The WDS has two shows, one in the middle of the season, and a second one at the end of the season.
The second show offers all the primary ADS collections found in most schedules as well as several challenges that I have dreamed up on my own as the schedule writer for that show. The WDS Local award classes for the late season show for 2010 include the following:
Class 34 Lucky Seven Collection, Seven standard cultivars from seven color codes< ?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
Class 35 New Shoes Collection, Three pairs from three color codes (Six blooms in all, staged in two rows with the matching flowers one behind the other.)
Class 36 Red Hot Collection, Six standard cultivars with O or R in the color code
Class 37 Jolly Jonquil Collection, Seven standard cultivars or seedlings from division 7.
Class 38 Yankee Doodle Collection, Three miniatures from any division bred in the USA.
Winners of these classes will receive $10 and a small nip of “cheer.”
This is called making your exhibitors an offer they can’t refuse. :)
These classes bear some resemblance to traditional classes, but with a twist and with slightly easier objectives. For instance, class 34 is 1/2 of a Throckmorton. Class 38 is a part of a Miniature Red White and Blue entry.
At the end of a season, we might not have enough flowers for a standard large collection entry, but our exhibitors think it is fun to try to stage some new classes with what we do have left at that time of year. Either that, or they are in it for the money and the hooch. In either case, these classes are hotly contested.
I’d like to hear what ideas you all have for “modified” and or creative class criteria that we can use in the future. This may also be an interesting idea for some of you schedule writers to consider in your Small Grower’s sections next year. It might be a way to introduce small growers to staging multi bloom entries in an area where they feel comfortable competing. With no ADS awards at stake, you would be free to reinvent the class or classes each year to keep it interesting.
Chriss Rainey
Chriss,
In Minnesota, we put everything into a section labeled “DSM Group Challenges” and offer prizes like a $25 gift certificate for bulbs, DSM dues paid for the next year, and a travelling trophy of a very ugly daffodil vase! We, too, offer some “training wheels” to get members used to the bigger, ADS-ribboned classes, but with fewer required stems.
I’m looking forward to hearing others ideas for challenge classes!
Edie Godfrey
Still with over 14” snow on the ground, temps barely getting up to freezing, but a cold snap is forecast for the rest of the week. We’ll be lucky to see bare ground by the end of March. My asphalt driveway is gradually clearing itself with the higher sun angle, so a little ice melts each day even with temps below freezing.
SECTION G: DSM GROUP CHALLENGES (See DSM Awards) (See Rule 5)
Class G1 Pale-Colorings: One stem of a White, Amber or Lemon Perianth with a Lemon, Amber, or Lavender Corona
Class G2 One stem of Bravoure 1W-Y
Class G3 One stem of Sabine Hay 3 O-R
Class G4 One stem of Green Ice 2 W-GWW
Class G5 Cheap Daffodil Collection: five different cultivars, one stem each, each bulb costing less than $5 in a 2008 or 2009 catalog
Class G6 Karnstedt Collection: five different cultivars, three stems each
Class G7 Worst in Show or "What’s wrong with this daffodil?"
Class G8 Triple Division: three cultivars, three stems each, from different RHS Divisions
Class G9 Triple Colors: three cultivars, three stems each, from different color codes
Class G10 The Classics Collection: five different cultivars, one stem each, 1940-1969
Class G11 Parent & Child: Exhibit of a daffodil with its parent and/or grandparent