Fortuna is a town near the California coast about a five hour drive north of San Francisco. The daffodil show on March 23 & 24 was sponsored by the Fortuna Garden Club. The show this year had 23 exhibitors putting in 360 exhibits with a total of 747 stems. In this post, we show the ADS awards won by standard size daffodils. If an award is not mentioned, it means the award was not given, generally due to lack of entries. So here they are in show report order.
Gold Ribbon Winner
The Gold Ribbon is for the best standard daffodil in the show, excluding the Container-Grown Section. The winner was ‘Southern Hospitality’ 4Y-R exhibited by Bob Spotts.
Rose Ribbon Winner
The Rose Ribbon is for the best standard seedling in the show, excluding the Container-Grown Section. The winner was seedling 8-60-19 6Y-YOO exhibited by Bob Spotts.
White Ribbon Winner
The White Ribbon is for the best set of three standards. The winner was ‘Watersmeet’ 4W-O exhibited by Kirby Fong.
Best Intermediate Ribbon Winner
The Best Intermediate is selected from the Intermediate Section and the standard collections. The winner was ‘Mighty Mite’ 1YYG-Y exhibited by Kirby Fong. Intermediate daffodils are standard daffodils with a single floret in Divisions 1, 2, 3, 4, and 11 whose perianth is typically greater than 50 mm and up to 80 mm.
Best Intermediate Three-Stem Ribbon Winner
The Best set of three intermediate daffodils was ‘Bantam’ 2Y-YOO exhibited by Kirby Fong.
Historic Bloom Ribbon Winner
The best bloom in the Historic Section was ‘Moina’ 3W-WWo (1938) exhibited by Kirby Fong.
Historic Best Set of Three Ribbon Winner
The best set of three in the Historic Section was ‘Sempre Avanti’ 2W-O (1938) exhibited by Maria Krenek.
Best Classic Ribbon and Best Classic Single-Stem Ribbon Winner
In the Classic Section there are awards for the best bloom, the best single-stem exhibit, and the best set of three. There was no worthy set of three. The best stem happened to be in a single-stem exhibit and therefore got two awards. The winner was ‘Golden Dawn’ 8Y-O exhibited by Ben Blake & Nancy Tackett.
Youth Best Bloom Ribbon Winner
Youth Best Set of Three Ribbon Winner
The best bloom in the Youth Section happened to be the middle bloom in the best set of three in the Youth Section. The winner was ‘Avalanche’ 8W-Y exhibited by MacKenna Brown.
Small Growers Ribbon Winner
The Small Growers Section is for exhibitors who grow 50 or fewer cultivars and/or species. The best bloom in this section was ‘Pink Charm’ 2W-P exhibited by Cristina Kosack.
Standard Container-Grown Ribbon Winner
The best of the three exhibits of standard daffodils grown and shown in container was ‘Fortissimo’ 2Y-O exhibited by Lino Mogni. You can’t tell from the photo that these were very large blooms. The Fortuna show has a local award for the largest daffodil, he size being the sum of the diameter and cup length. One of these blooms won that local award.
Red-White-Blue Ribbon Winner
The Red-White-Blue Ribbon is for the best collection of 5 standard, American-Bred daffodils. Flowers in the winning collection are:
Back: ‘Animal Crackers’ 2YYW-WWY (Wier), ‘Louise Randall’ 2W-W (Reed), ‘Canterbury’ 5Y-Y (Havens);
Front: ‘Cleric’ 2W-YYW (Reed), ‘Edie’ 2W-P (Reed).
The exhibitor was Kirby Fong.
Purple Ribbon Winner
The Purple Ribbon is for the best collection of 5 standard daffodils. Flowers in the winning collection are:
Back: ‘Crowndale’ 4Y-O (Postles), ‘Corby Candle’ 2Y-YOO (Gibson), ‘Watersmeet’ 4W-O (Scamp);
Front: ‘Polmenor’ 2W-P (Scamp), ‘Gellymill’ 2YYW-WYY (Scamp).
The exhibitor was Kirby Fong.
Spotts Ribbon Winner
The Spotts Ribbon is for the best collection of 5 different standard or 5 different miniature daffodils where green is the predominant color in either the perianth and/or the corona. The winner containing 5 standards consists of:
Back: 8-11-19 3Y-GGO, 8-12-19 7Y/G-GG/Y. 8-13-10 3G-GGY;
Front: 8-10-19 5Y-GYO, ‘Mesa Verde’ 12G-GGY.
The exhibitor was Bob Spotts.
