6:20pm Saturday 4th September 2010
By Chris Hewett
A wide range of flowers, vegetables and art work filled a community hall in Carpenders Park this afternoon for an annual horticultural show.
The show, put on by the Carpenders Park Horticultural Society, has been running since at least 1935 and this year's offering showed no sign of a decline in interest.
Society chairman Coralie Frances said it was the community atmosphere that made the event so special every year.
“Carpenders Park is the nearest thing you can get to a village and these events are so well supported. Our aim is to promote gardening and horticulture and get people involved.”
As well as the vegetables and artwork, one set of entries combined the two as children entered a competition for vegetables made into animal shapes.
Creative entries included a banana skin shaped like an octopus and a cucumber transformed into a crocodile.
People also entered miniature gardens containing fine details including autumn leaves.
Conservative councillor for Oxhey Park, Frances Button, said she was amazed at the amount of effort people had put in.
“It is wonderful. It is these events that turn Carpenders Park from an estate into a village. Societies like this make people proud of their community and it brings them together. I think it also encourages people to grow their own when they see the fantastic produce on display here.”
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