It was a beautiful stalk and it looked like the next day you will have 3
flowers opened! You are right about the irises cooperating.
It seems like I find a perfect "Queen of Show" the week before or the week
after a show.
Last year, I groomed a Stardock and gave it to the classification
clerks. They were the ones that noticed one of the flowers were missing
all of its standards! I told them to enter it anyway. The judges of
course noticed the missing standards. However, they said they were glad to
see it because of its lovely branching.
Good luck on your show.
Scarlett
P.S. You know you are an iris fanatic when you loudly state that you
have the "Queen of Show" right here before the judging even starts
;-)
In a message dated 4/8/2009 10:50:30 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time,
angorabuns@yahoo.com writes:
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I was having trouble setting the stalk as it was short to begin
with.
and I think it could have been faced a lil better.
I need to get some bloom or talc.
This was more or less a test run.
FIS show is the 18th. Its my first show and I would like to do
well.
The Iris just have to cooperate. I will be looking on what needs to
be spaced.
Taking a daubing class this weekend, looking forward to that.
Thanks
Terry
FIS Sec
Reg 14
--- On Wed, 4/8/09, sdayres2@aol.com
<sdayres2@aol.com> wrote:
From:
sdayres2@aol.com <sdayres2@aol.com>
Subject: Re:
[iris-photos] Practice makes perfect?
To:
iris-photos@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, April 8,
2009, 8:47 PM
Terry:
Looks great! Probably a blue ribbon.
Don't let the cotton stick above the vase. Some judges count off
for that. Also, can the stalk be lifted higher so the leaf and
the side stalk clear the vase? We at MVIS use
opaque milk vases. So we can cut a piece of stalk and use it to
prop up our short displayed stalk. MVIS just had our grooming
presentation in preparation for our show in two weeks. Next week
I will be running around the garden adding spacers to those flowers
crowding the stems. Hopefully, the wind won't blow away the
spacers this year.
New Mexico's rule of thumb is the windiest days of the year are
the few days before the show.
Scarlett
New Mexico
In a message dated 4/7/2009 9:06:54 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time,
angorabuns@yahoo.com writes:
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