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On behalf of the organisers, I am delighted to
welcome you to this year’s Ayr Flower Show
and am sure that you will enjoy being with
us in the lovely parkland setting of Rozelle
for our 56th Show. This year’s event is much
more inclusive than when it started in 1960
and is now a great family day out, complete
with entertainment, music, food, cookery
demonstrations and a craft fair. In short, it
offers something for everyone but flowers
and plants will always remain at its heart and
be the reason behind everything else that
happens to make this such a popular event.
Yet we cannot rest on our laurels and
planning for the future is crucial to any
business or event. Ayr Flower Show is keenly
aware of that, which is why it places so
much emphasis on young people who, as
in everything, are our future. Sponsorship
support from Ayr Guildry, Ayrshirehousing
and Directional Letting encourages young
people to become involved through individual
entries in a range of Classes encompassing
not only planting and growing but also in
landscape design and planning. Add to that
level of collective interest the simple fact that
close on 900 different individual entries have
been received in the Junior Section and you
begin to understand the importance of these
“gardeners of tomorrow” to keeping their Ayr
Flower Show alive.
Enjoy being with us and thank you for your
support.
John Walker
Chair, Ayr Flower Show
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Friday 5 August
Variety and The Gaiety are
the spice of life at Rozelle...
Ayr’s historic Gaiety Theatre has played a
significant role in the town’s history, famed
for its variety since opening its doors in
1902. In the recent past, a tie-up between
The Gaiety and Ayr Flower Show has been
very effective and is being repeated this
year with an even more impressive array
and variety of music.
Starting with the lively sound of the Ayrshire
Fiddle Orchestra, the programme continues
throughout the Show and ends with the
award-winning Dunaskin Doon Brass
Band on Sunday afternoon. In between,
the Entertainment Stage features many
local artistes such as Ayr’s glamorous
songstress Nicola Cassells, Ayr Pipe Band,
the ever-popular Dixieland Rhythm Kings,
Tommy Campbell, Celtic Twist and Burness,
along with several local choirs.
Clearly the 56th Ayr Flower Show isn’t
simply about bonny blooms and fabulous
flowers but is now a family fun event
with the Entertainment Stage literally
at the centre of it all. The successful
partnership with The Gaiety ensures quality
entertainment is on hand to take the magic
of Ayr’s own theatre-land into the great
outdoors at Rozelle Park.
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11:00
11:45
12:30
14:00
15:00
15:45
Ayrshire Fiddle Orchestra
Gaiety Voices
Nicola Cassells
Celtic Twist
Connor & Adam
Gaiety Voices
Ayrshire Fiddle Orchestra
Saturday 6 August
10:00 Ayrshire Fiddle Orchestra
11:00Burness
11:40 Ayrshire Infinity Choir
12:20 Tommy Campbell
13:15 Dixieland Rhythm Kings
14:45Efemmeras
15:30 Dalmellington Junior Brass Band
Sunday 7 August
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12:40
13:30
14:10
15:00
15:50
Ayr Pipe Band
Nick McCann
Ayr Pipe Band
Tommy Campbell
Ayrshire Infinity Choir
Dunaskin Doon Brass Band
The Directors of Ayr Flower Show
wish to thank and acknowledge the
Management Team at The Gaiety
Theatre for their partnership support
in arranging this year’s exciting
programme at Rozelle.
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Already one of the major visitor events
in Scotland, this year’s Ayr Flower Show,
now in its 56th Year, has even more to
offer than ever before. The marquees and
stands erected in Rozelle Estate over the
first weekend in August undoubtedly house
one of Ayr’s top visitor and local community
attractions. Flowers, fruit and vegetables
remain very much at the core of the Show
but such is the range of attractions and
activities on offer at the three-day event that
even the non-gardening community will find
something of interest.
The sheer scale of today’s event is a far
cry from those early days when it was
established back in 1960 by Bob Wakefield
in Dam Park Stadium and could then be
contained in what Adam Train, who has
exhibited each year since its inception,
describes as “two old tents that were about
30 feet wide and 100 feet long”. That first
event quite literally sowed the seeds from
which today’s Show has grown in size,
status and reputation. While the quantity of
plants on view may have dropped slightly,
largely because many local authorities no
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longer have Parks Departments and civic
floral displays, there is no doubt that the
overall quality remains, with the standard
of exhibits in all of the hundreds of classes
clearly of the highest calibre.
