Continued, Wrap-Up of the 2000 Daffodil Season
This article is continued from last week!!
I stopped last week with the statement that right in the middle of the daffodil season, I quite the daffodil show and grow season, and walked away. However, "there is a rest of the story."
Quote, "Nevertheless, the 2000 daffodil season was a strange one."
1st Annual Fox Run Daffodil Show. As I said last week, I was tired and discouraged over the weekend of the 15th and 16th of April after the Washington Daffodil Society show.
On Tuesday, April 18th and again on Wednesday the 19th, however, as I was sorting and doing light grooming of the gathered flowers, I started having fun again. I began to practice taking photographs of the flowers and of groupings, and working with lighting. I started enjoying daffodils again, and ended up staging a complete daffodil show, according to the show rules for the Washington Daffodils Society. I photographed them, decided the blue ribbon winners, the best in show, the best vase of three in the show, and the winner of the most blue ribbons in the show, me. I put the photographed daffodils on the internet under the suite101.com web page where I write a weekly article, and called it the, "1st Annual Fox Run Daffodil Show," as Fox Run is what we have named our house.
I didn't go to either show that week of 16 to 22 April, or to a show at all until Tuesday, April 25th. But the spark was back, and we decided to do one more show!
The Cleveland Area Daffodil Show, Wadsworth, Ohio, April 25th. We left our place on Monday at about noon with a car load of refrigerated daffodils, and stayed overnight in the Wadsworth area. On Tuesday morning we had about 5 hours to stage and enter our daffodils. Our target collections were the Quinn, and the Marie Bozievich Award, in which we won both. We also received the best in show for 'Moon Shadow' 2y-gyy, and the best vase of three with 'Spindletop' 3y-y. A bonus was that we won the American Daffodil Society award for the best collection of 5 white daffodils, and some other ribbons.
The Quinn Award of 24 separate stems of at least 5 divisions, consisted of the following: 'Angle Face' 4, 'Killearnan' 9, 'Moon Shadow' 3, 'Noteworthy' 3, 'Painted Desert'3, 'Sheelagh Rowan' 2, 'Snowfire 4', 'Stratosphere' 7, 'Sugar and Spice' 3,
The Marie Bozievich Award of 12 separate stems of at least 4 divisions, consisted of the following: 'Ashmore' 2, 'Cool Crystal' 3, 'Daiquiri' 3, 'Edgegrove' 2, 'Lynx' 3, 'Killearnan' 9, 'Noteworthy' 3, 'Painted Desert' 3, 'Sheelagh Rowan' 2, 'Spindletop' 3, 'Stratosphere' 7, and 'Triple Crown' 3.
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