WELCOME TO “IN THE GARDENS OF SPLENDOR AND DELIGHT”
We are honored to invite you to this year’s Flower Show presented by the Garden Club of Santa Barbara. Admission is free to the two-day show held at the Music Academy.
You’ll enjoy beautiful and colorful floral displays and stunning individual horticultural specimens, plus gorgeous prize-winning photographs, inventive jewelry, and other botanical arts.
The whimsical Chinoiserie artworks by special guest artist Harrison Howard [link to: https://harrisonhoward.com/collections/chinoiseries] are the inspiration for this year’s show which also includes a carefully curated boutique, book signings, food, wine – and more!
An official juried show of the Garden Club of America [link to: https://www.gcamerica.org/what-we-do-flower-shows], it is judged by its representatives who come to Santa Barbara and judge the show before it opens to the public. Awards are given in 26 categories (called “classes”).
Flower Show Divisions
Click here for the show schedule (PDF) listing each division’s classes, guidelines, awards, and more.
Floral Design – 6 classes of artistic arrangements utilizing different plants, containers, and settings, including miniature designs.
Horticulture – 8 classes of different cut specimens from exhibitor gardens, including roses, blooming perennial herbs, and flowering branches, among others, plus displays of local drought tolerant rooted plants, and of a single pink jasmine trained onto a frame.
Photography – 5 classes feature images not only of flowers and plants but also of landscapes of any kind (including cityscapes), closeup images of a building or building detail, beach scenes, a flower garden manipulated photographically, and more.
We are honored to invite you to this year’s Flower Show presented by the Garden Club of Santa Barbara. Admission is free to the two-day show held at the Music Academy.
You’ll enjoy beautiful and colorful floral displays and stunning individual horticultural specimens, plus gorgeous prize-winning photographs, inventive jewelry, and other botanical arts.
The whimsical Chinoiserie artworks by special guest artist Harrison Howard [link to: https://harrisonhoward.com/collections/chinoiseries] are the inspiration for this year’s show which also includes a carefully curated boutique, book signings, food, wine – and more!
An official juried show of the Garden Club of America [link to: https://www.gcamerica.org/what-we-do-flower-shows], it is judged by its representatives who come to Santa Barbara and judge the show before it opens to the public. Awards are given in 26 categories (called “classes”).
Flower Show Divisions
Click here for the show schedule (PDF) listing each division’s classes, guidelines, awards, and more.
Floral Design – 6 classes of artistic arrangements utilizing different plants, containers, and settings, including miniature designs.
Horticulture – 8 classes of different cut specimens from exhibitor gardens, including roses, blooming perennial herbs, and flowering branches, among others, plus displays of local drought tolerant rooted plants, and of a single pink jasmine trained onto a frame.
Photography – 5 classes feature images not only of flowers and plants but also of landscapes of any kind (including cityscapes), closeup images of a building or building detail, beach scenes, a flower garden manipulated photographically, and more.