WINSHAM HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY

Annual Show-2026
Just to let you know that the Horticultural Society Annual Show schedule is now out and copies are available from the shop.
Hopefully you'll find a number of classes that you can enter, whether it's something grown, made or created. Entries are still only 25p per class (children's classes are free) and the more entries we get the more interesting the show is to our many visitors a number of which like to "judge" the classes themselves and see if they agree with the placings!

Also please come and visit us at our stall at the BIENNIAL STREET FAIR on Saturday 27th June where you will also be able to pick up a Schedule.

 A message from Sandy Croll, the new Chairman of Winsham Horticultural Society...

The benefits of joining the Winsham Horticultural

 Society. 

If you love gardening and live in the parish of Winsham and surrounding areas, joining the Winsham Horticultural Society is a great idea. For £4 a year each or £6 for a joint membership, you get reduced price entry to our regular garden talks through the year, discount on plants at Groves and Little Groves nurseries, as well as at Combe Dingle nursery, the chance to join trips and visits to gardens in the area, and the opportunity to share tips and seeds with like-minded gardening fans.

We have a raffle at all the events, tea and homemade cakes and there’s even a free buffet at the AGM! The society organises a very popular plant sale in May, our big annual horticultural show in August and a fantastic open gardens event every two years. Enjoying the support and enthusiasm of gardeners of all ages, we’d be thrilled if you joined us in this sustainable and long-standing village society. To apply, email the secretary at lrcopas@btinternet.com

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The origins of the Winsham Horticultural Society are shrouded in the mists of time. In such a rural community, it was certain that most homes would have grown their own vegetables for domestic consumption, with no doubt bartering or swapping anything that was surplus to their immediate needs, or could not be pickled, bottled or somehow preserved. It seems likely that Winsham Horticultural Society was formed sometime between the two World Wars, emerging in its present form sometime in the 1950s. Interest in the cultivation of flowers, among ordinary people, probably grew as more people had the leisure and money to indulge in such interests, as standards of living improved, and hobby gardening became a topic of television programmes. But that can only be speculation.

In recent years, Winsham Horticultural Society has organised an annual Summer Show at the end of August. Located on the Upper Recreation  ground it is housed in a large marquee, and offers many categories of exhibits, with a large number of trophies which have been contributed over the years.
The Winsham Open Gardens Exhibition has also taken place in recent years, alternating with the Winsham Street Fair event at the end of June. This is linked to a display of Scarecrows made by village residents to the delight and amazement of all.
It also holds an annual plant and garden accessory sale in the Jubilee Hall every year on the first Saturday in May, together with numerous outings and talks throughout the year, culminating in the AGM in November.

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