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SRGC Shows and Events => SRGC Shows Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Maggi Young on May 01, 2008, 06:28:25 PM
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Here's hoping the sun is shining, as is traditional, for the Glasgow Show this Saturday.
I am embarrassed to admit that Ian and I have not a single show plant to take. :-[
On the plus side, this means that Show Secretary John Lee will have at least two judges who need not excuse themselves from any classes because of a clash of interest!
In the aftermath of the Scottish oil refinery strike, I do hope that all exhibitors and visitors will be able to obtain the necessary fuel for their cars to journey to the show, or else the roads of central Scotland may be clogged with folks pushing wheelbarrows of show plants to the venue :o
Even though we are without show plants, Ian and I are setting off tomorrow on our way to the show.....this may seem a little excessive but we are stopping off in Dunblane tomorrow afternoon , where Ian is giving a demonstration of "Fish Boxes to Troughs" to the local Inner Wheel Group 8)
This demo is planned for outside, so a sunny afternoon tomorrow would be a real treat, as well as warm sun for Saturday's show!! Fingers crossed! [attach=1]
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A few pictures from the Glasgow show.
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Two more
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Lovely pictures Tom, thanks for posting them. Anothe Forrest MM for Cyril Lafong, he must have a very long mantlepiece!
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Quite right there, David, I believe that Cyril's mantlepiece runs through three counties ;)
It's always nice to have a cheery welcome to the show.....
Staging in progress……. 5 pix
Benches 1 2 3
Hall 1
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Benches 5 pix
Hall view and tall Arisaema nepenthoides
Hall view and top of Arisaema nepenthoides
Hall view and lower part of Arisaema nepenthoides
Hall view hall rhodos- these rhodos were a bit disappointing to me, better ones elswhere...
trillium view
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Show 1 -8
close up
show with Meconopsis x cookei Mec Cookei
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Beautiful images Tom and Maggi....many thanks for sharing.
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Maggi, in 'bench x' is that Dick Barr? We used to live in the same town and work in the same place before I became an economic refugee! Didn't even know we shared a passion till we bumped into each other at Alpines 2001.
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Yes, indeed, Martin, that is Dick Barr, shown stewarding with Ursula Edge.
Lots more pix to come.....who knows who else you may recognise?
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Margaret Taylor, putting finishing touches to staging Clematis x cartmannii 'Joe'
Margaret and Henry Taylor, who raised Clematis x cartmannii 'Joe', enjoying a cup of tea as staging ends
Graeme and Hilary Butler, of Rumbling Bridge Nursery, staging their plants
Anthony Darby, Alan Gardner and Glassford Sprunt
Anthony D with Camera and cypripedium in front.....but where are your pix , Anthony?
Cypripedium 'Sabine '
Best orchid... Cyp ??? someone will tell me!
Studies in Contemplation
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Some plants now:
Androsace villosa
Aciphylla subflabellata
Arisaemas abound…. 5
Calochortus tolmei
Erigeron ‘Canary Bird’
Dionysia caespitosa caespitosa
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Anne Chambers loves Arisaema
Anne paints other things, too, though, here are two compilations of her paintings which she has made into cards
Anne in the hall
A quartet of Lewisias
A pair of fat Daphnes
An Androsace studiosorum ‘Doksa’ that you may yet see more of…
Calceolaria fothergilli
And again…
Cassiope 'Randle Cooke'
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Chat and pix
Queue at Christie’s stall , seen from outside the building
Ann Christie , our First Lady, spots my tactic
The Bulb Despot chats to the Glenrothes Greenfinger…. Or Ian chats to Cyril
Daphne petraea grandiflora
Daphne arbuscula grandiflora
Dave Riley and Brian Burrows, two of the six judges
Edna, the Hallkeeper, buys some plants
Plants for sale
More plants for sale
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Wonderful pictures of more stunning plants !
Thanks for sharing them Maggi and Tom !
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Thank you, Luc.
Show Secretary John Lee and Bill Robinson
John waits for the judges to agree
John waits again for the judges to agree
It was worth his while… his Primula aureata gets a prize!
Another of John’s plants, Leucojum (Acis) nicaense
Acis nicaense
Ian leaning
Bill has a good day ,too, his Viola colunmnaris gets best plant in 6inch pot, winning the SRGC 75th Jubilee award… one of Anne C’s print !
viola
Ian Doig, watching us, watching you....
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Our Roving Reporter Tom Cameron was at the show with Cindy, here they are having a word with former SRGC President Peter Semple
Peter was on call earlier in the day so had left it to his wife, Liz to s deliver and stage his plants… including a large pot of Gentiana acaulis, which Liz could scarcely lift… luckily, help was at hand from a friendly steward.
Gentiana acaulis
Gentiana acaulis close up
There was also this Gentiana acaulis maxima Enzain. …
with huge flowers on stems about 10cms long
Fat Trillium
A few of the Ferns on show
Fritillaria pyrenaica lutea
Fritillaria acmopetala
part of a lovely Gentiana verna flowering just above the neat foliage
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I bumped into Cindy and Tom again…….
