| Second flower show opens at county fair |
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| Written by JORDAN CRAVENS Sentinel Staff Writer | ||||||
| Saturday, 04 August 2012 08:16 | ||||||
Sue Higley, of Portage, had 15 entries in the first show and followed it up with 20 entries in the second. She entered in the horticulture, house plants and design competitions. "This was my first year in the design category and I placed," Higley said. She took home second place in the miniatures, "White Christmas" design competition and an honorable mention in the "Green Eyes" green foliage arrangement. Higley admits preparing entries for the flower show was no easy task with the hot and dry weather. "I had a lot of them that came up about a month early," she said. "I had to look hard for entries to show at the fair." Lots of water kept her flowers alive.
"You'd go out and water in the morning and you go back out at night and they would be wilted." Joyce Ford-Brinker, of Pemberville, had several entries to prepare for the second show, including an interpretative wall niche designed with the 1940s song, "Let it Snow" in mind. "I put my arrangement on a glass block to represent ice," she said. She used white spray-paint on her branches to simulate snow and mixed in snowflakes with her Gerber daisy-based design. In the folding niche category, Brenda Rathburn, of Bowling Green, put together her design based around the 1960s song, "Light My Fire." Entries were required to use illumination. Rathburn used red rope lighting and snaked it around a spring from a tractor and another piece of farm machinery. She used yellow and red gladiolus to depict the flames. "And then to top of off, I've got the match to light my fire," Rathburn said. Entries is the second show continued with the "Music Through the Decades" theme with songs like "I believe I can fly," (1990s); "It takes two," (1980s); "My Prayer," (1950s); "Born in the USA," (1980s); "Message in a bottle," (1970s); among others. In the third featured class of the second show, entrants were asked to setup tea for two or four with the song, "That Old Irish Mother of Mine," (1920s) in mind. |
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