So yesterday was the Japanese Iris show for WNEIS (Western New England Iris Society). We needed 5 members to contribute entries but only had 3 so we could not have an official show. Anyone want to join us and grow JIs???? The next JI show is in 2 years.
What we did was have the members who didn't contribute entries judge the show and they did phenomenally well at judging. Here are some pics. Turned out that I had the most in bloom so I let the arrangers take my flowers for their arrangements. The room was set up with 2 rectangular Japanese gardens and the entries surrounding them on the floor so you could look down into them. Other species and arrangements were on tables. We brought any species that were in bloom now.
The morning of the show something new appeared!
The judging process.
Some of the arrangements.
The results were so interesting! Many different species were winners, not just Japanese.
Third Runner Up, LA iris Hush Money (mine). Second runner Up, Japanese iris R. Giskard (mine). Ist Runner Up, Spuria.
