Nice blooms everyone.
Betty, I really like Winter Orchid.
Laura, I love the color of Flamingo Parade

I haven't had a chance to take any photos the past couple of days. We had the Mobile daylily show today and tomorrow is the Pensacola show so I've been busy. I'm going to brag on Fred; he won Best in Show with LILLIAN'S WOMAN'S TOUCH today.

Yay!

Fantastic! You certainly live in the just the right spot for daylilies, Michele - green with envy here!

And Laura, every time I see FLAMINGO PARADE I ooh and aah! Love it!

And CONGRATULATIONS TO FRED!!! Do you or does he have any pictures from the shows?

Rock on Fred. congrats to you.

Lovely blooms everyone.

Betty, I took some photos; not sure what Fred may have. Once I put them on my computer I'll see about posting some.

Ok Betty, here are some photos of the Mobile show. They aren't that great because we had it at the mall and some of the flowers blend in with the background and makes it hard to see them. I will get some better pictures of the Pensacola show.

If anyone is ever hesitant about entering shows because they don't have the newest daylilies, don't be. There were a lot of older cultivators with purple and blue awards.


Fred's "Best In Show" with LILLIAN'S WOMAN'S TOUCH. That's Nancy Faulk and one of the judges behind it. The fountain gets in the way of seeing the daylily good.


I got "Best Extra Large Flower" with SPANISH SKETCH, a 1989 daylily.



These are some of the "best" of the purple awards from each section.


The other "best" of the purple awards.


These are the "off scape" display


Large flower section


Ufs and Spiders


Doubles section

I will post more later. Got to go start grooming my daylilies for today's show.

Congratulations Fred!!!!! Congratulations on your win also Tink!!!!!

Michele, thank you so much for posting those pictures! Unfortunately I know absolutely nothing about a daylily show, so I don't know what a purple ribbon means. Is it a "Best ..." award, or a second place and the blue is first place? I have to say that I am very impressed by the number of daylilies entered -- amazing! And the "off scape" display looks really fantastic -- is that part of the competition, or just a display to show off the flowers? Maybe I'll find a daylily show sometime somewhere so I can see what it's all about...

And congratulations for your "Best Extra Large Flower" award! That's fantastic!

Congrats Michele to you and Fred!! I think you did a good job on the photos.

Thanks everyone.

Betty,
Yellow is 3rd
Red is second
Blue is first
Purple is Best (score of 95 or higher)
Then out of all the purples they pick the best purple in each section such as xtra large, large, small, mini, spider, uf, seedling, youth, and so on. Different clubs may have special sections as well like the best pink or best yellow. These go to the head table and out of these then the best in show is picked.
I will post some photos from today's show tomorrow. I am plum tired!!!

Only a few today.

Ditchlily


I have these sequestered by the mailbox.


Ming Toy


Can't wait till everything blooms!

I looked today, and didn't find a scape anywhere, not even on Penny's Worth... It will be a while till bloom here. First tall bearded iris opened today. So there is color....

here's the photos from the Pensacola show yesterday as promised.





Display off scape. these are Fred's seedlings.


Some of the purple ribbon winners.
The extra large winner was APRIL LAQUINTA won by James Hall.
The large winner was LILLIAN"S BANGING MANGOS won by me.
The small winner was LILLIAN"S TEARS AND ROSES (correct me if I'm wrong Fred) won by Fred.
The miniture is Egyptian Elf (Looking awful by the end of the show) won by me.



Best seedling award won by James Hall


Best Double. Not sure who won that and what it was
Best Spider was LAUGHING SKIES won by me (which should have been won by Fred, but that's a whole other story)


our club does a R.W. Munson Jr. Pattern Award
Won with Weaver's Web
The one next is Best poly/double, FORTY SECOND STREET won by Mollie Klemas (didn't realize I didn't get the whole poly in the photo)



If any of you have clubs that put on shows you should enter some into it. It can get pretty exciting!!!

here's a few photos I took Fri, Sat, & Sun

BAMA SUNSHINE


DOUBLE BLUE BLOOD (The camera can't pick up the true color. It's more of a blue red)


HAPPY HAPPY


IN STYLE


ORANGE VELVET


LILLIAN'S BANGING MANGOS (FFO) 05/20/11


This one is the one I took to the show 05/22/11


LILLIAN'S JINGER BRED (FFO) before sun was on it


Another one with sun on it. It is absolutely gorgeous!!!! I almost didn't bid on it on the LA, but I'm so glad I did!!!


LILLIAN'S STOKE THE FIRE at 5:42pm. It still looks great after being in the sun all day.

I was going to put this under a new post, being tink has already started I would like to say a few think about her and daylily shows. The Mobile show was Saturday and was her first show ever to enter. Not only did she have one on the front table but 3/4 of what she enter(about 25) scored 90 or better, I knew then I was going to have some competition after looking at some of the flowers she had groomed and entered in the show. Well comes Sunday and the Pensacola show, after the judging I am busy with a major show problem and paying no attention to what has made it to the head table, I don't notice that she has four on the head table and she being the lady she is doesn't bring this to my attention until after we have the show problem corrected which ends up with her and I tying for Best In Show. We only have one Best In Show Rosette, guess who got it'. Great job lady, no one could be more proud of you than I am.

Said it before, will say it again: Way to go Tink! Nothing like starting with a BANG.

Congratulations to you as well Fred.

Awwww Fred, I owe it all to you and Kathleen for all the help you've given me. Kathleen swears I don't pay attention, but I proved her wrong!! I'm one of those people that may stay in the background and observe for awhile, but when I decide I want to do something I go all the way. But again, I couldn't have done it without you and Kathleen. And let's not forget Kim. She really is a big help to me.

So if you want to start a thread with the show stuff I can just transfer my stuff over to it. I want to see some of your photos. Then other people can post to it if they enter any shows.

Congrats Michele and Fred, good job!!

This is so fantastic! CONGRATS MICHELE! AND CONGRATS FRED! I love learning about the shows and the awards, and Michele -- I can't believe these were your first two shows! Thanks so much for sharing these pictures, and Fred -- I hope you will also post some when you have a moment. I think it really would be great to have a thread devoted to daylily shows.

After seeing these pictures, I want LILLIAN'S STOKE THE FIRE, LILLIAN'S BANGING MANGOS, and LILLIAN'S TEARS AND ROSES!

OK now for my question -- what is a Munson pattern? Because I really love the pattern on the daylily in the picture that won the award and would love to know what I'm looking at and/or for... Gee, here I am totally out of gardening space and now I'm planning/plotting to purchase new ones!