Former Haverhill Flower Club member from Steeple Bumpstead ‘shocked’ but ‘really chuffed’ after lifting Suffolk Show title

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This year's Suffolk Show provided a red-letter day for Susan Street after she won the Best in Show in the Flower Arrangement Competition for the first time.

After many years of entering the competition at the county's most famous show the Steeple Bumpstead resident had claimed a few first places in different classes, but never the overall crown of Best in Show –but last week that all changed.

Susan, of Bower Hall Drive, entered her display, created using mostly calla lilies, into the Class 3: In Harmony section, which she won.

To top that, her entry was also considered by the two NAFAS judges, Lesley Sturdy and Audrey Balderstone, to be the most impressive across all of the ten classes, resulting in her claiming the Perpetual Challenge Cup (Best in Show) trophy.

Susan, who used to be a member of the Haverhill Flower Club until that folded and is in the Clare Flower Club, said of her triumph: "I do it (Suffolk Show) every year and I usually get quite good results but this year I got Best in Show.

"I got two firsts and a second (in the Ring of Colour Craft Class).

"There is probably about 50 to 60 people enter these sort of things and it is an awfully big show, the Suffolk Show. The car parks this year were chock-a-block,they couldn't get more people in."

"I’ve never got the Best in Show. I’ve had several firsts and all sorts of things, including at the Haverhill Show," added the 77-year-old, "but this is the first time I have ever done well at the Suffolk Show in the Best in Show.

"I’m really chuffed. I was so shocked when I found out that I had won it."

Unfortunately, added Susan, she was unable to take home her trophy, as would have been the case previously, after the organisers of the competition changed the rules having seen some of the trophies not returned in the past.