Flower Show - I Survived
The Windermere Garden Club agreed to have a flower show as an event in the celebration of our town’s 100 anniversary of incorporation. No matter that our snowbird members aren’t back, the club hasn’t put on a show for 11 years, we had only a few months to plan, and lastly, September is not a great month in for plants in Florida. Details, mere details. I agreed to create an educational entry with the assumption that it would be a simple trifold board with a few plants in front. Not a big deal. Wrong, our fearless and inexhaustible leader Vicki interpreted the National Garden Club’s rule of “at least 18 square feet” of information to be table area, not vertical display area. By the time I’d become aware that I was covering an 8’ x 30” table, it was too late to back out. You see, WGC is part of the Florida Federation of Garden Clubs and NGC. Flower shows are standardized and judged by highly trained volunteers. I think the Centennial Committee thought it would just be a bunch of pret...