JENNIE: Augusta Camellia Show Saturday, Feb. 3rd
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WJBF)– It’s just about time for Camellia show season in the Augusta Camellia show is coming up this weekend. This year’s show is chaired by Brian Halterman and Dale Scurry, and they’ve sent Augusta Camellia Society member, Stovall Walker, to tell us all about the big show.
Stovall Walker: “The first one nationally started in Augusta in 1967. And the show is really an incredible thing to see. The one we’re having this year is coming up on Saturday, February 3rd.
We start at 7:30 in the morning with the judging of the plants, people bringing them in from all over the southeast. I mean, they can from Alabama. They come from Georgia, South Carolina. And then the show, it’s incredible to go in and see these flowers. They do the judging and then and that’s behind Good Shepherd and EDS and the Parish Hall, and it goes to 5:00.
“But the best part, I think people are unaware of that from 7:30 to 9:30 you can bring your blooms in and have people judge them and, well not judge them, but have them determine what they are and what your bush is. Then you can leave them there and be in the show.”
People can also join the Augusta Camellia Society.
Stovall Walker: “You can come be a part of and we meet on Tuesday night, first month, about seven months we do that. And it’s $20 join it and you get a great speaker to teach you how to fertilize, how to cut, how to air graft, all these things. I don’t know a whole lot about. I’m learning and I’ve got 17 plants in my yard and so it’s just a lot of fun to do. Just come to the show and come to the meeting, learn in the meetings and have a good time.”
Augusta’s show Saturday, Feb. 3rd is the first big national show. And admission is FREE!
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