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Basic Daffodil Show List
The basic show list of daffodils should include all listed RHS divisions, and some classifications that are extra-divisional. When I say extra-divisonal, I mean outside any single single division, such as collections of pink, red/orange, reverse bi-colors, white, yellow, or miniature, etc. The extra-divisional collections may be made up with as many divional representatives as the shower would like to include. Take a look at this show list.
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Grooming Daffodil For the Show and For Home Decorations
Daffodils are brighter and more glorious when they get just a little tender loving care when they are first picked. Try these tricks and you will love them.
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Grooming Daffodil Flowers
Final preparation of the daffodil before it goes to the show is the grooming and hardening process. Grooming improves the flower and makes it more show worthy. Hardening gives final conditioning to the flower, and is essential for longer show bench life.
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Daffodil Season Is Here
It's time to start thinking of daffodil season and daffodil shows. This week's article is on making those daffodil selections in the garden for the daffodil show.
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Daffodils, May 8, 2001
I keep getting surprises in my daffodil garden each week. Two weeks beyond my normal daffodil season, I still have some beauties in the garden.
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Daffodils, The Second Week of April
I don't have much in the way of daffodils yet. I keep hoping and hoping. My prospects for a daffodil show where I have to stage my flowers and put them on the show bench on April 14th doesn't look very bright. Strange, late season this Spring of the year 2001.
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Daffodils, the Third Week in April
The end of the thrid week in April saw sunshine and warm weather. With that pleasant weather the daffodil came popping our of the ground and into their glory. Some very brilliant pictures came about. Take a look at this article and see.
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My Daffodil Garden, 4th Week in April
My daffodil garden in the 4th week in April is down to the late varieties, with a strong showing from my division 3, short cupped daffodils. There are two daffodil shows as the show season raps up for the year.
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My Garden, April 30th, 2001
The last day of April was a wonder in my garden. Usually at this time of the year, the daffodils are a dead headed scene. This year, daffodils are late and so is my garden.
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Showtime, and Other Rites of Spring
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The Winning Division 3 Daffodils
The division 3, short cupped daffodil is outstanding on the daffodil show floor, and a work-horse in the garden.
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Upcoming Web Daffodil Show
Get those cameras out and take those snapshots for the upcoming 2nd annual Web Daffodil Show, sponsored right here on suite101.com.
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World Daffodil Society, Daffodil Show
Peter Ramsay and his World Daffodil Council Committee (Craig Broadfield, Clay Higgins, Tony James, Nancy Tackett) have produced a schedule for a "virtual daffodil show" to be placed on Internet. The show is proposed to be implemented on 1 July.
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World Daffodil, and National Daffodil Convention
The World Daffodil Convention and the American Daffodil Society National Convention are the same for the year 2000. The convention is being held from March 30th to April 3, 2000. It should be a real whopper of an affair. You are welcome to come join us.
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At the Show
Your first daffodil show can be a little frightening, unless you know the "ropes." The three things that you need to know is to find the register and sign in, locate an area to be used for staging your flowers, and review the show room. This weeks articles gives some pointers on what to look for.
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How to Win Blue Ribbons at Flower Shows
Showing daffodils is a lot of fun. This weeks article is a series of questions and answers to guide you to become and exhibitor. Showing daffodils is not a life or death situation, it's one of todays best kept secrets - it's fun. Come and join us.
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"Wrap-up" of the 1999 Daffodil Season
The 1999 daffodil growing and blooming season was a long one, which allowed for successful showing as the blooms did not come all at once. It extended the daffodil blooming season for nearly a month in my garden.
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DaffyClay on Daffodil Gardening
The concept of DaffyClay's Place for Daffodils is to have fun gardening and showing daffodils. We will entertain all questions on the subject, do some gardening and showing of daffodils along the way, and hopefully, learn, and find answers to daffodil questions.
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Digging Daffodil Bulbs
The care and cleaning and preserving of daffodil bulbs is an important part of the gardening experience.
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Extending The Daffodil Season
We are not just subject to the weatherman's whimsey. Cutting and preserving daffodil blooms for the show bench or for the home can extend the pleasure of your flowers, and if you are a daffodil shower, expand your horizons.
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Hardening Daffodils
Hardening the daffodils and making the final show preparations are important steps in showing. Hardening preserves the daffodil and allows for the flower to hold it's beauty longer. The final show preparations insures the exhibitor that they have what they need to make a successful showing.
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Here come's the Judge, Daffodil Judge That Is!
This was my first year to work in the judging of daffodils and I enjoyed it immensely. I'd like to report that I've graduated from being a student judge to being a "card" carrying American Daffodil Society "Accredited Judge."
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My Daffodil Garden, Last Week In April
The last of the late-late daffodils in my garden, division 5 driandrus, jonquils of divion 7, division 8 tazettas, and division 9 poeticus. Come take a look.
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Selecting A Good Bloom
A daffodil show is never likely to be a collection of perfect blooms. It is more a collection of the best blooms available on that day; most of them will be good examples of the particular cultivars but will have been presented in such a way that they appear to visitors to be approaching the ultimate standard of perfection. This week's articles is on how to select that show worthy bloom while in the garden.
