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14th Annual Dazzling Dahlia Festival - Sept. 7, 2024

Judges Winners:
  • BEST OF SHOW:  First Bank "Life is a Beautiful Ride" (#52)
  • Second Place: Fresser's "Petunia Goes to Woodstock" (#34) 
  • Third Place: Wild Azalea Garden Club "Easy Rider Born to be Free" (#3)
Honorable  Mentions:
  • Car Full of Love (#6)
  • Milli (#29)
 
People’s choice winners:   
  • BEST OF SHOW:  Power of Play (#42)
  • Second Place: AnnaWear (#17) 
  • Third Place: Car Full of Love (#6)
Honorable  Mentions:
  • Secret Garden (#30)
  • Molly Grace (#33)
 

Single Bloom Competition

Best of Show - Amateur: Bianca Mitchell, for her Laciniated Dahlia
called “Encore”
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Best of Show - Professional Division: Tim Wheatley - Mountain Diva Gardens - Mini formal decorative called: “KA’s Rosie Jo”Placeholder

2024 Dahlia Festival Entries

#1

Our Cup Runneth Over

The Mountain home of Davis Family Wines
High Country Wine & Provisions

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#2

High on the Hog

By: Steven Julka & Bryan Lewis
Highlands Smokehouse

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#3

Easy Rider, Born to be Free!

By: Bonnie Pettway, Vivi Beckner, Ruthie Watts, and Lorraine Bryant
Wild Azalea Garden Club (Nonprofit)

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#4

Highlands Lawn and Garden

Highlands Lawn and Garden

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#5

"Flour" Power! No sugar tonight in my coffee, no sugar tonight in my tea." The Guess Who

Bryson's Food Store

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#6

Car Full of Love

Designer: Dasha Hall, Cosmos Flowers
Cosmos Flowers

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#7

Foxy Lady

Full House Furniture Gallery

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#8

4118

4118

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#9

Peace, Love, and Jewels (Dahlias!!!)

Designer: Lisa Dailey
Jannie Bean Design

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#10

BearStock: In Concert

Corey James Gallery

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#11

Wish & Shoes

Wish & Shoes

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#12

Highlands Tavern Wishes you Peace & Love

Presented by: Ryan & Kimmy
Highlands Tavern

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#13

Vivace

Vivace

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#14

Spread Cheese, Not War, A Flower Power Picnic

Designer: Debbie Delany
One Wicker Cheese

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#15

Going Up the Country

Old Edwards Inn

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#16

Rosenthals

Rosenthals

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#17

AnnaWear, A Highlands Boutique with a Stylish Mountain Vibe

AnnaWear

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#18

Our Cup Runneth Over

The Mountain home of Davis Family Wines
High Country Wine & Provisions

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#19

Dahlia Dreaming

Natural Selection

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#20

"Puppy Love"

Park on Main

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#21

Highlands Wine Shoppe

Highlands Wine Shoppe

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#22

Highlander Mountain House

Highlander Mountain House

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#23

Mountain Garden Club Presents JB and the Dahlias

Mountain Garden Club (Nonprofit)

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#24

Uashamama Highlands

Uashamama Highlands

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#25

Naked Stardust Power

By: Bonnie Pettway, Vivi Beckner, Ruthie Watts and Lorraine Bryant
Highlands Wild Azalea Garden Club (Nonprofit)

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#26

All you need is Love

Presented by: Jody and Wood Lovell
Highlands Sotherby's Int'l

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#27

Road to Woodstock

Designer: Becky Bryson

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#28

Bardo

Bardo

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#29

Milli

Milli

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#30

Molly Grace

Molly Grace

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#31

ACP Home Interiors

ACP Home Interiors

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#32

Highlands Hatter

Highlands Hatter

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#33

Secret Garden

Secret Garden

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#34

Petunia goes to Woodstock

Fressers Courtyard Café

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#35

Peace.. Love.. and ..Dahlias

Designers: Peggy Kirkpatrick and Carol Miller
Bees

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#36

Peace & Love Reading Books!

Hudson Library (Nonprofit)

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#37

Highlands Biological Station

Highlands Biological Station (Nonprofit)

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#38

Peace, Love and Pollinators!

Designer: Lisa Dailey
Highlands Biological Foundation (Nonprofit)

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#39

"The Groovin Wildcats"

Wildcat Cliffs Garden Club (Nonprofit)

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#40

Peace for Haiti

Highlands Friends of Haiti (Nonprofit)

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#41

Laurel Garden Club

Laurel Garden Club (Nonprofit)

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#42

Power of Play

Presented by: Becky Baker and Nancy Nichols
Highlands Playground (Nonprofit)

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#43

Nurturing Native

Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust (Nonprofit)

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#44

"Peace Love and Littles"

Designer: Marsha Moxley
Big Brothers and Big Sisters (Nonprofit)

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#45

Share the Sunshine

By: Sherry Holt & Scott Carter
Highlands Rotary (Nonprofit)

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#46

JUSTICE FOR ALL … but make it GROOVY!

Design Team: Ruth Claiborne, Ricky Siegel, and Leslie Manning.
Pisgah Legal Services (Nonprofit)
We are a nonprofit that provides free civil legal aid to the most vulnerable people in WNC: Disadvantaged children, seniors, at-risk families, and domestic violence victims.

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#47

The Art League Highlands - Cashiers

The Art League Highlands - Cashiers (Nonprofit)

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#48

It's Groovy to Give!

Designers: Nancy Valentine and Jill Helmer
Mountain Findings (Nonprofit)

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#49

Community Care Clinic

Community Care Clinic (Nonprofit)

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#50

Flower Child

Designer: RetroWhims Floristry, Tracie Heidt
Boys and Girls Club Plateau (Nonprofit)

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#51

Endless Summer

Highlands Performing Arts Center (Nonprofit)

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#52

"Life is a Beautiful Ride"

First Bank

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#53

Hayley's Fine Lingerie

Hayley's Fine Lingerie

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#54

Blue Bike Café

Blue Bike Café

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#55

Stubborn Bull

Stubborn Bull

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#56

"Peace-full" Mountain Life

Mountain Life Properties

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#57

Flora Dora

Art Highlands

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#58

Enchanted Mountain Flowers

Enchanted Mountain Flowers

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#59

R&R Flower Farm

R&R Flower Farm

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#60

Tye Dye Dolly

Designer: Tim Wheatley, Mountain Diva Gardens
Highlands Historical Society (Nonprofit)

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