Bring your blooms from your garden to Coastal Georgia Botanical Gardens located at 2 Canebrake Road in Savannah beginning at 7:30 am on Saturday February 22, 2020. All blooms must be entered by 9:30 am, so be sure to come early. Each bloom should have at least a 2-3 inch stem attached to the flower. Bring your blooms to the Andrews Visitor Center and proceed up the ramp on the right side of the building to the back terrace. There will be tables, cups, water, and entry cards available on the terrace for you to enter your blooms.
Important information for those of you who have cards to enter your blooms beforehand:
Color of cards for each species:
White - Japonica
Yellow - Reticulatas or Other Hybrids
Blue Card - Hybrid other than Reticulatas
Green Card - Miniatures
Beige Card - Species Grown
Red Card - Seedlings on Sports Grown
Unidentified Blooms should go on a WHITE CARD
There will be volunteers from Coastal Georgia Camellia Society on the back terrace to help you with entering your blooms. We will try to identify your blooms if you don’t know their names, but even if we can’t identify them, we will still enter them into the show.
The entry cards for the show will be available on the terrace the morning of the show. You will need to fill out the top and bottom of each card for each flower entering the show. To make this process go quicker, we suggest that you bring plenty of the return mailing address labels like you would put on a letter when you place it in the mail. You will need 2 labels for each bloom, or else you will have to hand write your name and address on the entry cards when you get to the show. We will have volunteers to tell you what to do.
Our volunteers will place blooms in the Exhibit Hall, and we ask that only Coastal Georgia Camellia Society placement volunteers are inside the Exhibit Hall during placement. We know that you would like to see the blooms, but everyone looking at blooms during the placement of the blooms will only slow down the process.
At 9:30 am, we will stop the receiving and placement of blooms. At this time, the doors will be locked and the judging will begin. The judging of the show will be completed and opened to the public at 12 pm until 5pm.
This is a local show judged by local judges, so you have a good chance to win an award. If you have never entered a bloom in a Camellia Show, you will enjoy learning the process.