EVERGREEN CHRYSANTHEMUM ASSOCIATION
Seattle, Washington
SHOWTIME!
MEETING OF THE ECA – is scheduled for THURSDAY OCTOBER 11, 2018 at
7:00 PM at the Seattle Police Athletic Association Office (SPAA) site at 11030 East Marginal Way South, Tukwila. We are meeting in the classroom, to the north of the big hall. This is an important meeting as we develop plans for our annual mum show and confirm plans for our award banquet.
Notes aka Minutes from our September meeting:
Erica wa going to follow up on obtaining additional vases for multiple bloom entries. There has been correspondence back and forth on that over last few days.
Discussed the show and staging house availability noting that Steve J was going to follow up with David H.
Discussed set up
Discussed judging time on Friday. Mark R was to contact potential judges. David R has agreed to judge. Mark R will follow up with Mas and John Harden. Will do so this week.
Went over the show tear down time on Sunday afternoon
Go with 3 judges and 6 to 8 judges assistants. Will ask for assistant sign ups in Oct mtg
Ronnie agreed to be Chief Show Steward
Publicity – Erika was going to forward file to Lizzie and Lizzie was going to oversee getting 1000 handbills
Hospitality was deferred to October meeting
Show set up was agreed to use last year’s lay out
Assumed Steve J was going to oversee show scoring and recording
Set up materials and supplies were stored at Conservatory
Ribbons were not discussed, John H had ordered in past from Regalia not sure how was handled last year
Entry tags not discussed, not sure where those are. Imagine we need to print up some more
Show rules were not updated in 2018. Need to probably print up 20 to 30 copies. I no longer have soft copy and my hard copy is dated Oct 2008. It seems there may have been another update in 2011 or thereabouts but not finding at moment.
Membership Applications, Plant Sale Cards, Meeting Directions will need follow up Oct meeting
Luncheon, Sandwiches, Condiments Defer to Oct
McGlashen Books – Mark R confirmed he has large stash of those books. Will bring to Oct meeting
Asked Sydney to update listing of paid members for 2018 so I members will know their entry number for the show. Need to check with her to see if she has done that.
ANNUAL FLOWER SHOW The E.C.A. annual flower show will be held Friday November 2nd, from Noon – 4 PM and Saturday November 3rd 10 AM – 4 PM & Sunday, November 4th from 10 AM- 4 PM at the Volunteer Park Conservatory, 1400 East Galer Street in Seattle. Set-up is from 9 AM – 5 PM, Thursday November 1st for entries & bloom prep from 9 AM – 5 PM. Tear down is Sunday from 4 PM – 6 PM. We must be out of the Conservatory by 3:30 PM Monday November 5th.
At our October meeting we will discuss details for setting up our show, entering blooms/plants and handling the mechanics of judging and staffing our event. We need all members to attend and volunteer to help with the Show even if you don’t have any flowers to enter. In addition to show set up on Wednesday, we need Judge’s Helpers on Friday and Hosting on Saturday, and Sunday. The Show provides a great way to get to know Club members and learn more about Chrysanthemums. Sign up sheets for this work will be at the meeting.
If you have any questions about the show, please contact Ron Elliott our Show Steward. We’ll have copies of the show rules, entry form and name tags for the show at VPC (and hopefully at our October meeting.)
TROPHIES
Last year’s Trophy winners please bring your clean trophies and give them to Ron Elliot who will prepare them for this year’s Awards Banquet. If you have not given him your trophy yet, please contact Ron to make arrangements.
ANNUAL AWARDS BANQUET:
Our Annual Banquet is at Angelo’s in Burien, Thursday November 15, 601 SW 153rd, Burien, WA. Come at 6:00 PM for the Social Hour, Dinner at 7:00 PM. Everyone is welcome to enjoy an evening with good friends, good conversation and an excellent dinner.
Put it on your calendar – THURSDAY NOVEMBER 15th 6-9 PM. Dinner choices this year are beef, Chicken Parmigiana, or a Vegetarian Lasagna. Dinner this year will cost $25.00/person and includes salad, bread, coffee or tea and dessert. A sign-up sheet where you list your meal preference will be available at the October meeting as well as at VPC during the Flower Show. Please pay the $25.00/person dinner cost to Sydney Ogilvie at the October meeting (checks made out to ECA). Please sign up by the end of the show (November 4th). If you have any questions regarding the Banquet, contact Steve. Also: PLEAES remember toBRING your late maturing blooms for display at the ECA awards dinner.
Plant culture The October meeting will be devoted to the care and how to prepare your mums for the show. Cultural recommendations are attached. With possible rain or showers, consider your sheltering options for your plants.
December Meeting – ELECTIONS OF NEXT YEAR’S CLUB OFFICERS:
We’re rapidly approaching the time once again to volunteer & vote for the 2019 ECA Board of Directors/Officers. Recent members are encouraged to fill positions and get involved; seasoned club members will provide assistance. Members will vote on new Officers during our Dec. 13th meeting.
October ECA Newsletter Inputs, To-Dos and others
Supplies:
We will have available the usual assortments of ties, 4’ 6” and 16” ties, and LATE Fertilizer. If you need any soil, and some soils for the all important top dressing.
You’ll need to continue supplementing you feed with sulphate of Potash.. It’s available in many garden stores in 1-2 lb bags so you can obtain the potash that way.
Show Materials:
Show materials will be available at the October meeting and at the show site. You will need: -Entry forms where you list all the entries you make at the show, -Bloom tags, and a -Show Rules book which guides you as to how and where you can enter your blooms. You might want to start with appendix 2 of the show rules as it is an overview of where you may enter your various blooms. i.e. It starts With Large Exhibitions (Class#1) and shows the various places you can enter #1 blooms. Then it shows the same for #2s, #3s etc. After you understand all the places available for entering your blooms, then you return to the show Catalogue page 7 and start filling out your entry forms and tags.
We will have several copies of the show rules book at the meeting. You should have received a copy of the show rule in the past couple of years, but in case you have misplaced it we will have replacements available.
Show vases are provided at the show site, but you must provide your own waterborne carrier system to get the blooms to the show.
An updated copy of “Chrysanthemum Judging For the ECA Show-2013” has been posted on the web site. You should study this to understand what the judges are looking for when they judge the blooms: hence for instance, if you have petal rot on a petal or two you should remove those petals.
Reclassification of varieties for 2012-2013 per the Ncs:
-Mt. Shasta has been Reclassified from section 1 to section 2–show this year as section 2.
-Keith Luxford has been reclassified from section 2 to section 1–Show this year as a section 1.
-All Fairweathers have been reclassified as section 5. –Show this year as a section 5. However per
published NCS rules, some #5s can be shown as #3S, but will be judged on the standards for #3s
-Connie Mayhew has been reclassified from a #5 to a #2. Since our ECA list of exceptions allows showing
Connies as #2s or #5s nothing changes.
-Lilly Gallon has been reclassified from #5 to #2.—Show this year as either a #5 or a #2.
