Hi Daffnetters ,
Thanks to Wilf Hall , we have a good collection of the winning flowers from the Wanganui Hort Soc
Show , a one dayer , held Saturday 18 Sept.
This is Wayne Hughes home patch and Spud Brogden is only an hour up the road .
Wilf said their seedling and N Z raised entries were absolute top class , as would be expected from 2 of
New Zealands top breeders and exhibitors .
The disaster story is a continuation of the late finish Wilf and I kept having when helping with the
N I Nat in Palmy last week .It includes car key problems on the first set up day , then on the final
Sunday , after moving staging , sorting vases etc , we both finally left P N just after 8 pm only to
get held up by a road accident at Makarua ; I made home about 9 30 — a long weekend indeed ..
It was good to hear Spud is back in action again.
Enjoy their fine flowers and Wilf photos .
Cheers John .
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Sent: Saturday, September 18, 2010 11:35 PM
Subject: Wanganui Show
Hi John,
Well another day and another daffodil story from the disaster series. Didn’t get home from Wanganui until nearly a quarter to 9 this evening. Short version – slips between Wangaehu and Ratana kept the road closed till 7.25pm. Rained most of the day so very few public through. Wayne and Spud made the show – myself, Julie and Kevinand David Luty filled in at the lower end. Reg judged. So as we couldn’t leave, there was plenty of time for talk, coffee and snoozes. While I did a report, I forgot to write down the premiers, so will have to contact Lynn to see whether she retained list of the Pemiers. I did not photograph them all, but I will send you photos of some that took my eye and a few others. Attached to this E-mail is a photo of the Champion Bloom 99-77a a seedling 2W-P from Wayne Hughes’s winning 3 seedlings raised by exhibitor. The photo makes it look big but it was actually quite small which didn’t go down well with some.
Cheers Wilf