Author: David Adams

Dressing Flowers

I know this has been posted before but this is the ultimate in ensuring your flowers will win a class requiring pendant and reflexed flowers. Some of us do take exhibiting seriously. That’s fine. Some play golf for fun and…

Judging Collections

Kirby has received justified praise for his summary on judging collections. Did anyone else notice that in the examples he gave not one flower received 9 or more points? ie there was not one 90 point flower in either collection.…

Picking the best

Mike, I think you have answered your own question. You know what a good Veteran’s Honor looks like so you know when you are looking at a good one. You gained that knowledge through the experience of judging and exhibiting.…

Green eyes

Tom Your photos are rolling through at the moment and your penchant for green eyed flowers is obvious. I have always understood that green eyes are a symbol of envy. Do we detect some envy in how others have these…

Photos

Tom, There is art and there is science. An artistic photo will have a different conceptual image than a sharp scientific photo. Actually I think the veining in the leaves in the top flower of the second photo suggests its…

Thanks

As with Ian and others Leitha joins me in saying what a great time we had at the ADS Convention and  the following week through California. I am not sure why we go to daffodil shows. I know we go…