatoes
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Spinach and courgette gnocchi topped with parmesan shavings
☑ DESSERTS
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Christmas pudding with brandy sauce
☐ Duo of white and dark chocolate cheesecake with spiced oranges ☐
Champagne and raspberry posset with a shortbread biscuit
❄ Tea or coffee and mince pies
VICKY CELEBRATES 20 YEARS AT 10C September saw the 20th anniversary of Vicky Fairweather’s tenancy of a South Wootton allotment.
Her produce has gone on to win prizes at King’s Lynn Horticultural Society shows. And after those early years of nurturing plants she has set up her Plot 10C, which stands on land alongown gardening business. side Grimston Road, has been Vicky’s second home since she was just 12. A second pond was added as someone wanted to rehome some newts, but Vicky’s love of gardening grew as she they never arrived. helped her father, Kelvin, on his allotment. She had had a good idea of how Other wildlife is encouraged on site. she wanted to develop her own from There is a hedgehog feeding station the beginning, she said. and bird feeders. “I immediately set about digging a pond,” she explained during the celebrations on September 14th. “And I put Shasta daisies and lupins around it”. Frogspawn has regularly appeared in the pond in subsequent years and several frogs have been seen. In the early days, people gave her plants or cuttings. She has a row of small conifers established after she tried various methods to persuade some cuttings from a neighbour’s garden to grow. “The flower garden came first,” said Vicky, who must have been one of the youngest people to take on an allotment. Once she had got that settled, she ventured into fruit and vegetables and 10C now has crops of runner beans, cabbages and tomatoes, alongside plum, pear, cherry and apple trees.
The celebrations included a meal prepared by cooking some of Vicky’s produce on site with a friend’s camping stove.
