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Club Contests
EXCEPTIONAL HORTICULTURAL AWARD
Most of the requests for the Exceptional Horticultural Award come from clubs to which you belong. For those of you who are not familiar with this award, as Horticulture Coordinator I am responsible for the selection of candidates. The candidate MUST be a Garden Club member of one of the federated clubs in the GCFP. The criteria for this award are as follows:
EXPERIENCE – Growing numerous plant materials – trees, shrubs, annuals, perennials, biennials, house plants and being able to converse with others intelligently about “how to grow”. Hopefully the candidate has attended one or more of the schools provided by the National Garden Clubs, Inc. but this is not a requirement.
EDUCATION – the candidate should be well read: books magazines, flower and garden catalogs, the Internet, National Garden Club programs and schools.
SHARING – Knowledge, experience and plant materials with friends and garden club members as well as civic organizations. The candidate should have served their club, community and country when called upon to do so. They should be able to represent the GCFP as an intelligent, dignified and knowledgeable source.
Remember, for the most part we are amateurs. However, an exceptional horticulturist must be almost a professional in the above three areas.
Applications for the award must be written up and sent to me by August 1st of each year. This is a necessary request as the certificates must be prepared and then sent to the District Directors and Awards Chairman for signing and presentation at the District annual meeting.
Please send these to:
- Mrs. Frank C. Dickson, II
- 160 Winters Road
- Butler, PA 16002-0658
- Phone 724-287-2053
2010 Pennsylvania Horticultural Society's
Community Greening Award
Since 2000, the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society has been recognizing public space plantings across the State of Pennsylvania through its Community Greening Award. If your club has installed or maintains a public space planting, such as a park, memorial garden, train station, traffic island, etc., we invite you to nominate the site for this prestigious award. There is a brochure with the nomination form. For more information you can visit our website.
The deadline is July 15. Judges will contact you as to a date when they will visit the garden or site. All honorees will be recognized at an Awards Reception in the Fall. The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society is proud to acknowledge and recognize beautification efforts that improve communities. We look forward to your participation.
- Flossie Narducci
- Education Manager
- Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
- 100 North 20th Street
- Philadelphia, PA 19103
- 215-988-8897
- 215-988-8783 (fax)