Boost your show with extra prizes!
Sign up for GN’s Top Tray and Top Vase classes and get prize vouchers and certificates for the winners
Back by popular demand, the Garden News Top Tray and Top Vase classes return again for the 2017 show season. If your gardening club or horticultural society has never taken part, now’s your chance to sign up.
We’ll send you everything you need to stage both the Top Tray or Top Vase classes, including prize vouchers worth £36 from D.T. Brown and Mr Fothergill’s, certificates, score cards and a set of rules. But hurry, the packs are always popular and are limited in number!
If your gardening club or horticultural society has taken part before, you’ll know what a popular feature the Top Tray and Top Vase classes are. The simple rules mean they appeal to everyone from experienced exhibitors to newcomers.
What you’ll get
Our packs contain everything you need to stage the classes, and they include the prize vouchers – from Mr Fothergill’s (Top Vase) and D.T. Brown (Top Tray) worth £10, £5 and £3 for the prize-winners. The vouchers can be cashed in against any seeds the winners want to order.
It’s easy to include the Top Tray and/or the Top Vase in your show schedule. You just need to fill in the appropriate form on the right and send it, with a cheque for £6.50 for each class, to the address on the form. You can also print these forms out from our website www. gardennewsmagazine.co.uk.
Your pack will contain:
First, second and third place cards, including seed vouchers worth £10, £5 and £3 from sponsors Mr Fothergill’s or D.T. Brown. A special certificate for the first-place winner. Score cards. Two copies of Mr Fothergill’s or D.T Brown catalogues. A set of Top Tray or Top Vase rules.
How to apply
Send the completed application form with your payment of £6.50 (per class) to: Garden News Top Tray (or Top Vase) class, Bauer Media, Media House, Lynch Wood, Peterborough PE2 6EA.
Cheques should be made payable to Garden News.
Essential notes for show secretaries
The Top Tray or Top Vase rules and Garden News logo must be printed in the show schedule. You can get them from Garden News at the address in the panel on the right.
Only societies and clubs that register for and receive the Top Tray or Top Vase pack can hold a Top Tray or Top Vase class at their show.
Societies and clubs can only register by sending in the completed application form(s) together with the
correct payment. This includes societies and clubs who have held a Top Tray or Top Vase class in previous years.
Closing date for applications is Friday, June 30. The show packs will be sent out as soon as we receive your entry.
Once you’ve held your show, please send your results to Stacey Carter, Garden News (Top Tray and Top Vase results), Bauer Media, Media House, Lynch Wood, Peterborough PE2 6EA. We will publish as many as we can.
Please also send any photos of the Top Trays and Top Vases from the show. You can email results and photos to gn.letters@bauermedia.co.uk.