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Cutting Garden Talk plus a Flower Show!
Hosted by the Takoma Horticultural Club - Enter the best blooms in your garden in this mini-revival of the Club's flower shows of yesteryear
Grow Your Own Cutting Garden
A Talk by Kathy Jentz, plus a Flower Show!
Wednesday, July 20 at Historic Takoma
Doors open at 7pm, talk starts at 7:30, Flower Show Prizes Awarded at 8:30
Why pay high florist prices? Kathy Jentz, Editor/Publisher, Washington Gardener Magazine will tell you how to grow your own flowers for cutting and enjoying in bouquets! We’ll cover the best plants for local gardeners to have available for arranging in each Mid-Atlantic
season and yes, we’ll cover those that can grow in part-shade.
To be followed by an Old-Fashioned Flower Show.
Enter the best blooms in your garden in this mini-revival of Takoma Hort Club’s flower shows of yesteryear as part of our on-going Centennial Celebrations.
Categories include:
- best annual flower (Bring your flower entries in a bud vase.*Single bloom only,)
- best perennial flower (Bring your flower entries in a bud vase.*Single bloom only,)
- best shrub/tree flower (Bring your flower entries in a bud vase.*Single branch only,)
- best shade foliage (Bring your foliage entries in a bud vase.*Single leaf/branch only)
- best flowering houseplant
- best flower arrangement in a mason jar (jar decoration encouraged).
You may enter up to 3 times in each category.
Judges include landscape designer Carolyn Mullet.
*Vases can be clear or green glass.
Small glass water or soda bottles with all labels removed also may be used.
Hosted by the Takoma Horticultural Club - TakomaHort.org