(June 7, 2009 in Fort Myers, FL)

 See the winners down below:

Total Entries - 866 blooms, 152 seedlings

Gold Seals - 441 (51.8%), 5 amateur exhibitors

Joyce Comingore (chapter president), and Frank Heffernan	Wanda Schmoyer and Helen Hendry
John Cocolis and Paul Watson busy preparing blooms for judging.	Don Mixon, Jim Sheaf and Tom Adams
Fern Betancourt, Paula La Coste and Curt Sinclair	Jim Courtright and Barbara Oster
Connie Roush and AmHS Executive Secretary Val Longson	John Webster and Nola Reynolds
Bob Carran, Annelle Cox and Carlos Reynolds	Fred Roush and AmHS President Eddie Griffith
Jo Conrad and Mary Bridges	Randy Cox and Stan Tillotson

More people pictures at bottom.

The winners are:

Sweepstakes winning exhibitors have chosen the blooms below to represent themselves.

Sweepstakes - Amateur: Nancy Kopp, ACADIAN SPRING	Sweepstakes - Collector: Jim & Mary Bridges, HIGH VOLTAGE
Sweepstakes - Open Collector: Nola & Carlos Reynolds, DANCING FIRE	Sweepstakes - Commercial: Unbelievable Hibiscus (Kathy Grandoff & Don Mixon), TAHITIAN PRINCESS

The above were the winning growers and the flowers they chose to represent themselves.

The flowers below were the winning blooms by category and their growers. 

Amateur Single: Pat La Coste, BIG EASY	Amateur Double: Jerry Smyth, ANDREA
Collector Single: John Cocolis, JUNE'S DRAGON	Collector Double: Karla & Jerry Holmes, SILVER CHARM
Open Collector Single: Nola & Carlos Reynolds, CAROLYN'S HALO	Open Collector Double: Nola & Carlos Reynolds, FIRST LIGHT
Commercial Single: Unbelievable Hibiscus (Kathy Grandoff & Don Mixon), AMERICAN MAID	Commercial Double: Exotic Hibiscus (Curt Sinclair), IRISH EYES
Miniature Single: Unbelievable Hibiscus (Kathy Grandoff & Don Mixon), POND SCUM	Miniature Double: Jerry Smyth, HILO ICE

	See Bests of Show.
Seedling Regular Single: Nola & Carlos Reynolds, SEA SPARROW	Seedling Regular Double: See Best of Show.
Seedling Miniature Single: Fern Betancourt, CURT'S GIFT	Seedling Miniature Double: Nola & Carlos Reynolds, GLORY BEE

The blooms below were the overall Bests of Show. 

Miniature: Nola & Carlos Reynolds, CERES	Seedling: Nola & Carlos Reynolds, TRIPLE XXX
Single: Jim Bridges, VOODOO MAGIC	Double: Nola & Carlos Reynolds, CAJUN TWO STEP

Many Presidents Eddie Griffith (current AmHS president) and past AmHS presidents: Rita Hall, Curt Sinclair, Zelma Neef, Carl Powell and Pete Conrad.

Clockwise from the top: Judges making final decisions on the 100s of blooms; the "Hibiscus Tree" was photographed often; Ann Wollschlager; Toni Czerny; Charlotte Harff; Ann & Calvin Lloyd in the middle.

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