More yummy home made food as Forumists eat lunch
Cindy seems to enjoy a varied diet… here, a savoury quiche and chocolate cake….
The debris after the Judges had lunch…. Anne Bush had cooked all manner of very tasty food which the Judges and other helpers enjoyed greatly…..THANKS, ANNE !
Judges, by the way, were Sandy Leven, Dave Riley, Ian Young, Brian Burrow, Cyril Lafong and your hungry reporter….yes, M Young.
A view through to the engine room of the show… lots of helpers busy in the kitchen, the home bakes at Glasgow are rather grand…and rather delicious….full marks to the maker of the coffee walnut cake and the meringues!!
After an earlier cup of tea, Jean Wyllie, Dave Riley and Neil Huntly pause for a chat .
Back again in the Tea Room, It seems Jean and Maggi are boring Mike Hopkins and David Milward to death…or perhaps they are waiting for us to buy them more cake?
Better get back to the plants…
Something seldom seen, oddly enough, at an SRGC show, … a good heather plant
Phlox multiflora
This Anemone was in a strange ( and dirty) container!
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Some more photos tomorrow.... it would have been easier for you all to have come to Glasgow too, to enjoy the show.. next year , perhapS ::)
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I enjoy the show - thanks, Happy to see Margaret Taylor and Brian Burrow.
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Best orchid... Cyp ??? someone will tell me!
Studies in Contemplation
Cypripedium 'Sunny' Maggi.
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Just lucky to see the rest of the pictures faster this time.
Beautiful show! Thank you Maggi and Tom for sharing.
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One that took my fancy, on the Edinburgh Botanics stand, was Tulbaghia leucanthus. Firstly, a general shot of table one and after the Tulbaghia two fabulous plants: Gentiana acaulis and Cypripedium 'Sunny'. Alas, my cyps are only just coming out, with 'Sabine'. Two (of eight) flowers opened today.
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Many many thanks for such a comprehensive look at what was obviously a great show. I'm so glad Maggi that with all the pictures, and the judging as well, you found time to sit down for a while and have some tea/lunch.
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Lesley, for a long day at a show it is important to eat well to keep one’s strength up ;)
So, let’s see what else I’ve got for you……
A Leucocoryne … the first on the show bench and the second from the RBGE display.
Some better rhodos… from back to front, ‘Dora Amateis’, Rh. impeditum and ‘Wren’ These won the Edward Darling memorial Trophy…. I think for Stan de Prato ???
The usual cut flower/truss classes for rhododendron at the Glasgow show had been abandoned this year because of the outbreak on the west coast of Sudden Oak Death disease.
Some Ranunculus for Mr Buttercup
A few Primula…. P. verticillata, P. denticulate and a very strange P. auricula
It was lovely to have quite a few visitors from south of the border ( though not quite so far as Mexico way) Tom Green from Rowlandsgill,( nearer the camera) who is a member of the Newcastle Group AGS, was up with his pal , Sid, and another chum, Peter, whose family had lived for a while in nearby Bearsden.
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Trillium grandiflorum roseum
Trillium pusillum
Trillium rugelli
Another T. pusillum, this one was awarded a certificate of Merit
From back to front, Tulipa, Lewisia, Calceolaria
2 Trillium and a Cyclamen making a three pan entry.
Ursula Edge and former Glasgow Show Secretary, Roger Smyth look well and happy
A very tall Primula scotica!
This smiley person behindthe plant stall is Alison Ward. Alison is the daughter of the late Don and Joan Stead . She has been exhibiting for a while now and always helps out at the show.
It seems that Ian has managed to get this pic of me looking as if I have eaten ALL the yummy homebakes.....Tsk! >:(
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A view of the show through the tracery of Tropaeolum azureum……the grower of this plant, Steve MacFarlane, who is very keen on Tropaeolum was kind enough to bring in a selection of flowers from various hybrids he has flowering at the moment to show me.…. I will post pix of these elsewhere.
A neat little Sebaea thomasii
A Jancaea
Iris, Oreophilus glacialis and Amblynotus rupestris
Now, what might I have forgotten? ….
Oh yes, the Forrest Medal plant…
Androsace studiosorum ‘Doksa’…. Grown to this wonderful standard for about the third year in a row at Glasgow…. By Cyril Lafong.
A great result for Cyril ..
We all hope for another great result for Cyril when he undergoes a tricky surgical procedure on Wednesday to mend his dicky ticker.... love and luck to you, Cyril :-* :)
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I am sure you will all wish to join with me in wishing all the very best to "Secret Squirrel" for a successful outcome to his heart operation and to a speedy return to good health and the Show Halls! 8)
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Carol and I second that, Maggie.
We wish you well, Cyril, and hope to see you around again soon.
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Maggi and Anthony,
thanks for the "virtual" show! Takes me back to Aberdeen last year - was it really 12 months ago!
I hope all is well with Cyril.
cheers
fermi
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I am sure you will all wish to join with me in wishing all the very best to "Secret Squirrel" for a successful outcome to his heart operation and to a speedy return to good health and the Show Halls! 8)
Best wishes from me too!!
