Ayton Show
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Ayton Show is back for 2025 …
Saturday 6th September 2025, at Ayton Primary School and field, with teas at the Ayton Bowling Club
Welcome, we hope you enjoy this year’s show!
We hope it is as great as our 3 previous years, and we wish to thank all those who have entered or volunteered and helped to make it the success it has been. We are keen to understand how we could make the show better and would love to hear from anyone who would like to get involved in the planning or running of the show – please talk to any of the committee members or volunteers at the show. You can also contact us via social media or email.
We were keen to keep the schedule free of charge and have done so for another year.
Please send your entry forms in as soon as possible using the form in the schedule or online, and please be ready to pay for your £2 entry when you turn up on the day to stage your entries – cash payment please. We really look forward to seeing you at the show. Have fun getting your entries ready!
– The Committee of the Ayton Gardening Society
aytongardens@outlook.com
As last year, we would ask that you send in your entry forms as usual either using the form in the schedule or online here, but you do not need to pay anything until the big day.
Please get your entry forms in early if possible (deadline is Friday 29th August) and bring along your £2 entry fee in cash on the day! We are looking forward to seeing you!
(If you have trouble downloading, you can also ask for the PDF file to be emailed to you, or you can see the entire schedule below, and the entry form here)
Download Children’s Pictures for Collage - Snail or Whale
View full schedule below
Fairings recipe for the Home Produce section (Class 43)
2025 Schedule
Information for the Day
Certificates will be awarded for First, Second and Third in each class. Teas will be served in the Bowling Club from 2–4.30pm. Norham Brass Band will play during the afternoon. Tombola from 2pm. Wheelchair access is available in both the School and the Bowling Club. Toilets are available in the School and in the Bowling Club. Dogs are not permitted in either building.
Rules
- Competition entry will be £2.00/exhibitor, this will cover all show entries made by that person and also allows entry to and a right to vote at our AGM.
- The competition entry form can be found in the printed schedule (PDF) or completed online.
- Competition entry forms must be returned by Friday 29th August 2025. The form may be posted or handed in to Lenzie House, 3 High Street, Ayton, TD14 5QN, emailed to aytongardens@outlook.com, or completed online.
- Exhibitors will be provided with cards for each of their exhibits on the day of the show on payment of £2 entry fee (CASH only).
- Any exhibitor of 18 years or less must complete an entry form as above but entry is free.
- Articles not entered will not be accepted. Late entries will not be accepted.
- The hall will be open for competitors from 8am on the morning of the show.
- All articles for competition must be in the hall and displayed before 10.00am.
- Not more than 2 entries per class allowed.
- In all cases the Judge’s decision is final.
- All exhibits must have been produced/made by the exhibitor themselves.
- The Committee shall not be held responsible for loss or damage to exhibits during or after the show.
- The show will be open to the public between 1–4pm, after judging is complete.
- Exhibitors are to remove all their entries from the hall as soon as possible after 4pm, any remaining after 4.30pm will be cleared and disposed of by the Committee.
- Any questions about the eligibility of an exhibit or the interpretation of the rules shall be decided by the Committee, whose decision is final.
Classes
Flowers and Floral Art
(All flowers and plants to be homegrown except the Floral Wreath class 16)
- One geranium plant (not exceeding 20cm diameter pot)
- One flowering pot plant (not exceeding 20cm diameter pot)
- One foliage pot plant (not exceeding 20cm diameter pot)
- One pot plant/plants of special interest in one container (any variety)
- One single rose bloom
- One vase of three roses (dissimilar)
- One vase of three dahlia blooms
- Six fuchsia heads on a board
- One vase of mixed annuals (any mixture)
- Arrangement of mixed garden flowers (not shop bought)
- Arrangement of dried grasses/seed heads
- Floating arrangement in a bowl
- Floral arrangement as a table centrepiece
- An arrangement of herbs in a kitchen utensil/container
- Miniature floral arrangement in a tea cup
- Floral wreath (max diameter 40cm)
Fruit and Vegetables
(Classes marked with * may be cut and tasted by the judge)
- Heaviest vegetable marrow
- Four potatoes
- Heaviest potato
- Three carrots
- Longest carrot (crown to root tip)
- One cucumber *
- One red pepper *
- Two chilli peppers (same variety)
- Three beetroot (leaves and root not cut)
- Four runner beans
- Four french beans
- One cabbage
- Three stalks rhubarb
- Three courgettes
- Four onions
- Four eating apples (green) *
- Four eating apples (coloured) *
- Four cooking apples
- Six plums *
- Six cherry tomatoes *
- Four large tomatoes *
- Strangest shaped fruit/vegetable (judge’s choice)
Home Produce
- Three fruit scones
- Three cheese scones
- One loaf of bread, any variety (bread makers allowed)
- Three muffins (sweet or savoury)
- Three Cornish Fairings (as per recipe above)
- Madeira cake
- Lemon drizzle (2lb loaf tin, liner allowed)
- Gingerbread (2lb loaf tin, liner allowed)
- Three pieces of traybake
- Victoria sandwich cake (jam-filled, no topping)
- Swiss roll (any flavour)
- Three shortbread biscuits or fingers
- One jar strawberry jam
- One jar raspberry jam
- One jar fruit jam (please label the variety)
- One jar fruit jelly (please label the variety)
- One jar marmalade
- One jar chutney or relish (please label the variety)
- One bottle homemade alcohol or liqueur (please label the variety)
- One bottle homemade cordial (please label the variety)
- One jar of runny honey
- One jar of set honey
Photography
(Maximum size of photograph to be 20 x 25cm)
- Photograph from your garden
- Photograph of a bridge
- Photograph of a sunset
- A black and white photograph (any subject)
Art
(Artwork can be framed or unframed)
- An animal or bird (any medium)
- Mixed media to include collage (any subject)
- A city or townscape (any medium)
- A botanical illustration (any medium, any size)
Craft
(All items submitted should have been crafted in the last year)
- A crocheted cushion cover
- A knitted child’s jumper or cardigan
- A cross stitched item
- An embroidered item
- An item of jewellery
- A small item made of wood
- A birthday card (any medium)
- A christmas tree decoration (any medium)
- A lap quilt using scrap fabric (lap quilts are designed to be used when sitting, are smaller than traditional quilts and should measure from 90 x 75cm to 150 x 125cm) (Please note the lap quilts are to be donated to Saltgreens Residential Care Home, Eyemouth)
- An item in any craft not specified above
Children’s Open Section
(Open to all children under 18 years. Please display age on entry form.)
- Collage or applique on the printed picture of a snail or a whale (provided by school or download from website)
- Paint or draw on a rock or pebble
- Make a home for nature eg. hedgehog house, bug hotel or bird house
- Decorate a biscuit or cupcake
- Create a model from Lego or other toy bricks
- A vase of flowers from your garden
- Draw or paint a garden creature for next year’s show (we’ve had bees, hedgehogs, ladybirds and snails so far)
- Any other craft not mentioned in the above classes
- Art section:
- An animal or bird (any medium)
- Mixed media to include collage (any subject)
- A city or townscape (any medium)
Children are also welcome to enter any of the adult categories, except art but including photography
Children’s School Section
Artwork – to be chosen and displayed by school: Class 1, Class 2 and Class 3
Handwritten Work – to be chosen and displayed by school: Class 1, Class 2 and Class 3
Snail quiz with a picture tie-breaker – to be distributed by school