XVLI International Camellia Contest-Exhibition in Pontevedra
Press note and
photographs of the XVLI International Camellia Contest-Exhibition in Pontevedra
The 46th
International Camellia Contest-Exhibition in Pontevedra was held at the Sixth
building of the Pontevedra Provincial Museum. Around 50 camellia growers
participated in the contest. Apart from the participation of the contestants,
the exhibit had the participation of private individuals who showed their
flowers out of competition as well as other types of contribution all related
to the Camellia Flower: gold and jewels, drawings, pictures, photographs,
postcards, stamps, ect..
The most important prize of the exhibition,
"The Camellia Gold Award" was given to the most outstanding participant,
José Torres Rego. The growers Carmen Corral Luengo and Carmen
González Santaya were awarded with the Special Awards: "Antonio
Odriozola" and the one granted by the Spanish Camellia Society. As regards the
awards for Best artistic presentation, they were given to Lelita Gradín
(first) and María Rodríguez.
The rest of the prizes were
given to the following exhibitors: Fernando Vila Gómez, Eusebio
López Redondo and Rosa Crespo Iglesias were awarded with the first,
second and third prize of Camellia reticulata in any color or
variegation, respectively; Carmen Costas Alonso, Ana Isabel Calo Torrado and
Mercedes Pita Mon were awarded with the first, second and third prizes of
hybrid camellias; Rubia Almuiña´s family and Carlos Comendador
Rey, the first and second prize of Camellia japonica pink or other
colour; María Cruz Coello and Carlos Comendador Rey, the first and
second prize of red Camellia japonica; Fernando Vila Gómez and
María Teresa Díaz first and second prize of Camellia
japonica mottled or variegated and Eusebio López Redondo and Manuela
Couso Ares the first and second of Other species of
Camellia.