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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 geraniums
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 “Games
of the XXXIII Olympiad” 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 of Logan County 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.
The Sweepstakes Award 2024 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.
Ann Wells & Tom Kavelman
The Champion Exhibitor of Logan County went to Susan
Selenik and the Sweepstakes Award went to Ann Wells.
Grand Champion Cut Flower– Jim Wessbecher
Reserve Champion Cut Flower– Gail Ubbenga (not available for photo)
Grand Champion Arrangement– Verdeen Ingram
Reserve Champion Arrangement– Cindy Gleason
Grand Champion Potted Plant– Karen Sandel (not available for photo)
Reserve Champion Potted Plant– Susan Selenik
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Grand Champion Junior Arrangement– Gracie Gleason,
presented by Susan Selenik
Grand Champion Junior Cut Flower– Easton Conrady
Grand Champion Herb– Susan Selenik, presented by
Carol Mills for Logan County Herb Guild
Reserve Champion Herb– Dawn Beavan
Champion Herb Arrangement– Dawn Beavan, presented by
Carol Mills for Logan County Herb Guild
Steve Gleason Memorial Challenge– Jenna Conrady
Lorna Kavelman Memorial Challenge– Jenna Conrady,
presented by Verdeen Ingram
Pat LaForge Memorial – Jenna Conrady
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