London Children’s Flower Society

SUMMER GROWING COMPETITION

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SCHOOL GARDEN COMPETITION 2012

Applications for our Summer Growing and School garden Competitions will be sent out in early February.  If your school is not on our mailing list, you may still enter the competitions, please download the application form below:

Summer Competition Application

Our summer gardening competition allows children to grow the flowers, herbs and vegetables from seed.  The children have the opportunity to follow the natural process of germination, growth and production of flower or vegetable crop.  All the children taking part will receive a certificate regardless of whether they grow the plants in individual pots or collectively in the school garden or playground garden, be they in tubs, pots or window boxes.  School gardens will be judged separately provided you so indicate on the Entry Form.

Judging will take place in late June and early July when one of our volunteers will visit your school to award certificates and stickers to the children. Overall school awards will be issued in early September and for those schools which have produced excellent results there could be an invitation to our awards ceremony in October.

Planting instructions can be found on the seed packets plus we will include a general instruction leaflet with your order.  We would be delighted to receive photographs of the children and the fruits of their endeavours for possible publication. 

Our seeds are supplied by Sutton’s and every packet is the standard size packet as sold in retailers across the UK but our price for individual packets is only 40p.

We look forward to receiving your application before the 28^th March deadline.

Good Luck

JUDGING FOR THE SPRING BULB COMPETITION

Judging for the Spring Bulb Competition will take place between Wednesday 22nd February and Friday 16th March 2012.

SPRING BULB COMPETITION 2011/2012

We are now accepting applications for the 2011/2012 Spring Bulb Competition.  Schools on our mailing list were sent an application on Monday 12th September.  If you have not received an application or mislaid it, please print off the web based application below:

Spring Comp Application

The London Children’s Flower Society has been running flower growing competitions for more than 60 years and with the current trend for gardening we are ideally placed to encourage school children to “have a go” and grow something.  We aim to match the needs of the schools and enhance the requirements of the national curriculum.  Here is what we will be offering this year:

·        Bulbs at very competitive prices and with free delivery

·        Plastic pots    

·        Free self adhesive name labels with every pot bought

·        No entry fee for the competition

·        Email reminders for looking after your bulbs over the winter  

·        Our judges will visit on a date convenient to you and award every child with

      a merit certificate plus a bronze, silver or gold sticker

·        Schools can win trophies and prizes, including garden tools sets, gardening vouchers, books and educational visits to places such as Kew Gardens.

THE FINAL CLOSING DATE FOR ENTRIES WILL BE FRIDAY 14^TH OCTOBER 2011.

            NOTE: Bulbs and pots will be dispatched direct from our suppliers.  Planting instructions and sticky name labels will be sent with the order confirmation from this office.  The orders will be dealt with promptly and both ourselves and our bulb supplier will aim to avoid half term dates for delivery.

BULBS FOR THE CLASSROOM

We can supply the same bulbs for use in classrooms or school gardens.  These bulbs will not be counted as part of the competition and will therefore not be judged.

Please advertise the competition throughout your school to encourage all classes to participate. 

We look forward to receiving your completed order form in due course.