The Silver Center will be open by 8:30 to allow members who clerk for judges the opportunity to join the meeting.

9:00 All Bench Show items in place: entry cards* completed, entry on table.

Floral Design Schedule

“I sleep with my feet on moss carpets…..”  Create a small woodland garden in a flat container such as a glass pie plate, using natural materials–moss, twigs, rocks, etc. that you’ve foraged or bought.

Photography
Though photography will not be a formal bench show, a prompt is provided and participation is encouraged.

9:00 – 9:40 Bench show judging, member arrival, social time

9:45 – 10:30 Meeting

10:30 Review / Learning Time : Bench Show Items

Each meeting, have in-depth discussion of one discipline’s entries: Floral, Hort, Photo.   What was successful / what needs help?

Though points will be recorded, they will no longer be announced.

10:50  Regroup in main room

11:00  Speaker: Christine Cook, “Landscape Design: Gardening with Moss”
Christine’s firm, Mossaics, provides verdant and vital landscape design solutions that encourage nature’s diversity and dynamism – connecting people to place.  Followed by Q & A.

Noon : Final Appreciation of Bench Show and depart.

*Link to Entry Cards: Entry Cards