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2005 GCV Horticulture Award of Merit Winners
Nancy F. Lowry: Rivanna Garden Club Nancy, a past president of the Rivanna Garden Club and rose chairman since 1992, has both hands busy sharing bounty from her lovely herb and vegetable gardens as well as instructing groups in making lavender sachets and stunning natural wreaths. Her helping hands are busy serving on the Board of Nature Camp (having helped organize the Nature Camp Foundation), organizing the Council of Garden Clubs Beautification Awards each year, volunteering with the Master Gardeners, and enthusiastically promoting the joy of horticulture in so many ways!
Candace Carter Crosby: Albemarle Garden Club Candy, an avid gardener, has served as horticulture chairman since 1999, providing useful advice in the AGC newsletter, and leading numerous GCV and GCA horticulture projects. She personally planted over 500 tulip bulbs for Historic Garden Week ‘05 and generously shares plants and poppy seeds from her beautiful gardens. One of her goals is to become a GCA Horticulture Judge.
Suzanne Aiello: Dolley Madison Garden Club Suzanne, horticulture chairman of the Dolley Madison Garden Club for two years and writer of “Diggin’ in the Dirt”, monthly tips for the club newsletter, is a Master Gardener and past president of the 4 County Master Gardener’s Assoc. As such, she started the Horticulture Therapy Program at the Orange County Nursing Home. She’s an avid gardener, generously sharing knowledge and time, and her beautiful gardens were open to the Garden Conservancy in spring 2003.
Julia Cox: Tuckahoe Garden Club Julia, a past Horticulture Chairman for The Tuckahoe Garden Club of Westhampton, is a very talented, hands-on gardener who has created many lovely beds in her yard, and generously offers her time and her property for meetings, workshops and fundraisers. Her yard, which has many plants from her childhood home, is a favorite spot on Historic Garden Week tours.
Evelyn H. Nock: Garden Club of Eastern Shore Evelyn, an expert on daffodils, is an American Daffodil Society judge and ADS instructor, and the winner of many awards and ribbons including Excellence in Horticulture. As a Master Gardener she began a Roots and Shoots program at Pungoteague Elementary School, in which children learn about plants and seeds by planting and harvesting. She also organized a children’s springtime festival to celebrate the blooming cherry trees.
Elizabeth Brown: Garden Club of Gloucester Elizabeth is a hands-on gardener with a passion for daffodils. A certified judge for national, state and local shows, she has also been winning awards for her daffodils since 1955. Elizabeth shares her knowledge with other garden clubs, the community, and especially new exhibitors at the Garden Club of Gloucester’s annual Daffodil Show. |