Shows and transportation, etc.

Dorothy Fingerhood denies special treatment for iris she transports 
to shows, but I'd like to know how she (or any of you) go about 
packing stalks and transporting them so they will arrive safely.  Do 
you have special containers?  Do you have a van, so they can stand up 
straight in containers?  If not, how do you arrange them in a car so 
they don't get damaged?  Since stalks are supposed to be cut long, or 
at least normal growing length, how can you find enough room in a 
car, esp. the size they are today, to move very many? etc., etc.
    Relative to that.  We have a fairly small number of members in 
our club, and most of those don't have large gardens with a lot of 
potential show specimens.  That has meant that those of us who have 
large gardens feel compelled to bring lots of stalks.  I live 50 
miles from the meeting and/or show site.  The car has space for a 
limited number of stalks, plus what my wife takes for making her 
arrangements.  That's a long way of leading up to several questions.
Do you take/try to take a large number of stalks?  If so, back to the 
other questions:  how do you find the room to move and keep safe a 
large number?  Or does your club limit the number of speciments each 
person may enter?  How many people, average, exhibit?  Do you have 
unlimited space or do you have to limit the number per indiv.?  How 
big a show do you folks have, usually, that is, how many show stalks? 
I think I had more questions along that line, but I've forgotten them 
at least for the moment.  
    This is a lot to chew on, but knowing some of these things could 
be very helpful, and especially now, while we have time to plan for 
our next shows.  Thanks for any input.

Arnold Koekkoek
NW Iowa  Zone 4
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