What an exciting weekend! Bryan was up with the birdies on Saturday July 2 (4:30 a.m.) loading his 25 stems into the truck to head for Edmonton. The previous night he was busy selecting the stems, checking for uniformity, good leaves, blooms just opening, all the necessary traits for award winning stems. They had to be cut and cleaned (no one wants to see spiderwebs) and placed in his specially created containers ready for transport. Once loaded it was off to the Devonian Gardens. The stems then are placed in special vials, last minute cleaning is done, then they are labeled and placed on the judging tables. Lot's to do from 8:00 to 10:00 a.m. then that 2 hour wait while the judges do their work.
All told, there were 127 stems at the show placed by 12 exhibitors from various locations around Alberta.
Once the judging is finished, all the exhibitors check out their stems to see how they faired.
Bryan received 5 first place awards, 3 second place awards and 3 third place awards. This was enough to award him the Gold Sweepstakes.
Also, this photo shows one of his first place stems that was then judged to be The Best Alberta Bred Martagon of the show.
The following photos were Bryan's other winning stems at the show.
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