5:15 – All Bench Show items in place. Entry cards completed and on the table. Entry Card Link

Floral Design Schedule
Theme: “Celebrate My Garden”.  Create a floral design showcasing at least one plant from your garden.  Specify your showcased plant on your entry card.  Size is designer’s choice.

Horticulture Schedule

Jewels

Class 1: A Collection* of 3 – 5 cut blooming, single stems, all a different variety/species from exhibitor’s garden. To be exhibited in a clear glass container. Make a simple, small diagram identifying the plant material on a separate piece of paper to accompany your entry card.

*Collection definition: An exhibit containing 3 or more specimens of container grown plants, cut flowers, etc.; judged primarily for cultural perfection and variety; pleasing arrangement is desirable; should be accompanied by a key card or diagram to identify the plant material.

September Gems – Garden Harvest

Class 2: Three (3) small vegetable or fruit specimens (cherry/plum tomatoes, bush or pole beans, radishes, beets, or berries, etc.) from exhibitor’s garden. To be displayed on a paper plate provided by the committee.

Class 3: One (1) large vegetable or fruit specimen (squash, gourd, large tomato, cucumber, apple, pear, etc.) from exhibitor’s garden. To be displayed on a paper plate provided by the committee.

Pearls – Houseplant class – owned and grown by exhibitor for a minimum for 6 months. Please provide saucer if necessary.

Class 4: Flowering houseplant that has summered outside.

Class 5: Foliage houseplant that has summered outside.

Class 6: Gavel Competition, Annual Zone II Meeting: Scabiosa ‘Dark Night’
Bring your best plant potted up in an appropriate size terra cotta pot to the bench show.  Create a Propagation Card (Link to Propagation Cards) or just note date when started, soil, light, watering, fertilizing.  Kept in pot?  Grown in the ground?  The best plant will represent the SGC at the competition.

5:45–6:30 – Member Meeting

6:30-6:45 – Break

6:45- 7:30 – Speaker
Horatio Joyce, Director of Public Programs & Education, The Garden Conservancy, “Behind the Scenes at the Garden Conservancy”