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Competition
Excellence in growing plants and arranging flowers remains an essential part of local garden club membership.
Garden club flower competition breathes a rarefied atmosphere. What most of us would “ooh and ahh” over often is relegated to the trash heap in a national or state competition. A daffodil or rose that could grace a Queen’s dresser doesn’t even make the finals if the stem is judged not quite right, or a tiny spot blemishes a leaf.
Veteran competitors develop the timing expertise of a NASA scientist to insure that a bloom is cut at precisely the right moment so that it will open most perfectly just as the judge at a flower show inspects it.
Ms. Tufts speaks of membership in her club “giving me the inspiration to garden, to create beauty. And it has forced me to learn more about gardening and horticulture, as well as arranging flowers, which I knew nothing about.”
Cedar Run president Mrs. Kremer says you can spot a garden club member even at a distance. “We all laugh about driving down the road and seeing some lady digging with a trowel up on the side of a hill. The next week, someone will ask ‘wasn’t that you I saw down by the highway last Saturday?’ “
“Part of being a gardener is to get out there to find plants that need tending or to look for a specimen for the garden.”
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