May 14, 2006 in Port Charlotte, FL

 See the winners down below:

Total Entries - 1032 blooms (49 seedlings)

Gold Seals - 573 (55.5%) 

Jo Conrad and Eddie Griffith were busy with thejudging.	Jim Thompson (Orlando) had a successful day, as did Pete Conrad, a past president of the American Hibiscus Society.
Bob Collins, Don Mixon and Irene Collins.	Karla and Jerry Holmes.
Marge Martin at the check-in table.	Curt Sinclair, another past Society president, flattens out a bloom.
With over a thousand blooms to judge, the judging  tables were busy!	Nola Reynolds and Kathy Grandoff (Unbelievable Hibiscus) also had a successful day.
Jim Thompson (Port Charlotte) was busy making a hibiscus monument.	The room used for preparing blooms for judging was a hectic place with so many blooms to get ready.

 

The Harry Goulding Award went to the Conrad Nursery (Pete & Jo Conrad) for the Goulding variety, Great Satan.

The winners are:

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

Sweepstakes - Amateur: Jim Bridges, IMPROVED CRIMSON RAY	Sweepstakes - Collector: Irene Collins, WHITE DIAMONDS
Sweepstakes - Open Collector: Nola & Carlos Reynolds, MIS BEHAVIN'	Sweepstakes - Commercial: Unbelievable Hibiscus (Don Mixon & Kathy Grandoff), HOWARD HINE

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: Jim Thompson (Orlando), PEPPERMINT STAR	Amateur Double: Jim Thompson (Orlando), WILD BLUEBERRY
Collector Single: Wanda Schmoyer, MAHOGANY STAR	Collector Double: Irene Collins, CAJUN TWO STEP
Open Collector Single: Nola & Carlos Reynolds, BLACK DRAGON	Open Collector Double: Nola & Carlos Reynolds, MISSING SPOKE
Commercial Single: Conrad Nursery (Pete & Jo Conrad), BLACK DRAGON	Commercial Double: Tried & True Hibiscus (Randy & Annelle Cox), DANCING FIRE
Miniature Single: Conrad Nursery (Pete & Jo Conrad), WHITE DIAMONDS	Miniature Double: Karen Courtright, SUZI Q

See Bests of Show
Seedling Regular Single:	Seedling Regular Double: Nola & Carlos Reynolds, AMERICAN CLASSIC
Seedling Miniature Single: Nola & Carlos Reynolds, VELVET FROSTING	Seedling Miniature Double: Nola & Carlos Reynolds, FANTASY WORLD

 

The blooms below were the overall Bests of Show. 

Miniature: Conrad Nursery (Pete & Jo Conrad), IGUANA	Seedling: Nola & Carlos Reynolds, HOT  T
Single: Jim Thompson (Orlando), SILVER MEMORIES	Double: Unbelievable Hibiscus (Don Mixon & Kathy Grandoff), DANCING FIRE

 

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