Events
CHADAHS 61st Annual Show 2010
The 61st Annual Show for the Central Hornsey and District Allotments and Horticultural Society will be on Saturday September 11th 2010, at the Moravian Church Hall in Priory Road, N8, on the corner of Redston Road, close to the lower entrance to Alexandra Palace (buses 144, W3 and W7).
The Show is one of the largest in London and more popular than ever! Planning is in full swing, but you can be sure it will be a very special event!
As always, along with exhibits of vegetables, fruit and flowers, arts and crafts and
the children's art competition, there will be plenty for visitors to enjoy at stalls selling plants, vegetables, flowers, honey, hand-made cards and delicious teas with home-made cakes - not to mention the ever-popular Tombola and Raffle. Visitors will be also able to test their wit and knowledge in the Gardening Quizzes for children and adults, the Caption Competition and Guess the Weight of the Cake. At the end of the Show, you can bid for many of the exhibits in the Grand Auction.
The Show will start at 2 pm, with prizes presented by the Mayor at 3.30pm. Entrance will be 30p, or free to CHADAHS members and children aged 14 years and under.
There will be competition classes for novices and seasoned gardeners as well as for children. Online entry and printable entry forms are available below, and paper forms from the Shepherds Hill and Alexandra Palace Allotments trading sheds. Completed entry forms should reach the Show Secretaries by 10 am Thursday 9th September. Any enquiries concerning the show should be sent to: show (AT) chadahs.org.uk
Shepherds Hill Annual Plant Sale
The Shepherds Hill allotments site organises a very popular annual plant sale on a Sunday afternoon in Spring. Always lots of good stuff, at good prices, and ready to go in the ground.
The sale raises around £800, much of which is given to local charities.
So, every reason to attend! Put a note in your diary now to look back here at the beginning of next May!
CHADAHS Annual Outing
This year, our Summer trip was to the National Fruit Collection at Brogdale in Kent for their Cherry and Strawberry Festival. Before returning home, we visited Whitstable for paddling and seafood!
Previous visits have included RHS Hyde Hall in Summer 2009, with our traditional coastal visit after the garden to Maldon. In Summer 2008, our trip was to the Cambridge University Botanic Gardens - click here for details in case you would like to visit yourself by train (Cambridge Station is very close to the Gardens). Our Summer trip in 2007 was to Wisley to see (among everything else) the new world size glass-house opened just two weeks earlier and its exhibits.
