Flower Shows and Artistic Design

October 8, 2022

Chairman Lynn Gas, The Hunting Creek Garden Club

The 2010 Lily Show, “All Aboard,” was hosted by the Petersburg Garden Club on June 16-17 at Union Train Station. Chaired by Elizabeth Johnson and Suzanne Wright, the show was a huge success, with 244 horticultural exhibits and 63 arrangements. Six lovely new award goblets were proudly presented for horticulture. Photos

2010 Flower Arranging School, an early sellout, was held on September 21 featuring speaker and designer Ron Morgan from Northern California. A beautiful container was offered by Mary Lloyd Lay for a silent auction. Photos

The 72nd Annual Rose Show was hosted by Harborfront Garden Club on October 5-7, 2010. “Gateway to the Garden” was held at the Norfolk Botanical Garden. Chairmen Lee Snyder and Casey Rice reported 83 artistic arrangements, 55 exhibitors and 268 horticulture stems. Photos

A lily workshop, “Back to Basics,” was held at the Kent-Valentine House on November 17, 2010.

An artistic judges’ workshop led by Julia Clevett was held at the Kent-Valentine House on March 17, and focused on point scoring for judges and basic mechanics. Six Judges were asked to bring arrangements, which Julia then point scored before transforming each arrangement into a blue ribbon winner. Photos

The 77th Annual Daffodil Show, “Everything Old is New Again,” was hosted by Hillside Garden Club at the Lynchburg Holiday Inn on April 6-7, 2011. Chairmen Melanie Christian and Becky O’Brian reported 817 exhibits, 107 exhibitors and 1811 stems. Artistic design included 67 exhibits. In describing the magnificent scene, Daffodil Chairman Lucy Rhame declared, “And if that was not enough to make you smile, the pimento cheese sandwiches were not bad either!” Photos

The 2011 Lily Show was hosted by the Garden Club of Fairfax on June 22-23 at the Church of the Good Shepherd in Burke. “Green Spaces in Busy Places” was chaired by Tricia Kincheloe and Anna Fortune, who reported 54 horticulture exhibitors and 154 stems in the show. There were 56 artistic arrangements. Photos

2011 Flower Arranging School was held at Lewis Ginter on September 20. Speaker Hitomi Gilliam, an internationally acclaimed arranger and author of Artflor, focused on mechanics and new techniques used in more modern styles of arranging.  Flower Shows Committee Chairman Lynn Gas reported that the expense of hiring a company to provide AV equipment was well worth the expense, noting that the sold-out event was profitable. Photos

The 2011 Rose Show was held on October 5-6 at Norfolk Botanical Garden, hosted for the second year by Harborfront Garden Club and chaired by Casey Rice and Lee Snyder, who reported 66 arrangements, 333 stems of horticulture and a total of 93 exhibitors. Peter Beale, rosarian and author, and Caroline Holmes, landscape architect, presented lectures during judging. Photos

An artistic judges’ workshop was held at the Kent-Valentine House on March 15, 2012, led by Julia Clevett. Photos

The 2012 Daffodil Show was hosted by the Garden Club of Gloucester at the Ware School on March 28-30, chaired by Petie Matheson and Betty Barr Ould, who reported 2130 stems entered by 187 exhibitors in 1046 exhibits – perhaps the largest daffodil show in 2012. Photos

Miscellaneous Flower Shows News

The GCV Board of Directors voted at its 2010 summer meeting to rename the GCV Mini Flora Award (rose) to the Pat Taylor Mini Flora Award in honor of the past Rose Chairman; and to award the North American Lily Society regional medal for distinguished service to Mary Nelson Thompson, retiring GCV Lily Chairman.

Artistic Judges Chairman, Vicky Alexander started a blog for GCV judges where photos of arrangements were posted with instructional material.

The 2011 recipient of the InterClub Artistic Award was the Tuckahoe Garden Club of Westhampton.

Daffodil Chairman Lucy Rhame announced at the 2011 Fall Board of Governors that because of the logistics of handling and transporting this many bulbs, starting in 2012, each club will be responsible for ordering their club collections themselves. She also reported plans to send each daffodil chairman a CD produced by the American Daffodil Society titled “Let’s Grow Daffodils.” Carol White, Garden Club of Gloucester, invited all to the 78th 2012 Daffodil Show and gave out bulbs for each member attending the meeting.

The 2012 recipient of the InterClub Artistic Award was the Charlottesville Garden Club.