Bozievich Ribbon Winner
The Bozievich Ribbon is for the best collection of 12 standards from at least 4 RHS Divisions. Flowers in the winning collection are:
Top row: 8-34-19 1Y-Y, ‘Three Oaks’ 2W-Y, ‘Bob Spotts’ 2W-W, ‘Southern Hospitality’ 4Y-R;
Middle row: 8-13-19 1Y-O, ‘Charlie Connor’ 1Y-R, 8-32-19 3YYG-GYO, 8-33-19 2W-O;
Bottom row: 8-29-19 7WWG-GWW, ‘Mexican Hat’ 3W-R, 8-30-19 7Y-GGO, ‘Mesa Verde’ 12G-GGY.
The exhibitor was Bob Spotts.
Havens Ribbon Winner
The Havens Ribbon is for the best collection of 12 standards from at least 3 RHS Divisions 5 through 10. Flowers in the winning exhibit are:
Top row: 8-23-19 8W-Y, 8-26-19 7YYG-GGO, ‘Actaea’ 9W-YYR, ‘Storyteller’ 8Y-O;
Middle row: ‘Willie Mae’ 8Y-O, 8-24-19 6Y-YOO, 8-25-19 5YYG-GGO, ‘Kokopelli’ 7Y-Y;
Bottom row: 8-20-19 7W-Y, 8-22-19 5WWG-GYR, ‘Ice Wings’ 5W-W, 8-21-19 7Y-Y.
The exhibitor was Bob Spotts.
Throckmorton Ribbon Winner
The Throckmorton class calls for 15 standard daffodils from 15 different RHS classifications. A classification consists of the Division number and the color code. Flowers in the winning exhibit are:
Top row: ‘Watersmeet’ 4W-O, ‘Cape Cornwall’ 2Y-YYO, ‘Emma-Jane’ 2W-Y, ‘Everytime’ 2Y-R,
‘Cinnamon Ring’ 3W-WWO;
Middle row: ‘Millennium Perfection’ 1Y-Y, ‘Royal Marine’ 2W-YOO, ‘Crackington’ 4Y-O, ‘Diamond Lake’ 1W-Y,
‘Regeneration’ 7YYW-W;
Bottom row: ‘Stainless’ 2W-W, ‘Badbury Rings’ 3Y-YYR, ‘Edie’ 2W-P, ‘Banker’ 2Y-O, ‘Barnwell Mill’ 1WWG-W.
The exhibitor was Kirby Fong.
Quinn Award Winner
The Quinn class calls for 24 different standard daffodils from at least 5 RHS Divisions. Flowers in the winning collection are:
Top row: ‘Doctor Hugh’ 3W-GOO, ‘Wayby’ 2Y-R, ‘Emma-Jane’ 2W-Y, ‘Great Gatsby’ 2Y-R, ‘Gay Tabor’ 4W-O,
‘Goldfinger’ 1Y-Y;
3rd row: ‘Blushing Lady’ 7Y-YYP, ‘Watersmeet’ 4W-O, ‘Fire-Blade’ 2Y-YYO, ‘Misty Glen’ 2W-GWW,
‘Qiyanna Raine’ 4Y-O, ‘Cinnamon Ring’ 3W-WWO;
2nd row: ‘Louise Randall’ 2W-W, ‘Tao’ 3Y-O, ‘Glasnevin’ 2W-W, ‘Pacific Rim’ 2Y-YYR, ‘Cleric’ 2W-YYW,
‘Wild Rover’ 1Y-R;
Bottom row: ‘Abracadabra’ 6Y-Y, ‘Outer Rim’ 1W-W, ‘Canterbury’ 5Y-Y, ‘Alto’ 2W-P, ‘Rapture’ 6Y-Y,
‘Diamond Lake’ 1W-Y.
The exhibitor was Kirby Fong.
“Tuggle Award Winner”
The Tuggle Award is offered only at regional daffodil shows, and the Fortuna show was a local, not a regional, show; therefore, there can’t actually be a Tuggle Award winner at this show. That’s why the caption is in quotes. Bob Spotts had so many flowers that he put in an exhibit that would otherwise be eligible for the Tuggle Award. The Tuggle class calls for 3 stems each of 12 different standards from at least 3 RHS Divisions. Flowers in the winning exhibit are:
Top row: ‘Chromacolor’ 2W-P, ‘Anasazi’ 3WWG-GWW, ‘Mesa Verde’ 12G-GGY, ‘Southern Hospitality’ 4Y-R;
Middle row: ‘Storyteller’ 8Y-O, ‘Willie Mae’ 8Y-O, ‘Chile Verde’ 3Y-GYO, 8-31-19 7W-P;
Bottom row: ‘Kokopelli’ 7Y-Y, ‘Louise Randall’ 2W-W, ‘Classic Delight’ 2YYW-GOO, ‘Ice Wings’ 5W-W.
And that takes care of standard daffodils winning ADS awards at the Fortuna show. The miniature award winners will be in another posting.