This year’s horticulture exhibits at the Bradford Agricultural Fair included one best-in-show award, which was received by Celina Rohman for a bromeliad in the amateur-adult division.
It was one of nine entries for Rohman. Her rabbit’s-foot fern earned best in class, while an additional six received blue ribbons: maiden-hair fern, succulent garden, Mexican dish garden, dish garden, green and white hoya and green hoya.
Rohman also received a red ribbon for a heart-shaped hoya.
Two received nine blue ribbons each in the amateur-adult division, including Beckie Burkett, who had four blue-ribbon entries also earn best in class: orchid, walking iris, basil and cherry tomato.
Burkett’s other five blue-ribbon entries were coleus, leopard plant, staghorn fern, inch plant and cranberry hibiscus.
Pat Caren earned nine blue ribbons for the following: oxalis, crown of thorns, lemon sedum, zebra haworthia, agave, rabbit’s-foot fern, arrowhead, peace lily and maranta. She also earned red ribbons for impatiens and sedum.
Donna Solze had two best-in-class entries: trailing jade and staghorn/elkhorn. She had another five entries earn blue ribbons: kalanchoe, bird’s-nest fern, dwarf snake plant, corkscrew and zebra spider.
Carol Wise received five blue ribbons for Chinese aloe, jade, Shaw’s aloe, dish garden and special dish. The Chinese aloe also earned her best in class.
Wise received a red ribbon for an elephant plant.
Elisabeth Summers earned four blue ribbons: peperomia, dwarf snake plant, snake plant and schefflera. She received best in class for the snake plant.
The following earned two blue ribbons each: Murley Blankenship for night-blooming siris and crown of thorns, Amanda Hoffer for a basket plant and jade, Tracy Meadows for china doll and a dish garden and Dottie Yarbrough for bromeliad and zonal geranium.
Meadows’ dish garden also earned best in class. She also earned red ribbons for blooming succulent, coleus and hanging begonia.
Yarbrough earned one red ribbon for a geranium.
The amateur-adult division also included Linda Klein, who earned best in class for double impatiens.
Four youth exhibitors earned best-in-class awards: Carson Cox for a variegated spider plant, Emalyn Crawford for pinto beans, Ansley Smith for chicken eggs and Nicholas Ward for thornless blackberry.
The following earned one blue ribbon each in the youth division for variegated spider plants: Berkley Reddish, Matthew Stafford and Kayden (last name not provided). Tristan Jones, Kolee LeMire, Matthew McDonough, Conner Rowe, Cody Spratlin and Oscar Stephens each earned one red ribbon for variegated spider plants.
A total of 16 earned one blue ribbon each for pinto beans. Besides Emalyn Crawford, they were Lydia Bland, Kelsey Burgin, Alexander Crawford, Ashley Estep, Callie Harris, Kendall Hyatt, Rebekah Knowles, Vincent Marclano, Owen McKinney, Raylen McLamey, Leilani Morales, Peyton Simmons, Addison Thornton, Michael Tierney and Elisabeth Wagner.
Earning one red ribbon each for pinto beans were Joseph Austin, Jhailaa Coleman, Ezra Green, Nooy Hadges, Marlene Merlo, Jackson Miller, Gage Moody, Ashley Steed, Samantha Stucky, Tristan (no last name provided) and (no first name provided) Ireland.
Shawn Ward received a red ribbon for chives.
Landan Brown and Cayman Brown earned a blue ribbon and red ribbon, respectively, for chicken eggs.
