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SRGC Shows and Events => SRGC Shows Questions and Answers => Topic started by: ranunculus on March 14, 2009, 06:26:31 PM
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Three early images from the excellent Blackpool AGS/SRGC Show held today ... More to follow from any number of forum members present.
Superb six-pan from David Hoare from Lyminge
Best in Show exhibited by Geoff Rollinson from Holmfirth : Saxifraga 'Coolock Gem'
Wonderful hepatica exhibited by Mavis Allanson from Bolton
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David Hoare's having a cracking Show season. How does Geoff Rollinson do it, he must be the southern equivalent of 'Cyril the Squirrel'.
Is that Hepatica just one plant, it would take me a lifetime (in the years I used to have available, not the years I have available now) to get one to that size.
Thanks for posting Cliff the crevice!
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I do not look good when I am pea green with envy - and that is what I am right now after seeing that fantastic Sax. and fab. Hepatica, maybe one of these years once I've retired too (whenever that is likely to be ???) we'll get to see in person...
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Crikey, what cracking plants, Cliff.
With a standard like that Show Secretary Lionel Clarkson will be a happy man tonight.
David H is certainly a sax-pert, isn't he?
Was it a Farrer or a Forrest this year? Hmmm.... odd number year so its a Forrest Medal, under SRGC rules. Worthy winner for Geoff R. for sure..... though I really think Mavis A's Hepatica is just exquisite ..... that's one I'd like to run off with!
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Farrer, I Think, Maggie. Yes, two truely fantastic plants. A delight to see them.
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Like always perfect pictures of perfect plants! Thanks
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I'm speechless. :o You couldn't fit another flower into those pots if you tried! 8) I am always in awe of the skill of these plantsmen. I certainly am not worthy. :-\ Congratulations to the growers.
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Farrer, I Think, Maggie. Yes, two truely fantastic plants. A delight to see them.
No, David, it was a Farrer last year when Ian and Carole B. won with Corydalis popovii! So Forrest Medal this year.
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Breathtaking plants. That hepatica is just great. I am curious too, about whether it is one plant of a pan of separate plants.... whatever, it is a sight to behold. Thanks for all the photos folks, love to see these pics from the shows I can't get to.
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You start by potting up one seedling in a pot. Over the years it builds itself up to a state where a nurseryman could divide it into a hundred plants but you decide to put it on the show bench. Is this one plant or multiple plants?
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Many thanks folks ... many more images to post from a tremendous show. Congratulations to Lionel and his excellent team of helpers. It was wonderful to see so many Scottish Rockers at the event.
Hepatica close-up
John Dower's (JohnnyD.) winning mini-garden
Massonia pustulata
Narcissus alpestris
Narcissus cyclamineus
Oxalis palmifrons
Saxifraga georgei
Saxifraga Lismore Mist
Soldanella carpatica x pusilla
Saxifraga x dinninaris
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I am just gobsmacked!
Can't believe how beautiful these plants are.
Do people count the flowers on each plant?
I have never seen anything like them and probably never will, but I absolutely love seeing these pics.
Keep them coming please.
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Another batch from Blackpool 2009 ...
Epigaea gaultherioides
Fritillaria aurea
Fritillaria camschatcensis
Fritillaria close-up
Saxifraga dinnikii alba
Callianthemum farreri
Callianthemum close-up
Androsace ochotensis
Cyclamen coum
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Wonderful!
Absolutely wonderful plants. Well photographed and many thanks for posting, Cliff.
Paddy
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Fritillaria gibbosa
Disa uniflora
Disa uniflora close-up
Dionysia bryoides
Dionysia curviflora
Fritillaria gibbosa
Disa uniflora
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Wow again. More beauties. I have Sax. georgi, its about to flower for me. Can't wait to see its flowers now I've seen this one.
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My apologies, but I have tried three times to post the portrait versions of Fritillaria gibbosa and Disa uniflora but the forum page keeps turning them on their sides ....
