Jeppe High School for Girls hosted its 93rd Flower Show on February 26 to 27. This year those wanting to attend were asked to book ahead of time and in line with Covid-19 protocols, as only a limited number of tickets were available for the show.
Jeppe Girls hosts the show each year towards the end of February. The event attracts many visitors from around Gauteng. It is an established tradition of the school. Each girl in the school takes part in the flower show and is encouraged to unleash her creative and imaginative skills.
The girls are not given any formal instruction in the art of flower arranging but many find they have a natural talent and enjoy expressing themselves in this creative medium.
Arrangements are put together in only three hours on the Friday of the show. Girls are encouraged to enter as many of the categories of the show as possible and many girls enter two or three arrangements.
The categories differ for the juniors in Grade Eight and Nine and seniors in Grades 10, 11 and 12. Junior categories for this year were table centrepieces, one-sided, shades of green, monsters, life in pink, arrangement in a tea cup, serene succulents, petals and pencil bags, Earth laughs n flowers (Ralph Waldo Emerson) and fantasy and flair.
Senior categories were table centrepieces, shades of green, fragrant florals, symmetrical simplicity, Frida’s colour palette, succulents and sunset, paper power, flowers are the music of the ground (Edwin Curran), my heart belongs to Africa and rosemary is for remembrance.
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The rosemary is for remembrance category was dedicated to those who lost their lives to Covid-19 as well as the healthcare workers. Props and accessories were permitted in individual arrangements, but the emphasis was on the flowers.
Every arrangement was judged and the girls were awarded points for their houses. Judges were drawn from people who have been connected to the school and particularly to the flower show or people in the flower and garden business.
This year flower donations could not be donated and the girls were permitted to take their arrangements home at the end of the show
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