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Children s Garden Club Volume #19, Sheet # 1 January 6, 2018 Flower Arranging Memories of Elvis Using Dried or Fresh Material & Craft Baisch & Skinner 2721 LaSalle Street www.stlouisco.com/parks Like us on Face Book St. Louis County Parks Gardening Welcome & Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a great holiday! This is the first meeting of our 19 th year of the Children s Garden Club. We welcome everyone here today at Baisch & Skinner, and to our next two meetings, on Feb. 3 at Sappington Garden Center, 11530 Gravois, and March 3 at Sherwood Forest, 2651 Barrett Station Rd. If you wish to enter your flora arrangement from today, we hope to see you at the Home & Garden Flower Show March 8-11 at America Center. I want to thank Bausch & Skinner, one of the largest Wholesale Florist distributors in the Midwest, for hosting our first meeting in 2018. We also thank you for your participation in the St. Louis Builders Home & Garden Show, they will be in Booth #331. The Children s Garden Club will be at the Home Show and will be in Booth #129. The great folks here at Baisch & Skinner have a nice tour lined up for us to see products they receive daily fresh from around the world. Flowers and plants come from Holland, Costa Rica, Ecuador, South America, Columbia, Mexico, New Zealand, Italy, Austria, Amsterdam, Guatemala, and from areas within the United States, including Hawaii, Florida, California, and Colorado. Then, we will proceed to the Flower Arranging School Building. I m pleased to welcome back Madelyn Hucker. For those that were here last year, you may remember Madelyn is a member of The Federated Garden Clubs of Missouri. Madelyn will help us out with this years Youth section show schedule to be held at the America Center in downtown St. Louis from March 8-11. Also, as in past, Sue Reed will help out by doing a pick up from Sherwood Forest Nursery & Garden Center just before 12:00 noon on March 7 or 8. I would like Sue to come up and talk to you directly since

she is the one that is helping you and your parents out. If you wish to take notes, check off some of the pages that follow or just pay attention to and use the following written information as back reference. Some people think you have to be born to paint, act, cook, garden, or flower arrange, but that is not true. I agree it may come easier to some, but I feel everyone can and has done a great job in past youth flower shows. So now watch learn do and practice at home to come up with that great arrangement to enter & win a blue ribbon. Madelyn and I will assist you with this year s show schedule (which is also attached at the end). Division IV Youth TEDDY BEAR Section A Youth Design Division Always On My Mind Class 1 Fun in Acapulco Design of fresh and or dried plants material using shells. Class 2 Hound Dog Vegetables or fruit used to form dog shape. Accessories permitted. (No CUT fruit or CUT vegetables allowed.) Section B Youth Artistic Crafts Stuck On You Class 3 Rock and Roll A craft project using rocks All designs will be staged on an 8 table covered in black plastic) Background used should be a minimum of 8 x 11. COLOR SCHEME FLOWERS Aim at a medley rather than a riot of color when you want flowers to add to the beauty of the arrangement. Unless yours is a monochromatic scheme, flowers that repeat one or more colors of the room that they will be in will be the most dramatic arrangement. A Monochromatic - color scheme, in various tints and shades of red, with large amounts of white serving as a cool accent. Chrysanthemums that echo the room colors stand out against a background with a white glass container. In another area of a room, against a rose red background, white flowers would be good. Analogous room scheme uses yellow and yellow-green against an offwhite background. Yellow and yellow-orange colors of a daylily arrangement in a pewter vase are in full harmony with the basic decorating colors of a room. In a room whose color scheme as mentioned, few flower colors would be unacceptable, but against a neutral wall, the warm or advancing hues for flowers will probably do most to enliven a rather quiet room.