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My apologies, but I have tried three times to post the portrait versions of Fritillaria gibbosa and Disa uniflora but the forum page keeps turning them on their sides ....
I have intervened, Cliff.... you'll find them upright now, I hope!
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Nope.
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Cliff had gone back and tried again... I have re-done them.... they're showing the right way up here.......and on the previous page!
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Many thanks Maggi ... they look a lot better the right way up ... :)
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they look a lot better the right way up
Most of us, do, Cliff! ;)
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Another batch from Blackpool Show today ...
Another three pan
Corydalis malkensis
Cyclamen coum 'George Bisson'
Cyclamen trochoteranthemum
Dionysia 'Monika'
Draba spharalcea coccinea
Fritillaria aurea
Fritillaria stenanthera
Helleborus lividus
Hepatica Millstream Merlin
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A BLUE Callianthemum!!! :P :P :P
Not a crevice garden from JohnnieD then? :)
Amazing and marvellous pleants. Thanks Cliff. I hope there are still more to come. :-*
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Thanks Lesley. Final batch for this evening ... I'm off to bed.
Iris nicolai
Iris rosenbachiana
Muscari pseudomuscari
Narcissus 'Minicycla'
Primula allionii
Primula irregularis hybrid
Saxifraga Lismore Gem
Three pan
Show bench at Blackpool
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Brilliant plants and brilliant photos.Thanks a lot Cliff.
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Great show report, thanks Cliff.
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A BLUE Callianthemum!!! :P :P :P
Not a crevice garden from JohnnieD then? :)
Amazing and marvellous pleants. Thanks Cliff. I hope there are still more to come. :-*
Actually, that one changes its name every other year to Callianthemum forestii. ;D
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Must have been a breathtaking show.
So many super perfect plants!
Thank you for the super pictures Cliff!!
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Hi Cliff, a wonderful set of pictures from Blackpool show. I must say it was difficult to decide the Forrest medal winner as so many brillient plants were on the show bench, I was worried the benches would collaps with the weight of these huge saxifrages. I was also delighte that a few forumist came up and said hello in fact one or two won red tickets so well done. I post my few pitures from the show and have tried not to copy the ones from Cliff all are worth seeing again anyway, cheers Ian the Christie kind.
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Thanks for all the pictures so far. Yet again, I failed miserably to take any as I seem to be so busy catching up there wasn't enough time! And seeing that Two-Camera-Cliff was there took off any pressures to photograph.
Another amazing show, international flavour provided by visitors from Japan, forumists from the Netherlands and Czech Republic, plus widely travelled exhibitors from all ends of the UK - furthest south must have been David Hoare, I'm not sure about the furthest north - Jean or Glassford I expect? What a tremendous effort comes together on these days, from the nurturing of the plants over the years, the bringing to perfection before the show, travelling and exhibiting. Plus all the local group members who beaver away to make the day itself so enjoyable.
Thanks to Lionel Clarkson and all his helpers, plus everyone involved, we look forward to East Lancs next Saturday.
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Astonishing!! These shows really are very special - I am so glad of the opportunity this forum gives me to see all these wonderful plants. Congratulations to everybody!!!
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Another fantastic show !
Thanks a lot for the pix Cliff and Ian - great job and so nice to take us along on a strall between the benches filled with beauty and plantsmanship !
6 more nights to sleep before I can head for the Kent show !! :D
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Diane
Great show lots of good chat and plants.
Margaret and Henry are further north than us.
Jean
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Some more images from Blackpool Show ...
Androsace idahoensis
Asarum close-up
Brian and Shelagh Smethurst's winning Celmisia longifolia
Callianthemum anemenoides
Callianthemum kernerianum
Corydalis
Corydalis 2
Corydalis close-up
Cyclamen coum
Dionysia F2 hybrid
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... And a few more ...