This year’s Show features some of the
highlights of the competitive horticultural
year in Scotland, including the Scottish
Begonia Society Show with which Ayr is
now almost synonymous, as well as the
Scottish Pansy and Viola Association Show,
the Scottish Pelargonium Championship
and the West of Scotland Delphinium
Championship. With such
a level of competitions,
it’s hardly surprising
that Holiday Lettings, an
associated company of Trip
Advisor, the online travel
website, has included Ayr
in its “10 Fantastic Flower
Shows in 2016 to Rival
Chelsea”. Praise indeed
from one of the market
leaders in the international
travel market with Ayr being
GROWING OVER THE YEARS
ranked sixth and with the comment that “It’s
just as well this festival is on for three days
as one day might not be enough”.
Interestingly, the Holiday Lettings/
Trip Advisor website recognises in its
introduction, that “there’s so much
happening at these floral festivals that
you don’t need to be into gardening
to have a great day out. From cookery
demonstrations to show jumping to
unusually-shaped vegetables, these ten
flower shows are blossoming with fun and
entertainment for all the family.”
That’s certainly true of Ayr Flower Show
where the range of attractions includes a
very lively entertainment programme which
is being stage-managed once again by
the production team from Ayr’s famous
Gaiety Theatre. There are activities for
young and old alike, including the largest
Junior Competition Marquee at any Scottish
Flower Show and a Seafood and Wine Bar
within the Food Court being promoted by
local companies J Pieroni & Sons Ltd and
the Bijou Wine Company.
A lot has changed since the first Show but
the same spirit remains and because of that,
demand for the Show continues to grow.
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Clan Horticulture
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Entertaining, educational
and with edible results
One of the most exciting attractions at Ayr
Flower Show has nothing to do with flowers
at all. For it involves an exciting partnership
with The Cook School Scotland and the
Flower Show, both of which are focused
totally on providing quality experiences
for visitors. Building on their successful
appearances at major outdoor events,
the Kilmarnock-based company will be
demonstrating their chefs’ skills each day at
hourly intervals from 11 a.m. until the final
demonstration starting at 3 pm, in the Cook
School Kitchen, a special marquee linked to
the Food Colonnade.
Thanks to the popularity of food-related
television programmes, general interest in
cooking continues to rise, creating queues
for each session over the three days of the
Flower Show. Visitors to The Cook School
at Rozelle can learn about cooking in an
entertaining and informative way from
experienced chefs willing to share trade
tricks and techniques.
And for those who become hooked on The
Cook School’s “taster” at the Flower Show,
there will be opportunities to learn more
about the variety of hands-on cookery
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classes designed to suit individuals, couples
and groups (including kids). The Cook
School’s classes are themed to cater for all
tastes, with topics as diverse as Scottish
Fish & Seafood, Friends for Dinner, Curry,
Simply Meat and Home Baking days to
name just a few.
Food is fun and nobody does it better than
Cook School Scotland. Visit them at Ayr
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Tempting treats from
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The variety of Scottish produce available
this year at the Food Colonnade certainly
reflects Scotland’s burgeoning reputation
among gourmets and the mixture
demonstrates a wonderful combination
of ingenuity and innovation based on
traditional skills and products. Sara Gray’s
Jams and Marmalades started life being
made in the family kitchen in Angus, near
Arbroath, in small batches using locally
sourced ingredients. Much closer to home,
Woody’s Ice Cream, from nearby Galston,
offers a wide range of fine luxury dairy
ice cream, sorbets, frozen yoghurts and
desserts made fresh from their dairy (from
their award-winning herd of Ayrshire Cattle).
From Auchtermuchty - where The
Proclaimers also originated - The Seriously
Good Venison Company carries on a longestablished tradition of their predecessors
from the same airt. Diversity is clearly in the
air in those parts because they also produce
Seriously Good Black Pudding which is
certainly worth tasting.
