Here is a bit of a do-over with corrections made from the list of winners from the Charleston Magnolia Garden Club’s recent flower show.
The show had a theme called “Tea Time,” where herbal, Earl Grey, Lady Grey and Constant Comment teas figured largely in the designs and arrangements of stunning displays of flowers and botanical offerings.
Listed below are the blue ribbon winners for this year’s flower show and a sampling of the designs that won.
Carrie Rice won Section A Dressed to a Tea Cut flower from perennial, Section F Fancy a cup? Flowering container Grown Plant, Section G Strong and Sassy Foliage container grown plant, Section H Tempest in a Teapot Cut decorative foliage, Section I storm in a teacup dwarf/miniature/naturally small growth foliage or flowering specimen, Section K My cup of Tea Dwarf/miniature//naturally small growth container grown plant, Section L All the Tea in China Collections minimum of 5 different specimens, Division I Top Exhibitor Award - Award of Horticultural Excellence, Class 4 Constant Comment transparency design, Division II top Exhibitor Award, Award of Design Excellence, Exhibiting Horticulture, Division III Top Exhibitor Award, Emily Etheridge Horticulture Award, Awarded to the highest scoring horticulture exhibit of a native plant.
Morgan Graff won Section B Full & Leafy Cut specimen from foliage perennial
Carrie Rice won Section C The Spice of Life Cut flower from bulbous plant (iris).
Joy Montgomery won Section D My favorite Flower Cut branch from a flowering branch or tree, Section J Spill the Tea Dwarf/miniature/naturally small growth arboreal specimen.
Sassy Mauldin won Section E What do the leaves say? Cut branch from a foliage shrub or tree
Flora Vance won Class 1 English Breakfast Tea functional tray design.
Celia Williamson won Class 2 Let’s have a Tea Party functional table design, Section A Top Exhibitor Award Table artistry award.
D’Ann Carr won Arizona Green Tea exhibition table design.
Marline Carpenter won Class 5 Orange Spice creative design
Jeannie Hobson won Class 6 Celestial Nights reflective design.
Allison Ashmore won Class 1 Lady Grey decorated vintage lady’s hat, Division IV Top Exhibitor Award Botanical Arts Artistic Crafts Award.
Joy Montgomery won Class 2 Sleepy Time Tea decorated teacup.
Celia Williamson won Class 3 Herbal tea decorated teapot.
Annette Montgomery won the Mary Harpole Design Award, awarded to the exhibitor whose design best depicts the show’s theme.
Carrie Rice won the Horticultural Excellence for Iris Fulva “Gladiator’s Gift.”
Congratulations to all.
