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SRGC Shows and Events => SRGC Shows Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Carol Shaw on April 15, 2009, 05:20:16 PM
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David & I have just inspected the bulb house, the very small alpine house and the cold frames to try and decide just exactly which plants we are going to be brave enough to present to the Judges on Saturday. At the start of the selection process we had seven primulas - by the time we'd studied them we were down to three... I just hope that those will behave themselves until the weekend. It was the same with everything we looked at... you'd think by now we'd have got the hang of keeping things back or bringing them on - nope we just keep on trying!
At least we will get to look at some more fab. plants...
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Top show person Cyril lafong who usually wins loads at Perth is just about to star on the Beechgrove garden TV programme in scotland. I think you can get it on Sky http://www.beechgrove.co.uk/ (http://www.beechgrove.co.uk/)
Think I will go and Tune in.
Susan
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See more about Cyril on the BBC here: http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3413.0
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Okay, home from Perth and trying to sort photos but feeling awful... v. sore throat and need voice for work at BBC tomorrow so just the Forrest Medal plant from..... guess who??
Yup, the Squirrel squirrels away another medal for his hoard of Forrest Medals..... Cyril Lafong won the premier award at the Perth show with this lovely pan of Iris suaveolens. Colour in first pic is okay... bit off in second, but it lets you see the size of the thing!
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More pix later on tomorrow folks!
It was a lovely show, many thanks to Julia Corden and her great Band of Helpers :-*
The show is held in a huge sportshall and the lighting is that weird yellow that makes lots of plants... and people....look pretty odd, I'm afraid. :-X
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Maggi,
that's a real very nice potful! :o :o :o
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Armin, there were more than forty blooms on the Iris.... what a success to get so many flowers out at the one time... it was lovely!
Here are more pix from the show... starting with a VERY fuzzy shot of the hall, taken as I clung to the wall bars at the far end of the hall as the exhibitors staged their plants .... gives you an idea of the large size of the hall and the only way to get an overview in the place!!
Keith Lever was up with plants and the next two pix are of his stand....the two early shoppers at the end of the stall are SRGC Hon. President, Bette Ivey and Sue Watt, with Aberdeen convenor Mike Hopkins in the next one.
in pic perth3 we find Ian, the Young and the President Christie kind... with Ann C hidden behind, speaking to the Huntleys from Hartside Nursery.
Pic perth4 is Cyril Lafong's three pan class.
In pi 6 , is John Lee, Glasgow show secretary and one of the judges at Perth.
Other Judges were Bette Ivey,Maggi Young ,Ian Bainbridge, Sandy Leven and Ian Young
Click the pix to enlarge them!
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Nice pics Maggi, feeble excuse though about the 'blurred' picture, a fit young thing like you should be able to shin up wallbars etc and do photography 'easy peasy' as my grandchildren say. I take it the throat is better today
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But George, even though I have the lithe body of an athletic 20 year old, you may be surprised to learn I am actually 104 :D Miracle I can walk unaided, let alone climb wall bars!
("I have the lithe body of an athletic 20 year old "...crikey, that reminds me..I'd better give it back.. ::) )
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Nick Boss and Ian Bainbridge
Rhododendron 'Phalarope'
Rhododendron 'Snipe' .. best rhodo in show
Rhododendron 'Tom Thumb'
Rhododendron 'Patty Bee'
Bob Meaden
June Mackie and Rhododendron 'Dora Amateis'
Nick Boss' lovely presentation of Primula dryadifolia ...full of buds
Primula yuparensis
Carole Bainbridge
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Primulas.... P. szechuanica ( pin) x P. maximovwiczii ( thrum) and P. maximowiczii behind
P. maximowiczii
Tom Green's Pulsatilla sukaczewii from Serbian seed( spelling ???... a name I'm not familiar with) super plant!
Muscari mcbeathianum
Primula stenocalyx
more primulas
Raffenaldia primuloides and Lewisia nevadensis
Raffenaldia primuloides again... and the notes with it..
click the pix to enlarge them......
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Last few for tonight.... assorted narcissus....
N. pallidiflorus
ummmmm.... ???
'Quail'
'W.P. Milner'
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D Miracle I can walk unaided, let alone climb wall bars!
Or was that bar walls? ???
johnw
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Cor, you Scots can grow Primulas! ;D
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Lots of interesting plants at this show. Great to walk around with you Maggi :D
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Obviously another crackin show !
Maggi, you must have had a great time amongst all these glorious Rhododendrons (and the other marvelous plants...) :D
Thanks for showing and... I did ask myself the same question as JohnW did about the wallbars and bar walls... ::)
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I will ignore these aspersions cast against my sobriety -- more pix from me and from Ian's camera, too, when I have time...... show advertising for Aberdeen show needs preparation now :)
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A few more .......( lots to come yet.... be warned!!)
Click the pix to enlarge them....
Androsace cylindrica x helvetica
Andro muscoidea
Andro vandellii - large!
David Millward's Ranunculus 1st
Richard Barr's Ranunculus
Daphne petraea clone 97/T3
Daph petraea grandiflora CL
Gentiana verna Nick Boss and John Lee
Pleione 'Shantung Ducat'
a view in the hall..... Mildred and Jim Thomson with their grandchildren, chat to Nick Boss at the right of the shot.
