Tuesday, April 15, 2025

The Willows Park Preserve

Entry time: 8:15 - 9:15 (no entries accepted after 9:15am

DESIGN CLASSES: Spring Forth!

Class 1.   Opening Day at the Ballpark 4 entries

Incorporate your favorite team’s colors in a design. To be displayed on a black pedestal 36”H with a 12” square top. Limited to 24” in diameter, no height restriction.

Class 2.   Coming out of Hibernation 4 entries

An assymmetic design. To be displayed on a table; limited to 30” wide. An assymmetic design is a design in which the visual weight is equal on both sides of the design, but the weight is not symmetrical; it is placed in different positions.

Class 3.  Day at the Races. 4 entries

Horses, tailgates, fancy hats, mint juleps… Create a design of your choice reflecting the energy of a day at the races. Underlay or base permitted. To be displayed on a table; limited to 24” wide; no height restriction.

SPRING 2025 HORTICULTURE CLASSES:

SECTION A: CUT SPECIMENS

1.  Flowering a single flowering stem from a non-woody annual or perennial, not to exceed 24”

2. Foliage - a single stem foliage only - from a non-woody annual or perennial, not to exceed 24”

Bulbs, Corms, Tubers and Rhizomes

Classes 3-7: A single flowering stem grown from a bulb, corm, tuber or rhizome

3. Allium

4. Narcissus

5. Tulip

6. Iris

7. Other

Woody Plants

Classes 8-13: A single flowering branch from a woody plant not to exceed 24”

8. Rhododendron

9. Azalea

10. Viburnum

11. Dogwood

12. Lilac

13. Other

SECTION B: CONTAINER GROWN PLANTS

 Classes 14-15: Foliage - Novice Class

Houseplants grown for foliage. The container my only contain one species or cultivar but may be multi-stemmed. This class is only open to those who have not won a blue ribbon in a horitculture class before.

14. Container 6” or less

15. Container over 6” and less than 12”

SECTION C: OTHER CLASSES

16. Mother and Daughter - a single plant exhibited along with the parent plant from which it was propagated, each in separate but compatible containers, neither of which exceeds 8” in diameter. Propagation information required. Both plants will be judged.