SHOW GIVES IT SOME WELLY
As part of the HortCouture theme at the Spring Harrogate Flower show this year a gardening item of clothing – the welly – was featured throughout the showground. There was a competition for the best dressed wellies and many exhibitors took part, including Kitchen Garden magazine. We had a rather fetching pair of ‘leeky’ wellies, sporting a hole with compost spilling out and planted up with two handsome leeks. We didn’t win with our wellies – that award went to a fine chainsaw carving of a tall tree of wellies called The Giant Wellington-ia Tree by Wood Actually (www.woodactually.co.uk).
There was also a wonderful veggie-themed pair of wellies on the National Vegetable Society stand. They took third for their tomato, herb and cauli wellies. The NVS ladies had a rather painstaking job of sticking cocktail sticks topped with cherry tomatoes through the holes which just kept sealing up!