2 earn best in show for Bradford Fair horticulture entries

Celina Rohman earned best in show for a maidenhair fern at this year’s horticulture exhibit at the Bradford Agricultural Fair. Photo by Cliff Smelley.

Celina Rohman and Harley Smith earned best best-in-show awards for their horticulture exhibits at the Bradford Agricultural Fair.

Rohman earned her award for a maidenhair fern. She also exhibited a bromeliad, which earned best in class, and a dish garden that received a blue ribbon.

Smith received best in show for quail eggs. She also exhibited Faverolles chicken eggs, earning a blue ribbon.

Tracy Meadows earned three best-in-class awards for a begonia, geranium and kalanchoe.

Meadows also earned blue ribbons for the following: dish garden (3), double impatiens, angel-wing begonia (2), orchid, nasturtium, dracaena (2), Tai plant and bromeliad.

Murley Blankeship earned two best-in-class awards for foliage and a dish garden. She earned additional blue ribbons for flapjack, tiger aloe and a dish garden.

Donna Solze earned best in class for a donkey ear plant. She earned additional blue ribbons for jade, wax begonia, lemon-striped agave, desert rose and spider plant.

Bradford Middle School FFA entered eight exhibits, with Jordayne Goddard’s creeping fig earning best in class. The chapter’s other exhibits all earned blue ribbons: Annsley Wilkes’ begonia rex, Kingslee Phillips’ creeping fig, Lakelynn Shepard’s begonia rex, Bailey Smith’s philodendron, Brilynn Brown’s Codiaeum variegatum, Ella Hewett’s Codiaeum variegatum and Maddison Lee’s philodendron.

Teresa Jerrels earned best in class for blue eggs. She earned additional blue ribbons for olive eggs and silkie eggs.

Miranda Sellers received nine blue ribbons for the following: heart-shaped hoya, variegated spider plant, jade, monkey tail cactus, euphorbia lacteal, fiddle leaf, cactus, silkie eggs and Australorp eggs.

Pat Caren had seven exhibits earn blue ribbons: cactus, hedgehog cactus, zebra, maranta, spider plant, ponytail palm and sedum rupestre. She also earned red ribbons for calathea lancifolia and oxalis and a white ribbon for English ivy.

Jeff Buchanan and Kim Griffis each received three blue ribbons. Buchanan received his for Vincent Godsiff rose, Puerto Rico rose and Bengale d’Automne rose, while Griffis earned hers for cream eggs, cuckoo marans eggs and green eggs.

Buchanan also earned red ribbons for a rose and a Le Vésuve rose.

Emma Griffis received two blue ribbons for Australorp eggs and bob-white eggs.

The following earned one blue ribbon each: Stephanie Groves (African violet), Carol Wise (spring cactus), Kathy Agan (euphorbia), Finley Brewster (Australorp eggs), Jackson Brewster (Australorp eggs) and Easton Griffis (turken eggs).

Harley Smith’s quail eggs earned a best-in-show award. Photo by Cliff Smelley.