Fritillaria caucasica
Galanthus nivalis
Hepatica close-up
Hepatica Millstream Merlin close-up
Mick and Mandy McLoughlin's mini-garden
Narcissus close-up
Narcissus Betty May
Narcissus bulbocodium
Orchid
Orchid 2
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... And more ...
Primula megaesifolia
Primula sonchifolia
Primula duo
Ranunculus
Saxifraga Allendale Bravo
Saxifraga Coolock Kate
Saxifraga Lismore Carmine
Saxifraga oppositifolia
Saxifraga array
Sempervivum calcareum
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Final posting for this evening ...
Show bench
Show bench
Three pan
Three pan
Three pan
Three pan
... Perhaps a few more tomorrow.
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Super duper photos Cliff. Many thanks! Love those saxi's
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Cliff,
As ever, a great report with super photographs of brilliant flowers. It really is a great treat to be able to see these show reports. You know, these photographic reports from the shows are far, far better than a television report would ever be. We would never see such a selection of the plants on display and we would have to endure the face of the presenter in the way all the time and listen to their ill-informed comments (it is amazing how little about gardening many of these presenters actually know).
Great report, Cliff. Greatly appreciated - I know it takes time to edit and label all these photographs and that it took quite a bit of your time to share them with us.
Paddy
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Just got back to sunny Kent after a most enjoyable weekend at the Blackpool Show. Thank you to Lionel and all his team for all there hard work in putting on a super show.It was the first time I had shown hear and everybody was very friendly & helpfull.Thank you to those people who helped me carry some of my large pots into the hall.
Maggi can you be arrested for being a Sax-Pert ??
Kent Show next Saturday hope it is as good as Blackpool
David
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Just got back to sunny Kent after a most enjoyable weekend at the Blackpool Show. Thank you to Lionel and all his team for all there hard work in putting on a super show.It was the first time I had shown hear and everybody was very friendly & helpfull.Thank you to those people who helped me carry some of my large pots into the hall.
Maggi can you be arrested for being a Sax-Pert ??
Kent Show next Saturday hope it is as good as Blackpool
David
Rest assured, David, Sax-perts are legal and welcome anywhere! 8)
Hope you get a moment or two to sit down before you start on your own show next week. With the recent turnouts, you will be expecting a great display and I would think you'll get just that. And I can't believe how many Trade Stands you have at your show....... a shopaholics dream...... not much wonder the Channel Hoppers hop to it!
Hope the day goes really well for you and your Team.... I'll be thinking of you and of all the Stirling Gang at the Dunblane Show that day too.
May all the benches be fulsomely full of flowers and foliage!!!
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Thanks Maggi, already have got three exhibitors booked in.I will try and get some pictures of the show next week.
Best Wishes David
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Cliff, or anyone else for that matter, did anyone see John Forrest at the Blackpool Show?
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Many thanks Chris and Paddy,
Comments such as these make any small effort all the more worthwhile.
David,
I had a good chat with John Forrest on Saturday ... he still lurks here occasionally and will probably post a reassuring comment on this topic to allay your concerns! John? :P
Maggi, I know you didn't MEAN to omit East Lancs Show from your round up of next Saturdays events? ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Thanks to all for posting all these pics. I used to be a regular when the show was at Morecambe and remember the warm reception from the locals. It looks like the best spring show for a while going by the pics - thats what we get after a proper winter 8)
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Cliff, do you refer to this event, perchance..... ::)
Saturday 21 March 2009, 11.30am to 4pm East Lancs AGS show Whitworth, Riverside venue on Saturday 21 March 2009
Civic Hall, Whitworth (The Riverside)
http://www.whitworth.gov.uk/site/scripts/events_info.php?startDate=21-03-2009&endDate=21-03-2009&month=03&year=2009
http://www.rossendale.gov.uk/whitworthcouncil/site/scripts/news_article.php?newsID=16 ....article quoted below.....
The Riverside
Market St,
Whitworth.
OL12 8DP
....about which "happening" I quote this article from" About the town of Whitworth news " Published: Monday 20th October 2008........text by C.B.......
