Dahlia club meeting last night. I sat at a table after it started as I recognized a couple of people. The person next to me was unknown to me but of course I introduced myself and it turns out she lives 1.5 miles from us(that is almost next door in the "country".) She is our closest dahlia neighbor.
Meeting room was theoretically air conditioned but perhaps it was installed in 1906 when the building was erected.
I thought the Red Pig Tool man was on the agenda but there was no guest speaker.
I got invited to "work crew" at the trial garden(11 miles away) despite my proclivity to do more talking than working.
One subject was how to stage show flowers. I went to the concession stand(volunteers bring cookies) instead.
If you are show person a hot subject is the fact that the only manufacturer of the floral foam we use at the shows has decided that they want to just re-cycle the scraps of foam instead of shredding it and selling to the tiny number of dahlia show exhibitors. I asked whether Styrofoam was the same and it is not. A committee(from several clubs) has found new manufacturer that will sell us un-shredded foam and clubs are going to buy shredding machines($400- or less) . Non show people must find this a bit over the top.
Gotta go, Margaret is calling.
