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Simon of Northdowners Nurseries has been a stall Our International team of Judges arrived and after
holder at our Show for years and always brings a taking refreshments, split into teams and began the
THE SHOW selection of unusual plants, and again this year, he didn’t process of judging the Koi in the Show. They stopped
disappoint us. Attending our Show for over 20 years for lunch, then continued judging for the rest of the day
OPENED AND convinced Simon he should become a Koi keeper and and passed their decisions to the benching team.
A STEADY he built himself a 5,000 gallon Koi pond. Later the results were displayed on the vat boards and

STREAM OF It is always a pleasure to see Keith Siddle, he is a very the banners showing the Major Award winners were
talented Koi artist, but also paints other fish – if it lives in
fixed above the vats, so exhibitors and visitors could
VISITORS the water, Keith paints it! His original pictures were on Our International team see which Koi had won what when they arrived on
sale together with prints of them, also printed greetings of Judges hard at work. Sunday morning.
ARRIVED cards of Koi, and the children’s books he has published.

Also in the back hall was HeatPumps4Pools and Ace of
Koi who displayed their huge range of products. There
were nets, medications, Koi food, pumps, filters,
airstones – everything a Koi keeper would ever need.
One big advantage is the On Saturday morning the Show opened and a steady
Show is held indoors in an
exhibition complex with stream of visitors arrived to see what was on display
superb facilities. and what was on offer.

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