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Floral Salute to Fort Meigs

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Clare Gorski creates an entry for "Peace Treaty" in the Floral Designs category.

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Clare Gorski creates an entry for the category "Peace Treaty" in the Floral Designs category.

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Jackie Venzel, of Perrysburg, left and rear, works on a floral arrangement while Carol Lynn Wilson, of Perrysburg, second from right, checks her creation, both for the category "Peace Treaty" in the Floral Designs.

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Jackie Venzel, of Perrysburg, checks her entry in the "Peace Treaty" category of Floral Designs. Her effort was worth it: She won in the category, and received additional recognition since it was her first time competing.

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Gretchen Downs creates her entry for the category "Head Games" in Floral Design.

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Judy Reitzel, a club member and volunteer, carries flowers in to the Horticulture contest room.

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Colleen McGoldrick, of Perrysburg, works on her entry into the category "Head Games."

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Mary Ann Vogel, of Perrysburg, creates a floral arrangement in a hanging lantern. "The trick was not to get them wet, because they are tin', says Vogel about the lanterns.

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Joyce Quinlivan, of Perrysburg, places a single hosta leaf in a jar.

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Club member Jan Merrell carries a cousa dogwood to the exhibit area.

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Club member Jan Merrell carries a cousa dogwood to the exhibit area.

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Detail from Jackie Venzel's winning entry in the "Peace Treaty" category of Floral Designs.

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Kathleen Carmony's entry in the Class 2, "Head Games", was awarded first place in that category was well as Best in Show.

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Meigen McIntyre and Cindi White's first place entry in Class 4; "A Volley of Gunfire". They used Gerbera daisies, iris leaves, foxtail ferns, saltcedar twigs, and moss.

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"Bombs bursting sails flying", say Class 3, "Battle of Lake Erie" entrants Nancy Lehmann and Judy Moran in their first place entry. They used protea and peace lily in their creation.

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Carol Edgeworth, of Toledo, and a member of the Anthony Wayne Garden Club, near rows of peonies in the Horticulture exhibits area.

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A variety of hostas.

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In Class 1, "Illuminating the Fort" Sarah Lockyer received first place for her lantern of Queen of Nile, peony, king protea, banksia serrata, and moss.

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