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Over 22,000 visitors see Smallholder and Garden Festival


Titan the Robot
entertains the crowds
despite the rain!

The Royal Welsh Agricultural Society’s Smallholder and Garden Festival has again demonstrated its popularity as a spring weekend event by attracting 22,258 visitors to the showground at Llanelwedd, Builth Wells.  The attendance fell just short of last year’s total (23,318) in spite of the combined deterrents of the recession and extremely wet weather.

This was the ninth Festival to be staged by the RWAS and thanks to the large exhibition halls and extensive covered space on the showground much of the event was impervious to the elements.

“However, the weather was a disappointment and it must have deterred many people from making the journey to Llanelwedd,” said Royal Welsh Assistant Company Secretary, Caron W Evans.



The Festival included classes and displays for rare and traditional breeds of cattle, sheep, pigs and goats and there were llamas and alpacas, poultry, pets, demonstrations covering bees, woodland crafts, farriery, farm machinery and equipment and vintage machinery, and magnificent and colourful displays of flowers and garden produce among the 350 trade stands on the showground


Premier Open Dog
Show - Overall Best
in Show Giant Shnauzer
 
There was keen competition and interest in the sections.  The sheep supreme championship was awarded to a Southdown ram exhibited by J R Williams of Ceredigion, and the pig supreme champion was a Welsh gilt bred by Mrs C Vaughan from Warwickshire.  A giant Schnauzer owned by Mrs George, of Cardiff, won the Best in Show in the Premier Open Dog Show and a large and diverse selection of cacti, displayed by The Plant Lovers, from Lancashire, were overall winners with their stand in the Floral Hall.

The Royal Welsh Agricultural Society is delighted to have successfully staged its first event in 2009 and is busy preparing and looking forward to the Royal Welsh Show on July 20 – July 23.

no dogs allowedOther than Guide Dogs, visitors are encouraged not to bring their dogs to the Smallholder & Garden Festival, but if it is essential to do so dogs must be kept on a lead the whole time and are restricted from entering the buildings. Please do not leave dogs in cars.

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