San Leandro Dahlia Society
Annual Show August 7-8, 2004
San Leandro Library

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The first show of the year astounded everyone with both quality & quantity.  San Francisco heavily populated the Court of Honor.  Tinee landed both Best M, Glenbank Twinkle, as well as Best x5 small, Bea Paradise. 

Tinnee 5x Bea Paradise

Gerda organizing a 5x

DJ took high honors with photos of a single variety—not a mug shot!—Shinkyoku & dahlia garden—our Dell, what else!  Team Queant triumphed with Best Stellar, Camano Pet; Best WL, Red Velvet; Best S, Northwest Cosmos; & Best Second Year Open Centered.

Queant purple novelty

Deborah racked up points with Best Anemone, Blue Bayou; X5 large, Moonlight Sonata; Best x3 BI, Jessica; Best Juul Intro, Juul’s Lotus; & Best First Year Fully Double Seedling.  Lou Paradise gloated over how many lovely Veca Lucias danced on the head table: Best B, Best Section G & Best Bay Area Intro. 

Lou p's seedling orange

Deborah's fried egg Powder Puff Polka

Vernon Roses in various pinks

Bloomfield's Tricolor

Jytte's 3x Show N' Tell

Keeping them company were Lou’s Best Orchid, Marie Schnugg; Hall of Fame, Gerda Juul; floating waterlily & Best BI, a new seedling!  Creative Mrs. Butterworth dressed in dahlias led the Juul parade:   Best Peony, Brenda Sue; Best AA, Kenora Clyde; Best 5 Colors with 5 different waterlilies; Best 2004 Introduction, Sorbet.  Juul seedlings captured Best x3 Open Centered & Best of Section D.

Best 5 Color

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Juul's new purple seedling

El Nino, An Anenome

Roy Stier’s utterly magnificent Spartacus reigned as Best Large, handily decreeing him Amateur Sweepstakes.  Karen & Kevin from Corralitos Gardens triumphed in Open Sweeps.  Don Silva’s remarkable blooms amassed Novice Sweepstakes. Jytte’s incomparable Show ‘n’ Tell was eclipsed only by her x3 Show ‘n’ Tells.  Clearly,  cloudy San Francisco produces different  Show ‘n’ Tells fromthe East Bay.  Narnia, 212, B FD FL, beguiled People’s Choice for the Mortons.

Narnia flame

A glorious x9 arrangement announced Almand Gardens’ stunning new fourth year seedling, Kay Almand, B SC Y with red piping. Andrew Baxter’s Island Flare 152, A SC FL, caused a stir.  Others catching my eye were:  Bumble Rumble, 673, CO DB PR/ W/w/pr, (raspberry with exaggerated white feathers); a x5 dandy Little Jack, BB IC DB R/Y  El Nino, - AN DR/pr; & Mingus Denise, 565, like Valley Porcupine but pinker. 

x9 Kay from the Almands

Serge's Cockerl

Bumble Rumble, a collorette

Introduced in 1940, Kidd’s Climax 110 A FD proved the real comeback kid(d).  Never have I seen that dahlia grown so well by so many different growers.  Team Queant  produced 2 new seedlings, both novelties, one a purple froth as though a stellar laciniated; the second, a brick red informal stellar with dark black eyes, rather cockerelesque. 

Andrew Bagster's
Island Flare

Stier's Thistle

Kidd's Climax

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