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.…
Category: Judging
Discussions about daffodil judging.
Judging/Staging Beautiful Collections
It is so encouraging to see the positive discussion of staging issues, going beyond the fairly cut-and-dried technicalities of judging collections. However, I think we tend to limit our imaginations and indeed our capacity to achieve more beautiful collections if…
More on judging collections–A dissenting note
I am not keen on including staging as a criterion for judging collections. Each sponsoring club has a unique situation with the availability of blocks and tubes and you frequently see that you need to make adaptations to stage…
A couple more comments on judging collections
Bob Husemann and Chriss Rainey have raised questions about beauty and staging for which I have no answers – some thoughts, yes, but answers, no. The purpose of the scale of points is to try (and with some success we…
How to judge collections
Well, now that THAT’S settled, how about another question to which there may not be an easy answer, i.e. which of the two collections pictured by Kirby is the more beautiful? I suspect many will disagree with me, but despite…
Judging Daffodils
This season that has ended for me, including judging. I had a learning curve adjustment will judging this year. I had a judge on one of my panels that was trying to explain to me how they judged collections my noting…