Breaston Flower Circle

Workshop with Lee Berrill

admin — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 17:32:02 +0000

We were pleased to welcome Lee Berrill to take a Workshop for us. He first showed us how to make a construction from garden canes so that individual flowers could be inserted into test tubes to make a table arrangement. There was much concentration during the morning in making the construction, however many varied arrangements appeared by lunchtime. In the afternoon Lee showed us how to make a wire ring threaded with pieces of bark, leaves and moss balls. This was then placed around the top of a round container and spring flowers inserted through the gaps in the ring, to mimic the old fashioned posy ring, but with a new twist. Again many pleasing designs appeared by the end of the day. We all thoroughly enjoyed the day and went home with an assortment of decorations.

15th Anniversary Dinner

admin — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 12:09:45 +0000

55 members enjoyed our 15th Anniversary Dinner at Cleve Lodge in Long Eaton when we were entertained by National Demonstrator Nick Grounds. One of our members, Gill Mills, made and decorated our Anniversary Cake. This was cut by our previous Chairmen, Gill Cotton and Kay Lees and current Chairman Linda Smith. Our founder chairman Marion Stokes, was unfortunately unable to attend. A lovely evening was enjoyed by all.

Christmas Demonstration by Lee Berrill

admin — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:14:37 +0000

We were pleased to welcome Lee Berrill to demonstrate his “Winter Wonderland”, at our Winter Open Demonstration. He kept his audience spell-bound with his wonderful designs. He showed us designs suitable for the dining table, the front door, both sides of the fireplace and a wonderful free standing arrangement.

End of year report

admin — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Breaston Flower Circle have had a most wonderful 10th Year. We have had many demonstrations, including Tracey Neal with her “Greenleaf Girl”, Pauline Foster, Pat Billing, Marilyn Ottewell. Lesley Smith demonstrated “Just for Pleasure” for our open July meeting while Catherine Gledhill came with her contemporary demonstration “Just for Christmas” for our December Open meeting.

April saw a party of members and friends visit Holland to see how the Flower Market works and to visit the Keukenhof and Amsterdam to sample the delights of Dutch cuisine. A wonderful weekend with good weather and lots of money spent!

Our garden visit this year was to Tony and Domini Gregory’s lovely garden in Draycott.

We also visited Gawsworth Hall to see the wonderful Christmas arrangements orchestrated by Barry Grey in the beautiful house. I think we all would have like to have lived there. This was followed by lunch at Trentham Gardens with time for Christmas shopping

We finally celebrated our 10 years with a Dinner in December for all our members. Our three chairmen over the last 10 years all cut the Anniversary Cake, Marion Stokes, our founder chairman then demonstrated “Congratulations” showing how arranging had developed over the last 10 years. This was a wonderful end to an exciting year.

2007 is already booked and we have more exciting ideas for our members.

Kay Lees
Media Officer