Re: Flower shows--design elements
- Subject: Re: Flower shows--design elements
- From: B*@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 23:34:42 EST
In a message dated 1/5/03 2:36:07 PM Eastern Standard Time, ECPep@aol.com
writes:
> But you see, Bill, you did have fun. You guys planned and carried off a
> remarkable convention. The shows I have been reading about are very
> serious
> competitions and one's garden reputation rests on the points or marks or
> whatever you accumulate over years of entering. They are very, very
> serious.
>
>
We also had "serious" invitational designs during the formal daffodil show,
Claire. I do understand what you are getting at. One year at the Cincinnati
Flower Show I was invited to judge the daffodil section of the formal flower
show part of the show. They were short some design judges and I was pressed
into judging some designs as well--in the classes where the design was to
mirror (in some way) a famous artwork, a copy of which hung next to the
design. We were a panel of 3--the second judge was an orchid grower and the
third was a certified design judge. She said I did well, but I was never
invited back!
I wouldn't be too hard on the design folks--I think the design sections add a
nice touch to single-genus shows and are interesting to the public. If
designers and judges want to get all huffy and way too serious behind the
scenes, I just go to the an other corner of the room.
Bill Lee
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