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| How Does Your Garden Grow? | |||
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| By Catherine Ellerton Submitted Mar. 12, 2008 The Fine Arts Building at the Clark County Fair is being prepared to display the crafts, hobbies, photographs, paintings and desert produce of Clark County and surrounding area exhibitors. I caught up with Barbara Postlethwait, the Horticulture Superintendent, on Friday, March 7, at the Curtis B. Waite Demonstration Garden at the Arts Building. She and several helpers were busy beginning the annual clean up and preparing the Garden for the fair. |
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They begin about a month before the fair to tidy up, take out dead plants, prune the roses and plant new plants. During the fair, Home Hardware in Overton loans many display plants to help dress up the garden. This is just one of the responsibilities associated with the title Horticulture Superintendent. Barbara advised that she had been busy obtaining displays, proofing the fair book, rounding up the decorators and planning out the booths. She works with Horticulture Exhibits Chair Georgann Cook (Master Gardener) who lines up the judges, orders ribbons and schedules those who take entries on Thursday morning of Fair Week. Barbara then begins the task of scheduling all the volunteer hosts who work in the Horticulture area during the hours the building is open. The sections in the Horticulture Division are Outdoor Vegetable Gardening, Container Gardening, Nursery, Flower Gardening and Artistic Design. I was especially interested in the Artistic Design. For those Valley residents who do not have gardens or are changing their existing gardens so their produce won’t be ready for the fair, this section is ideal. An arrangement! Although all arrangements must contain some fresh plant material, one basically uses dried or treated plant material. To enter you can log onto www.ccfair.com and look at the horticulture exhibits section. While at the fair this year, take a moment to visit the Horticulture area in the Fine Arts Building at the Clark County Fair and Rodeo and visit his educational exhibit which is jointly sponsored with the U. of NV Cooperative Extension. See you there. | |||
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