How many of you were part of the Flowers For Kids educational program that we had at Queeny Park? The instructors that day taught us about how to take care of, and enjoy flowers. The class encompasses a little bit of biology, chemistry, and artistry. By the end of the class all involved learned how to treat flowers, make flower food, and do a basic flower arrangement with fillers, lines, focal and greens. The best part is that the students then got to take home their bouquets. Also, they all did a European Bouquet which is an assortment of flowers for the season as you would get them from the corner flower stand in Europe. There are round, Victorian, trailers or cascades, crescents, line and contemporary bouquets. The basic recipe for an arrangement: Line materials are the first elements placed in the bouquet. This can also be the dominant, focal material, or flower such as Lilies, Iris, Peonies, Hydrangeas, Gladiolus, Sunflowers, etc. Secondary flowers or material such as Roses, Daisy pomps, Gerber Daisy, Carnations, Lisianthus, etc. Then the filler flower, material which occupies the open spaces in the composition, which is a personnel preference by no mean is it mandatory in your design. Along with the filler consider your greens or foliage the effect it can give an arrangement or bouquet. These can really accent it, or set it off; some options include eucalyptus, camellia, Italian ruckus or leather leaf. Aim or look for harmony for the entire bouquet. Colors from whites to pastels, or you can use bright colored flowers to help accent the theme you are trying to create from Classical, Romantic, Exotic, to Contemporary. Once you have chosen your theme or flowers you like, combine them together and see how they look together, a mixed bouquet looks best using three to four varieties plus foliage. Snip all flower and foliage on angle for a good drink of water - strip off lower foliage from the ends of the stems. Lay the flowers out on the table. Start with the largest flower to form the center, add 3 to 5 clusters of foliage, add one of the other flowers, mix in more of the center or focal flower, add some more foliage, add another flower to the ones you selected, add some more foliage and combine your focal flower with the other flowers you selected and some more foliage and tie a ribbon around to give as the bouquet. Now, when you get home, you can untie and place it in your favorite vase and enjoy. The Home & Garden Flower Show is co-presented by East Central District Federated Garden Clubs of Missouri, Inc., National Garden Clubs, Inc. and the Home Builders Association. In cooperation with St. Louis County Parks, Children s Garden Club, NGC rules states that all dried plant material is treatable, meaning the dried surface can be painted, glittered, glued etc. Purchasing treated plant material is also allowed. For example, younger children could even use finger paints. There can be NO plastic or "silk" products used in a dried design. Fresh plant material can NEVER be treated in NGC shows. Do not forget to go www.stlouisco.com/parks, click on the Flicker logo, and choose the Children s Garden Club album to see photos of yourself!

Style Examples Classical Romantic Exotic Contemporary

Students ages 9-13 are invited to join the St Louis Youth Master Gardener Program at Queeny Park for a hands-on program that will foster a love of gardening, develop an appreciation of the environment, and cultivate science, math, and creative problem solving skills. This six-week program will introduce students to horticulture and botany through planting projects and inquiry-based experiments. 6 Saturdays: April 7, 14, 21, 28; May 5, 12 10 a.m. to noon $60 per child St. Louis County Parks-Oueeny Park (1675 South Mason Road, Town & Country MO 63131) A partnership with St Louis County Parks, University of Missouri Extension, St. Louis Master Gardeners, and the Missouri Botanical Garden. Pre-registration required. To register or for more information, please contact: DPfeiffer@stlouisco.com (314) 615-8481 http://www.stlouisco.com/parksandrccreation/ ChildrcnsFun/JuniorMasterGardener

Presented by East Central District, Federated Garden Clubs of Missouri, Inc., National Garden Clubs, Inc., and the Home Builders Association of St. Louis and Eastern Missouri March 8 11, 2018 at the Builders St. Louis Home & Garden Show America s Center, St. Louis, MO In Cooperation with

GENERAL RULES AND INFORMATION While NGC, FGCM, ECD and HBA will exercise due caution in safeguarding exhibits, they cannot assume responsibility for injury or loss. Valuables used in exhibits should be insured by the exhibitor. Please mark all items. ELIGIBILITY: The show is open to all interested gardeners and flower arrangers.this show is open to the public. ENTRIES: Entries will be received on Wednesday, March 7 from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. and on Thursday, March 8 from 8:00 to 9:00 a.m. All late entries will be marked not for competition. Note: Enter the Convention Center at 9th Street docks (doors are marked with large letters that say 9th Street Access) or Overhead Door 2. JUDGING: Judging will begin on Thursday, March 8 at 10:00 a.m. NGC accredited flower show judges will make up the panels. Standard System of Awards will be used. All judges decisions are final. NGC Handbook for Flower Shows 2017 Edition is the final authority for this show. AWARDS: The Standard System of Awards allows one first place (blue, scoring 90 points or above), one second place (red, scoring 85 points or above), and one third place (yellow, scoring 80 points or above) to be awarded in each class or subclass. One or more Honorable Mentions (white, scoring 75 points or above) may be given when merited. All ribbons and exhibits must remain for the duration of the show. ENTRY Design and horticulture entries must be pre registered by Tuesday, DEADLINES: March 1. The forms for registration are on page 7 of this schedule. Entry tags are to be filled out in advance if possible. REMOVAL All exhibits must be removed between 5:00 and 5:30 p.m. on Sunday, TIMES: March 11. Please be responsible for picking up your materials. Note: Please be in the building prior to 5 p.m. Acknowledgements: The Federated Garden Clubs of Missouri, Inc. is very grateful to the Home Builders Association and the Home & Garden Show for giving us the opportunity to hold a flower show. Special appreciation goes to Tammy Ridgley and her staff for understanding all aspects of garden clubs and for their thoughtful and constructive guidance. We are indebted to Sherwood's Forest Nursery & Garden Center for providing landscape materials to beautify our flower show. We are grateful to St. Louis County Parks and Recreation, to Baisch and Skinner and to all of our generous sponsors. 2

