Those who are fans of the products and the plants have also become a fan of the man, Monty Justice. So, since I just found out some exciting news about our favorite rosarian, I thought i would share it with you.  Monty just won, ‘King of the Rose’ at the Tenarky district competition.  He won the award with his exhibition of a Denali Rose, pictured here. (BTW…too much PBS for me apparently but Denali is a word from the Inuit peoples in Alsaka; it means ‘The High One’ and was used as a name for one of their gods and for the mountain which ultimately was renamed for President McKinley).

After speaking with Monty, he told me he was headed to a competition in Nashville this weekend.  He did tell me what type of rose he would be displaying.  BUT, I think I will keep that to myself.  (wouldn’t want to tip off the other exhibitors).  Good Luck Monty!

On a related note, he also just won the judges class at a Rose Show in Evansville, IN.  As a judge at the show he was not allowed to enter in the standard competition, but the judges have their own class and our Monty took top prize.  Monty told me “When you are going up against other judges, everyone knows the right things to do in terms of presentation, so it is always a very tough class to win.”

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