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GOLD RIBBON -Highpoint 2Y-Y, Stan Baird
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NAME OF SHOW: Celebration of Spring
LOCATION: Fortuna, California
SPONSOR: Fortuna Garden Club
CHAIRMAN: Dian Keesee
DATE(S): March 22-23, 1997
Horticulture: Number of Exhibits 407
Number of Exhibitors 21
Number of Blooms 670
Artistic Arrangements: Number of Exhibits 67
Number of Exhibitors 12

WHITE RIBBON - Williamsburg,
2W-W, Bob Spotts
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MINI GOLD RIBBON - Little Rusky, Nancy Wilson
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MINI WHITE RIBBON -
Little Rusky, Nancy Wilson
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The Gold ribbon winner came from the Red-White-Blue collection winner.
WINNING EXHIBITOR - WINNING CULTIVAR
JUNIOR AWARD: not awarded
SMALL GROWER AWARD: Estelle Trammell - Green Gold 2Y-WWY
HISTORIC DAFFODIL AWARD: Christine Kemp - Kansas 3W-GYO
CONTAINER STANDARD AWARD: not awarded
CONTAINER MINIATURE AWARD: no entries
CONTAINER SPECIES AWARD: no entries
ROSE RIBBON: Bob Spotts Seedling # 97-414-1
RHS Div/Color Code: 2W-P Parentage: not given
MINI. ROSE RIBBON: not awarded
SILVER RIBBON: Bob Spotts # of Blue Ribbons: 29
COLLECTION CLASSES
PURPLE RIBBON WINNER: Stan Baird
Describe: Yellow Collection
1 Highpoint 2Y-Y
2 Gold Convention 2Y-Y
3 Lyles 2Y-Y
4 Golden Joy 2Y-Y
5 Gold Bond 2Y-Y
LAVENDER RIBBON WINNER: Nancy Wilson
Describe: 5 miniature hybrids
1 Quince 12Y-Y
2 Segovia 3W-Y
3 Oz 12Y-Y
4 Junior Miss 12W-Y
5 Pencrebar 4Y-Y
RED-WHITE-BLUE RIBBON WINNER: Stan Baird
1 Gilt Complex 2Y-Y (DuBose)
2 Highpoint 2Y-Y (Frey) (Gold ribbon winner)
3 Lone Star 2W-W (Pannill)
4 Idealism 2W-W (Mitsch)
5 Berceuse 2W-P (Mitsch)
MINI RED-WHITE-BLUE RIBBON WINNER: no entries
MAROON RIBBON WINNER: Bob Spotts
1 Spotts 97-406-1 2Y-W
2 Spotts 97-407-1 2Y-WWY
3 Spotts 97-408-1 2Y-W
4 Grand Prospect 2Y-W
5 Spotts 97-162-4 2YYW-W (Suede x Irresistible)
GREEN RIBBON WINNER: Kathy Leonardi
1 Highfield Beauty 8Y-YYO
2 Chapeau 2W-Y
3 Tenterfield 1Y-Y
4 Grebe 4Y-O
5 Rager 4W-O
6 Abona 2Y-Y
7 Epona 3W-GRR
8 Lemon Cremes 2YYW-W
9 Lapwing 5W-Y
10 Highpoint 2Y-Y
11 Sea Legend 2W-W
12 Rival 6YYG-Y
WATROUS AWARD WINNER: no entries
THROCKMORTON AWARD WINNER: Stan Baird
1 Gay Challenger 4W-O
2 Wychavon 2W-YRR
3 Badbury Rings 3Y-YYR
4 Chaperone 2W-O
5 Oregon Music 2W-W
6 Capree Elizabeth 2Y-P
7 Gilt Complex 2Y-Y
8 Revelation 2W-Y
9 La Paloma 3W-GYR
10 Hero 1Y-O
11 Akepa 5W-P
12 Shaz 2W-OOR
13 Sarita 2Y-W
14 Chloe 2W-P
15 Circuit 7Y-Y
QUINN AWARD WINNER: Kirby Fong
1 Hoopoe 8Y-O
2 Geometrics 2W-Y
3 Peggy White 2W-W
4 Sarita 2Y-W
5 Colley Gate 3W-YOR
6 Greenodd 3W-YYW
7 Rising Star 7W-P
8 Crackington 4Y-O
9 Cairntoul 3W-ORR
10 Dispatch Box 1Y-Y
11 Watercolor 2W-P
12 Ferndown 3Y-Y
13 Maya Dynasty 2Y-Y
14 Cryptic 1W-P
15 Scipio 2Y-Y
16 Val d'Incles 3W-W
17 Coromandel 2Y-Y
18 Trewarvas 2W-Y
19 Williamsburg 2W-W
20 Sweet Prince 1YYW-WWY
21 Langley Dandy 3W-YOR
22 Think-o-Me 3W-W
23 Bold Prospect 1W-Y
24 Sheer Joy 6W-W
BRONZE RIBBON WINNER: no entries
MINIATURE BRONZE WINNER: Nancy Wilson
1 Segovia 3W-Y
2 Xit 3W-W
3 Blanchard 73/1a 7Y-Y
4 Quince 12Y-Y
5 Wells 83-3A 2Y-Y (N. cuatrecasasii x N. rupicola watieri)
Photos by Kirby Fong