MTDS News
Middle Tennessee Daffodil Society
Established April 5, 1958
MTDS Officers: 2006-2007
ADS Officers who are members of MTDS:
President: Ann McKinney
Southeast Regional Director: Becky Matthews
Vice President: Amanda McKinney
Youth Committee
Chairman: Becky Matthews
Treasurer:
Ann McKinney
ADS Legal Counsel: Dick Frank
Membership Chairman: Anne Owen
From the President:
We had a terrific 2006-07! We welcomed 10 new
members, who not only paid dues, but attended our spring meeting, helped with the show and exhibited! Please spread the word
that we are a great deal…low dues, few meetings, 3 or 4 newsletters a year, a local show with great awards and lots
to learn and free bulbs to new members each fall!
Thank you for your continued support and interest in daffodils,
Ann McKinney
MTDS President
SPRING MEMBERSHIP MEETING
We had a very successful spring meeting on March 11, 2007
at the home of Susan and Ray Basham. We had several first-timers: Jennifer and Jeff Harvey, Joy Biola,
Kathy Crownover and Sandi Eichenberger. Thank you to the Bashams and to everyone who came!
WELCOME NEW MEMBERS!
MTDS is thrilled to welcome the following new members:
Joy Biola
Donna Brooks
Lynne Casey
Kathy
Crownover
Sandi Eichenberger Jeff
and Jennifer Harvey
Laua
Smith
Patti and Robert Waller
MTDS MEMBERSHIP…
The expiration of your membership dues are indicated on your mailing label. Please mail dues, $10.00
for an individual, $15.00 for a family to MTDS: Anne Owen 1203 Natchez Road Franklin, TN 37069. For information or questions,
please contact Anne at annieo1203@comcast.net or 794-0138. Please pay your dues so that you are not dropped from our mailing list! Also, please let us know
if there is any change in your mailing or email address so that we can contact you with society news and happenings.
THANK
YOU VOLUNTEERS!
Thank you so much to our many volunteers who helped make the show a great success.
Set-Up
Pam Braun,
Mary Calhoun, Susan Basham, Ray Basham, Becky Matthews, Kathy Welsh and Marise Keathley
Take-Down
Pam Braun,
Mary Calhoun, Susan Basham, Ray Basham, Becky Matthews, Marise Keathley, Nancy Keen Palmer, Chris Catanzaro, Benny Amos, Jeff
Harvey and Jennifer Harvey
Clerks
Benny Amos, Chris Catanzaro, Sandi Eichenberger, Kathy Crownover, Pam Braun,
Jeff Harvey, Jennifer Harvey, Joy Biola and Patti Waller
Horticulture Judges
Amanda McKinney, Sandra Frank, Kathy Welsh, Bonnie
Campbell, Patrice Winters, Beverly Barbour, Dick Frank and Becky Matthews
Design Judges
Pam Braun, Kathy Crownover and Sandi Eichenberger
A
SPECIAL THANK YOU
The members
of MTDS would like to extend a special thank you to Dick and Sandra Frank for donating 7 lovely pieces of silver that were
awarded at this year’s show. They added a lot to the excitement and the winners are very grateful!
Best in Show – large
silver tray – Kathy Welsh
Most Blue Ribbons – silver bowl – Susan and Ray Basham
Best Vase of Three –
small round tray – Becky Fox Matthews
Best Miniature – small round tray – Susan and Ray Basham
Small Grower
Best Bloom – silver frame – Susan and Ray Basham
Best Collection – oval silver tray - Becky Fox Matthews
Best Poeticus
– scalloped silver bowl – Ann McKinney
SHOW RECAP
The 47th annual show as held
at Cheekwood on March 31st and April 1st. Despite very difficult weather conditions, there were 277
exhibits by 20 exhibitors with 462 blooms. Additionally, there were 16 fabulous design entries by 10 exhibitors. A total of
110 blue ribbons were awarded.
