Northeast Gardening: ericalynne, 1 by gardenmart

gardenmart wrote:
This is a picture of part of the children's amateur exhibit at the New England Spring Flower Show. I am chairperson of Junior Horticulture {my committee and I set up and arrange the entries for the duration of the show} and this is how I encourage children to garden now that my own two are grown. We had nearly two hundred separate entries from about 120 children this past March. I also speak to groups of kids like the boy scouts and girl scouts who want to beging exhibiting. We also have several activities at the Children's Festival night at the show and we talk to many kids and their parents then about participating at the Flower Show. I also enter some of my personal plants and I have a blast during the term of the show. It's a huge amount of hard work the day before to set it up, but it has always been worth it.
Martha