Annual Dalton Flower Show returning in May

Published 11:00 am Wednesday, February 26, 2025

Plans have been made for the annual Dalton Flower Show May 2-3  at the Mack Gaston Community Center. Free workshops will be offered to help people prepare to enter the show.

Fiddleheads Nursery will host a workshop on Horticulture on Saturday, March 22, at 10:30 a.m. Joanne Lewis and Jeane Jones will instruct on how to prepare plants and cut specimens and include other topics for entering horticulture in the show.

The Whitfield County Senior Center will host a class on Flower Arranging/Floral Design on Friday, April 4, at 1 p.m. Kathryn Sellers, Brenda Griffin and Lisa Callaway will demonstrate how to make an arrangement from start to finish. Youth are encouraged to take the class and enter the Youth Division in the show.

Chairpersons and appointments

• Check-in co-chairpersons are Joanne Lewis and Jeane Jones, committee members are Jennifer Detweiler and Melva Purvis.

• Mary Strain and Julie Dyer will man the registration table.

• Laurie Cope and Lisa Callaway, advertising.

• Joy Fox; Plant Sale. The show will offer plants, flowers and herbs for sale.

• Judges Luncheon, Amy A. Weaver and Barbara Krischer.

• Judges clerks, Lauri Cope and Brenda Griffin.

• Ribbons, Shirley Mosier and Janie DuBose.

• Recording winners, Lauri Cope, Renee Robertson, Jennifer Detweiler and Joy Fox.

• Runners to carry exhibits and plants to the staging room, Mike DuBose, Richard Bolles and Don Cope.

• Cleanup.  Charlotte Schuyt.

The Horticulture Division includes potted plants, dish gardens, annuals/perennials, cut flowers, trees, herbs, etc.  Plants must be grown by the exhibitor.
Inviting all gardeners and plant lovers to enter.

The Design/Arrangements Division offers many places to use your creativity — table centerpiece, buffet-style, miniature, oriental design and bed tray arrangements, with a category for Novice. Only fresh or dried material, no silk.

Accredited judges from Atlanta will judge the show, awarding ribbons.

The Mack Gaston Community Center is at 218 N. Fredrick St.

Schedule

• May 1, 3 to 6 p.m., check-in to enter Horticulture.

• May 2, 8 a.m. to 9:30, check-in for entering Design/Arrangements.

• May 2,  10 a.m. to noon, judging and awards.

• May 2, 1 p.m., open to the public until 6 p.m.

• May 3, 9 a.m., open to the public until 4 p.m.

For information on how to enter the show, call Brelinda Bolles at (706) 226-2154 or Julie Dyer at the senior center at (706) 278-3700.