2018 Livermore Show – Miniature Daffodil Awards

Here are the ADS awards for miniatures at the 2018 Livermore daffodil show. I list them in the order in which they occur on the show report form. Awards that aren’t mentioned had no entries.

The Miniature Gold Ribbon is for the best miniature in the show excluding the container-grown section. The winner was ‘Snipe’ 6W-W exhibited by Jon Kawaguchi.

The Miniature Rose Ribbon is for the best miniature seedling exhibited by its originator. The winner was JBK 06-36A 10Y-Y exhibited by Jon Kawaguchi. This flower was in his Bankhead collection.

The Miniature Container-Grown Ribbon went to ‘Star Song’ 6Y-Y exhibited by Janet Hickman.

The Lavender Ribbon is for the best collection of 5 miniatures. Flowers in the winning exhibit are:
‘Kibitzer’ 6Y-Y, N. jonquilla ‘Stocken’ 7Y-Y, ‘Angel’s Breath’ 5Y-Y,
‘Tete-a-Tete’ 12Y-Y, ‘Tuppenny’ 1Y-Y. The exhibitor was Janet Hickman.

The Bankhead Ribbon is for the best collection of 9 miniatures from at least 3 different RHS divisions. Flowers in the winning exhibit are:
Back: ‘Hummingbird’ 6Y-Y, Bankhead 02-7-21 7W-P, ‘Golden Quince’ 12Y-Y,
‘Mitzy’ 6W-W, higgins 14-54 10Y-Y;
Front: JBK 06-36A 10Y-Y, ‘Angel’s End’ 5Y-Y, JBK 07-09-01 10Y-Y, ‘Snipe’ 6W-W.
The exhibitor was Jon Kawaguchi.

The Premier Miniature Collection has been renamed the Koopowitz Miniature Collection in honor of Harold Koopowitz who has done extensive hybridizing to bring more colors and forms into miniature cultivars. As I mentioned in a previous post, Harold was overseas at the time of the Livermore show and was therefore unavailable to try to be the first winner of the newly renamed award. Unless someone won it at the Washington/Opalousas, Louisiana show, that privilege went to Jon Kawaguchi whose collection contained:
Back row: ‘Otaki Pearl’ 8W-W, ‘Pirongia Jewel’ 7Y-O, ‘Leota Mill’ 2Y-YOO,
Higgins 08/05M 7Y-Y;
3rd row: ‘White Petticoat’ 10W-W, Higgins 14-54 10Y-Y, ‘Tete Boucle’ 4Y-Y,
‘Little Sheba’ 6Y-Y, ‘Tete-a-Tete’ 12Y-Y, Kiryu 10Y-Y;
2nd row: ‘Tom Norman’ 10Y-Y, ‘Slip’ry’ 6W-W, ‘Snipe’ 6W-W, ‘Pequenita 7Y-Y,
‘Angel’s End’ 5Y-Y, Vinisky V95-224-3 6Y-Y, ‘Little David’ 6W-W;
Front row: ‘Tony Goode’ 10Y-Y, ‘Golden Quince’ 12Y-Y, ‘Romantique’ 5Y-Y,
‘Trousdale’ 1W-W, ‘Itsy Bitsy Splitsy’ 11Y-O, ‘Mitzy’ 6W-W, Keira KB-M-64(e) 5Y-Y.

The Three Miniature by Hybridizer Ribbon is for the best set of 3 different miniatures hybridized and originated by their exhibitor. The winning exhibitor was Jon Kawaguchi. The flowers are:
JBK 10-09-03 10Y-Y (N. bulb. var. tenuifolius x N. bulb. var. tenuifolius ‘Small Form’),
JBK 11-06-07 10Y-Y (‘Clay’s Gold’ x ‘Ianmon’),
JBK 11-07-03 10Y-Y (‘Landes’ x ‘Clay’s Gold’).

The Miniature Bronze Ribbon is available only at regional daffodil shows and is awarded to the best exhibit of 5  miniature cultivars, 3 stems of each, from at least 3 RHS divisions. Flowers in the winning collection are:
Back to Front: ‘Tete Boucle’ 4Y-Y, ‘Itsy Bitsy Splitsy’ 11aY-O,
‘Mitzy’ 6W-W, ‘White Petticoat’ 10W-W, ‘Tom Norman’ 10Y-Y.
The exhibitor was Jon Kawaguchi. The three ‘Mitzy’ won the Miniature White Ribbon.