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Herbs and Floral Displays at
Friday’s Floriculture
[August 04, 2025]
Gardeners arrived at the fair
again Friday morning with fresh flowers, herbs, and potted plants
for the second day of Floriculture competition. 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 “Floral
Tributes” with seven design categories to choose from including
patriotic colors and a miniature design. 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 “Herbal
Frenzy” with three categories to showcase collections of fresh
culinary 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.
The Champion Exhibitor of Logan
County and the Sweepstakes Award went to Susan Selenik.
Grand Champion Cut Flower– Jim
Wessbecher
Reserve Champion Cut Flower– Jim Wessbecher
Grand Champion Arrangement– Jenna
Conrady
Reserve Champion Arrangement– Cindy
Gleason
Grand Champion Potted Plant– Susan
Selenik
Reserve Champion Potted Plant– Susan Selenik
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Grand Champion Junior Arrangement–
Mia Conrady, presented by Susan Selenik
Grand Champion Junior Cut Flower– Kaelyn Wessbecher
Grand Champion Herb– Jim Wessbecher,
presented by Sherry Fulton for Logan County Herb Guild
Reserve Champion Herb– Jim Wessbecher
Grand Champion Herb Arrangement–
Sherrill Blaum, presented by Sherry Fulton for Logan County Herb
Guild
Steve Gleason Memorial Challenge–
Jim Wessbecher
Lorna Kavelman Memorial Challenge–
Jenna Conrady, presented by Verdeen Ingram
Grand Champion Junior Arrangement– Mia Conrady, presented by Susan
Selenik
Grand Champion Junior Specimen
Plant- Kaelyn Wessbecher
Junior Challenge Class– Eva
Sanders, presented by Susan Selenik
[Stephanie Hall]
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