Free resource for show committees

Class ideas for your show schedule

Planning next year's schedule? This library gathers class ideas from published horticultural show schedules across the UK - vegetables to floral art, cookery to children's classes - with how many schedules run each idea. Search it, borrow from it, and make next year's schedule the best yet.

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A few favourites

Disaster zone - unexpected produce or a crop failure
vegetables
A class for the honesty of the growing year - the entry that welcomes everyone whose crop failed.
A vase of mixed weeds
floral art
The lowest barrier to entry in showing: everyone has the material.
A wheelbarrow collection - fruit, flowers and vegetables shown together in a wheelbarrow
vegetables
Fruit, flowers and vegetables in one barrow - a centrepiece class that photographs itself.
Cherry cake - set recipe
cookery
One schedule lets the previous year's winner choose the next set recipe - a tradition that renews itself.
A labelled cross-section diagram of a fruit or vegetable
children
Biology meets the show bench - the most quietly educational class in the library.
A community quilt class - each entry a patchwork square, sewn into one quilt after the show
group & community
Every entry is one patchwork square; after judging they are sewn into a single quilt. The show doesn't just display the village - it stitches it together.

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The schedule is the start. The whole show is the point.

Horti Show Manager runs a society's annual show end to end - the schedule, entries, judging results, cups and trophies with winner's bars, certificates and reports - for a flat £100 a year, hosted, with setup done for you. Built with Somerset societies; priced for village shows.

Ask about your society's show