9:00 All Bench Show items in place. Entry cards completed and on the table. Entry Card Link

Horticulture Schedule
“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, ‘Go to sleep, darlings, til the summer comes again.”  Lewis Carroll ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’

Class 1: Winter foliage – 3 single cut evergreen branches  (evergreen shrubs, conifers, etc.) each a different species or cultivar from exhibitor’s garden to be exhibited in a suitably sized container.

“I have no plants in my house. They won’t live for me. Some of them don’t even wait to die, they commit suicide.”  Jerry Seinfeld

Houseplants – owned and grown by exhibitor for a minimum of 6 months. Please provide saucer if necessary.

Class 2: Flowering houseplant .

Class 3: Foliage houseplant.

9:45 – 10:30 Meeting

10:30 – 10:50 Review/Learning Bench Show entries will be discussed 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 Trish O’Sullivan – Trish O’Sullivan Design
Floral design lecture and raffle

Noon Final Appreciation of Bench Show and depart