National Show 2018   

The show will be held in the Quality Hotel Plymouth Internationa, New Plymouth, on Saturday 18 August. 

Further details will be posted as they become available.  

                                                    Black Magic - a previous winner

                   National Show 2017

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NATIONAL SHOW AND CONVENTION 2017

SHOW

  This event was special for our Society because it marked our 60th anniversary.  The Show was held in the Batten Room in the Novotel Hotel Rotorua on Saturday 12 August from 12 midday until 5.00 pm..       There were 937 blooms of differing sizes, colours and species exhibited in he Open and Novice Classes and they presented an impressive sea of colour against the white table clothes.

   In addition, in one Class there were a number of very impressive sprays of minature camellias of different spices, and in a Special Class             two attractive decorative baskets suitable for a table, and several well presented arrangements commenorating the Society 60th anniversary. 

             The Show shortly after it opened showing the Open, Novice and Special Classes                       

The Top Table with the trophy winners and their blooms

 The Champion Bloom of the Show was a magnificent very large pink bloom named Ruta Hagma a Recticulata which was won by Harvey Howard a member of the Marlborough Branch.   He is congratulated on a well deserved result.   And of interest Howard has previously won the top bloom of the show with the same species three times in the last ten years    He is a very passionate grower and exhibitor of camellias, and he freely passes on the knowledge and experience he has gained to others.   Howard won another seven trophies or certificates for different blloms in different classes.   And these too are very good results, and are well deserved. 

The Champion Bloom (top left) with its trophy the Bethwaite Memorial Trophy. also  in fromt the trophy for the  Best Amercian bloom, the American Camellia Society's Trophy, and the Best Reticulata bloom the Roland Young Memorial Trophy (top right).    

  And the Best Small Bloom (bottom right) with its trophy the Harold Austin Memorial Trophy won by Ailsa James from the Western Bay of Plenty.  She also won another trophy and certificate for two different blooms.  She is congratulated on the very good result.  

 The Best Novice Bloom was an excellent pink bloom Nicky Crisp which was bred in NZ   It was won by David and Sandra Smith from Paraparaumu, and they were presented with the Iris Gittings Tropy for the  Best Novice Bloom.   They are congratulated on achieving this outstanding result.    This was the first time they had entered blooms, and were encouraged to do so by their friend Harvey Howard (Champion Show winner)  who had stayed with them on the Thursday night.    David selected the blooms from his garden and Harvey entered them in the      show on their behalf.    They also won a second in the same class as the winning one...                                                       .

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The winning Novice bloom and Trophy 

Mayor Steve Chadwick welcomed everyone to the show, and formally opened it.      Steve was impressed with the number and quality of the exhibited blooms.   Our Presient presented the Mayor with a NZ bred white Quintessence in an attractivce pot.