Welcome floral arrangers, home gardeners and amateur photographers! Please consider displaying your talents at the 2012 Boston Flower & Garden Show.
Paragon Group, producers of the Boston Flower & Garden Show, is proud to host Blooms!, the amateur competition divisions, coordinated by the Massachusetts Horticultural Society and the Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts, Inc. The instructions on how to participate in each division, which are called schedules, are available by clicking on the links below. Each division has a committee, including an entries chair or general contact person, listed in the schedule to which questions specific to the division should be addressed.
2012 Floral Design Division I Schedule – Open to Members & Affiliates of the National Garden Clubs, Inc.
2012 Floral Design Division II Schedule – Open to All
2012 Photography Division Schedule – Open to All
2012 Amateur Horticulture Division– Open to All
Thank you to the Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts Inc., and Massachusetts Horticultural Society, plus all of the dedicated committee members and talented exhibitors who produced the Amateur Competitions & Exhibitions at the 2011 Boston Flower & Garden Show! The additions of photography and miniature gardens were much enjoyed. Hats off to the 2011 major award recipients!
2011 Amateur Horticulture Division
Anne Crowley Award
Awarded for the finest gesneriad exhibited in the Amateur Horticulture Competition. Martha H. MacDonald Streptocarpus ‘Lucky Strike’Bennet Award
Awarded for the exhibit which demonstrates the most outstanding horticultural achievement. Arthur Scarpa Collection of Genera – Asphodelaceae FamilyCruso Award
Awarded for outstanding effort by an individual exhibitor in the Amateur Horticulture Competition. Arthur Scarpa Aloe plicatilisCunningham Award
Awarded for horticultural and artistic excellence to an individual exhibiting a plant in the General Horticulture Classes. Andy Michaelides Sedum morganianumEvelyn D. Cronin Award
Awarded yearly, if merited, to the orchid plant in bloom showing excellence of culture, regardless of growing environment. Judy Fahey Cymbidium ‘Monlyn Miller’Libby Stephenson Award
Awarded to the most meritorious exhibit grown under artifical light in the General Horticulture Classes. Wanda Macnair Begonia bogneriLogee Award
Awarded to the most meritorious windowsill grown exhibit in the General Horticulture Classes. Patricia Beirne Euphorbia decaryi var. decaryiThompson Begonia Award
Awarded to the finest begonia exhibited in the Begonia Classes. Wanda Macnair Begonia bogneriGarden Club of America Certificate of Excellence
Awarded to a competitive exhibit of great distinction in the horticulture division of a major flower show. Art Scarpa Aporocactus flagelliformisNational Garden Clubs, Inc. Medal
Awarded to the exhibit judged to be the finest in the horticulture division. Art Scarpa Aporocactus flagelliformisCorliss Knapp Engle Award
Arthur Scarpa Aloe plicatilis
2011 Design Competition – Divisions I & II
National Garden Clubs Award for Major Non-Standard Flower Shows
Kathleen CoyleThe Marie Hancock Cook Certificate of Merit for Achievement in Traditional Flower Arrangement
Given by the the Garden Club Federation of Mass. to the blue ribbon entry receiving the highest number of points in a traditional class. Kathleen CoyleThe Diane Bullock Award
Given in the GCFM Design Division to the entry that is the most original interpretation of the class theme and uses an adventurous combination of plant material and components. Penny DeckerThe Clare L. Richards Award
Given in the GCFM Design Division for the entry in a Tricolor class that best exemplifies sensitive use of color. Sue KaplanThe Jeanne-Marie Parkes Creativity Award
Given in the GCFM Design Division to the entry judged to be the most creative interpretation of the class title. Marisa McCoyThe Barbara May Award of Design Excellence
Given in the GCFM Design Division to a blue ribbon winner scoring the highest number of points in the Designer’s Choice class. Yvonne CapellaThe Garden Club of America Zone 1 Bowl
Presented by the member clubs in Northern New England for distinction in an aesthetic arrangement of plant material. Donna JohnsonThe John Taylor Arms Award
Given to the blue ribbon entry receiving the highest number of points. Marisa McCoyThe Ruth Wallack Design Award
Recognizes a design of outstanding beauty and creativity in the expression of one designer’s imagination. Penny DeckerSusan Scheel Thomas Novice Award
Given to the most distinctive design by a novice in any design class of the show. Jeanne EbertGarden Club of America Certificate of Excellence for Flower Arranging
Awarded to GCA members, GCA clubs, other clubs, organizations, societies or individuals for an arrangement of great distinction in a competitive class in a major flower show. Penny Decker
2011 Photography Division
Best In Show
Marion Bottomly Carmel-By-the-Sea Garden ClubMassachusetts Horticultural Society Photography Award
Blair Matthew Louis Glenview Garden Club, Louisville, KYGarden Club of America Certificate of Excellence
Natalie Thomas Huntington Valley Garden ClubClass 1 First Place
Marion Bottomly Carmel-By-the-Sea Garden ClubClass 2 First Place
Eloise Carson Portland Garden ClubClass 3 First Place
Holly Compton Alderman Dublin Garden ClubClass 4 First Place
Susie Emery Little Compton Garden ClubClass 5 First Place
Blair Matthew Louis Glenview Garden Club, Louisville, KYClass 6 First Place
Vicki Saltonstall Chestnut Hill Garden Club
