2013 Central Daffodil Group Late Show ;Champs and Div 1 & 2 Premiers .

On a cloudy but warm  Saturday 5  October , the Central Daffodil held their late show in the Whanganui City College Hall .A good ,big venue , well lit and good facilities ,we were missing regulars John Hollever , Sue Scott and Wilf Hall but a smaller number of growers managed to stage about 300 blooms .John sent through a large box of good blooms and these were well staged by Brian and others .Panel judging went well and just over 20 blooms made a good top table of good quality premiers but with no absolute standout champion . SANDMERE  GOLD     2 Y- -Y IMG_7573 IMG_7612In a close finish , Wayne Hughes , our host for the day , was awarded Champion Bloom with his own raising , SANDMERE  GOLD ,  2 Y – Y . This very gold and very flat large cup is amassing a good show record in the last few seasons .

 

 

RESERVE  CHAMPIONReserve Champion , in a split decision ,was an unknown POET  9 W – GYR ,  a very round , small neat flower with a sparkling white perianth  ,grown  by John  Hollever

 

 

 

WH   98 -  32      1Y - Y IMG_7554Premier yellow trumpet was a Wayne Hughes seedling , W H  98 – 32 , a sister seedling to the Champion Bloom .

 

 

 

ELMBRIDGE     1W - Y IMG_7563ELMBRIDGE , 1 w – y , was prem  bicolour trumpet .It was a very well contrasted flower ,with a classical trumpet roll, the best seen of this variety for many seasons .

 

 

 

PINK  TOPAZ     1W - PPINK  TOPAZ , a trumpet that Wayne grows well , gave Wayne a clean sweep of trumpet premiers and told us that his season is just a little later than the Kapiti and Horowhenua growers .

 

 

 

WH  99 - 14      2Y - R IMG_7570Wayne also had prem redcup with another seedling , W H   99 – 14 , a big , bright flower .

 

 

 

BB  01 - 23 - 1     2Y - PBrogden Bulbs , Spud and Joy , presented a nice seedling ,B B 01 – 23 – 1 to win 2 Y – P  premier with a smaller , very neat bloom .

 

 

 

ALTUN  HA       2Y - WJohn Hollever had a nice ALTUN HA  to take reverse bicolour prem .

 

 

 

MODULUX      2W - Y  MODULUX  was 2W – Y prem for John Hollever .

 

 

 

 

TANZEY  GIRL       2W - OThe best of many TANSEY GIRL in the show  was prem 2 W – O  for Brogden Bulbs.

 

 

 

BB    01 - 22 - 7        2W - PSpud had a very attractive NEWSFLASH  seedling BB  01 – 22 – 7   ,to win the  2 w – p  prem , beating some larger Cape Points .

 

 

 

CRYSTAL  GEM        2W - WWayne had another prem with his own CRYSTAL GEM , 2W – W,one of several nice examples he presented .