Picture Gallery
Jubilee Flower Festival Upton House
Area AGM 2021
Chairman's Challenge - August - A Picnic on the Beach - Area results
NAFAS National Virtual Show 2021
National Chairman's Challenge - March - A Spring Bonnet
National Chairman's Challenge - February - Valentine Time
National Chairman's Challenge - January - Burn's Night
National Chairman's Challenge - December - A Festive Gift
Lytchett & Upton- Wedding Celebrations 2019
Jo Hall - Winner of Best in Show
Arranger: Sylvia Preston
Arranger:Margaret Triplow
Arranger: Ruth Warner
Arranger: Ann Hunter
Arranger: Win Garrett
Arranger: Lorraine Deaven
Thanks to Annie Chambers for these photos
Area Show 2019
Misty Morning - Diana Homan
Flower Festival Celebrating the Golden Anniversary of Melcombe Regis
Sturminster Newton's Show "Childhood Memories"
Area Show 2018 "Florilegium"
Class 1 "Flowering of a Dream" - Bere Regis (Bob Holman)
Class 2 "Through the Eyes of an Artist" - Dorchester Floral Group (Karen Boyce & Jo Hall)
Class 3 "Land Art" - Elizabeth Jolliffe (Owermoigne)
Class 4 "What a Tangled Web We Weave" - Di Pilliaert (Dorchester & Melcombe)
Class 5 - "Milliflori" - Diana Holman (Bere Regis)
Class 6 "Spring Clean" - Theresa Kendall (Shaftsbury)
Class 7 - "Effervescence" - Sheila Bendall
Class 8 "Treasures" - Margaret Cooper (Melcombe Regis)
Class 9 "Enigma Variations" Imposed Class - Jean Allcroft (Broadstone & Corfe Mullen)
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Class 10 "Rhapsody" - Dennis Dunford (Bere Regis)
Class 11 "Overview" - Philippa Louden (Owermoigne & Sherborne) & Best in Show
Class 12 "A Night at the Theatre" Judith Waters (Sturminster Newton) & Runner Up to Best in Show
Class 13 "The Written Word" - Irene Hickson (Colehill)
Class 14 Photography Class "Weather Watch" Russell Witcomb
picture to come!
Class 15 Photography Class "Face to Face" Krys Gigiel (Shaftesbury)
Picture to come!
Class 16 Photography Class "Nature's Textures" Krys Gigiel (Shaftesbury)
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A selection of other prize winning exhibits from the show
Andrew Grisewood, National Demonstrator with Jan Law, National Chairman and Liz Witcomb, Area Show Chairman at the end of his demonstration "Bon Voyage"
Fun, Friendship & Flowers at President's Day.
Emma from Martha and the Meadow with her "free from foam" arrangement was followed by a tasty lunch and then an entertaining talk by Katherine Crouch, Gardener of the Decade 2008 on her Chelsea Experience.
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WAFA Competition "Masquerade"
Congratulations to the winner Liz Witcomb. Sorry we can't show a picture yet.
Purbeck Flower Club enjoyed an Ikebana day school tutored by Kinu, one of their members.
Blandford flower club started their AGM meeting with a ploughman's lunch at The United Reformed Church Hall, Blandford. There was a table quiz and a market stall of floral items.
For Christmas, Colehill Floral Arrangement Club decorated the Laundry rooms at Kingston Lacy for the National Trust
and Dorchester Floral Group decorated Hardy's Cottage, also for the National Trust.
Their brief was to keep to a style contemporary with Hardy's time.
Best in Show: Dorset County Show 2017.
"Watership Down" by Dianne Pilliaert
Best in Show: Shaftesbury & Gillingham Show 2017. "Wow" by Sandy Milne
Kingston Lacy Christmas 2016
Area Show 2016 "FLORAL FIESTA"
Diana Holman's "Dance Around" won class 12 and Most Innovative arrangement and Best In Show
John Astley's "Golden Glow" won class 9 and Runner Up to Best In Show
Irene Hickson's "A Touch Of Feathers" won class 10 and Best Use of Colour
Denise Jones & Jean Jones won Club Class A for Melcombe Regis with their "Floral Fiesta"
Bob Holman won Club Class B for Bere Regis with his "Firework Celebrations"
Marilyn Norse and Philippa Louden's "Inspired by Chelsea" won class 3
Elizabeth James' "April Showers" won class 4
Diana Holman's miniature "Twists and Curls" won class 5
Philippa Louden's "Metamorphosis" won class 7
Diana Holman's petite "Treasures of Spring" won class 8
Elizabeth Witcomb's "Different Angles" won class 11
Amy Shakeshaft's "Strictly Flamenco" won class 13 (The Novice Class)