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Selecting Daffodils for Show
This article is on the "applied art" of grooming daffodils for the show and for the home. A dull looking daffodil in the garden, will brighten up, and put on a "show" when groomed and properly staged for the show or in the home.
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Staging Daffodils For The Show Bench
The art of placing daffodil flowers on the show bench for exhibition is called stagging, which is the final and critical aspect of showing flowers. The task requirements including proper classification of the flowers, "loading" the flowers into the show test tubes/blocks, dressing them with boxwood or yew, final grooming, and placement on the show bench. Piece of cake. Easy as pie.
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One Year Anniversary of this Column
The one year anniversary of the column Daffodils for Garden and Show. A year in reflection.
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Mentor Program for New Members
The new ADS mentor program for new members, comments and views by this editor.
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The Division 3 (Small Cupped) Daffodil
This week, DaffyClay on Daffodils, contains an article that is an analysis of the short cupped daffodil, which is his favorite. Included are comments on the show worthiness of this flower, and its merits as a garden flower. That's the best part about short cupped daffodils, they are both great for the garden and for the show bench.
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The Show Program
The show program is the friend of the exhibitor. As you learn to use the program, you learn to be more proficient in your showing regiment. Take a little time and learn how it helps.
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Gardening from Scratch
Daffodils with perennials in the garden.
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Daffodil Bulb Planting Techniques
It's bulb planting time in my region, zone 6 almost zone 7. Techniques of bulb planting has a lot to do with the individual, but with the spread of the internet and the web sites, techniques are becoming standardized. Do you put gran-i-grit under your bulbs?
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Daffodils the First Week in April 2001
A late season delays the harbingers of spring in the year 2001. Where have the daffodils gone?
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Daffodil New Year Resolutions!!!
The new year is the year of the daffodil. Have a Daffodil New Year. What are your Daffodil New Year's resolutions!
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Hybridizing Daffodils Part #2
Hybridization of daffodils not only requires the patience to wait for several years for results, it also requires the knowledge of cultivation, and selection of the seedlings with potential for further study and evaluation.
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Daffodil Beds
It's time for daffodil planting in my zone 7 almost zone 6, and that means preparing daffodil beds. Daffodils like sunshine, and rich well drained soil that has a high organic content.
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Daffodil Labels and Plot Plans
Labeling and plot planning are some methods to maintain a database of the daffodils planted.
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Fall Planting Time
Fall is the time to plant daffodils and must bulbs. It's that time when the soil has to be dug and refreshed like last months article, and time for the bulbs to go down.
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Moving My Garden
I experienced a move of my entire gardens this year. My worst fears was the drought that had been on going, even when we did get rain just as we moved. Here's how we moved my garden.
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My Garden, The Last Week of March
My new daffodil garden during the last week of March 2000. Based on the fact that it was weeds and brush until September 1999, it's not so bad.
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Planting Daffodils
Planting daffodils is part of the fall ritual for spring color. Join in on the fun, and prepare yourself a garden of cheer next spring.
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The Decline of Historic Daffodils
Some daffodils just fade away. There are many reasons that registered varieties are now extinct. Some of them, for no reason at all.
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When to Dig Daffodil Bulbs
This article is the beginning of a series of articles on the basic principles of digging, care, and planting of daffodil bulbs.
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"Wrap-Up of the 2000 Daffodil Season"
Extract taken from Clay's personal daffodil scrape book. Year V as the Novice, 2000. Daffyclay's personal daffodil show report for the season. This is my fifth year showing daffodils and as I meet and get to know people with 20 - 30 years showing experience, it makes me feel that I am still a novice. Nevertheless, the 2000 daffodil season was a strange one.
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Digging Daffodils in the Year 2000
It time for digging of the daffodils again. Some tips and time proven techniques. Got you favorite "digging" tool ready?
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Rebuilding My Daffodil Beds
Last fall when we moved into this home, there was little time to prepare daffodil beds. We put daffodils into temporary beds and planted them. This year we started the process of building permanent, well prepared beds. To start this process, we dug half our beds to clear the beds for soil amendments prior to replanting. Next year, the plan is to complete the bed rebuilding for that half that we didn't do this year. This article is on our experience in rebuilding our daffodil beds.
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Turning Around British Isles Daffodils
British Isles daffodils may leave you disappointed after the first year. Don't give up on them, and let them adjust for two to three years. You may be very happy that you did.
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Division 4 Double Daffodils
Division 4, or double daffodils are some of the most beautiful daffodils in the garden. They can also be trying to grow because of their "habit" of "blasting." In addition, they are hard to groom and place on the show bench, but here is one person's solution.
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Planting Daffodils in Show Beds
Planting show beds. There's no requirement for show beds, but if you want to show your flowers you should consider maintaining beds that have only show daffodils in them. It makes the work easier, and it helps with the maintenance of the bulbs, and the collection of the flowers to put into the show. Try it. You'll like it.
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Winter Daffodil Tour
DaffyClay on Daffodils presents a cyber daffodil tour in the winter. Mid winter blaus got you, take a look at these gardens and photographs. Get that smile back on your face.
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