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Show Tips
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How to Prepare Your Daylilies
You will need a copy of the 2008 Cultivar Classification List to put the cultivar
numbers your show tags. Lists will be available at the show, on the web, or by
contacting the show chairman. It is best to prepare your tags the night before
since there may not be time to prepare entry tags, groom your scapes and hand
in entries before the closing time. The List includes numbers for cultivars
entered at NCDC flower shows over the last few years. If you have a daylily
that is not on this list, other than a UF, Spider or Polytepal, the last page
tells you how to do your own classification.
If you need help classifying a cultivar that is not on this list, please consult
the Classification Desk at the show or contact Rich Galloway 301-589-0939 or
rich@madrobin.net.
The Classification Committee will assist in determining classification numbers
of registered cultivars, but will not fill out show tags, nor will they have
much time to identify unknown cultivars. Unlisted daylilies should be brought
to the Classification Desk at least 15 minutes before the closing time for
entries to ensure classification in time for placement.
Anyone wishing to enter the Design Division must contact Charmane Truesdell at
(301) 470-4462 or e-mail her at charmanet@worldnet.att.net or Dolores Felch at
(703) 780-0766 in advance. Please help out by bringing extra scapes (by 8:30 a.m.)
for the Design Division entrants to use in their flower arrangements.
For online show information visit our web site at
http://www.daylilyclub.org/flowershow.htm.
Show Details
Doors open to entrants at 7:30 a.m. The entry preparation location will be the
Children's Workroom. Off-scape single blooms must be handed in by 10 a.m. Scapes
must be handed in by 10:30 a.m. The show will be open to the public from 1:30 to 5 p.m.
Admission is free.
In addition to twelve AHS Rosettes there are three NCDC awards:
- The Beginner's Luck Trophy for the novice winning the most blue ribbons
and is entering for the first or second time,
- The Registered Multiscape Award for the best entry of three scapes and
- The Pat Cochenour Polytepal Trophy for the best registered polytepal.
All exhibits must be removed between 5:30 and 6 p.m., the day of the show, but not before.
We encourage all members to help dismantle the show.
Tips
Here are some things you can do to prepare for the show and improve your chances to win ribbons.
- Read the Show Schedule, Cultivar Classification List and Instructions in advance.
- Fill out show tags carefully. Check the Section number of your entry,
especially for Large and Extra Large flowers. We want to avoid disqualifying
wining flowers that are entered in the wrong section (some Large flowers appear
to be larger than Extra Large flowers). To be sure, check the NCDC Show Classification
List of assigned numbers or the daylily’s registration size, form, etc.
- Select your best scapes and blooms. A scape with multiple blooms is desirable but
it will be judged on its weakest bloom so remove any flowers that are less than perfect.
- Make sure that your flower has all its flower parts (six stamens, three sepals,
three petals, etc.).
- Groom your daylilies before you hand them in to the placement committee. Careful
grooming takes time.
- Remove seed pods, damaged buds, and blooms.
- Trim brown bud scars and brown parts from bracts or leaves,
scrape brown areas on the scape to make it look fresh and green.
- Shape the groomed leaves or bracts to natural looking points.
- Do not remove proliforations.
- Take care not over-groom bud scars-judges look for scapes with
evidence of a high bud count.
- Remove dirt, insects, and any pollen that has fallen on
the bloom. Useful tools are razor blades, exacto knives, small cuticle scissors,
make-up brushes, and Q-tips.
Judges take off points for poorly groomed entries.
- You might try cutting your scapes (but not single blooms) the night before the
show and keeping them in a bucket of water inside your house or garage to prevent
insect or rain damage.
- Except for seedlings, which must be severed as close as possible to the base,
cut your scape to a pleasing height to enhance the flower (no taller than 30").
- There are various methods of transporting scapes to the show.
- To keep scapes from twisting and bumping each other you could make a masking tape grid
on top of a 5 gallon bucket or styrofoam cooler, put scapes in individual beer or soda
bottles, or use rolled up newspapers in a bucket between the scapes.
- Drive carefully!
- To learn how the judges select winners you can attend a judges' training course or
volunteer to be a Judge's Aide. Please contact Lisa Burton at (301) 438-3807 by June 20,
to volunteer.