Showing Off the Garden Flower and Vegetable Harvest

Posted by Jamie McIntosh Sep 12, 2009

Today I went to a local fall festival that featured a parade and a carnival, and after one corndog too many I was ready to go home. However, a sign proclaiming a flower show inside an air-conditioned building caught my eye, and I took a detour while my husband and sons looked at antique cars and hotrods.

Inside the building, I observed tables full of flower arrangements and specimens from home gardens. Someone who doesn’t garden might have found these displays, meager, strange, or even a little bit pitiful. For example, some entries consisted of nothing more than three individual green beans plucked from the bush. A smallish zinnia in a vase was another contest entry. It takes a gardener to realize the pride a fellow gardener takes in his harvest, even if the produce isn’t aesthetically perfect.

I’m glad there are still organizations and events that offer gardeners the chance to display the results of their hard work. Perhaps next season you’ll see one of my tomatoes or cut flowers on one of those tables.