"Alpine Flower Show returns to Whitworth.... FROM THE MOUNTAINS TO THE RIVERSIDE... After a break of twenty years, Whitworth will once again play host to a national horticultural event when the Alpine Garden Society stage a Spring Alpine Flower Show at the beautiful Riverside venue on Saturday 21 March 2009. This prestigious event is, in fact, simply returning to its roots, as the old Whitworth Civic Hall provided a superb setting for the very first East Lancashire National Alpine Flower Show staged way back in May 1991. This magnificent event proved such a success that subsequent annual shows were staged at the hall until the organisers were forced to find alternative venues across the county. The intervening years saw moves from Middleton to Bacup via Bolton and Tottington, but now the Society (the largest of its kind in the world) is to renew fond acquaintances with the township of Whitworth by staging an enormous alpine event once again. The show, which should attract exhibitors, judges, nurserymen and enthusiasts from the length and breadth of the country, will feature over one hundred and thirty individual classes ranging from rare alpine gems to bulbs, conifers, ferns and mini-gardens. Unusual plants from across the globe will vie for your attention with the stalls of nurserymen selling the very cream of alpine and rock garden plants, while the nation's leading exhibitors will be competing for a number of highly prestigious trophies. The shows held in the 1990s attracted remarkable attendances, and the organisers hope that many Whitworth folk will have long memories and will be tempted back by the promise of a huge raffle, superb tombola, free parking, seed, book and plant sales and excellent refreshments. Whitworth couple Cliff and Sue Booker from Tonacliffe founded the East Lancashire Local Group of the A.G.S. way back in December 1986, and while the group (which holds regular monthly meetings at the Civic Hall in Ramsbottom, near Bury) continues to thrive, new members are actively welcomed and encouraged. Group Chairman Cliff Booker can be contacted on 01706 356385. Please note the date of this hugely attractive show in your diaries (Saturday 21 March 2009, 11.30am to 4pm) and enjoy seeing the floral magic of the mountains transported to the foothills of the Pennines."
;D ;D ;D :-* :-* ;D :-*
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That could be the very thing, Maggi ... I couldn't have put it better myself!! :D Many thanks and a big Whitworth kiss.
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Thanks for posting the pictures from Blackpool. We used to go to the Morecambe show and enjoyed it immensely. We also attended the first two shows at Blackpool but the extra distance was just too much to comfortably travel in a day. It was a round trip of 420 miles. Although not the same as being there, I can still enjoy the plants on my large monitor.
I am looking forward to Hexham and hearing the "Geordie" accent again.
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Really delighted to see those positive comments from those attending on Saturday. As one of Lionels team I'm right chuffed! It was (I think) one of the best shows since we moved to Blackpool. And, even better, there were lots of members of the public there this year too. Admissions on the door seemed to be up anyway, and the plant sales seemed very busy. The lovely weather helped too (though there was a freezing wind howling through the atrium where our plant stall was set up!).
There was one casualty amongst Lionels team - my poor Susan has lost her voice! She already had a bad cold but all the talking on the day has left her completely silent. Its a bit unnerving actually....
We'll certainly be at Hexham, though Susan has been investigating the route to East Lancs :)
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Great pictures, thank you to everyone who's taken the time to take the pics and post them here.
Sue
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Really delighted to see those positive comments from those attending on Saturday. As one of Lionels team I'm right chuffed! It was (I think) one of the best shows since we moved to Blackpool. And, even better, there were lots of members of the public there this year too. Admissions on the door seemed to be up anyway, and the plant sales seemed very busy. The lovely weather helped too (though there was a freezing wind howling through the atrium where our plant stall was set up!).
There was one casualty amongst Lionels team - my poor Susan has lost her voice! She already had a bad cold but all the talking on the day has left her completely silent. Its a bit unnerving actually....
We'll certainly be at Hexham, though Susan has been investigating the route to East Lancs :)
Poor Susan ...... it must have been a very chatty sort of day.... but aren't all show days like that??!!