Horticulture Exhibitors
Blue Ribbons Design Exhibitors
Susan and Ray Basham
21
Jennifer Harvey
Ann and Amanda McKinney
16
Jeff Harvey
Kathy Welsh
13
Denise Hussey
Becky Fox Matthews
13
Benny Amos
Patrice Winters
6
Kathy Crownover
Bonnie Campbell
6
Donna Welke
Beverly Barbour
6
Florence Ann Ketelsen
Sandra and Dick Frank
6
Pat Darling Bowling
Alice Mathews
5
Sandi Eichenberger
Amelia Winters
5
Pam Braun
Benny Amos
3
Alison McKinney
2
Mary Calhoun
2
Nancy
Keen Palmer
2
Janet Loyd
1
Pam Braun
1
Abbie McKinney
1
Abby Winters
1
Jennifer Harvey
Anna
Coleman
MTDS Award Winners
Best in Show: Kathy Welsh
- Magic Lantern 1 Y-O
Best in Section A: (Single Stems) Alice Mathews – American
Classic 2Y-WYY
Best in Small Grower Section: Susan and Ray Basham – Ringhaddy 3W-GYO
Best Miniature:
Becky Fox Matthews – Xit 3W-W
Best Intermediate(Pat Bates Memorial Award): Kathy Welsh –
Scarlet Tanager 2Y-R
Best Intermediate Collection (Alice Wray Taylor Award):
Kathy Welsh –
Scarlet Tanager 2Y-R, Sulph 2 Y-Y, Forge Mill 2Y-GOO, Equation 11a Y-O,
Skilliwidden 2Y-Y
Best
Historic Collection (Kitty Frank Memorial): Becky Fox Matthews –
Gulliver - 1927- 3Y-YYO, Mary Copeland – 1913 – 4W-O,
Cantabile – 1932 0 9W-GYR, Laurens Koster – 1906
– 8W-Y,
Cheerfulness – 1937 – 4Y-Y
Best Youth Standard: Alison McKinney – Highfield Beauty
8Y-YYO
Best Youth Miniature: Amelia Winters – Pipit 7YYW-W
Most Blue Ribbons, Youth
Section: Amelia Winters – 5
Best
Single Stem Garden Club Section: Mary Calhoun-Town & Country G.C.
Elizabeth Ann 6 W-GWP
Best Single Stem Master Gardener Section: Mary Calhoun – Lebanon
M.G.
Elizabeth Ann 6W-GWP
Pink Collection (Sam
Winters Memorial Award): Becky Fox Matthews
Havens VH 20/12 a 2W-P, Jeanine 2W-P,
Twin Towers 2W-P, Kaydee 6W-P
Woods
Pink 2W-GWP
Red/Orange Cup (Amanda Spackman Gehret Memorial Award): Kathy Welsh
Falstaff 2Y-O, Loch More 2Y-R, Aintree 3W-O, Hot Gossip 2Y-O, Glenfarclas 1 Y-O
Novice Collection
(Mrs. Robert Cartwright Award): Susan and Ray Basham
Division 1 Collection – Pink Swan 1W-P, Goldfinger 1Y-Y,
Ah Hee 1Y-Y, Bravoure 1W-Y, Arctic Gold 1Y-Y
Parent-Child Duo (McKinney Family Award): Ann and
Amanda McKinney
Parent: Matador 8Y-GOO, Child: Castanets 8Y-O
DESIGN
SECTION:
Best In Show: Jennifer Harvey – Traditional Mass Design
Division
1 – Traditional Mass Division
2 – Oriental Design
1st – Jennifer Harvey
1st – Kathy Crownover
2nd – Jeff Harvey
2nd – Jeff Harvey
3rd
– Denise Hussey
3rd – Jennifer Harvey
Division 3 – Line Mass
Division 4 – Small Design
1st – Jennifer Harvey
1st – Sandi Eichenberger
2nd – Florence
Ann Ketelsen 2nd
– Pam Braun
3rd – Jeff Harvey
3rd – Jeff Harvey
PAST SHOW RECAPS:
Just
to give you a feel for the effects of the spring weather, I dug out the show reports for the last 5 years to compare the number
of blooms and exhibits. I’m sure the loss of Sam Winters also had a big impact on the number of exhibits and blooms
this year:
March 30-31, 2007
Exhibits: 277 Blooms: 462 Exhibitors: 20
April 1-2,
2006
Exhibits: 352 Blooms: 583 Exhibitors: 24
April 2-3,
2005
Exhibits: 263 Blooms: 401 Exhibitors: 20
April 3-4,
2004
Exhibits: 626 Blooms: 938 Exhibitors: 18
April 5-6,
2003
Exhibits: 337 Blooms: 421 Exhibitors: 20
Average:
Exhibits: 377 Blooms: 468 Exhibitors: 20
MTDS
TREASURER’S REPORT
February 1, 2007 –
April 1, 2007
Beginning Balance: $3,464.40
Income:
Expenses:
Dues:
$ 215.00
Newsletter:
$ 47.53
Awards:
$ 40.00
TN Fed Garden Club $ 34.84
Show Expenses: $ 553.43
