Flower Show Chairs Phyllis Lee and Janice Fergus are joined by 100 club members and approximately 90 judges will fly in from across the country to make their selections in the categories of floral design, horticulture, photography, botanical arts, and needle arts.

HoMA Trustee Kitty Wo has been a member of TGCH since 2009, and is the current president. She found herself an empty nester and thought it was time to “learn something new.” Today she is a skilled floral designer and an approved judge in floral design and botanical arts, a position that took nearly 10 years to attain.

“Floral design has opened a whole new world to me,” says Wo, who is overseeing staging for the show and is chair of the Botanical Arts Division. “It is something you have to study, practice, and really work at. It is such a creative process, and I enjoy the challenge, stimulation, and beauty of working with flowers and dried materials, transforming them into works of art.”