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Gardeners bloom into spring

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BEECHWORTH, Murmungee, Stanley and Wooragee gardeners are being encouraged to enter Beechworth Bloom spring edition to be staged in Beechworth Town Hall on November 22-23, 2019.

The show – the third in Beechworth Arts Council’s revival of the 1882 North East Agricultural and Horticultural Association’s flower show first held in the hall in October 1882 – is open to anyone in postcode district 3747

The schedule includes opportunities to exhibit flowers, arrangements and produce from this year’s spectacular spring flush and harvest, ranging from specimen roses and spring bunches to peas and leafy greens.

It also again lists two themed flower arrangement categories – ‘Nebbiolo’ or ‘Chardonnay’ – in recognition of Beechworth Vignerons’ Association and its annual Spring Tasting, also held this month.

Last year’s ‘Stormy weather’ attracted strong competition.

Bloom will also award a champion exhibitor trophy.

The inaugural recipient was Michele Forrest in spring, last year, followed by Joan Simms in autumn, this year.

Entry forms are available from Explore Beechworth Visitor Information Centre and Beechworth NewsXpress or find it here.

Entries can be delivered with a completed form and gold coin entry fee at the Town Hall between 9am and 11am on Friday (November 22). The show will open from 12 to 4pm.

It will be open ion Saturday (November 23) from 10am to 4pm. Hall entry by gold coin donation.

For information call Jamie Kronborg on 0409 912 967.

Old flower show blooms again

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A BEAUTY: Rose ‘Lamarque’ flowering in a Beechworth garden. Image: Jamie Kronborg

BEECHWORTH, Stanley, Murmungee and Wooragee gardeners are encouraged to enter Beechworth Arts Council’s revival this weekend – November 17 and 18 – of the district’s long-defunct formal Spring Flower Show.

The Arts Council has included the fresh show in its packed five-week Spring Arts 2018 program. It will be staged in Beechworth Town Hall, where it first was held on October 19-20, 1882. The Ovens and Murray Advertiser reported on October 21, 1882, that the North East Agricultural and Horticultural Association’s first spring flower show had attracted a “fair attendance” and that exhibits were “good of their kind”.

FLOWER POWER: Exhibitors admire blooms in this 1955 image of dahlias on show. Image: State Library of Victoria

Arts Council president Jamie Kronborg said the limited-category show was open to all. The only proviso is that exhibits must be grown and arranged by the entrant. He said the program had been devised so that anyone could enter exhibits from garden or kitchen. 

Intending exhibitors can collect an entry form Beechworth Visitor Information Centre or Beechworth NewsXpress or download it in PDF versions.

Exhibits are to be delivered to Beechworth Town Hall on Saturday, November 17, between 8:30 and 10:30am. Exhibitors must also complete an entry form and submit it with a gold coin donation.

The Spring Flower Show will open at 11:00am and run until 4:00pm on Saturday, offering opportunities for visitors to Beechworth Vignerons’ Spring Tasting in the nearby Soldiers’ Memorial Hall to take a short walk to see some of the North East’s finest cut flowers and kitchen garden produce. It will also open between the same times on Sunday.

Prizegiving will take place at 3:00pm on Sunday.

For more information call or text Jamie Kronborg on 0409 912 967 or email beechworthartscouncil@gmail.com.