DESIGN RULES 1. Some plant material must be used in every exhibit. Cards will be available for listing the materials used in your design. 2. No artificial flowers, foliage, fruits or vegetables are permitted. 3. Due to length of show, no cutting of fruits or vegetables will be permitted. 4. Fresh plant material cannot be dyed or treated in any way. 5. If designer is unable to fulfill assignment, it is the responsibility of the designer to provide a substitute. HORTICULTURE RULES 1. All horticulture specimens must be fresh plant material grown by exhibitor. 2. All specimens must be named, giving genus and species, cultivar and type where available. 3. Container grown plants must have been in the exhibitor s possession at least 90 days. Combination plantings must have been grown together for at least six weeks. 4. One cut specimen per entry permitted. Clear bottles of appropriate size must be used. 5. All exhibits must be well groomed, insect free, with no oiling or dressing of the foliage. YOUTH EXHIBIT RULES 1. Entries must be the work of the youth named on entry card. 2. Exhibits are judged by the same Scale of Points as the Design Division. 3. Classes may be sub divided into age or grade groups. DESIGN CONFORMANCE (To type of design) 7 (To all schedule requirements) 7 DESIGN PRINCIPLES 48 SELECTION OF COMPONENTS 8 ORGANIZATION OF COMPONENTS 8 EXPRESSION 8 DISTINCTION 14 100 SCALE OF POINTS HORTICULTURE (Flowering, Foliage and Arboreal) CONFORMANCE 5 PLANT IDENTIFICATION 5 PEAK OF PERFECTION (Form) 20 (Color) 20 (Maturity/Size) 20 (Condition/Blemishes) 15 GROOMING/STAGING (Grooming) 10 (Staging) 5 100 3 HORTICULTURE (Combination Plantings) CONFORMANCE 5 PLANT IDENTIFICATION 5 LABELING 5 PEAK OF PERFECTION (Form) 10 (Color) 10 (Condition) 10 (Show worthy Size) 5 OVERALL EFFECT 30 CREATIVE/ DISTINCTIVE 5 GROOMING 10 STAGING 5 100

DIVISION I: HORTICULTURE STANDING OVATION CLASS 1 NEEDLED EVERGREENS. (Maximum length 30 ) SECTION A AMAZING GRACE CLASS 2 BROADLEAF EVERGREENS. (Maximum length 30 ) CLASS 3 FORCED OR NATURAL BRANCHES. (Maximum length 30 ) SECTION B ENTERTAINER CLASS 4 BULBS. (Multiple bulbs in single container not to exceed 12 at widest point are permitted) CLASS 5 FLOWERING CONTAINER GROWN PLANTS. (Container not to exceed 12 at widest point) CLASS 6 FOLIAGE CONTAINER GROWN PLANTS. (Container not to exceed 12 at widest point) CLASS 7 CUT SPECIMENS. (One specimen per clear container) DIVISION II: DESIGN BURNING LOVE CLASS 1 LOVE ME TENDER A Parallel Design staged on one half of an 8 table 30 deep covered in black plastic with a black background curtain. All fresh plant material. CLASS 2 VIVA LAS VEGAS Illuminary Design staged on one half of an 8 table 30 deep covered in black plastic with a black background curtain. Designer s choice of materials. Electricity will be provided, but designers need to bring extension cords. 4 Limit 4 entries Limit 4 entries CLASS 3 ALL SHOOK UP Limit 4 entries Multi Rhythmic Design staged on one half of an 8 table 30 deep covered in black plastic with a black background curtain.

