Awards

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Congratulations to Mary Webster        

First Place Ribbon and "Best-in-Show" honors for her entry in the Milwaukee Flower Show. The theme this year was “Earth’s Treasures” and the Flower Arranging Class in which Mary competed was titled "Energy". Mary called her striking arrangement 

“Disaster in the Gulf: Wasted Energy”  for which she was awarded the very prestigious Margaret Clover Symonds medal.                                  

 

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GCA 2009

 Finalist for Founders Fund Award - 2009

                                    RESTORATION OF A NATIVE FIELD HABITAT

              PINE JOG ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTER, wEST PALM BEACH, FL

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 FLOWER SHOW - APRIL 2009    

"Lost Worlds...Paradise Regained"

 (click on Images below, for detailed views)

 

Flower Show Schedule (Award & Class descriptions)

 

 Lost Worlds ...Paradise Regained-- April 25-26th 2009

The Show received 2 Major Awards

1. The Marion Thompson Fuller Brown Conservation Award   

2. The Ann Lyon Crammond Award                                        

The Show received 5 Judges’ Commendations:

1. To: Classes 33, 43 and 35 (horticulture)
“Well grown and educational exhibit”

2. To: Class 3 (Botanical Jewelry)
“Entire Division commended for beauty, craftsmanship and imagination”

3. To: All entrants in Novice Challenge Class Port Royal Jamaica — “We commend the depth of creativity in this Novice Class”

4. To: The Challenge Class Committee“We commend the committee for the choice of components and plant material”

5. To: The Garden Club of Palm Beach Flower Show Committee
For: The Entire Show
“The theme, Lost Worlds ...Paradise Regained, was wonderfully integrated in the printed materials and staging throughout the entire show”.

GCA AWARD WINNERS
Harriet De Waele Puckett Creativity Award (Mary Webster)
Dorothy Vietor Munger Award (Mary Garrett & Jean Tilghman)-Jupiter Island GC
Sandra Baylor Novice Award (Leigh Failing)
Catherine Beattie Medal (hort)(Susan Van Pelt)
Clarissa Willemsen Horticulture Propagation Award
(Vickie Denton)
Rosie Jones Horticulture Award (Jean Matthews)
GCA Novice Award (Brantley Knowles)
GCA Novice Award -Special Division (Jean Matthews)

Mary         Mary Garrett     Leigh            Susan                Vickie              Jean            Brantley           Jean

Webster    Jean Tilghman  Failing         Van Pelt           Denton          Matthews      Knowles         Matthews

 

BEST IN SHOW
Arrangement (Mary Webster) 
                     Botanical Jewelry (Mary Pressly)
                                                                                                          

                                                                       Horticulture (Patricia Cook)

 

 

GCPB AWARDS
The GCPB Silver Cup (Best Cataleya in Show) (Brenda Callaway) 
Best Orchid in Show (Dula Fuller) – Grass River GC 
Best Hibiscus in Show (Cindy Hoyt)
Club Sweepstakes Award-most blue ribbons (Kit Pannill)
Best Novice Award (Jean Matthews)
Best Novice in Orchids Award (Missy Geisler)
Best Novice in Par Award (brantley knowles)
JoJo Walton Memorial Trophy-cut specimens (Kit Pannill)
The Bunny Nelson Memorial Trophy - small arrangement (Mary Pressly)

       

   

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 ZONE VIII 

  Nancy Murray recieved the Zone VIII Creative Leadership Award - 04/24/2008

                                   

 Nancy Murray, former Zone VIII Director                                              

Betsy Matthews, GCPB President (2007-2008)   

Alice Mathews, GCA   past President