Flower shows

Here is another snowday question.

How many like competitive flower shows?  This would be the arrangement 
competition.  All of spring shows have this section which use florist 
material as it is usually too early for garden flowers.  Later on, the fall 
shows should give you material from your own garden.

I should say that I have never understood this area of gardening, Ed calls it 
the comedy section of the show but it is taken very seriously by some.  I am 
not alluding to the show bench where the excellence of the individual flower 
is judged, rather the themed display.

Katherine White wrote on this subject.  Beverley Nichols was so outraged on 
what was shown in competitive shows, he wrote a book to show one how it 
should be done.  There is a series of letters published in a large anthology 
by Roy Strong between two British women.  On has been taken to such a show 
though her experience is on a field, in a tent.

Penelope to Sylvia:  " Sylvia.  If ever your life depends on going to a 
flower show, just die.  It's quicker."

Claire Peplowski
NYS z4

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