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Now in its 30th year, the annual event began when Dotsy Davis gathered wild materials for three arrangements in gourds. At church bazaar time, Mrs. Davis had just finished flower school and a book on dried arrangements. “It was fascinating. It opened a whole new world,” she recalled in a recent taperecorded interview with Maurice Herndon. So she made three Colonial-type arrangements for the bazaar and they sold immediately.
The next year as bazaar time neared, she remembered that small success and enlisted the help of Lois Snead and Flossie Williamson, Woodville’s renowned herb lady who grew flowers in profusion. They made 30 arrangements and made $300.
Like the magic beans in another fairy tale, the dried arrangement just kept on growing. The next year, more than 100 were put together with assistance from Mrs. Hennings and from Ruth Pillar, who made miniatures. They were displayed at the Rappahannock County Garden Club’s house tour and educational exhibit on drying and arranging flowers. “Then we took them to ‘Woodies’ at Seven Comers and sold them for $1500,” Mrs. Davis recalled.
When the Episcopal churchwomen took over sponsorship of the house tour, they continued with the sale of dried flowers as well. “It was tough going,” Mrs. Davis noted. “We sold the arrangements out of the houses and then we had to make new ones overnight!”
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