REGINA WILLIAMSON OVERALL HIGH POINT WINNER
COLUMBUS — The Columbus Garden Club recently held its flower show "Let's Celebrate" at the Nesbitt Memorial Library in Columbus.
Chairman was Helen Huddleston and co-chairman was Deborah Braden.
Huddleston and Braden expressed their appreciaiton to all the Columbus Garden Club members for their beautiful plants, designs and arrangements, and thanked the guests who visited the show.
It was appropriate that the theme of this year’s Columbus Garden Club Small Standard Flower Show was "Let's Cele - brate" as we are entering the hol iday season.
There were many entries for the show in the three divisions: Horticulture, Design and Botanical Arts, and the entries were amazing, creative, and showed off the perfection of nature and the talent and creativity of the garden club members.
Nancy Galloway won several ribbons for her creations and for her entries in the horticulture division. She won a Botanical Arts horticulture award for her woodland-themed creation fairy garden in a saucer. She won a Grower’s Choice award for her container-grown Sansevieria and an Award of Merit for a one-stem specimen.
Janet Johnson, the club’s president, won a Grower’s Choice ribbon in the cacti and succulents division and a Grower’s Choice ribbon for her Dracaena anolensis.
Regena Williamson was the Overall High Point Winner of the show. She won a Designer’s Choice award for the overall design category and two Awards of Merit.
Velma Harrington won a Grower’s Choice award for Container Grown Foliage for a Scindapsus pictus exotica (an ivy).
Suzanne Milstead won an Award of Merit in the Shrubs category.
Sharon Wegenhoft won an Arboreal Award for Foliage for her specimen of Yaupon.
The club prepared for the show for months by having workshops and getting instructions on what was allowed and what was not. Members learned how to look up correct botanical names and clas- sifications of plants.
Each entry has to include the correct botanical name and clas- sification.
Club members are enthusiastic about learning. Some attend workshops provided by District IV of Texas Garden Clubs and some have earned their certifi cation as Master Gardeners in the master gardeners program. Some members just enjoy gardening and enjoy being a part of an organization of others who enjoy gardening.
The club meets on the second Wednesday of each month, September through May.
