Well, I've paid my entry fee........

Brilliant! well done (maybe again next year)??

I love a happy ending?

Well done. Hurrah!?

So pleased for you phoenix lets have a new picture of the winning specimen now it is fully in bloom.
Bet your Mr P is secretly very proud of his green fingered wife get your sights on that Rose Bowl for next year.Well done you .

Just caught up with the brilliant news. Well done Phoenix.
So all the finger, leg and eyes crossing helped?
So pleased for you.

No, Charleygirl he's painting the "dining" section of the kitchen!

However, he is pleased, but still won't get involved, so transporting it back home will fall to me and the lovely chaps that got it there!

I hope Mr. PP is hiding his head in shame.

Thank you all!

The basket was just randomly planted for the house, no thought of the show (lived in the village for 14 years and never bothered) it was my neighbour that suggested that I enter it.

Now, hopefully the chaps that got it there will get it back home again!

well done!! Now to start planning the planting of next year's basket. Will you be able to cope with your local celebrity status? Being mobbed in the Co-op?

Fabulous result Phoenix. Well done. All the hard work and planning was worth it.

If you and the plant ever get home I would suggest to Mr. P he fixes his own supper, you are flushed with success. That is really really good and was well worth all of that effort.

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Congratulations phoenix, suspect Mr P may be proud, although he could well be in the dog house for saying you shouldn't do it. Safe trip home.

Well done!! Very satisfying after all that effort getting it there. Of course, next year you'll not only have to win the hanging basket class, but the Rose Bowl as well .

Wow! Well done!

Congratulations phoenix. Now you have to to get it home ?

Oh! Well done, congratulations phoenix!

IT WON!

Missed out on the Bernard Vanstone Memorial Rose Bowl, as that went to the best exhibit in either the hanging basket or patio tub category, (the entry that won that was nothing special, imho!)

But feeling very chuffed!

phoenix you have brought back little memories of when late DH and myself used to enter our local flower show.

Dh used to grow the giant Chrysanthemums, 3 in a vase and show them, also dalias.

I used to make corsages .

Its exciting when you all have to leave the room for judging and then go back in to see the results.

If we won anything (usually a little money) we used to celebrate with a chinese and bottle of wine.)

He managed to win Silver medals and was so chuffed

Good luck for today , we shall wait with baited breath

Well, we got it there!

2 strong men and an iron bar, not a leaf or bloom damaged!

Pamela I'm not tall enough to keep it off the ground, the trailing bits are very long.

Fingers and toes crossed for you phoenix!

Do you have another hanging basket with lobelia, phoenix?

You could do a last minute cheeky swap with the flattish one.

I’d just like to point out that symmetry is sooo yesterday!
Why can’t you be at the other end of the pole?
Anything they can do....?

Next year!

anno this is my first year, and may well be my last!

Good luck with the transportation and for the contest, phoenix. It's a lovely hanging basket. If the logistics work this year, next year's effort will be a piece of cake. Won't it?