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Camellia
Club of Mobile Newsletter Volume
IV Issue 4
January 2008 6 JANUARY 2008 - GARDEN TOUR - JAMES
& Eileen Dwyer The
first of our three Garden Tours for this camellia season will be at James &
Eileen Dwyer’s home on Sunday, January 6.
This will be a most interesting tour since you will discover a large
collection of species camellias, not just japonicas and sasanquas, plus many
fragrant varieties as well. The
tour will begin at 1:30 p.m. at l4040 Riverside Drive, Foley.
Driving directions as follows: Go
south on Hwy 98, past Fairhope, road will make a left turn at an intersection,
continue on Hwy 98 toward Foley. Cross
Fish River Bridge, at first main road turn left, this will be County Road l7.
Go past Pitcher Plant Bog (on left). At the end of Co. Rd 17 (about 1.2
miles) go left on Island Drive, after 200 feet turn right on Riverside Drive,
Dwyer home is on the right. If you
get lost, call 251-988-1405 and Jim or Eileen will direct you.
Don’t miss this tour, it is still a young camellia garden but very well
worth a visit to see many camellias you will not find elsewhere. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 13 JANUARY 2008 - CLUB MEETING
& MINI-SHOW This
is one of the most important Meetings of our camellia season - we will be
getting ready for our really big Show on the following weekend at Colonial Mall
Bel Air in Mobile.
Walter Creighton, 2008 Show Chairman, will tell us what needs to be done
to make this event successful. There will be something for everyone who wants to
participate in one of the biggest and best camellia shows in the South, you can
help for a
short while, or for several hours, it is up to you.
We do have a lot of fun and are very proud of the results of our efforts.
Do try to bring blooms to exhibit, we have 3 special categories for
novice entrants who have never won an award before, we’ve also a special
section for Alabama Growers of the Camellia Club of Mobile.
Here’s a tip for those of you who’ve seen the gorgeous blooms grown
by Jim & Elaine Smelley and Walter Creighton - they only exhibit in the
protected section - so you won’t be competing against them if you’ve
been growing your
camellias out-of-doors and unprotected!! A
Mini-Show is planned for this meeting so you will know what the judges are
looking for in an award-winning bloom, how to fill in your exhibitor’s card,
how to display your bloom to its best advantage, where to put your entry on the
exhibitors tables, etc. So bring
some blooms - only five, please
- and enjoy a little light-hearted competition.
This Mini-Show will be judged by our members who are ACS fully accredited
Camellia Show Judges. As usual the
Meeting will begin at 2:00 p.m. with a social half-hour before being called to
order at 2:30. _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 19 & 20 JANUARY 2008 - 68th
Annual camellia Show The
Camellia Club of Mobile will be holding its 68th Camellia Show at Colonial Mall
Bel Air on the above dates. Persons
wishing to exhibit blooms should have them there between 7 a.m. and 11 a.m. on
Saturday, January 19. The
Show will be open to the public from 3 p.m. until 9 p.m. that day, and from noon
until 4 p.m. on Sunday, January 20. All
members are encouraged to participate, by helping to run the Show and/or
entering blooms. We normally have
over 2,000 blooms on exhibit, and more than that number of visitors to see the
Show. All
members are invited to attend the pre-show Judges Reception that is held by the
Club for all the Judges who have agreed to participate in adjudicating our Show.
This will be held at the Ramada Hotel
near Colonial Mall Bel Air -(just down the I-65 service road from the old
Sam’s store). Food and beverages
provided by Club members will be available, this is a very pleasant social
gathering and you will meet camellia enthusiasts and judges from all over the
south-east U.S. ________________________________________________________________________________________________ 27 JANUARY 2008 - GARDEN TOUR -
UNIV. SO. ALABAMA CAMPUS The
second of our Garden Tours will be coordinated by Brenda Litchfield at the
University of South Alabama campus on Sunday , January 27 and will begin at 1:30
p.m. We will be visiting the public
camellia display area where plants were first placed on campus in the l960s
& 70s. Driving directions as follows: From
Airport Blvd. in Mobile, head north of University Blvd.
Pass the main campus entrance on Old Shell Road. At the second campus
entrance turn left. At the next
read turn right into the parking lots. Park at upper lot close to the
Administration Bldg.
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