I'm so glad that you Locals felt it was a good day, too!
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Is there nobody else with images to post from this splendid show ... I spotted many people with cameras? :P
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Is there nobody else with images to post from this splendid show ... I spotted many people with cameras? :P
Sorry, Cliff, didn't seem to get a spare minute - promise to try and do better next time. ::)
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Is that Hepatica just one plant, it would take me a lifetime (in the years I used to have available, not the years I have available now) to get one to that size.
Information from the exhibitor herself ... Mavis confirms that the beautiful hepatica is, in fact, just one plant. Remarkable.
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Is that Hepatica just one plant, it would take me a lifetime (in the years I used to have available, not the years I have available now) to get one to that size.
Information from the exhibitor herself ... Mavis confirms that the beautiful hepatica is, in fact, just one plant. Remarkable.
That really is amazing - well done Mavis!
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Cliff you seem to have covered a lot my pictures with your photos, but I'll post mine as well. Sorry for any duplicates.
A general shot of the benches.
Cyclamen class
Section A mini-gardens
Foliage effect
My Asarum forbesii
Asiatic Primula class
Primula class
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Lovely photos, Mick ... many thanks.
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Thanks to all the organiser for a great show again and everybody else as it is such a friendly and enjoyable atmosphere.
Just a few more now:
Dionysia 'annielle'
Fritillaria gibbosa
Hepatica nobilis
No name Fritillaria species
Iris winnowgradowii
3 pan Primula
Saxifrage 'Coolock gem'
finally Saxifraga tenerife
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Last a drink to you all served on the Reginald Kay trophy, for most first prize points in section C.
A big thank you to everybody for getting us interested in the shows, and for all the encouragement, help and support everybody has given us.
All the show organisers, as ever, deserve a show of appreciation. It must be very stressful but at every show we have been to we have not encountered any problems and been assisted in every way.
Finally to all the people out there who are hesitant about showing, dip your toe in the water and have a go. You don't have to be able to put great entries in six pan classes (yet?)
Have a go you might like it.
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Mick, I'm most pleased you chose a good Islay malt to adorn your trophy
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Well done Mick, on two counts. Firstly on your very first trophy, and secondly (and most importantly!) your impeccable taste as far as Malt Whisky is concerned.
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'Ere 'Ere. And many more of them (both of them. :))
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Congratulations on your well-earned award, Mandy and Mick! I had hoped to be in position to take some 'presentation of awards' images, but yet another conversation prevented me getting into a suitable place before the awards began, so, unfortunately, I missed your award Mick - and my position proved totally wrong for the other presentations as well, but I will post the results in case some are of interest?
David Hoare dashing up to collect his well-deserved award
Forrest Medal award to Geoff Rollinson presented by Ian Christie with Show Secretary Lionel Clarkson on the stage
Brian Smethurst collecting his (and Shelagh's) award
Well-deserved Gold Award for Syd Cumbus
Syd's super display of photographs
A delighted Syd Cumbus
Six pan exhibit
A final image of Mavis Allanson's wonderful hepatica (taken with t'other camera, Diane) :)
Asarum maximum
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What a terrific day you had, Mick and Mandy too,of course. Many congratulations on your success... how exciting to win that lovely trophy .... I am delighted to raise a toast to you here! Well done, and good luck for more successes in the future....... we have been lucky to see your progress from your first tentative entries to this level of accomplishment in a short time... what better example cold there be to anyone out there who is tempted but a bit anxious ?
Mick's right, join in, have some fun and learn a lot in the process.... it's pretty painless... apart from the early morning on show days! 8)
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Sandy Leven's Blackpool Show Report is here: http://www.srgc.org.uk/shows/blackpool/report.pdf
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Very interesting report and an insight as to how the judging is conducted. Something I was curious about, as a newcomer to shows, as its done behind closed doors
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Super! Stunning! Sexy! Sensual! (saxifrages) :)