DIVISION II: DESIGN Continued CLASS 4 BLUE HAWAII An Exhibition Table staged on one half of an 8 table 30 deep covered in black plastic. Must have some fresh plant material. CLASS 5 ARE YOU LONESOME TONIGHT? A luncheon tray, 10 1/2 high x 14 wide x 22 long, provided by committee. Luncheon trays will be placed on 8 tables covered in black plastic. Fresh plant material. 5 Limit 4 entries Limit 4 entries DIVISION III: EDUCATION DOUBLE TROUBLE EXHIBIT 1 INVASIVE PLANTS An exhibit of invasive plants particularly found in Missouri. Explains why they are a problem and what can be done about them. EXHIBIT 2 POISONOUS PLANTS An exhibit of poisonous plants found in Missouri. What are symptoms if exposed to specific poisonous plants and how to treat those specific symptoms. DIVISION IV: YOUTH TEDDY BEAR (All designs will be staged on 8 tables covered in black plastic.) SECTION A YOUTH DESIGN DIVISION ALWAYS ON MY MIND CLASS 1 FUN IN ACAPULCO A design of fresh and/or dried plants material using shells. Space allotted 15 x 15. CLASS 2 HOUND DOG Vegetables or fruits used to form a dog shape. Accessories permitted. NO CUT FRUIT OR VEGETABLES ALLOWED. SECTION B YOUTH ARTISTIC CRAFTS STUCK ON YOU CLASS 3 ROCK AND ROLL A craft project using rocks.

Chairmen Linda Bolhofner 314 623 5315 Gloria Whyte 314 993 6534 Jackie Reynolds 314 968 5004 Douglas R. Wolter 314 991 9315 Membership Chairmen CarolAnn Smith 314 576 1819 Ginger Johnson 314 822 4783 Educational Exhibit Chairman Mary Officer 314 772 2849 Schedule Alice Koritta 618 795 9208 Sue Reed 314 307 1959 FLOWER SHOW COMMITTEE Design Entries Kim Peterson 314 421 6272 Horticulture Entries & Placement Jackie Reynolds Youth Design Entries Douglas R. Wolter Landscaping Dave Sherwood Bill Minford Properties Ron Reynolds Jerry Smith Staging Linda Bolhofner Judges Jeanne Davis 314 605 8563 6 Clerks Gloria Whyte 314 993 6534 Volunteers & Hostesses Linda Bolhofner Awards HBA and NGC Jackie Reynolds Consultants Horticulture Sophie Connor 314 962 7873 Design Ivy Baebler 314 843 8076 Youth Activities Children s Garden Club Douglas R. Wolter Sharon Hoyt Jane Merkle Jan Blassie SPECIAL AWARDS Creativity Award Revere Bowl / Revolving Award Chosen by Flower Show Judges and presented by HBA Award of Design Excellence Presented to best overall first place design scoring 95 points or above Presented by NGC Award of Horticultural Excellence Presented to best overall first place, named horticulture exhibit scoring 95 points or above Presented by NGC People s Choice Award Trophy Awarded by Popular Vote Presented by HBA Education Award Presented to the best Educational Exhibit Presented by NGC

Entry Form for Design Divisions (Also use this form for Youth Design Division*) Name Phone # Address City State Zip For Youth Entries: Age Grade Class # Class Title Mail or e mail form to: Kim Peterson, 1705 Carroll St., St. Louis, MO 63104, kprp@swbell.com *Youth entries mail or e mail form to: Douglas R. Wolter, St. Louis County Parks & Recreation, 1675 S. Mason Rd., St. Louis, MO 63131, DWolter@stlouisco.com # Entry Form for Horticulture Division Name Phone # Address City State Zip Class # Class Title Mail or e mail form to: Jackie Reynolds, 452 Foreston Pl., Webster Groves, MO 63119, jreynolds452@charter.net 7

A Standard Flower Show Presented by East Central District, Federated Garden Clubs of Missouri, Inc., National Garden Clubs, Inc. Builders St. Louis Home & Garden Show March 8 11, 2018 Thank You to Our Sponsors