Nice little surprise

9 years ago

It's county fair week, and I always scrounge together some entries for the hort show: avs, Hosta, lilies etc.

My I-don't-know-old plain jane pink (it's NOT zaftig moon like the label says) adenium happened to be blooming on the deck, so I thought 'what the heck'. So 'Jabba' - as we have nicknamed it due to its rotund caudex and the way the root curves around 'Jabba's body' like a tail - made his maiden voyage to the county fair. I figured most folks/judges would not even know what it was and would consider it a curiosity, especially here in podunk. Much to my surprise, it took the 'Award of Merit' for the top container grown plant.

- a very stunned dave

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Yayi (SouthFL 10b)
9 years ago
Way to go Jabba! And Dave :)
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Hyn Patty, Western NC Mountains (USA)
9 years ago
Congratulations! Long, long ago in a galaxy far away I used to enter plants and artwork into my local and state fairs and always did very well. I suppose I out grew that somewhere along the way and got too busy. But sometimes it's nice to slow down and enjoy such a simple pleasure. Maybe my son would enjoy entering a plant or two he's grown next year. I haven't given him any of my adeniums but he likes them. I should let him start his own from seed, too.
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SoCal Stewart (San Diego, Ca Zone 10A/10B)
9 years ago
Very nice, Dave. Congratulations!

Tyler
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Carol love_the_yard (Zone 9A Jacksonville, FL)
9 years ago
That story is full of delicious awesomeness! Can you imagine if you had entered a mature one with a big, twisted, pretzel-y caudex? The judges would have lost their minds!

Carol in Jacksonville
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Peter Newcastle Aust spider mite breeder
9 years ago
Well done may be graft a nice color on it for next year lol:×)
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