First Round of Winners at the N. GA State Fair Flower Show Announced

Thank you to all who entered the flower show this year.  The entries were spectacular and we appreciate the time you took to grow your horticulture, even in the current dry restrictions.  The designs were also spectacular and some of the most creative designs yet.

1st Flower Show – 2017 Top Awards

(A “*” denotes those winners who are a member of one of the 19 Garden Clubs of the Marietta Council of Garden Clubs)

 

Horticultural Excellence:

Mark Helbling – Maxia Cucurbita “Pumpkin” 256 lbs

 

Award of Merits:

            Annual-Flowering: * Kathy Newman – Cosmos bipinnatus

            Bulbous-Flowering: Faye Byess – Lycoris “Surprise Lily”

            Dahlia: Roy Wilcox – Dahlia “Waterlily”

            Roses: Leah Wickham – Rosa “St. Patrick”

 

Grower’s Choice Award:

Container-Foliage: * Jo Ann Dorsey – Epipremnum aureum “Golden Pothos”

 

Arboreal Award:

Shrubs:  Rita Fullick – Aureo macuata

Trees: Sheila Johnson – Cryptomeria Japonica “Yoshino”

 

Intermediate Youth Award:

Elem – Sedum Autumn Joy

 

High School Youth Award:

King – Phaseolus “Rattlesnake green beans”

 

Olen Morgan Award: 

            Larry LeCroy – 13 Blue Ribbons in the Vegetable, Gourds & Oddities

 

North Georgia State Fair Sweepstakes Award:  

            Rita Fullick – 22 Total Blue Ribbons

 

 

1st Flower Show – 2017 Design Awards

Designers Choice:

            Section A: Class 3 – Suzanne Field “Country Music”

            Section B: Class 5 – Nancy Jamison “The Multi-colored Lights”

 

Award of Design Excellence:

            Section B: Class 5 – Nancy Jamison “The Multi-colored Lights”

 

Class 1: Round and Round

            1^st place: Melanie Tuttle

            2^nd place: * Karin Guzy

            3^rd place: Lisa Byars

            4^th place: Susie O’Neal

 

Class 2: The Whirlygig

            1^st place: Joan Jones

            2^nd place: Lisa Byars

            3^rd place: * Faith Iskiyan

            4^th place: Dr. John Barnett

 

Class 3: Country Music

            1^st place: Suzanne Field

            2^nd place: * Helen Grogan

            3^rd place: Gerri Holbrook

            4^th place: Ann Nealy-Beck

 

Class 4: The Dunking Booth

            1^st place: Maidee Spencer

            2^nd place: Johnnie Hadley

3^rd place: Dellis Caden-Noble

4^th place: * Deanna Slone

 

Class 5: The Multi-colored Lights

            1^st place: Nancy Jamison

            2^nd place: * Karin Guzy

            3^rd place: Janice Knight

            4^th place: * Pril Buege

 

Class 6: Corn Dogs & Cotton Cancy

            1^st place: * Edna McClellan

            2^nd place: * Jo Ann Dorsey

            3^rd place: Julianne Goecke

            4^th place: Dr. John Barnett