2000 Fortuna Garden Club Daffodil Show Results
Fortuna River Lodge by the Eel River
Below are the results of 25th Annual Daffodil Show “Daffodils, the Poetry of Spring” hosted by the Fortuna Garden Club on March 25th & 26th.
Show Statistics:
418 exhibits
982 blooms
61 artistic arrangements
16 arrangement exhibitors.
Show results information is presented in the following format:
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the identification of the award;
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the name of the cultivar(s) and possibly the division (a number from 1 thru 13) followed by the color of the petals, a dash, and the color of the cup;
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and the name of the exhibitor.
Some of the daffodils have multiple colored petals and cups, so you will see more than one color identified between the dashes. For more information about the classification of daffodils see Classification Definitions.
One of the Awards Tables
GOLD RIBBON – Surrey, 2Y-R, Stan Baird
WHITE RIBBON – Conestoga 2Y-GYO, Richard Hunt
MINI GOLD RIBBON – Swagger 6W-W, Nancy Wilson
MINI WHITE RIBBON – Kokopelli. 7Y-Y, Kirby Fong
ROSE RIBBON: Seedling # 00-315-1, 2W-P, Bob Spotts
MINI ROSE RIBBON: Seedling # M300-1, 7Y-Y, Bob Spotts
The second Awards Table
JUNIOR AWARD – Returned
Intermediate Award: Dreamlight 3W-GYR, Bob Spotts
Small Grower Award: Tahiti, 4Y-O, Maria Kreneck
Historic Daffodil Award: Telemonius Plenus 4Y-Y (1620) Lori Smith
Standard Container Grown Award: Abba, 4W-O, Lori Smith
Miniature Container Grown Award: Returned
Species Container Grown Award: Returned
SILVER RIBBON (most blues) – Kirby Fong with 26 blue ribbons
Judges voting on “Best in Show.” Through the impressive glass windows is the Eel River.
PURPLE RIBBON WINNER: Kirby Fong – Division 2 Collection
- Clouded Yellow, 2 YYW-Y
- Polar Sunset, 2 W-YYP
- Banker, 2 Y-YO
- Idealism, 2 W-W
- Cape Point, 2 W-P
LAVENDER RIBBON WINNER: Bob Spotts
- Bebop, 7Y-Y
- Little Rusky, 7 Y-GYO
- Kokopelli, 7 Y-Y
- M-300-1, 7 Y-Y
- Yellow Xit, 3 W-Y
RED-WHITE-BLUE RIBBON WINNER: Stan Baird
- New Penny, 3 Y-Y (Pannill)
- Monitor, 2W-WWR (Mitsch)
- Highpoint, 2Y-Y (Frey)
- Audubon, 2W-WWP (Mitsch)
- Pacific Rim, 2Y-YYR (Mitsch)
MINI RED-WHITE-BLUE RIBBON WINNER: Bob Spotts
- M-300-1, 7Y-Y
- M-316-1, 7Y-Y
- Kokopelli, 7 Y-Y (Spotts)
- M-316-2, 7Y-Y
- Little Rusky, 7Y-Y (Watrous)
MAROON RIBBON WINNER: no entries
QUINN AWARD WINNER: no entries
MARIE BOZIEVICH WINNER: Stan Baird
- Dunkery 4 Y-O
- Oops 2W-O
- Surrey 2Y-R
- Virginia Walker 1W-W
- Artful 2W-P
- Whiskey Mac 2YYW-Y
- New Hope 3Y-W
- Crystal Star 2Y-Y
- Pzaz 3Y-O
- Ben Avon 1W-W
- Fly Half 2Y-R
- Olathe 3W-GYO
Stan Baird reviewing the collections
WATROUS AWARD WINNER: Nancy Wilson
- Minnie, 6Y-Y
- Yellow Xit, 3W-Y
- Fenben, 7Y-Y
- Angel’s Breath, 5Y-Y
- Xit, 3W-W
- Wells, 86-212, 12W-W (N. dubius x MJB 212)
- Swagger, 6W-W
- N. ruplicola, 13 Y-Y
- N. triandrus pallidulus 13Y-Y
- N. fernandesii 13Y-Y
- Moncorvo, 7Y-Y
- Stella Turk, 6Y-Y
THROCKMORTON AWARD WINNER: Wayne Steele
- Hartlebury, 3W-OOR
- Moomba, 3W-YYO
- Solar Tan, 3Y-R
- Rose Garden, 4W-R
- Killernan, 9W-GYR
- Lemon Lyric, 2YYW-Y
- Crown Gold, 2W-O
- Three Trees, 1W-Y
- Geometrics, 2W-Y
- Lemon Sails, 2Y-Y
- Red Hugh, 9W-GRR
- Trigonometry, 11aW-P
- Oregon Music, 2W-W
- Claverley, 2W-P
- Circuit, 7Y-Y
Collections and Arrangements
Volunteers were treated to a wonderful lunch provided by the Fortuna Garden Club. What a view we enjoyed while eating! Standing are hosts Mike and Dian Keesee.
Comments of Kirby Fong, ADS Awards Committee Chairman
The Fortuna daffodil show was held last weekend in the new River Lodge conference facility in Fortuna, a small town in the northwest of California. The building is situated along the Eel River with great scenic views across the river.
The Fortuna Garden Club and the Heather Society have donated plants and labor to help landscape the facility.
Show visitors enjoyed strolling through the tables of flowers, collections, and arrangements.
It is a comfortable and spacious place to have a daffodil show. The space enabled 18 arrangers to show off 57 artistic design entries. The tri-color winner had a couple rectangular black frames, some modern, rectangular containers, and what seemed like a helix of yellow-red daffodils.
In picking the best of show, one of the two final candidates was Ron Scamp’s S686, 11aY-O. This was also the best intermediate in the show. It lost to Sid DuBose’s seedling in a very close vote.
Those of you planning to take the pre-convention tour from San Francisco to Portland next year will get to see the Fortuna show and will be glad you did!
The Fortuna Garden Club serves refreshments for all visitors to the Daffodil Show. The home-made treats served with coffee and punch, makes this one of the friendliest shows in California.
Photos by Ben Blake and Kirby Fong