FGC earns blue ribbons at 2025 New England Flower Show
Congratulations to Shannon Fitzpatrick for her blue-ribbon Mono-Botanic Design at the New England Fall Flower Show at Elm Bank. A Mono-Botanic Design is one that incorporates three or more parts of a plant of one family of genus. Parts may be stems, blooms, foliage, buds, and/or roots.
Betsy Szymczak also represented our FGC (and Natick GC), and we congratulate her for eight Horticulture entries at MassHort that earned four blues, two reds, two yellow, with Begonia grandis for propagation. Shannon also entered the horticulture competition, earning four blues, five reds, one yellow and two honorable mentions. 
Minal Akkad and Ruth Evans participated in the show as Design judges, while Betsy also judged Horticulture.…
