Tahitian Baby Bonfire was awarded the IHS HOTY, Hibiscus of the Year, for 2005. It
was bred and entered by Richard Johnson, from Tahiti. Here we provide you some
of the photos and supplemental data submitted to the HPOJ, HOTY Panel Of Judges,
upon which they based their votes to select the eventual winner.
Our congratulations go to Richard for winning the third IHS HOTY competition.
We thank the hybridizers who entered candidates in this program, in this case at
their own expense. We thank the evaluators who grew the plants and provided
the photos and data. We thank Nina Bjelovucic, the IHS HOTY coordinator, for
her tireless efforts in collecting this information from the trailing stations
and passing it to the HPOJ. We of course thank the judges and most of all we
thank the membership for participating in the initial SOTY selections, which
form the core of the IHS HOTY Program. In this respect the IHS is unique in that
the membership and affiliates are able to vote on what they consider to be the
most beautiful of the candidates presented, after which the HPOJ narrows the
field based upon their expert evaluation of the candidates chosen by the
membership.
http://www.internationalhibiscussociety.org/TPCPhotos/
the photos of the 15 entries can be seen at the above address
Tahitian Baby Bonfire was bred by Richard Johnson from the
parents of Rosalind X Radiation Hazard, and reaches the size of
between 7 to 8 inches with 54.95 points
