Re: AIS:Judges' Duties
- Subject: Re: AIS:Judges' Duties
- From: h*
- Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 15:43:08 -0000
I'm just catching up on all the email over the last 10 days that I've
been away. I thought spring might be here when I got back, but
there's still 2" or more of snow all over my garden.
I've just returned from my first session of AIS judge training in
Hamilton, Ontario, held Mar 23 & 24. The training was arranged by
Sandy Ives. Thank you Sandy! The Willotts and Chuck Chapman were
also there, as well as a couple of people from Buffalo and the
surrounding Hamilton area, in for the training. It was wonderful
talking irises in person with everyone, a rare treat for me.
I have a unique problem in that there are no iris judges in Manitoba,
so I have to travel if I want the training. For those of you who
don't know me, I have both an MIS & DIS display garden. There are
only 2 in Canada at this time. Chuck Chapman is the other display
garden. My iris garden was recently featured in a Manitoba garden
magazine.
At this time, I have almost 400 named irises, but not too many are
TB's, since they don't do that well for me in this zone. The ones
that I do have are mostly Dykes winners and there are few of them
that I would have voted for, based on how they grow here.
My main purpose in becoming an iris display garden is to show as many
people as possible all the different smaller irises that will grow in
this cold zone, and to test for hardiness. One of my problems
though, is that I don't grow too many of the newer irises, since I
wait a year or 2 for the prices to go down first. I may have to
change that as a student judge, but that means I'll buy fewer irises
each year. :(
You can be sure if I haven't seen it growing, I won't be voting for
it.
El, near Winnipeg
Manitoba, Canada Z3
MIS & DIS Display Garden
--- In iris-talk@y..., "Mike Sutton" <suttons@l...> wrote:
> About 2 years ago we in Region 14 became aware that some of our
judges were
> woefully lacking in actual garden judging. There were a few that
hadn't had
> any actual garden judging in 5 years! So that year we changed our
> requirements . Of the six hours our Region requires each three
years, three
> of those hours now have to be garden judging, and NOT one-on-one
judging,
> either: actual schools in the garden. That is for Garden Judges:
Active
> Masters have to have two garden judging hours in their three hours
in a
> three year period. Judges are allowed to lead a school, just not
> one-on-one.
>
> To make this requirement easy to get, we have instituted garden
judging
> after our shows, by one of the persons who judged the show. It
seems to be
> working very well--and we are being forced to get out in the garden
and get
> some training.
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