SHOW: International showing
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- Subject: SHOW: International showing
- From: J* B*
- Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 08:01:23 -0400
Sometimes one tends to think of Schreiners as a corporate juggernaut
with unlimited resources, sweeping all before them in competition, and
tend to forget that they are still a family farm, doing what they do on
less acreage than a midwest corn and bean farmer would be able to turn a
profit. Their biggest asset seems to be in their own genes - the ability
to pass on the love of what they are doing to successive generation.
This is a dynastic business.
Bill Shear's report on his visit to the Schreiner operation did a great
service in reminding us that these are human beings who care about
flowers, just like the rest of us, so I am neither surprised nor unhappy
to see them once again win the Premio Firenze.
That said, I am thrilled and delighted at the showing of Paul Black
sweeping the next three places. I've ordered several times from Mr.
Black when he was still in Okla., and from the list am assured that he
has many friends there still.
His rise seems to be a fairly typical path these days - start by winning
awards with MDBs and SDBs and then work your way up through the
categories to TB. It would seem that he has now arrived with a good
reputation behind him in that lofty region known to some as
Schreiner-Cayeux-Ghio-Hager-Niswonger-Keppeldom.
Already arrived, of course, are members of the next generation such as
Innerst, Sutton, Aitken and others. Of course Lloyd Zurbrigg was
probably already there to open the door for the first Schreiner.
I find it interesting to note that all the blues I won on TBs in my
limited experience of three shows, have been Schreiner iris. Its
bizzare, when you go out to cut flowers on show day, those others that
you've been coddling are either a day past peak bloom, or they will pop
the day after the show, but here are the Schreiner TBs saying, "Here I
am. Look me over." How they do that?
My question about international competition is one that hopefully
someone on the list can use to enlighten us tyros: obviously for the
Premion Firenze you cannot hop a flight to Florence with a waste basket
filled with rolled newspapers and the blooms you cut that morning stuck
in place. Are these flowers from the show bench grown by local growers
and then cut for the show? Is this also the way it is done for AIS
National Shows, or is it done by garden judging?
It would be fascinating to hear from someone who has gone through this
routine to describe what they do.
James Brooks
Jonesborough, TN
comeback@usit.net
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