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Preparations for the October 3, 2026 "70 Years of Flower Power" Flower Show started in August of 2025. These photos show us working together and separately to prepare for the show.
Like a grand wedding with a year full of choreographing for several hours of gaiety, the H&VGC is in its 12th month of preparations for their 70th Anniversary Flower Show, October 3, 2026, 1-4 pm.
Having a Flower Show in Virginia involves group levels from the National Garden Clubs (NGC), the Virginia Federation of Garden Clubs (VFGC), and our
own Shenandoah District Garden Clubs. First, the H&VGC voted to have a FS which would coincide with their 70th anniversary, that was the easy part.
The theme became "70 Years of Flower Power" with an emphasis on 70's music titles or hippie themes - 'Good Vibrations', 'Groovy Baby', 'Can You Dig It?', 'Wear Your Love Like Heaven', 'Shake Your Groove Thing', et al., with many of the planning committee members able to sing the lyrics as they planned.
Finding a striking and lavish location led the club to PAL, Performing Arts or Luray. It offers access to seasonal tourist traffic, reasonable parking,
a large main floor for the 36 Floral Designs, 25 Classes of Horticulture, 3 Educational Exhibits; and upstairs rooms for Guest Speakers and a Design Workshop.
Emerging from deep sleep came uncommon FS ideas like a Blacklight Room for fluorescent floral pendants, Floor Designs - 'Let It All Hang Out', use of 45 records in the Floral Construction Designs, and black draping for staging the Floral Designs. Many other groovy inspirations have also emerged - tye dyed scarves for H&VGC members to wear on the day of; a revolving slide show presentation of the H&VGC's 60 years worth of Scrapbooks; Flower Power signage; 70's Music to be played during the event; Judges gift baskets; and computerized sign-ups on our website.
The NGC and VFGC are responsible for approving the FS Schedule that the H&VGC created following the NGC guidelines. The 32 page '70 Years of Flower Power' Schedule contains the rules and descriptive lists for each of the FS's Divisions - Horticulture, Design, Botanical Arts Artistic Crafts, and Education; as well as lists of committee members, a glossary, and a discography. Once approval was granted, 6 VFGC Accredited Judges were invited to judge all the Divisions; Guest Speakers chose their topics; and invitations to other Shenandoah area garden clubs to participate in the FS Divisions went out.
With just several months before the prodigious day, H&VGC members are working on identification signage for all the exhibits, obtaining sponsors, informational signage for the visitors, advertising for the event, blurbs for the outdoor electronic sign on PAL, informational handouts, Floral Design practice classes, and a multitude of little details that always arise.
It will be a most GROOVY day! Hope you have some bell bottoms and peace beads to wear. We'll all be wearing ours.
Groovy Baby,
Lesley Mack
H&VGC VP
Meetings started in August of 2025. We met monthly, at first.
Getting into PAL to test out our displays.
Color coded placements of Divisions and Sections. Green=Horticulture, Pink=Design, Purple=Botanical Arts Artistic Crafts, Yellow=Education.
Ron found a projector for $10 that will show our Scrapbooks during the Flower Show.
Adelheid picking violets to make a vodka based liquer for the judges' thank you basket.
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