At our August meeting this week we concentrated on learning more about effective show exhibiting of flowers, shrubs, vegetables, herbs and containers of plants. Our speaker was Claude Poulsen, a long time member of the Hutt Valley Horticultural Society, who has exhibited and judged at many flower shows. He provided lots of great information but the top two tips were: - prepare potatoes for showing by washing very carefully and lightly coating in melted butter - when transport