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Post by Moonlight on Sept 21, 2014 18:53:25 GMT
One of those things. Hay Hoe
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Post by Raymond on Sept 21, 2014 19:38:45 GMT
Stay positive Moonlight with your willows violet you still have a full month of flowering and if any more buds on that stem you might get a other sport. I hope you do it looked lovely. You will be ready next time. Good luck all the best  |
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Post by Moonlight on Sept 21, 2014 20:43:38 GMT
If it is meant to be it will be if it won't then it wasn't. Just one of those things.
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Post by Moonlight on Sept 21, 2014 22:54:09 GMT
Yes had another show yesterday did ok. It's a small show. One entrance fee and you can enter as many classes as you want as many entries as you want. There is no prize money but there is a bronze and silver medal for the best 2. The girls had fun, they like being helpers and there are people there that like them helping. HH likes this show purely because it's the last show of the year. (Don't blame him).
For me as a beginner (don't forget this is only my 2nd year of growing) shows like these are opportunities to practice learning how to stage blooms. I can (most of the time) stick a single bloom in an upright position in a vase but what I need to learn is how to put 3 in a vase. Don't care if it is Mickey Mouse ears or a Bike. I just want to get them at least evenly spread out but it would be nice if I could get them to look in vaguely the right direction. I want to learn but I'm also very stressed of mucking it all up. I don't want to do it wrong. I don't want to look stupid. Shows like these are a good opportunity to have a go without the stakes being so high, so that I'm scared that I'm going to fail before I start.
We have had rubbish weather, 2 nights of thunder storms and lots of rain. All my white, yellow and orange dahlias ruined. The exception with the yellow was my Lismore Moonlight poms also took a Jomanda which I don't consider an orange more a terracotta.
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Post by Moonlight on Sept 22, 2014 8:50:01 GMT
I hate when I type out a post and then do something stupid and delete it.
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Post by Cherry on Sept 22, 2014 8:59:14 GMT
Or post it twice.
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Post by Moonlight on Sept 22, 2014 9:21:38 GMT
going to try again but why is it always the posts where you've spent a lot of time finding the words to articulate how you are thinking or feeling.
All I wanted to do was to check that I had spelt the word acutely correctly and that the definition was correct and in the right context.
Try again
(and why do the posts never seem as good the 2nd time?)
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Post by Moonlight on Sept 22, 2014 9:42:41 GMT
I asked Fairy if she would like to vase up some of my poms which she enjoyed doing with Daddy helping (out of his choice). Made me smile. Didn't matter that neither the poms that I had put into the vases or the ones that they had done were likely to get placed, I just liked the fact that this year we've all had a go. As this is the show (my understanding from my Dad) that this is 'just a bit of fun', so more of end of season get together without the pistols at dawn, adrenalin competitiveness. (Ok, not exactly 'the pistols at dawn bit' for the biggie shows but hopefully I've explained my thinking.) So I could allow myself to become (a tad) less 'precious' about my dahlias. (n.b. Had it been a Pirate, Moonlight or Downham Royal or Sir Alf or Trooper Dan..... actually there are quite a few exceptions there but the poms were ok). There are a couple of ladies that grow poms and when I first went to a show, they saw my bucket of poms and said "Oh you've got some nice poms there" "Lovely poms, much better than mine". Always very kind to me and I know that my girls Love one of them very much. So do I. Haven't told her yet (might not anyway) but I've given her unofficial 'Aunty' status for the girls and plan to put her on our family Christmas card list. Emphasis on the word 'plan'.
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Post by Moonlight on Sept 22, 2014 9:55:53 GMT
Came 1st and 3rd beat Dad who came 2nd.  The Weston Pirate behind the 3rd is mine but was over size (got told to get some rings when I said that I had rings got told to use them  I had done it had fitted when I used them 'onest guv'nor) was also told that it was a lovely bloom pity about the size. As I've already tried to explain, with no limit on entries I wasn't disappointed. Weston Pirate is still my favourite and judgeing by the fact that they are almost all Weston Pirate I think it's a favourite with others to.
Now I know that this one wasn't considered an example of a stunningly beautiful dahlia but the colour to me is stunning. I don't know what it is called but I do love that colour.
(Back right of previous photo).
Last year I saw some absolutely stunning Weston Stardust and I was desperate to grow it but mine haven't looked anything like as good as they were. Not a patch on them, my Weston Corsair although not (in my opinion as good as Pirate) or my Weston Spanish Dancer were much better.
