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

            1st place: Melanie Tuttle

            2nd place: * Karin Guzy

            3rd place: Lisa Byars

            4th place: Susie O’Neal

 

Class 2: The Whirlygig

            1st place: Joan Jones

            2nd place: Lisa Byars

            3rd place: * Faith Iskiyan

            4th place: Dr. John Barnett

 

Class 3: Country Music

            1st place: Suzanne Field

            2nd place: * Helen Grogan

            3rd place: Gerri Holbrook

            4th place: Ann Nealy-Beck

 

Class 4: The Dunking Booth

            1st place: Maidee Spencer

            2nd place: Johnnie Hadley

3rd place: Dellis Caden-Noble

4th place: * Deanna Slone

 

Class 5: The Multi-colored Lights

            1st place: Nancy Jamison

            2nd place: * Karin Guzy

            3rd place: Janice Knight

            4th place: * Pril Buege

 

Class 6: Corn Dogs & Cotton Cancy

            1st place: * Edna McClellan

            2nd place: * Jo Ann Dorsey

            3rd place: Julianne Goecke

            4th place: Dr. John Barnett