HORTICULTURE

Meg Tapp

Chairman, Horticulture Division

HORTICULTURE CLASSES

UNDERSTANDING HORTICULTURE

Meg Tapp

Chairman, Horticulture Division

There are two parts to the Horticulture Division in a Flower Show.  One part is the cut specimens, and the other part is the container grown plants.  Cut specimens are, just like you’d think, specimens of flowering or foliage plants that have been cut and placed for exhibit in a glass bottle.  The container ones are plants that are grown in dirt.  So that means that they are rooted specimens.  Part of both of these is perfect condition.  The Judges are looking for leaves and blossoms with no blemishes, no dirt, no chew holes from bugs, or anything like that.  

The great thing about coming and looking at a flower show that’s in Houston, when you are looking at the show and looking at the pretty Horticulture exhibit, look at the entry card and you can get the name of the plant.  The botanical name and the common name and snap a photo of the card and if you like it, then you can go buy that plant for yourself and you know it grows well here.   You can see on the card the name of it, the conditions that it is grown in, and where it was grown.  If it grown in Houston or in Dallas or wherever, so you can go out and get it for yourself and have such a pretty specimen in your own yard.