“The Land of Cakes and Ales”, the foodie’s
soubriquet for Scotland, is well represented
with Chrystal’s Scottish Shortbread offering
hand-made, hand-cut and hand-packaged
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shortbread cubes, all made to a family
recipe and which have gained numerous
dedicated fans from far beyond their West
Dunbartonshire bakery. Ales may be harder
to spot but there’s no shortage of wines
and spirits with Pieroth Ltd from Stirling
occupying the first berth and the Leith
Liqueur Company occupying the second.
The latter company, which is based near
Cockenzie in East Lothian, has created a
uniquely Scottish product that fits the bill for
a Show in which fruit has a star billing. For
their pink-coloured liqueur - Fraiser - blends
the flavours of premium Scotch whisky with
wild strawberries, but be careful because
it slips down very easily and is also a great
base for cocktails.
Fresh from the sea and
washed down properly
Scotland and seafood are synonymous
and the quality of shellfish, including
langoustines, oysters, mussels and prawns
harvested from along our coast is second
to none. In fact, many of the seafood
delicacies that people are accustomed to
eating on holiday in France, Italy and Spain
don’t come from the Mediterranean at all
but are imported from Scotland.
At last year’s Flower Show, The Bijou
Wine Co and J Pieroni & Sons, the longestablished Ayr-based fish merchants,
co-hosted a stand where visitors were
invited to sample seafood dishes matched
to wines, with the opportunity to purchase
the seafood and wines to take home.
Unfortunately, space on what became
a very popular site was restricted but
visitors did suggest that they would have
welcomed a lighter lunch of this nature as
part of their day out.
People were certainly listening, especially
among the suppliers, and a lot of people
are excited by the news that, for this year’s
event, The Bijou Wine Co and J Pieroni &
Sons will again collaborate to present a
Seafood & Wine Bar as part of the Show’s
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on-site catering. The menu will offer a
selection of light seafood dishes freshly
prepared on-site and accompanied by
specially selected wines chosen to match
the seafood dish.
Dishes will include freshly shucked
Oysters, Scallops in the shell with Chilli
Butter, Prawn Marie Rose Baguette,
Pieroni’s Smoked Salmon Open
Sandwich with Horseradish, a Seafood
Burger along with a selection of Hot and
Cold Smoked Salmon. Wines, suitably
chilled of course, will include a selection
of white whites such as Prosecco,
Sauvignon Blanc, Chenin Blanc and
Chardonnay along with a Provencal
Rosé and a selection of lighter red wines
such as Pinot Noir and Sangiovese.
Hopefully the arrival - and success - of a
Seafood and Wine Bar at this year’s Show
starts a trend that will see other local
food providers getting involved. A Taste
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positive ring to it.
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Setting standards is a
labour of love
There may be larger flower shows around
than the Ayr Flower Show but that doesn’t
diminish the amount of energy expended by
volunteers in making this event happen.
For a start, there’s almost 100,000 square
feet of covered space under canvas that
has been specially erected and fitted out to
allow visitors to wander around the site in
comfort without having to worry about the
weather. There’s also lots of exhibits to be
arranged and shown to their best advantage
within the different marquees; there are
hundreds of cars coming and going over
the three days with car parks that need to
be managed; and there’s an army of people
buzzing around making sure that the site is
clean and tidy. Add to that caterers, retailers,
artistes and entertainers, all with different
requirements and the complexity behind
staging an event of this size soon becomes
evident.
None of this just materialises. It takes a
massive amount of planning, backed up
by effort and energy before, during and
afterwards from hundreds of volunteers
who work away quietly, often behind the
scenes and seldom visible. They are the
unsung heroes of Rozelle without whom
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there would be no Flower Show at all. Add
to their efforts, the valuable funding support
that comes from sponsors, exhibitors,
concessionaries, advertisers and patrons
and it becomes clear that this is a massive
operation that is not only an enjoyable
and colourful event but also generates a
substantial amount of money for the local
economy.
“People work tirelessly throughout the
year as unpaid volunteers to make Ayr
Flower Show the success that it is”,
said John Walker, the Show’s Chair,
“But funding is always tight, especially
when we are in an economic climate
that stretches our viability. We rely on
the support from sponsors and patrons
to ensure that the high standards
already set for Ayr Flower Show are
never allowed to drop”.
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continues to be a very visible labour of love.
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