Celebrating 60 Years of Cheadle Flower Club

Cheadle Flower Club marked its 60th anniversary with a delightful evening at The Oakley Room, Guild Hall. Chairman Sheila greeted attendees, including Cheadle Mayor Kate Mills, at the event. The celebration featured an impressive demonstration by Sionedd Hughes and fantastic entertainment with singing, music, and laughter from Gabriella.

Sionedd began her demonstration by transporting members and visitors to the 1960s, the era when the Club was established. She employed a tall cherub stand to craft an elegant, curved shape and design characteristic of that time. To form the curve, she incorporated rebus, smoke bush, lonicera, senecio, and box. The floral arrangement featured Veronica, avalanche roses, gentian blue, white hypericum, and pink spray carnations, all beautifully showcasing a "tribute to the 60s" style of flower arranging.

Sionedd's latest design embraced the new modern 'meadow style', which has evolved to be softer than the rigid lines of the 'continental style' from the 70s and 80s. The arrangement was displayed in a large tin container filled with jam jars and glasses. It featured hosta, senecio, boxwood, various grasses, lavender, mint, astilbe, pink spray roses, and cow parsley, creating a beautiful natural mix of colors, textures, and fragrances. Sionedd shared a humorous story about feeding her lambs mint so it wouldn't need to be added during cooking, which had everyone in the audience laughing and filled the room with joy.

The final display was created within a large metal frame in the form of a card to celebrate the club's anniversary. Sionedd used rubas, senecio, mint, white stocks, pink gerbera, sweet williams, beautiful Calla Lilly and Ecuadorean roses. She added two diamond shapes to the frame producing a gorgeous arrangement to bring to an end her wonderful and amusing presentation.

A short break followed with everyone enjoying cheese and biscuits presented in china cups prepared by members and the cutting of the beautiful anniversary cake kindly made by Dorothy’s daughter. 

The final part of the evening was musical entertainment by Gabriella playing banjo and ukulele. Gabriella soon had everyone singing along to old classics ‘I saw a mouse’ and George Formby songs with many amusing stories and jokes along the way, ensuring everyone had a thoroughly enjoyable evening.

The club's President Elizabeth Rushton gave a vote of thanks to everyone for all the support and hard work involved ensuring the success of the event, especially to chairman Sheila for her leadership, organisation skills and creative ideas for a successful and wonderful evening and hoped that everyone will join the club at future events.

The next meeting is on Wednesday 20th August with a ‘Picnic and Walk in the Park’. 

A demonstration by Lorraine Simcox will be taking place on Wednesday 17th September, 7.30 pm at The Oakley Room, Guild Hall, Cheadle.

If you require any further information or would like to join contact chairman Sheila Jones on 07974577572 or sheilajones53@hotmail.com.

Everyone can be assured of a warm and friendly whether a member or a visitor.

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