October 21, 2025

Brightview

301 E. Conestoga Road, Wayne, PA

Entry times 8:15-9:15 am. No entries accepted after 9:15 am

DESIGN CLASSES: Where Would We BEE Without Them

Class 1. Like Bees to Honey - Create a modern mass design that incorporates flowers and/or plants that attract bees. To be displayed on a black pedestal (36” tall and 12” square top. Definition of a modern mass - groupings of limited varieties of plant material with emphasis on bold design, blocks of color, contrasting forms and textures. 4 Entries

Class 2. The Bee’s Knees - A miniature design to be displayed on a table. Definition of a miniature design - a diminutive design not more than 5” in height, width and depth. 6 Entries

Class 3: Busy as a Bee - Create a synergistic design to be displayed on a table. Definition of a synergistic design - a contemporary design style including 3 or more containers; each unit is either a partial or complete arrangment which, when combined with the others, makes a unified whole. 4 Entries

 FALL 2025 HORTICULTURE CLASSES

Section A: Cut Specimens

An annual is a plant that completes its life cycle in one growing season. A perennial is a plant that lives for more than two growing seasons; in Horticulture, usually applied to non-woody plants. The American Horticulture Society A_Z Encyclopedia of Garden plants, p.1072 and 1076.

Classes 1-6: Late in the Season blossom

Single stem flowering annual or perennial not to exceed 24".

1.Aster

2. Dahlia

3. Cosmos

4. Zinnia

5. Rose

• Hybrid tea

• Floribunda

• Shrub

• Miniature

6. Other

Classes 7-8: Ornamental Grasses, Sedges, Rushes

“Sedges have edges, rushes are round, and grasses are hollow right up from the ground”

7. One stem of one variety, not to exceed 30” tip to tip

8. Three stems of each different variety, not to exceed 30”

Classes 9-14: Woody Plants - a single tree or shrub branch showing “fruit” Not to exceed 24” in length.

9. Berries

10. Pods

11. Cones

Hydrangea

12. 1-3 stems dried hygrangea

13. 1-3 stems FRESH hydrangea

14. 3-5 stems of different species of fresh hydrangea, container of your choice, top two leaves excluded.

Section B: Container Grown Pots
Classes 15-18: House Plants displayed in their pots
15. Grown for flowers - Pot 6” or less
16. Grown for flowers - Pot 6-12”
17. Grown for foliage - Pot 6” or less 18. Grown for foliage - Pot 6-12”

Section C: Collections
Class 19: Collection of herbs
Collection of 3-5 named varieties, grown by exhibitor, arranged in a clear, green bottle, not to exceed 12”. 3x5 key card required.