2017 Rhody Show Results
Total Number of Entries in 2017: 803
Total Number of Ribbons Awarded 2017: 231 plus 84 Honorable Mentions
Trophy Winners
Best of Show – Valerie & Dennis McKiver, hybrid (‘Lady Roseberry X R. oreotrephes) spray
Best Noyo Chief – Babs & Sam Levine
People's Choice – Valerie & Dennis McKiver, ‘Black Widow’ truss
Best Deciduous Azalea Truss/Lloyd G. Turner Memorial Award – Phillip and Lucy Johnson, unknown
Best Deciduous Azalea Spray/Rose Turner Award – Phillip and Lucy Johnson, unknown
Best Evergreen Azalea Spray/Philip B. Cornell Memorial Award – Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens, R. rubropilosum
Best Evergreen Azalea Truss/Noyo Chapter Trophy – Valerie & Dennis McKiver, ‘Kerrigan’s Pink Bouquet’
Best New Introduction/Peter Schick Memorial Trophy – Phillip and Lucy Johnson, ‘Nancy Evans’ X ‘Noyo Chief’
Best Red Rhododendron/Celeri & Son Nursery Trophy – Tom & Kathryn Charters, ‘Jim Drewry’
Best Lavender Rhododendron – Phillip and Lucy Johnson, ‘Van Ness Sensation’
Best White Rhododendron /David and Rhoda Ward Trophy – Phillip and Lucy Johnson, ‘Lady de Rothschild’
Best Large Hybrid Spray/Bluewater Trophy – Ken Jones, Forest Lane Nursery, ‘Patricia Marie’
Best Small Species Rhododendron/The Philp Family Trophy – Valerie & Dennis McKiver, R. benhallii
Best Yakushimanum Hybrid Truss/Bill & Lorraine Fee Trophy – Valerie & Dennis McKiver, ‘Silver Skies’
Best Pink Rhododendron /Mendocino Coast Botanical Garden Trophy – Wendy and Jim Ponts, ‘Ruby Bowman’
Sweepstakes Award – Dennis & Valerie McKiver
Blue Ribbon Winners
20 winners of 71 blue ribbons awarded
-Tom & Kathryn Charters (1)
-Bruce & Julie Donaldson (3)
-Phillip & Lucy Johnson (12)
-Dick Jones (9)
-Ken Jones (4)
-Byron & Teresa Jonk (2)
-Sharon & Howard Lau (1)
-Babs & Sam Levine (2)
-Doria Lewis (1)
-Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens (5)
-Dennis & Valerie McKiver (24)
-Ed Monsen (1)
-Ben Nicholson (1)
-Judy Parker (1)
-Wendy & Jim Ponts (2)
-Armando & JoAnne Quevedo (1)
-Rosalie Stanley (2)
-Fran & Ted Steinhart (1)
-Scott Vorhees (1)
-John & Susan Winding (2)
Sweepstakes
Points earned: 3 for 1st, 2 for 2nd, 1 for 3rd
-Dennis & Valerie McKiver: 211 points
-Phil Johnson: 75 points
-Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens: 45 points
-Dick Jones: 39
-Ken Jones: 32