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And from me !!!! ;)
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An update on the health of our own Secret Squirrel... Cyril Lafong..... I have just spoken with him on the telephone. His heart procedure went well - according to his surgeon... though I think from Cyril's point of view.... lying wired up, often in considerable pain for the three and a half hours that the procedure took... Cyril was not entirely convinced of that at the time. He is at home now, taking things easy and being tended by his wife Annielle ( think Dionysia 'Annielle'!!) and can only wait for a few weeks to see if there really is an improvement. I have passed on your good wishes to Cyril, who thanks us all for our caring interest.
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Three and a half hours heart surgery on Wednesday and Cyril is home on Friday! What happend to the two weeks in Intensive Care!
Whatever, I am pleased that the op whent well and Cyril is OK.
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Changed days indeed. My mum first went through open heart surgery in 1965. I stayed with dad but my three siblings spent several weeks in care while my mum stayed in intensive care. Last week she bought a bungalow in Dunblane, sent a van load of furniture to the auction in Kinbuck, picks up her new car on Monday, put her house on the market and she's 79! Cyril is probably i n the best place - home. "Speedy recovery" is probably not the most appropriate wish as healing can't be rushed, but gardening at a gentle pace would be the best therapy.
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Friends, be calm, Cyril hasn't had open heart surgery... no-one said he had had that... he has undergone a long procedure under mild sedation.... though it turned out to be very painful and required morphine at times to get through it.... I believe this to be a more involved and perhaps newer type of angioplasty. I begin to regret opening this subject.... I meant only to express the good wishes of us all to a good friend undergoing serious heart problems, not enter into a medical discussion!
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Cyril, bless his heart, if you'll pardon the pun, has been good enough to get in touch to clue us in on what has been happening....fascinating to learn this and since Cyril has sent the details, , here goes...
"Hi Maggi
I've been catching up on the SRGC forum now that I've got some time taking it easy after my cardiac procedure.
There seems to be some misunderstanding about the procedure and some people seem to think this was open heart surgery. I know you did not intend this to develop into a medical discussion but I hope the following helps explain the procedure more accurately. The procedure is called 'catheter radio-frequency ablation of the pulmonary veins' which is different from an angioplasty (I've had two of those already !). This is done for troublesome drug resistant paroxysmal atrial fibrillation and atrial flutter (episodes of irregular rapid heart rate) which has bothered me for some time. Basically this makes me short of breath, faint and unable to think straight and I am aware that my heart is pounding and labouring. The procedure takes so long because the operator who is a cardiologist called an electrophysiologist feeds a catheter through the femoral vein (in the groin) and the subclavian vein (underneath the collar bone) and go round the 4 pulmonary veins to map out the trigger of these abnormal heart beats. This takes about 1 and a half to 2 hrs. The rest of the time is taken doing the actual ablation (radiofrequency generates heat about 45-50 deg C) through a sprinkler catheter which cools around the ablation area as thin-walled vessels are invloved. Each ablation (there must have been about 40-50 of these) lasts 8-10 secs. That's when the pain sets in, a crescendo pain that becomes quite severe at times. I am completely aware of what is going on all the time and can see the pictures as they happen. I certainly needed the sedation and the morphine to go through the whole procedure!
This is a relatively new procedure which they have started in Edinburgh for 5 years now.
I'm improving everyday but it will be 6 wks before I know whether the procedure has been a complete success.
Best wishes
Cyril"
So, there you have it, poor Squirrel was awake as his heart was mapped and zapped .....flippin' terrifying and no mistake :o
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Our very best wishes from the deep south too, to Cyril. LIke Paddy, I've not met Cyril but his fabulous plants are a great pleasure and inspiration to us lesser mortals on the alpine scale.
Don't regret mentioning this Maggi. We all have only Cyril's best interests and full recovery in mind - and of course, the reward for us, of many more of his plants on the Forum, in future months and years.
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With all best wishes Cyril and I do hope you soon feel well enough to get back to your magnificant plants.
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Whilst I've never met Cyril personally, his talk at the Glasgow weekend last year was most useful to me to understand what has to be done to create the plants he is now so famous for. So if you are reading this, Cyril, all the best for a speedy recovery, you, and your plants will be missed until you can return to them and us.
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Friends, I have just had a message from Cyril........
" Please send my thanks to all the forumnists who have expressed their good wishes (since I don't know how to do this myself).
Kind regards
Cyril "
Perhaps as part of Cyril's recuperation he should undertake a wee course in Forum posting ::) Then we could get the benefit of his own photos of those great plants of his.... and of such things as.... how he repots those huge cushions, for instance!! 8) :-*
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That's an excellent idea Maggi. :D
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I did not mean to imply that Cyril had OHS, but the above sounds like quite an elaborate procedure? I think some of the ops that my mum has had could now be done 'through the keyhole'? I take my hat off to the skill and dedication of the surgeons. Worth their weight in gold, unlike the spivs that have caused the financial crash. They definitely live up to the name 'merchant bankers'.