The Boston Flower Show – Amateur Horticulture Competition by Betsy Szymczak
The Boston Flower Show was quite modest with a relatively small number of entries in the Amateur Horticulture Competition and the Structure Classes. Despite the small number, many entries were of blue ribbon quality. Wanda Mcnair’s terrariums won many ribbons. She won the Corliss Engle and the Libby Stephenson Awards for an Episcia collection and the Anne Crowley Award for a Nauticalyx pemphidius. Club member Tony Pinto’s B. bogneri won a blue. A new Buxton member, Abby Coffin of Chestnut Hill, won the Caruso Award for a very inventive and beautifully executed miniature garden.
I was fortunate to join Michael Riley, Gesneriad Society past-president and Suzanne Hayes GCA judge on one of several panels. We judged 10 classes, many with only one or two entries. Judges and clerks expressed interest in attending our fall show featuring over 100 begonias and gesneriads.
The Boston Flower Show was quite modest with a relatively small number of entries in the Amateur Horticulture Competition and the Structure Classes. Despite the small number, many entries were of blue ribbon quality. Wanda Mcnair’s terrariums won many ribbons. She won the Corliss Engle and the Libby Stephenson Awards for an Episcia collection and the Anne Crowley Award for a Nauticalyx pemphidius. Club member Tony Pinto’s B. bogneri won a blue. A new Buxton member, Abby Coffin of Chestnut Hill, won the Caruso Award for a very inventive and beautifully executed miniature garden.
I was fortunate to join Michael Riley, Gesneriad Society past-president and Suzanne Hayes GCA judge on one of several panels. We judged 10 classes, many with only one or two entries. Judges and clerks expressed interest in attending our fall show featuring over 100 begonias and gesneriads.
Boston terrariums
Corlis Engle Award, Libby Stephenson Awards for Wanda Mcnair's Epicia Collection
The Anne Crowley Award went to Nauticalyx pemphidius, grown by Wanda Mcnair
Begonia bogneri grown by Tony Pinto won a blue ribbon.
The Caruso Award was given to a miniature garden grown by Abby Coffin