Again this year, CCDS members gathered the highest quality blooms from their gardens, and set out for the Markham show of the Canadian Chrysanthemum and Dahlia Society

Teresa taking the extra blooms and making them into bouquet masterpieces - and this was the second show of the day she attended!

Ann & Roy - miraculously alert even after spending the whole night staging blooms together.

Dahlia 'POOH' in peak of perfection,  colour, and form

Chrysanthemum 'PETER ROWE', grown/exhibited by Roy Fox

In the foreground. many other of the chrysanthemums grown and exhibited  by Roy Fox 

Horst is renowned for the huge blooms he grows

(I often wonder if he has found a way to pump fertilizer into these plants at about 30p.s.i.)

A charming dahlia with delicate colour - introducing the lovely dahlia 'ODYSSEY'

Jude always manages a ribbon with her orchid-class dahlia "HONKA'

 The mall has just opened, and the first guests start to appear with their steady stream of cameras, usually after touching the blooms to persuade themselves the exhibits are real flowers.

Photo-ops continued all day long

Going once, twice...!  - Ross getting ready to start auctioning blooms after a full day of meeting the public