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News May 2018

Flower Arranger Books

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Flower Arranging Book - How to.. Go Greener - Leaf Manipulation and Bark and Cone Structures - Volume 1 - by Gill McGregor...

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Living the Chelsea dream, Team London and Overseas by Gill McGregor

It was such an honour and an opportunity to be asked to be part of the creative team and work with my fellow colleagues: Sheila Adby, Charles Barnard, Sandra Boyce, Graham Harmer, Marion Jacobs, Sue Winters and of course our lead Mig Kimpton all of whose talents shone through to make it the success that it was.

In truth there were so many team players who made the exhibit possible. So many unnamed heroes who fund raised throughout the past 18 months with the launch of collecting 20ps in a jar, to demonstrations, sales, Presidents lunch, singing soiree, individual donations, club donations and sponsorships. Members gave up their time in many guises to: make, perform, attend, demonstrate, administrate, promote, liaise with, teach, sell, bake, tout, sketch and coordinate with each L&O member utilising their own specific skills. It was this accumulation of skills that enabled the L&O Area to raise sufficient funds together with the NAFAS fund for the annual NAFAS Chelsea stand that made it all possible.

The opportunity to bring NAFAS to the attention of the general public so they discover that there is so much more to flower arranging than they could ever had imagined.

The dream commenced with brain storming at HQ, team building with the willow man, drawing up plans for submission, liaising with the NAFAS RHS coordinator, meeting the guys who were building the stand, scaling up drawings, meeting with the Flower Suppliers, completing the plant list with the invaluable aid of Christina Curtis, designing the frames for the blacksmith, to working in the barn, painting, prepping, designing, practicing, basing, pinning, gluing, until the last day in the barn and the stand and all its products travelled up to Chelsea ready for the creative team to stage the L&O exhibit “Seasonal Beauty Uncaged”.

4 days from 8am - 8pm the team worked to complete the exhibit before Press day.

Donned with steel toe capped boots and high vis jackets in melting temperatures the team finished each of the 4 seasons Fantasy Peacock birds aided by the accomplished fork lift truck driver who managed to successfully land the winter bird on top of the Gazebo.

The last 2 days allowed for the arrangement of the designs to interpret the seasons, the "plantings” to hide the electrics, the washing of the stand, the filling and touch up painting of the stand, the staging of the pathway, the placement of signage, the checking of the plant list, to the disposal of rubbish and removal and storage of tools, equipment and “spare product”.

In those 4 days we missed: the Royal wedding, we missed the FA Cup Final between Chelsea and Manchester United as we were living the life of the Chelsea Flower Show, and working alongside designers, growers, security, the Red Cross, RHS coordinators, rubbish collectors and trades people. All around you was the smell and beauty of plants- each admiring plants at perfection, staged to enhance their beauty ready for the 157.000 visitors to Chelsea.

The team with the aid of our NAFAS RHS Coordinator Judith Taylor and L&O volunteers who gave up some of their own Chelsea time to help man the stand marvelled at the publics’ response .We overheard and received so many positive comments; “we should have got a gold” that the NAFAS stand was the “best stand at Chelsea”. There was a constant stream of people photographing the different designs and birds. My daughter was able to visit us on one of the days –and as a 25 year old she said “I feel that I am undercover as people wouldn’t expect that I am connected to NAFAS in anyway so I think what I am seeing and hearing is very honest and I have heard and seen so many excited 20 year olds and those in their 30’s express so many times that they never imagined that you could do this with flowers, some were studying fashion and wanted to know more about flower arranging and had discovered something they never new existed”.

It was an honour to be part of the team representing every member of London and Overseas at Chelsea, who created a stand that I believe rose to meet the Chelsea opportunity for NAFAS.

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