Utah Dahlia Society: 2016

Sunday, November 6, 2016

2016 Awards Dinner

The Utah Dahlia Society

2016 Awards dinner

was held on October 11th.

Given Megan won most of the awards she was crown Queen of the Show;)

We all love Joe Morely BBQ!

Spence awarded Dick Taylor the ADS award

for his efforts on the demo garden this year.

Head Table Award winners received a fancy pair of clippers this year.

Rebecca Swalberg receiving her award

for Best AA Mango Madness

Jan Lister for her Best M, Tahoma Big M

William Hughes for his Best Ball, Clearview Daniel

Ryan and Julie Williams for their Best Exotic, Miss Delilah

Megan Badger for winning:

Best A - Gitts Perfection

Best B - Sorbet

Best BB - Bloomquest Barbara

Best Pom - Glenplace

Best 3 Blooms - Country Superstar

Best Arrangement - Dahlia-copia

Best of Show - Gitts Perfection

Thanks to:

Megan for all she does for the UDS,

Mark Hurst, President
and Sandy Burgess, Show Chairperson

It is now November 6th and we have yet to have a hard freeze. Hopefully, we will be digging the demo garden tubers soon. Wish us luck;)

Wednesday, October 5, 2016

2016 UDS Show

The 2016 Utah Dahlia Society Show

held on September 24th and 25th

belonged to

Megan Badger.

There are 11 top Awards that go to our Head Table

and Megan won 7 of them!

Her Gitts Perfection won Best A then went on to win

Best of Show.

Congratulations to Megan!

She really is the hardest working member of the UDS and this year has proved to be our top grower as well.

Congratulations to our other Head Table winners;

Becky Swalberg for Best AA

Jan Lister for Best Miniature

William Hughes for Best Ball

Ryan and Julie Williams for Best Exotic

The youngest member of the UDS

with her Largest Bloom entry

Bouquets for our fund raiser.

The flowers came from our own demo garden and many thanks to Steve LeCheminant along with Ryan and Julie Williams for their generous donations of flowers.

Becky Swalberg's Best AA Mango Madness

Megan Badger, QUEEN OF THE SHOW!

PHOTO CONTEST

Head Table Winners

Megan Badger's Best of Show and Best A, Gitts Perfection

Mark Hurst our UDS President

Our Head Table Winners:

Best AA: Mango Madness Rebecca Swalberg

Best A: Gitts Perfection Megan Badger

Best B: Sorbet Megan Badger

Best BB: Bloomquist Barbara Megan Badger

Best M Tahoma Big M Jan Litster

Best Ball Clearview Daniel William Hughes

Best Exotic Miss Delilah Ryan & Julie Williams

Best Pompon Glenplace Megan Badger

Best 3 Blooms Country Superstar Megan Badger

Best Arrangement Dahlia-copia Megan Badger

Best of Show Gitts Perfection Megan Badger

For a complete list of winners receiving ribbons contact me for a PDF file compiled by our Show Chairperson,

Sandy Burgess.

Thanks to everyone that helped with the show and to Kathy Young and Becky and Chris Swalberg for some of the photos.

Our Awards dinner will be held on October 11th.
Check your e-mail for details

BTW, this is our 100th UDS Blog post!

Thursday, September 15, 2016

Friday, August 26, 2016

Utah Dahlia Society 2016

The Utah Dahlia Society

blog has been forgotten this summer but that certainly doesn't mean that the dahlias have been forgotten.

Mark, Megan, Sandy and Karen planted the demonstration garden on Saturday, May 7 and got rained out so finished on Monday, May, 9th.

Fast forward to

Thursday, August 18th to our summer social.

Becky and Chris Swalberg hosted the event at their lovely home. We all enjoyed touring their fantastic gardens and the delicious food. They served us hamburgers with homemade buns and all the trimmings while we all brought yummy side dishes.

Thanks so much to Becky and Chris!

The topic at the social was of course dahlias. It has been an unusual year: a very wet and cool spring followed abruptly with over 100 degree heat that stayed for weeks, cooled a bit and then the temperatures went soaring again.

This weather, we think, is the cause of our smaller plants and late blooms.

Our annual Exhibition Show is scheduled for

September 24th and 25th

at the

Sugarhouse Garden Center.

Details to follow in our next post.