Total Income
$ 255.00
Total Expenses:
$ 635.80
Ending Balance:
$3,083.60 Checking Balance: $584.02 CD Balance:
$2,500.00
IN MEMORIUM – Sam Winters
MTDS members mourn the loss of one of
our longest standing and active members, Sam Winters. Sam passed away February
15, 2007. Sam was a member of MTDS for more than 30 years. At the
time of his death, Sam had been the longest standing member of ADS. Sam entered numerous blooms each year in the annual show.
Additionally, Sam brought hundreds of his spectacular blooms that he shared with designers and visitors to Cheekwood. Sam
loved working in his beds. He would spend the day in his garden with a wooden chair and his charts carefully cutting his best
blooms. He stored them in refrigerators for which he had a remote thermostat display that he could monitor and misted his
blooms frequently to keep them fresh for the show.
Sam loved all daffodils, but was particularly fond of pink daffodils, as the
MTDS an award for the best pink collection in his memory. In the past few years, Sam had concentrated on his miniature collection,
although he was also a big fan of tazettas and poets as well. Sam loved sharing his daffodils as much as he did growing and
entering them into shows.
In the past ten years, Sam won the silver ribbon 4 times. He was always quick to offer a helping
hand with both set-up and take-down. Sam conducted many lectures about daffodils to local garden clubs in the Clarksville area.
He encouraged fellow exhibitors; particularly nurturing his daughter-in-law Patrice and her daughters,
Amelia and Abby. Patrice is an accredited judge. Amelia and Abby have both won Youth Best Bloom awards. Sam has three great
legacies to carry on his tradition in daffodils and the MTDS. Sam was a past MTDS president and a past ADS Southeast Regional
Vice President.
Sam was born in Clarksville, TN February 9, 1926. He was in public education for 38 years, first as a teacher and then as the
principal of a number of Montgomery County Elementary Schools. After retiring as principal of East Montgomery School, he worked as a supervisor of
student teachers at Austin Peay State University. Sam was a veteran of the Army Air Corps and served during World War II. Sam and his wife, Mary Jo, were married
in 1947. They had 14 children together. Sam is survived by 13 of his children, 38 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.
We will
all miss Sam greatly.
IMPORTANT DATES:
OCTOBER 21, 2007
FALL MEETING AT ANN MCKINNEY’S
FEBRUARY/MARCH 2008
SPRING MEETING
MARCH
28-30, 2008
MIDDLE TENNESSEE DAFFODIL SHOW
April 2008
ADS CONVENTION – RICHMOND, VIRGINIA
SUMMER DAFFODIL CARE
v Don’t remove, fold or cut foliage or stop watering daffodils until the foliage begins to die
back (turn yellow) (early May)
v Once
foliage begins to die back it can be removed
v If digging, wait until foliage begins to die so that bulbs get all nutrients necessary for next year’s
blooms
v
After digging bulbs, check each bulb
for virus, disease or insect damage. Throw away any soft or damaged bulbs
v Keep bulbs dry throughout summer – hang in cool, dry place in mesh bags until time to plant
(mid October to early November)
v Don’t
water daffodils in summer
v Overplant
daffodils with marigolds – this helps fight disease and requires little watering
v Water daffodils again when weather cools off (October)
v Fertilize with low nitrogen fertilizer in fall
v Remember if you dig, update planting charts