DGC Events and Programs in
October 2022
Fri, Oct 14, 2022
Program: GHOST FORESTS
Location: Cambridge Yacht Club
1 Mill Street
Cambridge, MD 21613
Agenda:
9:30 am - 10:30 am Entries Accepted
10:30 am - 11:15 am Judging/Social Time
11:15 am – 12:00 pm Business Meeting
12:00 pm - 12:45 pm Lunch/View Exhibits
12:45 pm - 1:30 pm Program
Speaker: Matt Whitbeck is a wildlife biologist at the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge in Cambridge, MD. He works on habitat management and restoration projects, as well as working in tidal marshes and on natural resource management issues affecting National Wildlife Refuges.
Program Chair: Martha Keating
Hosts: Billie Norton and Barbara Hubbard
Judges:
Horticulture: Joan P. Johnson & Susan Matthews
Design: Lynne Davis & Martha Keating
Consultant: Faye Phillips
Clerk: Kathy Anderson
Division I – Horticulture
Class 1. Rosa (Roses)
a. Miniature single
b. Miniaturre spray
c. Hybrid Tea, Grandiflora
d. Floribunda, Polyantha, Carpet, Climber – one spray
e. Shrub, Old Garden rose
Class 2. Conifers – 1 branch (minimum length 6”/
maximum length 24”)
a. With cones or berries
b. Without cones or berries
Class 3. Broadleaf Evergreen Tree or Shrub – 1 branch
(minimum length 6”/maximum length 24”)
a. Flowering
b. Foliage
c. Fruited
Class 4. Deciduous Tree or Shrub – 1 branch
(minimum length 6”/maximum length 24”)
a. Flowering
b. Foliage
c. Fruited
Class 5. Ilex (Holly) – 1 branch
(minimum length 6”/maximum length 18”)
a. Foliage
b. Fruited
Class 6. Container Grown Plants (maximum pot diameter 8”)
a. Flowering
b. Foliage
Class 7. Open Class
a. Annual
b. Perennial
c. Biennial
d. Bulb, corm, rhizome, tuber
e. Vines
Class 8. Dahlias
a. Single
b. Cactus
Class 9. Herbs – Group of three (3) cut specimens in one container
A Same cultivar
B. Different cultivars
Class 10. Chrysanthemum (Leucanthemum)-one spray
a. Button
b. Quill or spoon
c. Decorative
d. Any other
Class 11. Five (5) fruits or vegetables shown on a tray. May be all the same or different variety.
Class 12. Ornamental Grasses-single cut grass culm (stem) measuring wr”-30” from cut end to tip of flower head (spike, raceme or panicle)
a. Muhlenberia capillaris (pink mulhly grass)
b. Pennisetum (fountain grass)
c. Chasmanthium latifolium (northern sea oats), 3 stems required
d. Any other cut grass with spike, raceme or panicle
Division II – Design
Class 1. Think Green: Panel Design. A Creative Design using a structural panel/s as an integral part of the design. HB pg. 75, Section K. Eligible for Companion Design (see p. 23).
Designs will be placed on a black step stool (9” x9” x 1’). Limit four designs per class. Individuals must register with Kay Karminski and collect the step stool from Cheryl Willey by October 13, 2022.
Class 2. Color Me Beautiful: Plaque Design a design organized in a naturalistic manner composed of plant material and other optional components attached to a background panel/s serving as a frame of reference. HB pg. 93, II. Section B.1.b. Design will be staged in upright position on an easel.
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