Cal Poly Open House Flower Show Seeking Entries, Visitors

SAN LUIS OBISPO – Cal Poly is looking for a few good gardeners – and their roses, daffodils, orchids and more – for the annual Community Flower Show, taking place April 16 and 17 as part of the university’s Open House 2010.

Community members are invited to enter their flower specimens in the show, which will be open for viewing from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, April 17.

Contestants will have the opportunity to enter specimens of perennials, annuals, bulbs, blooms from flowering shrubs, roses and container plants. For a full list of entry sections and classes, contact Professor Virginia Walter at vwalter@calpoly.edu.

Anyone interested in entering their flowers can bring their entrees from 4 to 7 p.m. Friday, April 16, and from 6:30 to 8 a.m. Saturday, April 17. Registration will be in the Agricultural Sciences Building, Room 103. All entries are due by 8 a.m. April 17 and will be on display in the same location all day Saturday.

Entries will be judged by Cal Poly student judges, and ribbons will be handed out.

The Community Flower Show is sponsored by the Cal Poly Chapter of Pi Alpha Xi Horticulture Honor Society. For more information, contact Walter at 756-2897.

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