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Bellis its not that type of comp. you take your design already done the night/ early moring.....it is the biggest flower and plant show in the north of england
i would like to move on to that stage of comp work but dont know much about it... not in the loop really !!!!
thanks for your wishes of luck everyone

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oh sorry flower, totallly misunderstod.
You will have to explain again.

Thats sound pretty big.
The biggest flower and plant show. But how.. you come with the design, already made. and then that´s is judged.?
We have something here in dk, called the Garden Living fair. with plants and all that. and then there is a comp, for florist. giving an asignment, that they also have ready from home.
is it like that.

I only know, you have the "chealsy" show, can´t remember the spelling.

Our comp is like this. Danish Flower union, for florists shops members only.
They arrange every second year, comp for the regions. The winners of the regions goes to Danish Championship.
The winner of this then goes on to the europe cup.

Then we have some cup´s outside of this. Tivoli cup, and the internationel cup for teams called 6.juli cup. we do also sometimes have some smaller cup´s if there is some speciel events.

bellis,
You create your design at your shop or where ever and take it ready made to the show.
Then you stage it (or plonk it on the table!)
The judges start @ 7am on the Wednesday and results are known about 11ish...
you get a schedule on the classes and then it’s your interpretation that’s judged.

The North of England Horticultural Society harrogate spring show, it has plant's and flowers and other things there, so a bit like the one you mentioned.
Harrogate Flower Shows
Hope this link works!!!!
There is a picture of what I did last year in the gallery, the sweetie one..

Chelsea is bigger but I cannot enter as I have not the relevant qualifications!!! and im going to have to do some Research in to the other comps around england...unless some one knows of any?

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Hopefully if I can get myself that place I'll see you there Flower...still waiting for a cancellation!!!!...Got my design sorted and hopefully looking forward to competing!

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FAUN TO BE WILD...!!!

oh now I see.

It looks like fun. an must be an amazing show.
Can one enter more than one class. or is it one only.
The assignments looks atractive.
It´s a bit different from what I know.
We only have two classes. Senior and junior.
Senior is all florist.
junior is for florist trainees (with the papers in order) only.
That means, only trainess that is imployed and atached to flowerschool only.

So if our afterschoool girl would like to try, she would have to enter in seniorclass.
and the "poor" juniors are imidiately putted in seniorclass from the moment they pass there exam.

There have been some talk about creating a veteran class.

some of the cup´s one can only enter, if invited.
So it´s a pretty closed world.

but it appears to me, that the way you "english people" do it, is more fun.
more social.
Or do I get that wrong.

Well it is fun but social??? a lot of ppl just grab and go after the show so don’t get to speak much, which is a shame....the flowers arrangers are more talkative lol.
There is student classes = ppl with less than 2yrs experience and some of the designs are fab!!!! Can’t wait for them to move on in to the next stage of the comps....hehehe
(I gave the student comp a trophy for this class as I felt students should be able to hold a cup as well)

SO

Started my structure today for the comp and a good sign, it fell into place. No frustration at all (that gives me brain block) should be smooth running when I add the flowers and foliages
Off to see if I can scrounge some "dude" props from the outlet nr me to enhance the area....we shall see they may just think I’m a nutter and usher me out of the shop...lol
Regards, flower

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