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Post by Moonlight on Sept 22, 2014 9:57:47 GMT
 I came 2nd with my Marston George that you gave me. I'll be growing that one again. I don't have a nice close up, I would have taken one of it at the end of the show but someone else had picked it up as theirs so it was one bloom that I didn't get to take home. I'll be honest I was disappointed but it's not the worse thing that could have happened.
I do so love the colour even if it looks a bit like there is only a stalk in the vase because it is dark against a night window.
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Post by Moonlight on Sept 22, 2014 10:03:34 GMT
I made the decision (retrospectively probably foolishly  ) to take and enter my Candy Jayne. Comments were made about it not being an exhibition bloom but they don't understand. It's been such a battle to get it over from the US, I've only had 3 blooms from that tiny tuber but I'm proud that I got it to grow any. I am proud of it. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and I still love the way that it looks like someone has poured a tin of pain all over it. Nobody else shares my opinion or seem to get the fact that I do understand that it couldn't be a show winner but it wasn't in my head it wasn't that kind of show. As I tried to explain to someone if it had been a show where I had to be limited to one or two entries then of course I wouldn't have shown it, if my Trooper Dan had of been bigger it would have been my only choice (If I had to choose 1).
I am happy to be a Dahlia snob (I don't like informal decs) but the rebel in me that has been watered down and down and down over the years, (to the point where at times my 'go with the flow' attitude is perceived as not caring or being able to stand up for what I believe in nb Not talking dahlias here) wanted to show it. Next time I guess I'll know better.
My poor bruised and battered Candy Jayne.
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Post by Moonlight on Sept 22, 2014 10:17:33 GMT
Also 3rd with my Jomanda but nothing for my Red Balloons or my poms. I think that a lot of us have been very tired and the weather has been bad, so there were not a lot of entrants but at this time I don't think that they expect a lot of people. I heard experienced exhibitors talking about dirty blooms and people not checking them but for people like me, it isn't that we don't care. It's more that I'm still very much a beginner. I take ages to select and cut my dahlias and I take longer than everyone else putting them in their vase. I really want to master putting them in 3s but to be honest the fact that I'm struggling just to get them done. I know that they were right but I also think that they've been so good and so successful for such a long time that they've forgotten how hard it is at the beginning. After a hard day, I felt more than a tad deflated by that but then conversation wasn't about me or with me. I've no plans to exhibit Nationally. I'm as high as I want to be but then if you were to ask me what I've enjoyed the most this year.
It's the seedlings and I can't wait to start looking inside those seed heads.
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Post by Lou78W on Sept 22, 2014 10:27:58 GMT
Well done on your places Moonlight xx. I think that bloom might be Buccaneer, which I slightly favour over Pirate...it has a most gorgeous purple haze to it..... |
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Post by Moonlight on Sept 22, 2014 10:50:28 GMT
Now I know that this one wasn't considered an example of a stunningly beautiful dahlia but the colour to me is stunning. I don't know what it is called but I do love that colour.
(Back right of previous photo).
Last year I saw some absolutely stunning Weston Stardust and I was desperate to grow it but mine haven't looked anything like as good as they were. Not a patch on them, my Weston Corsair although not (in my opinion as good as Pirate) or my Weston Spanish Dancer were much better.
Well done on your places Moonlight xx. I think that bloom might be Buccaneer, which I slightly favour over Pirate...it has a most gorgeous purple haze to it.....
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Post by Raymond on Sept 22, 2014 12:05:33 GMT
Well done Moonlight. I love the candy Jayne. I have a soft spot for variagated blooms. That purple Weston ? is superb colour. Very hard to find a good deep purple. I had a look on halls and the picture of Weston buccaneer is very different to yours. Much more pinky tone here is the picture from halls website  |
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The Weston Pirate behind the 3rd is mine but was over size (got told to get some rings when I said that I had rings got told to use them 
I came 2nd with my Marston George that you gave me. I'll be growing that one again. I don't have a nice close up, I would have taken one of it at the end of the show but someone else had picked it up as theirs so it was one bloom that I didn't get to take home. I'll be honest I was disappointed but it's not the worse thing that could have happened.
) to take and enter my Candy Jayne. Comments were made about it not being an exhibition bloom but they don't understand. It's been such a battle to get it over from the US, I've only had 3 blooms from that tiny tuber but I'm proud that I got it to grow any. I am proud of it. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and I still love the way that it looks like someone has poured a tin of pain all over it. Nobody else shares my opinion or seem to get the fact that I do understand that it couldn't be a show winner but it wasn't in my head it wasn't that kind of show. As I tried to explain to someone if it had been a show where I had to be limited to one or two entries then of course I wouldn't have shown it, if my Trooper Dan had of been bigger it would have been my only choice (If I had to choose 1).
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