Category: Plant Sale and Swap

Monthly news, June 2024

2024 Best Kept Front Garden Competition, judging on Thursday, 6th June 2024
Peter Jackson (from Scotsdales) has very kindly agreed to judge the competition again. As usual, committee members will do the preliminary area judging beforehand. The Foxton resident with best kept front garden will be awarded the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Cup at the Village Show in September.

Foxton Village Show
The categories for the Photos and Craft categories at the Village Show to be held on Saturday, September 7th 2024, are as follows:

Photos:

      1. Birds
      2. Skies
      3. Compeition
      4. Water
      5. Gardens

Craft, and an example of:

      1. Sewing
      2. Knitting or crochet
      3. Embroidery or tapestry
      4. Papercraft
      5. Painting
      6. Ceramics or pottery

Every house will receive a copy of the show schedule in August but here are the entries for the following classes.

Cup holders from last year’s show are asked to return them for engraving to IAN CONSTABLE 11 Illingworth Way tel 871508 (ian.constable1@ntlworld.com) as soon as possible and certainly by the end of July. Please do this sooner rather than later as Ian has a lot of cups to collect and arrange for engraving!

And thank you everyone who came along to the AGM and Plant Sale and Swap. Short reports featuring photos from the events are available via the links.

Categories: AGM, Best Kept Front Garden, Foxton Village Show, News, Plant Sale and Swap

2024 Plant Sale and Swap report

On Saturday 11th May 2024, we held the annual Plant Sale and Swap.

Thank you to everyone who came to the event! We were blessed with perfect weather again. It was so good to see so many old (as in regular!) and new visitors enjoying the plants, the WI cake stall and tombola, and  sitting in the sun with drinks and scones whilst having a catch up with friends and neighbours. Once again it proved Foxton really enjoys a “bit of a do”!

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Monthly news, April 2024

Some new dates for your diary!

  • FGA AGM, Tuesday, 16th April 2024
    7.30pm in the Village Hall meeting room.
    There will be a short formal start to present the annual accounts, review of last year’s activities, plans for this year and election for the committee. We always welcome new members who bring fresh ideas but don’t worry, you will not be pressganged to join!
    Following the formalities we are delighted to say that the speaker will be David Short, who will tell us about his “life behind bars” – nothing to do with imprisonment but about life at the Queen’s Head pub in Newton, where his son is now the third generation in charge. Anyone who has heard David will know what an excellent speaker he is, not to be missed. Wine, soft drinks and nibbles will be served so do come along and enjoy.
  • Plant Sale and Swap, Saturday May 11th 2024
    10am-12pm at the Village Hall
    Do come along to this always popular village event, as well as plants on offer the WI will be providing refreshments, a produce stall and running a tombola (no book stall this year).
  • The Foxton Village Show will be held on Saturday, September 7th 2024.
Categories: AGM, Foxton Village Show, News, Plant Sale and Swap

Monthly news, March 2024

The provisional 2024 dates for FGA events are as follows:
  • Tuesday, April 16th – A.G.M., details of the time and speaker to follow.
  • Saturday, May 11th – Plant Sale and Swap.
  • Saturday, September 7th – Village Show
At the time of writing all allotments plots are taken but if you are interested contact Rachel Harrison (FGA Allotments Secretary) to join the waiting list. If you have any questions, please feel free to get in touch!

Tips and hints for March
1. Prune bush and shrub roses.
2. Lift and divide overgrown perennials.
3. Split polyanthus and snowdrops after flowering.
4. Put growbags in the greenhouse to warm up.
5. Enjoy the Spring flowers.

Categories: AGM, Foxton Village Show, News, Plant Sale and Swap

2023 Plant Sale and Swap, Sunday 21st May 2023

Join us for this popular event which will be held on Sunday 21st May 2023 from 10am-12pm at the Village Hall!

Bring your spare plants and go home with new plants for your garden. The WI will be serving Tea and Cakes. The forecast for Sunday is looking good and we look forward to a wonderful event.

Download a copy of the poster here.

Categories: News, Plant Sale and Swap