Check out these winners of the 2024 Horticulture Show

Through the two weeks of November 7 to November 17, the Garden Club of Jacksonville and the Greater Jacksonville Agricultural Fair hosted a record number of plants from growers around Northeast Florida for the 2024 Horticulture Show! Giant patio plants, fluffy ferns, delicate African violets, prickly cacti, juicy succulents, and much more lined the tables of the show.

Entries were accepted on November 4 and 5 by Garden Club of Jacksonville staff and volunteers. On November 6, judges studied each entry to determine blue-, red-, and white-ribbon winners as well as the Best of Show and Sweepstakes winners. The winners are listed at the end of this blog post.

People’s Choice Award

About 1,000 people voted for their favorite plant in the 2024 Horticulture Show. After all the votes were tallied on November 16, Kyle Allsbrook’s bonsai received 200 votes to become the winner.

Sponsor’s Choice Awards

This year’s Horticulture Show included sponsorship prizes from several local plant stores and nurseries, with each having a cash prize of $200:

• Love Designs Choice Award: Bonsai, Kyle Allsbrook
• Liberty Landscape Choice Award: Anthurium, Cynder Vriesenga
• Truck Girl Choice Award: Black Velvet Alocasia, Aline Clement
• Jelly Gang Jelly Choice Award: Pink Princess Philodendron, Kim Carmela-Lindemann
• Boozy Sweets Choice Award: Mexican Plants, Luke Nguyen
• Standard Feed and Seed Choice Award: Senecio Kleina, Matt Witemyre

Garden Club Supports the Home Gardener

Proctor Ace Hardware on University Boulevard provided plants and tables for the #GardenClubJax booth, showcasing a beautiful array of patio plants for the home gardener. #GardenClubJax showed off its new banner by Rain Tree Graphics, promoting all the ways  throughout the year were available and games of giant Jenga and cornhole provided a chance for visiting families to relax and have some fun.

Adult Category Winners

• Best of Show: Bonsai, Kyle Allsbrook
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Section A: Gesneriads

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Section B: Begonias

• Blue: Begonia Longicillata, Emma Jordan
• Blue: Begonia, Liz Range
• Blue: Begonia Kinginia, Emma Jordan

Section C: Ferns

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Section E: Bromeliads

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Section F: Orchids

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Section H: Plants Growing on Wood

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Section L: Hydroponically Grown

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Section N: All Other Foliage Plants

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Section C: Ferns

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Section J: Patio Plants

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Section K: Fruit, Vegetable, or Herbs

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Section M: All Other Blooming Plants

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Section N: All Other Foliage Plants

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