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Friday’s contest added a Junior Division and
featured two Challenge Classes in addition to divisions in Potted
Plants, Cut Flowers, Arrangements, Herbs, and Herb Arrangements.
Potted plant categories varied from outdoor flowering plants such as
begonias and impatiens to house plants and ferns. Cut Flowers
offered an opportunity to repeat a handful of categories from
Tuesday’s Floriculture event or bring new contenders such as
cockscomb or collections of pollinators (flowers friendly to bees,
butterflies, or hummingbirds). The Junior Division was open to young
people age 17 and under with cut flower annuals and perennials as
well as two options for arrangements.
Arrangements for Friday’s competition encompassed the theme “All
Around the Country” with seven design categories to choose from.
Friday also featured a wide selection of culinary herbs to be shown
without blooms– potentially challenging for growers after the summer
solstice when days begin to grow shorter, and many herbs want to
begin to flower and set seed. The theme for the final division, Herb
Arrangements, was “And Across the Pond” with three categories to
showcase collections of fresh herbs.
After judging completed on Friday, ribbons and points were totaled
from both days of Floriculture competition to determine the Champion
Exhibitor and the Sweepstakes Award. The Champion Exhibitor is
awarded to the Logan County exhibitor with the most blue ribbons in
all classes from both shows and is presented by Paul Gleason, Logan
County Historian.
The Sweepstakes Award 2023 is the William Kavelman Memorial Award
which goes to the exhibitor with the highest points total of both
the Tuesday and Friday show and is presented by Tom Kavelman. Both
honors were awarded to Jim Wessbecher for his many beautiful roses,
cut flowers, arrangements, and herbs.
Grand Champion Cut Flower– Jim Wessbecher
Reserve Champion Cut Flower– Gail Ubbenga (not
available for photo)
Grand Champion Arrangement– Cindy Gleason
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Reserve Champion Arrangement– Jim Wessbecher (no
photo)
Grand Champion Potted Plant– Sara Laun
Reserve Champion Potted Plant– Jenna Conrady
Grand Champion Junior Arrangement– Gracie Gleason, presented by the
Nora Knight family
Grand Champion Junior Cut Flower– Reagan Wessbecher
Grand Champion Herb– Sherrill Blain, presented by Carol Mills for
Logan County Herb Guild
Reserve Champion Herb– Jim Wessbecher (no photo)
Champion Herb Arrangement– Olivia Wrage, presented by Carol Mills
for Logan County Herb Guild
Steve Gleason Memorial Challenge– Ann Wells (not available for
photo)
Lorna Kavelman Memorial Challenge– Jim Streubing, presented by
Verdeen Ingram
[Stephanie Hall]
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