22nd Annual Show & Sale!
| Saturday, April 2nd | Sunday, April 3rd |
| 2005 | |
| 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM | 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM |
(Click here for plant entry forms, 42K PDF)
ADMISSION IS FREE!
Free plant to the first 50 families each day!
Naugatuck Valley Community College
Art & Music Center Cafeteria, Fifth Floor.
750 Chase Parkway
Waterbury, CT. (exit 18 off I-84)
(Directions & Map)
Refreshments!
Leading C&S Vendors!
Books!
Hardy Cacti Vendors!
Pottery!
Auctions!
Raffles!
Lectures & Demonstrations!
List of lectures:
| Saturday April 2nd | |
| 11:00am | Making a Dish Garden |
| Noon | Sansevierias |
| 12:45pm | AUCTION |
| 1:15pm | Raising Cacti from Seed |
| 2:00pm | Oddities of the succulent world |
| 2:40pm | AUCTION |
| 3:15pm | I Bought a Cactus, Now What? |
| Sunday April 3rd | |
| 11:00am | no lecture |
| Noon | Living Stones |
| 12:45pm | AUCTION |
| 1:15pm | Hardy Cacti for the CT Garden |
| 2:00pm | Potting Mixes for Succulents |
| 2:40pm | AUCTION |
| 3:00pm | Care & Feeding of Succulents Plants |
| Vendor List | |
| Bob Smoley's Gardenworld | CC&SS Book Table |
| Ken Mosher, Drago Cactoid | John Spain's Cacti (Hardy Cacti) |
| Carol Moore, Pots n Paints | Harvey Pessin (Tufa Containers) |
| Bob Sparrow | Ginger Nelson, Webatuck Pottery |
| Real Rebutia | Teaberry Gardens & Bottle Gentian |
| Lauray of Salisbury | Walnut Hill | Andy & Jeanine Loya | Mark Schiller (Hardy Cacti) | Guilo Sista | Club & Member Table |
SHOW RULES
1. No Field collected specimens will be permitted.
2. Plants must be delivered to the judging area by 9 AM on Saturday, April 2. No plants will be accepted after this time. It is asked that when possible, plants will be entered on Friday evening, April 1.
3. CT CSS reserves the right to reject any plants that may be infected and/or suffering from infestation.
4. All plants entered must have been in exhibitor’s possession for at least six (6) months prior to the show.
5. An entry card must be completely filled out for each plant, and placed with the plant. Please make sure exhibitor’s name does not show. If plant was windowsill grown, or grown from seed, please note CLEARLY on card. Give age of plant, if known.
6. Exhibitors are asked not to be in show area during judging. A judge exhibiting a plant in any class is asked not to judge in that class.
| Judging Scale | |
| CONDITION | 75 points |
| STAGING | 20 points |
| NOMENCLATURE | 5 points |