Alexandra's annual horticulture festival turned the Masonic Lodge hall into a blaze of colour on Saturday.
The festival was held a week later than usual and that meant the roses were well in bloom although the number of irises was down on last year.
The peonies were well in flower.
There had been plenty of rain in the growing season, but there had also been hail and wind, Alexandra Horticulture Society president Jeanie Johnson said.
Avid gardeners had several rose and cut-flower sections to enter.
Youngsters were catered for as well, with sections for decorated gumboots and pine cones, and they could even draw a computer image on an A4 page.
Cadburys donated prizes for the best chocolate sponge roll but there were just two entries in that category.
"Maybe they found it too hard to make a sponge roll?" Mrs Johnson said.
The festival was held in conjunction with the Alexandra Thyme Festival, which began on Saturday.
