'Growing and Exhibiting African Violet Show Plants'
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Each lesson will include specific 'required' reading. We will include material available to everyone, most often links to information available on the internet. Please contact us if you have difficulty with any of the following pages.
WEB LINKS:
  • On the AVSA Judges Forum page:
    • Judging The Show Plant
    • Basic Violet Care
  • On the AVSA Magazine page: (pdf files)
    • African Violet Culture
    • African Violet Terms
    • Growing Show Plants (by Pauline Bartholomew , convention workshop)
    • Best of Show-Ultimate Experience
    • Basics of Flower Arrangement
  • On the Optimara site:
    • Caring For African Violets
    • Glossary of African Violet Terms
  • AV Show Photos:
  • Show Schedules:
The following BOOKS are just several of those that will prove helpful. Many public libraries will be able to find these through Interlibrary programs for no charge. Several are inexpensive softcover editions available for purchase from African Violet Society of America. Local African violet clubs may also have them available for loan.
  • Growing to Show -- How to Grow Prize-Winning African Violets

  • by Pauline Bartholomew
  • The African Violet Society of America HANDBOOK for Growerss, Exhibitors, and Judges (AVSA HANDBOOK)
  • Helen Van Pelt Wilson's African Violet Book

  • by Helen Van Pelt Wilson
Contact thevioletvoice@yahoo.com with any questions, suggestions.