UMBERLEIGH GARDEN SHOW 2025

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The Umberleigh Garden Show – 2nd August 2025

This years’ show looks to be one of the best we have had in a long time. The weather was perfect and with no high winds, the gazebos all stayed in place! Mary Wilson opened the show for us and it was lovely to hear how she had taught youngsters at Umberleigh Academy who were there attending the show with their own children and even grand-children in some cases.

The choir, Making Waves, as well as The 3 Strings, entertained us with music and song. Elsa, from Higher Beings Circus once again looked after the children’s  entertainment with a new addition, Fizzgog Face Painting adding to the mix. We also had the outside bar, provided by The Bell as well as ice-cream from The Rising Sun.

Other stall holders included Taw Valley Organic Plants, Lilcott Farm animals, The Dogs Trust, Purrfect Homes, cat rescue, Harepie Plants and Chittlehampton Twinning Association. Gareth has confirmed that over 170 cars were parked and this went very smoothly with his volunteers ensuring only one entrance was used.

We had over 260 entries this year from 38 Adults, with many more children entering independently from the school entries. This is up on last years’ entries. Several children also entered the adult categories for vegetables and eggs as well as cookery. This led to some disappointment when, with
only one entry in a category, the child was awarded a third prize. The judges have no idea who the entry is from and will judge on the standard of the specimen. If the high standard for a 1 st award is not met, a 2 nd or 3 rd prize will be given. Children do not understand this process and it may be that
we need to look at having additional categories for children to enter separately from the adults.

There was some angst regarding a lost trophy cup which miraculously turned up for prize giving!

The dog show was a great success with 188 entries, raising £203.50 plus sponsorship from Mike Adey. The Supreme Champion was won by Paul Kern who was here on holiday with a Dalmatian called Banana! Reserved champion was a young local lad called Dillon Scrimmagor with a whippet
called Jelly.

This year, Vanessa kindly organised a rota for the kitchen volunteers who were very busy with the cream teas, raising over £436.

As always, my thanks must go to everyone who volunteered to help at this years’ show. Thank you very much for giving up your time and making the 2025 show such a big success.

Linda Holt
Secretary
07/08/25

Once again, the Umberleigh Garden Show will be hosting its popular Photographic Competition, so nows the time to start hunting for this years Perfect Picture.

This years categories are:

Adults:

P1 Railway

P2 Architecture in Umberleigh

P3 Something Red

P4 Tree or Trees

P5 Things ain’t what they used to be

Children:

P6 Railway

P7 Architecture in Umberleigh

P8 Something Red

P9 Tree or Trees