New Zealand Prize at the 2013 ADS National Show

One of the “must enter” classes at the ADS national shows is the New Zealand collection – five standards bred in New Zealand. Brogden Bulbs has once again donated the prize this year. Each exhibitor in this class will receive a bulb of ‘Showdown.’ The exhibitor of the best collection will also receive bulbs of ‘Fencourt Jewel,’ ‘Mountain Snow,’ ‘Trudith,’ and ‘Elizabeth May.’ The winning exhibitor also receives a wooden goblet. Awards for other 5-stem collections are ribbons or perpetual trophies, so the New Zealand prize is clearly the most useful award for a 5-stem collection. So start saving your New Zealand cultivars in your refrigerator in order to enter a collection next week. You’re probably aware of newer New Zealand cultivars that you’re growing, but do you grow ‘Backchat,’ ‘Bandit,’  ‘Crimpelene,’ ‘Dear Love,’ ‘Declare,’ ‘Demand,’ ‘Ebony,’ ‘Erlicheer,’ ‘Gweal,’ ‘Lenz,’ ‘Lordship,’ ‘Lynx,’ ‘Modulux,’ ‘Rondo,’ ‘Sea Dream,’ ‘Springston Charm,’ ‘Stormy Weather,’ ‘Stylish,’ ‘Tinkerbell,’ ‘Tracey,’ ‘Trelay,’ or ‘Trena?’ These are all New Zealand cultivars that were registered in 1980 or earlier and are probably growing in the U.S. So it might be easier to assemble a New Zealand collection than you thought.