Re: SHOW:Grooming etc.

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• Subject: Re: [iris]SHOW:Grooming etc.
• From: D*@aol.com
• Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 14:49:37 EDT
• List-archive: <http://www.hort.net/lists/iris/> (Web Archive)

In a message dated 10/7/05 12:07:06 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
Autmirislvr@aol.com writes:

> We were discussing the 2006 Show.  A local member expressed his  
> frustration 
> at the lack of help in show exhibiting.  He feels that  local members want 
> to 
> 'hold' their exhibition secrets so they have an edge in  the show.  When he 
> stated this, I saw a mixture of expressions around the  room.  
> 
> Over a 20 year span, my experience has been the opposite.  I've found  
> members to be extremely helpful.  Here's the catch!  You can't wait to  ask 
> for help 
> until everyone is lined up in the prep room!  Then people are  busy trying 
> to 
> get their irises onto the show bench!  We all get tunnel  vision.  
> Distractions are critical at that time.  Everything must be  perfect!  ;-)
> 

Hi Betty,

Both of the local clubs to which I belong provide instructions, advice, etc., 
on entering iris shows at our early spring meetings.  When someone comes to 
the show and needs help, my husband and I try to give it as much as we can, but 
we are always hurrying to meet the entry deadline.  Some members who enter 
only a few specimens also try to help newcomers.

Shows are important to our members, but I don't think they are the most 
important thing.  We don't have garden clubs do arrangements for our shows;  our 
own members really like to enter arrangements.  Members who don't have a lot of 
stalks to enter as specimens can use what they have in arrangements and also 
get stalks from those who have excess.  This really worked well at our early 
iris show this year.  It was held at the place where we have our large iris 
display garden and my husband picked armloads of SDBs for the arrangers to use.

We try to have programs at our meetings that will educate new members while 
not being so repetitious that older members are bored.

Dorothy Willott in Northern Ohio

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