To accommodate our working members, we are changing the times of the evening meetings in September and May.

5:00 – 5:30  Bench Show items in place: entry cards completed, entry on table.  Link to Entry Cards

Floral Design Schedule:
“September is dressing herself in showy dahlias and splendid marigolds and starry zinnias.” Oliver Wendell Holmes
Create a floral design incorporating any or all of the flowers in Oliver Wendell Holmes quote. Design should not exceed 20 inches in height, width or depth.

Horticulture Schedule  Wyrttun (Old English Anglo Saxon word for Garden)

“The true beauty of a garden lies not only in its flowers and foliage but in the memories and emotions it evokes”
Monty Don (1955- , Horticulturist, BBC Television broadcaster & writer)

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.

The Vegetable Patch
“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894, novelist, essayist, poet, travel writer)

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.

Houseplant class – owned and grown by exhibitor for a minimum for 6 months. Please provide saucer if necessary.
“I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul.”
Alfred Austin (1835-1913 poet)

Class 4: Flowering houseplant that has summered outside.

Class 5: Foliage houseplant that has summered outside.

Class 6: Gavel Competition, Annual Zone II Meeting: Symphotrichum laeve Smooth Blue Aster
Bring your best plant potted up in an appropriate size terra cotta pot to the bench show. Create a Propagation Card, 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.

*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.

5:30  Judging begins.  No entries allowed during judging.

5:00 – 6:00  Member arrival, social time, Bench show viewing

6:00 – 6:45  Member Meeting

6:45 – 7:00  Break, additional viewing, speaker set-up

7:00 – 7:45  Speaker – Renowned local landscaper, Sandy Lindh will present “English Gardens”.  Please see her website:English Gardens & Design.

Hostesses: Dianne Farley and new member, Erin McKay