Garden Club holds flower show

As the holiday season approaches, it was appropriate that the theme of this year’s Columbus Garden Club Small Standard Flower Show was “Let’s Celebrate”.

The Nesbitt Memorial Library hosted the event for botanists. 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.

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 and Sharon Wegenhoft won an Arboreal Award for Foliage for her specimen of Yaupon.

Helen Huddleston was the show’s Chairman and her Co-Chairman was Deborah Braden.

“Thanks to all Columbus Garden Club members for your beautiful plants, designs and arrangements,” Huddleston and Braden said, “and thanks to the guests who visited with us to see our flower show.”