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Post by Moonlight on Jun 24, 2013 12:36:27 GMT
Well done, Moonlight. Every show you enter is more experience which you can take forward to your next show. One of the hardest things I found when I first started - apart from stressing over what I could enter! - was allowing enough time to stage. Now, whenever possible I stage the night before and return on the show day to check things over.
Markb sounds like you show at the biggies. At this show we only get between 9-11 to register and 11.30 kicking out time from the hall. Not long at all. I think maybe next time I'll take newspaper, kitchen towel and oasis and if I am organised take a photo of what I am trying to recreate in the show itself. |
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Post by markb on Jun 24, 2013 15:06:12 GMT
Not at all, Moonlight. It depends on where the show is (and how well organised), and how much I have to stage. The last few years I haven't showed flowers and veg together which makes life easier. It's about what works best for you in your particular situation.
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Post by Moonlight on Jun 25, 2013 22:35:48 GMT
Happy Halloween
This was my Happy Halloween dahlia yesterday. It is opened more Daddy actually likes the colour but thinks that it is a pity that it is an ugly dahlia. I've got more of Happy Halloween than any of the others, he is going to just have to get used to it. Wonder what he will think when he sees a whole row of them in bloom.
Maybe he will want me to give him a tuber next year!  
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Post by Rosie on Jun 26, 2013 11:20:51 GMT
I quite like happy halloween Ml, it's bright and cheery:)
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Post by Moonlight on Jun 28, 2013 20:23:03 GMT
My 2 Downham Royals at the front of our house have got blackfly. The battle begins, big time.
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Post by Tel on Jun 29, 2013 6:16:05 GMT
There are plenty of insecticides on the market to kill them if you are not against using them. Bug clear is one, that comes in its own 1ltr sprayer.
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Post by Moonlight on Jun 29, 2013 6:48:59 GMT
I realised last night that I haven't put a proper update about what happened at the show and the build up.
Saturday morning, the day before the show, I'm trying to get Fairy to start her kite for the show but she is distracted by the squeals of laughter from Pirate playing in the garden with her (1st attempt) kite which we made the night before nb Pirate's kite for the show itself hadn't been finished either but the wind was just too tempting.
When I say unfinished, I mean really unfinished.
The only part of the frame that she had stuck down was the body, let alone start decorating. Poor Fairy desperate to go outside and play but I was desperate for her to start hers. I won but 1 wedding ceremony, 2 batches of scones to cook, 1 animal photo shoot and an evening wedding do to go to was always going to be a big ask.
This is how girlies had got on the morning of the show.
Yep loads to do, Fairy's frame is shaped and wrapped with greaseproof paper, so you can see why I was more than a tad stressed about them before the show. Took this photo at 8.20 while the rest of the family were soundo upstairs. Doors to the show opened at 9am so no pressure there!
9.38am and this is how far Pirate had got on hers:
and Fairy had got as far this:
It was around this point that HH finally appeared so I grabbed the moment and went down the garden armed with scissors on my quest to find anything that I might possibly use for the show for my Novice classes and a plastic bag for my micro potatoes. To say that he wasn't impressed at being left to supervise anything remotely arty just after he had woken up and before he had eaten any breakfast, would be putting things mildly but in true Brucie style:
Didn't they do well!
All that effort was worth it and the string round the toilet roll reel was HH's idea and we think that that is what the judges were looking for. The 3 kites that were placed had them, the kite that came 1st had a tail, we just ran out of time on that one.
Well impressed and both girls deserved it. Chuffed to bits for them both and I know that as soon as it gets windy they'll both be out like a shoot armed with their kites.  
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Post by Moonlight on Jun 29, 2013 7:41:10 GMT
These were the photos the girls took of
Little Legs by Fairy which got a Highly Commended.
Minstrel by Pirate which came 3rd
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Post by Cherry on Jun 29, 2013 8:59:19 GMT
The photography section must have been good if those photos did not win. The girls did very well with their kites and everything else. Congratulations to them.  |
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Post by Moonlight on Jun 29, 2013 11:26:17 GMT
The photography section must have been good if those photos did not win. The girls did very well with their kites and everything else. Congratulations to them. |
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Post by Moonlight on Jul 3, 2013 20:34:03 GMT
Don't have time for an update but I am going to post this now because I want help whether or not trying maxicrop will harm dahlias?
I tried posting on the beginner dahlia thread and haven't had any replies.
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Post by Tel on Jul 4, 2013 5:28:59 GMT
Oops, I have just replied in the dahlia thread. |
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Post by Moonlight on Jul 4, 2013 12:50:26 GMT
Thanks Tel, dahlias in my dahlia patch have been dosed. Fingers crossed and wait now.
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Post by Moonlight on Jul 4, 2013 14:15:13 GMT
Happy Halloween
This was my Happy Halloween dahlia yesterday.
Managed to take a photo before the petals dropped. Quite a lot more buds are out but the flowers that are coming through are not such a lovely deep orange. |
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Post by Moonlight on Jul 4, 2013 14:22:17 GMT
Downham Royal
Unfortunately my 1st Downham Royal wants to look up at the moon. I've read before that some dahlia varieties don't photo well. The purple is a lot deeper in real life.
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