Heritage will be putting on a small Standard Flower Show. You can still enter your horticulture.
The plant material must be there at 8 am and you will need to know both the common and botanical names of the material. Judging begins at 9 am and the District meeting begins at 10. You can have coffee and shop while waiting for the judges to do their work.
GENERAL RULES
1. Any amateur gardener may enter this show.
2. Exhibits must be entered between 8-9 AM Tuesday October
18 and designs registered before October 1. Tags for horticulture have been posted on this blog. Look in archives
3. No plant material on the State Conservation list may be
exhibited unless it is grown by
the exhibitor
and so stated on the entry card.
4. Entry cards must be completed before entries are
presented to Classification.
Dictionary of
Plant Names will not be available.
5. Exhibits must be removed between 3-4 PM. All members will
dismantle the show.
6. No artifical plant material in any division.
7. Plant material may not be altered with products for shine
etc.
8. Decision of the
judges is final. Awards may be withheld if not merited
9. The General
Chairman and Judges Chairman will be present for judging.
Awards and Judging
1. No National
Awards will be offered.
2. In each
class or subclass, only one blue ribbon will be awarded to an exhibit scoring
90 or more
points; only one red ribbon to an exhibit scoring 85 or more points; only
one yellow
ribbon to an exhibit scoring 80 or more points; and more than one white
ribbon to an exhibit scoring 75 or more
points, if merited. Exhibits scoring 90 or more
points that are
not blue ribbon winners will be so marked.
3. Judging will be between 9-10 and will be in
conformance with rules set forth in 2007
Handbook for
Flower Shows.
Horticulture Scale of Points
Plant
Identification 5
Cultural
Perfection 60
Conditioning/Grooming/Staging
25
Distinction 10
Total 100
DIVISION I HORTICULTURE
HORTICULTURE RULES
1. All
specimens must have been grown by the exhibitor and in their possession for at
least 90 days.
2. Container-grown
plants must have been grown by the exhibitor for three months and will be staged on
a flat surface. No hanging facilities available.
3. All entries
must be labeled with correct botanical and common name.
4. Cut
specimens may not exceed 24 inches from cut end to tip
5. More than
one entry may be made in a class if entries differ in species, type, or color. The
classification committee will subdivide the classes using these parameters.
6. Containers
will be supplied by Heritage Garden Club and
exhibitor will be instructed on how to stage with
clear plastic wrap.
7. No double
potting
8. Cut specimens
should not have foliage below the water line.
Section A. Perennials/Annuals
(Specimen-
1 stem unless indicated)
Class
1. Chrysanthemums
Class
2. Asters
Class
3. Sunflowers
Class
4. Salvia
Class
5. Any other blooming or non
blooming
not listed
Section B. Trees and
Shrubs
evergreen or
deciduous (each not
to exceed 30”)
Class
6. Maples, other trees in color
Class
7. Encore Azaleas
Class
8. Butterfly bush
Class
9. Knock out Roses
Class
10. Any other blooming or non
blooming not listed
Section C. Ornamental
Grasses
Class
11. Pampas Grass
Class
12. Sedge
Class
13. Imperata cylindrica
Class
14. Molina eaerulea variegata
Class
15. Any other blooming or non
blooming not
listed
Section D. Container
Grown
Plant-Flowering
(Container
limited to 10” in diameter)
Class
16. Saintpaulia, african violet
Class
17. Spathiphyllium. peace lily
Class
18. Begoniaceae, begonia
Class
19. Geraniaceae, geranium
Class
20. Any other blooming or non
blooming not
listed
Section E. Cactus and
Succulents
Class
21. Individual
Class
22. Combination
Class
23. Any other blooming or non blooming not listed
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