NYS Fair Flower Show 2025
It's Time To Enter The 2025 Flower Show Competition At The Great NYS Fair.
Click This Link To Take You To The NYS Fair How to
Enter Registration Page
Scroll Down The Entry Page Until You Reach The Flower Show Category 'Artistic Design'
To Clerk At The 2025
State Fair Flower Show
Contact Linda Arthur at lamhba@aol.com
or
call 352-209-8019
It's Fun To Be A Part Of The Action And You Will Learn Alot!
Information From Linda Daly
Chair -NYS Fair Artistic Design Flower Show
Hello All-
And thank you for your interest and participation in the NYS Fair Artistic Design Flower Show!
The 2025 Show titled “The Secret Garden” is inspired by the whimsy and enchantment featured in the gardens of children’s literature.
SHOW 1 – “Storybook Blooms” – Wednesday, August 20 – Monday, August 25
Set up Tuesday 8/19 from 4pm to 9pm (no credentials needed) or
Wednesday 8/20 from 8am to 11am (credentials needed)
SHOW 2- “Enchanted Realms” – Tuesday, August 26 – Monday, September 1
Set up Monday 8/25 after 8 pm (credentials needed) or
Tuesday 8/26 from 8am to 11am (credentials needed)
Schedule – Click Here For The Link:
National Garden Club Handbook for Flower Shows- is referenced to in the schedule- Click Here For The Link:
Entries will be online again this year. Deadline for All Entries will be August 11, 2025
Click Here For The Link:
NYS SFS number- all exhibitors need one to enter classes online- This SFS number enables NYS to pay premiums. All returning exhibitors who entered in the last few years will be able to use the NYS SFS number that they used previously. If you need to look up your vendor number please call or email Tracy Welder (315-559-3632, tjeanmabe@aol.com) She will have the list.
If you are a first time exhibitor please sign up for a new SFS number. Fill out the form on the next page and email to Carol.trytek2@agriculture.ny.gov
You will enter your name for the business name, check the box for sole proprietor and your ssn#.
Tickets and Parking Passes
Each Exhibitor will need credentials to get into the fair on show days. All entries received by August 11 will receive by email Credentials from the fair including 2 entry tickets, 2 drop off tickets and 2 parking passes per show you enter. One set will be for drop off and one for pick up. Please make sure you have access to your tickets well before you come to the fair. When you open your tickets you MUST save them to your phone or print them out at that time or they will be considered redeemed and cannot be reopened or used. There is no way to get tickets to you on show days.
Please enter your classes by August 11 to make sure you will receive tickets in time.
How Designs Are Judged
1st Place Blue 90 or above - 2nd Place Red 85 or above
3rd Place Yellow 80 or above - Honorable Mention White 75 or above
( 90 +)
14 Points
CONFORMANCE:
DID YOU ADHERE TO ALL THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE CLASS
1. Is it a Traditional Design or a Creative Design Style
2. Is there a staging panel (backboard) and underlay of the size asked for
3. Is there a card listing all plant used in design
8 Points
SELECTION OF COMPONENTS:
A CREATIVE AND APPROPRIATE SELECTION OF ALL
COMPONENTS TO SUGGEST THE STYLE, TYPE & TITLE
8 Points
ORGANIZATION of COMPONENTS:
AN IMAGINATIVE & UNIFIED ORGANIZATION OF COMPONENTS
8 Points
EXPRESSION:
THE CLASS HAS BEEN INTERPRETED EFFECTIVELY BY THE EXHIBITOR
8 Points
DISTINCTION:
ALL ASPECTS OF THE EXHIBIT ARE SUPERIOR
48 Points
DESIGN PRINCIPLES:
BALANCE = Visual Stability
Achieved by equal weight either actual or visible on opposite sides of an imaginary central axis either vertically & horizontally
Pleasing visual weight of colors textures & form.
RHYTHM = Dominant Visual Path
Created by a linear visual path of color, or lines or forms, repeated through the
design as it leads the eye from the focal area through the design.
Sweeping fluid lines and color carries eye easily.
Clever use of space enhances rhythm.
CONTRAST = Opposites Used Together
Achieved by placing opposites or unlike characteristics of a single element (color, line, form or texture) together in order to emphasize their differences
Line short or long straight or curved, Color light or dark, intense or weak Texture rough or smooth etc.
DOMINANCE = More of one or more of the Elements
Achieved by one or more of a particular characteristic of an element (color, form, texture or line) dominating by repeating itself to unify the design. More straight lines than curved, more round forms than angular etc.
PROPORTION = Comparative Relationship of Areas and Amounts
The pleasing ratio between areas and amounts (color, form, etc.) as they relate to one another- pleasing ratio between area occupied by the design and space allotted. Pleasing proportions require unequal amounts, areas & dimensions. Height of arrangement relative to its width etc.
SCALE = Size Relationship
Achieved by a pleasing relationship of the size of one object and parts to each other .
Ex.- No flower used in a container should be more than 1/3 the size of container itself.
Click The Pages Below For A More Detailed Printable Description of Each Category
Pg 1 Pg 2 Pg 3 Pg 4
Members - For more information on judging contact Priscilla Pultz
Gallery
Click on a picture for the full view
~ `Just A Few Of The Previous SGC Participant Entries At The NYS Fair (photos 1-6).
~ An Educational Flower Show Judging Event was held at the SGC meeting in June. Scroll down to see the Designers and their beautiful arrangements (Photos 7-12) Accredited Judges with the Federated Garden Clubs of NYS seated.
~ Individual panels of the 2 trifolds Priscilla created further outlining design components (photos 13-18)