Horticulture Rules

“VILLAGE VISTAS”

"GARDENER'S GUIDE"

HORTICULTURE RULES

1. Horticulture entries must be pre-registered for this show. Pre-registration forms are found in this schedule. Entry cards will be supplied by the Horticulture Entries Chairman. The Horticulture Entries Chairman is:

Phyllis Knox

41 McKenzie Drive

Bella Vista, AR 72715-5108

479-876-2198

phyllisknox@cox.net

2. Competition is open to all amateur growers.

3. The Horticulture Classification Committee will be on hand to accept entries from 1:00 p.m. until 4:00 p.m. on Thursday, June 10, 2010 and from 9:00 a.m. until 1:30 p.m. on Friday, June 11, 2010. For those persons not pre-registering their horticulture entries, they will be accepted from 10 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Thursday, June 10th ONLY! NO EXCEPTIONS.

4. The exhibitor may make more than one entry per class or sub-class, if each is a different genus, variety, cultivar, type, size or color.

5. The exhibitor is permitted to use wedging material for support of cut specimen, if needed. It will be furnished and placed by the Placement Committee. All specimens must be placed by the Placement Committee.

6. The Classification Committee reserves the right to create classes or sub-divide classes as needed.

7. Natural, self-multiplying plants are permitted in container grown specimens. African Violets must be shown with one crown, trailing varieties with three or more crowns from a single crown.

8. Horticulture specimens are to be properly groomed, but no treatment or dressing is permitted. All specimens should be clean and free of insects or insect damage.

9. Exhibitor must correctly label all specimens with genus, species and/or cultivar (where applicable), to be eligible to win a Top Exhibitor Award.

10. Potted plants may be exhibited in either clean clay, glazed or plastic pots. Double potting is allowed but soil must not be covered by moss, bark, etc. Decorative pots may be used if they do not distract from the specimen.

11. All plant material exhibited in horticulture division must be fresh plant material and grown by the exhibitor.

12. No unattached foliage is allowed.

13. Cut specimens should not have any foliage below the water line.

14. Cacti and succulents may be displayed with a mulch of fine rocks or pebbles.

15. Exhibits must have been in the possession of the exhibitor for no fewer than 90 days. Exception: plants grown from seed, seedling, cuttings or immature transplants, bulbs, tubers, corms or rhizomes. Combination plantings must have been grown together for no fewer than 6 weeks.

16. Cut specimens of annuals, biennials and perennials must have been in exhibitor’s possession from seeds, cuttings or immature plants and grown to maturity. Bulbous blooms must have been in exhibitor's possession from planting of bulb, tuber, corm, rhizome or it must have been cared for as a mature plant at least 90 days.

17. The Staging Committee will furnish clear vases for cut specimens.

18. Horticulture Entries Procedure: Horticulture is first accepted by Classification; second, recorded by Entries; third, placed by Placement.