POMEROY — When it comes to talent in arranging flowers and acessorizing them just right for the season, none can surpass the creativity of Meigs County garden club members.

Their expressions in holiday arrangements, wreaths and swags, gift wrappings, and table settings filled the meeting room of the Pomeroy Library for the annual Christmas flower show of the Meigs County Garden Clubs Association.

“Decades of Christmas with OAGC, 1930 to 2010 to Show, to Share, to Grow, to Know” was the theme of the show which included competitive and non-competitive classes, educational exhibits, a display of books on gardening and arranging, and a talk on herbs by Rick Warner for the Master Gardeners.

In artistic arrangements an accredited judge of the Ohio Association of Garden Clubs gave top awards to Joy Bentley, best of show, for her arrangement in “Satellites Above,” an illuminary design fashioned with a magnolia leaf and lighted coil in a modern metal container. She also received the horticulture sweepstakes award.

Reserve best of show went to Shelia Curtis for her “Exploration and Adventure, 1970” panel design using a wooden shutter with magnolia leaves and baubles with a Harry Lauder walking stick accent.

Janet Bolin received the creativity award for her arrangement of dried bird of paradise and bamboo columns in a ceramic container in the spatial thrust class, “Christmas Wishes for the Future.”

In the junior division the best of show award went to Adriana Sayre, with the horticulture sweepstakes winner being Deanna Sayre.

Blue ribbon winners in the other classes were Diana Ash for indoor wreaths and outdoor wreaths, Joy Bentley for an indoor hanging, and Linda Blosser for an outdoor hanging.

In the various other classes the blue ribbon winners were Diana Ash “In the Beginning” class , a traditional design; Joy Bentley in the “Fun and Frolic, Rock and Roll” class, showing motion; and Shelia Curtis in the “Renewal and Prosperity,” a design featuring greens.

Shirley Hamm took first in the “Dreams All Aglow” a design including candles, with Peggy Crane winning the blue in “A Reawakening” featuring Madonna with Child.

In the gift wrap division the winner for an adult gift design was Shirley Hamm, and for a child, Marjorie Davis. The first place winner of a table setting for an informal fun luncheon went to Bentley.

In the horticulture division the blue ribbon winners in the various classes were as follows: Alice Thompson in evergreens; Shelia Curtis, in two classes of hemlock; Joy Bentley in holly and another broad leaf, and also in potted cacti or succulent, and a foliage houseplant; and Joyce Manuel in a Christmas or Thanksgiving cacti. In the junior division for cone craft, Adrianna Sayre won the blue ribbon.