2000 Fortuna Garden Show Results

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:

the identification of the award;

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;

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 & Kirby Fong