LATEST NEWS...........

To mark the 65th Anniversary, the Blue Sapphire Anniversary of our club, we held a special event on our April clubnight. The evening started with a delicious buffet meal catered by the committee where we raised a toast to the fun and friendship we have shared over the years, coming together to enjoy our passion for flowers. Our chairman Janet Aslett made a short speech and Pam Lee who is our longest standing member, who joined in 1974 as a new Mum, had the honour of cutting the celebration cake that Janet had made. Keeping with the blue sapphire theme, the evening included a fun 'all things blue' quiz and a raffle, where all the prizes were packaged in blue. The energy picked up as a live band treated us to toe-tapping tunes from the 60's. Duncan then followed with a brilliant talk of his ups and downs of training to be a demonstrator and outlined the scope of what the course involved. It was both inspiring and entertaining. It was a really memorable evening.

We have since heard that Duncan passed the tough demonstrator's test on April 5th so we congratulate him on his acheivement. I am sure he will soon have a full diary of bookings

COMING UP...............

At our May clubnight Cerys Nichols of Zoe's Florists in Gales Drive,Crawley is coming back with more 'Designs from a Florist'. Cerys came before and demonstrated some of the popular designs she gets asked for and gave us an insight into the seasonal arrangements that were popular in October. This time she will showing us what is in store for summer seasonal arrangements so do come along and take inspiration from her designs.

No Bring and Buy table this month but instead a Plant Sale - 6th May: I hope you have been nurturing all those little seedlings into young plants for sale, or perhaps if you are splitting up some perrenials you can pot up some to sell. Please bring your plants along on Tuesday to clubnight.

Coach Outing: Sadly, our all day coach outing visiting Rural Life Living Museum in Farnham followed by a visit to a garden centre on Thursday 22nd May has had to be cancelled as we did not get enough takers. Marcia will be processing refunds at clubnight.