2023 Logan County Fair

Friday’s Floriculture Boasts Impressive Displays

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[August 08, 2023]  Gardeners arrived at the fair again Friday morning with fresh flowers, herbs, and 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 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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