Summer Show 2025

Date and location

Sunday 15th June 2025 | 2 – 4pm

Ditchling Village Hall

Judges

Section A: Mrs S Rawlings

Section B: Mr D Muller & Mr P Eastwood

Section C: Miss E Passmore

Section D: Mrs K Beard

Sections E & F: Ms B Lloyd

Trophies awarded at the Summer Show:

  1. Nat Catchpole Trophy: Best flowering plant in a pot (class 32).
  2. Copper Kettle: Most meritorious exhibit of fruit in the show.
  3. Macaulay Challenge Cup: Most meritorious exhibit of Sweet Peas (Class 23).
  4. Jeffery Challenge Cup: Best Rose in show, irrespective of class.
  5. Committee Challenge Cup: Best patio pot (class 36).
  6. Reg Strube Cup: Highest number of points* in the Summer Show floral art classes.
  7. Edie Catchpole Trophy: Highest number of points* in the Summer Show fruit & vegetable classes.

*First prize = 5 points, second prize = 3 points, third prize = 1 point.

Summer Show Categories

  1. 10 raspberries, with stalks
  2. 10 gooseberries other than ‘Red Rough’, one variety,
    any colour, with stalks
  3. 10 ‘Red Rough’ gooseberries, with stalks
  4. 5 strawberries, with stalks
  5. 8 strigs (bunches) of blackcurrants
  6. 8 strigs (bunches) of red or white currants
  7. 5 fruit not otherwise shown in schedule, one variety
  8. 5 pods of broad beans
  9. 5 pods of French, climbing or dwarf beans
  10. 5 pods of peas
  11. 5 pods of mange tout or snap peas
  12. 2 lettuce, one variety
  13. Bunch of 5 carrots, with tops
  14. 3 beetroots, one variety
  15. 3 whole bulbs of garlic
  16. Bunch of 5 radishes
  17. 5 potatoes, white or coloured, one variety
  18. 3 vegetables not otherwise shown in schedule, one variety
  19. 3 courgettes (max length 15cm/ 6”)
  20. A cabbage, any variety
  21. 5 leaves of perpetual spinach/ Swiss chard
  22. A growing culinary herb garden pot (max 30cm/12” diameter)
    1. 10 stems of sweet peas, any variety
    2. 6 blooms roses, large flowered types (e.g. hybrid tea)
    3. 6 stems cluster-flowered roses (e.g. floribunda)
    4. A scented rose, to be judged for perfume
    5. A vase of annual flowers grown from seed in the preceding 12 months; 3
      types of flower, 9 stems in total.
    6. A vase of mixed herbaceous perennials
    7. A single peony flower, any variety.
    8. A potted Pelargonium (Geranium) in a pot, the pot not to exceed
      20cm /8” in diameter
    9. A Fuchsia in a pot, the pot not to exceed 20cm /8” in diameter
    10. A flowering plant in a pot, other than Pelargonium or Fuchsia, the pot
      not to exceed 20cm /8” in diameter
    11. A planted up patio pot, not to exceed 30cm /12” in diameter
    12. A recycled item used as a planter, not to exceed 30cm / 8” in diameter.

Flowers used in these classes may be bought by the exhibitor. 

  1. Create a “Burst” – a vase full of flowers with a big burst of colour (max width 75cm/2½ ft).
  2. A medium sized arrangement in a picture frame (max width 45cm/1½ ft.)
  3. An Ikebana arrangement to celebrate Father’s Day (max width 75cm/2½ ft.)
  4. A petite arrangement in a circle (max H, D and W between 10 cm/4

    inches and 23 cm/9 inches.)

  1. A decorated dome cake
  2. 3 Danish pastries
  3. Olive bread
  4. A bottle of home-made lemonade
  1. A painting of sweet peas
  2. A photograph ‘Inside the greenhouse’
  3. A stitched centre placemat reflecting the Sussex countryside
  4. Pot pourri made from flowers from your garden
6 years and under at the time of the Spring Show
  1. A pipe cleaner model of an animal
  2. A painting of a flower
7–11 years at the time of the Spring Show
  1. A shoe box farm
  2. A photograph of a bug

To submit an entry into the Show:

Choose the classes you wish to enter from the membership Show Schedule booklet. Entries are open to all DHS members, who can enter any number of classes.

Fee = 20p per entry

  1. Cut out one of the forms from the last page of your Show Schedule booklet 
  2. Complete it with your name and address and the details of your entries
  3. Put it in an envelope with your entry fee.
  4. Hand it in at Ditchling Post Office no later than 5 p.m. on the Wednesday preceding the show. Late entries will not be accepted.
Guidelines for exhibitors
Show Rules

Entry form for the DHS Bicentenary Show 2022