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Super images, Maggi (and Ian) ... we await the rest in eager anticipation (or Whitworth)! :)
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It's wonderful to see so many plants grown with such TLC for showing - it's a real tonic, much admiration ;)
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Elspeth Mackintosh had brought a display along from the Royal Botanic
Gardens, Edinburgh ............
at the stand.... includes.....Carol Shaw, left and Margaret Edwards with her back to the camera
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The hard work Eslpeth had put in to bring and stage the display was rewarded by the Gold Medal Card awarded
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some more ..... click the pix to enlarge, of course
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Now for some plants and views....these will be in roughly alphabetical order!! I'll add the photos and return later to put the names in where I can......
3frits .... and Jane Thomson, far right
Bellevallia pycnantha
bench1
bench2
Cyclamen repandum mixed pot of seedlings
Cypripedium 1
Cyp Alan G 1.
cyps2
Iris bucharica
Iris sprengeri
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and again......
frit hyb1 and frit hybrid 2 ... these were labelled as " Fritillaria agrestis hybrid".... can't say I saw much agrestis blood in there... plenty F. liliaceae contributing to the mix, I reckon!
hall2.
NickBoss' Primula allionii
Alan Gardners' cyp.
more cyps
Cyp Sabine.
Cyp 'Ursel'
anemonella
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more....
Andro chamaejasmae
arisarum
bench2.
iy bench3
iy bench4
iy bench5
iy bench 1
iy bench 6
iy bench 7
iy Cyril Lafong's small six pan entry
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more.....
cheery daffs....... a white form of N. Hawera, accirding to the label
Clematis tenuiloba 'Ylva' from Ian and Carole Bainbridge
Corydalis 'Highland Mist'
Corydalis wilsoni and Muscari macrocarpum
dinky Dodecatheon
face of agrestis hyb.
fritillaria agrestis hyb
Frit glauca
Frit. guicciardii
Gentiana verna
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they're still coming......
Ian and Carole's small six pan entry ( pots under 17.5cm external diamter)
Iris sprengeri.
a narcissus class.
patriotic hall : there is a Saltire and also the Lion Rampant flag on the walls of the sports hall.... very patriotic!
Staging has gone well, the plants havenearly all arrived
Primula chionantha and sinopurpuea view
Stan da Prato's garden
TGS takes notes behind a bench
still the hall fills up.......
Tom Green's Santolina 'Lemon Fizz'
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I'm on a roll.........
another plant up from Northumberland with Tom Green: Cassiope 'Randle Cooke'
Tulipa clusiana 'Sheila'
Tulipa linifolia
view 1
Androsace incana from Nick Boss
Lewisia 1.
lewisia 2
lewisia cotyledon
lewisia white and yellow
arge Saxifraga andersonii from the Bainbridges
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more....!!
prim asiat 3
primulas: 2 interesting asiatics: Primula szechuanica (pin) crossed with P. maximovizii( thrum) and P. maximovzii behind
prims asiatic 2
primula view
smaller Iris
Trillium pusillum.
trilliums1.
Tulipa 'Julia'
view2.
view 1. Watt Russell, to the right rear of picture.
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yet more plants and starting on the people......
iy big trill 1
iy big trill 2 Triilum chloropetalum
iy Tril pusillum.jpg
iy Trillium grandiflorum roseum
iy yellows: Muscari and Corydalis
view 3.jpg
view 4.jpg
view 5.jpg
at the plant stall : Janet ( with her back to us) and Katie Paterson
some of the show team: Graham, Dick Salvin, Julia, Ray and Cathy Caudwell .... Linda may be hidden behind!
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so, where was I? ... Oh, yes, all those marvelous people.....
two fellow Aberdeen Group committee members.... Carol Marriott and Angela Townsley
The Huntleys of Hartside Nursery
in need of tea
Anton with tripod
Ian Bainbridge with Erythronium helenae hybrid
Jean Band with Fred and Alice Hunt ....... Jean had done all the table decorations as well as lots of the great food!
Jim Paterson from Invergowrie and (almost invisible forumist) Alan Gardner
Julia Corden
Keith Lever and Ron McBeath
Margaret and Henry Taylor and John Mitchell of RBGE
As ever: Click the pix to enlarge them....
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More folks.......
Sandy Leven and James "Meconopsis" Cobb
Sandy gets down to work......
Sandy L and David "Dr Rock" Millward
searching the seed...... Harley Milne ( former SRGC President, centre)
Susan and Jean Band.... where would we be without them?
Anton Edwards, SRGC Editor; Barry Caudwell, James Cobb, Ian Bainbridge
Jim Sutherland of Ardfearn no sign of Agnes, she must have nipped off for some tea!
more in need of tea
Mrs Ann the Christie kind of Kirriemuir
Roger Smyth thinks to make a getaway when he spots the camera
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and I think I'm running out of pix...........that's it!
Sam Sutherland stands in at Aberconwy while Keith Lever is at the Joint Rock Committee meeting
Ron and Susan McBeath of Lamberton Nursery
Tom Band gets even colder feet as the day goes on :-X
yet more tea Richard Barr Ian Bainbridge Bill Robinson
youthful visitor
iy MY refuelling
some of the lovely grub
Glassford and Jean Wyllie had a good day
....alll thanks to this person and her merry Band...Julia Corden Show Secretary
iy Smiley Squirrel .... Cyril Lafong.... unusually, without a huge Forrest Medal winning plant in his hands ..... look how wide the smile is! Cyril had another really successful day!
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Isn't it strange that 'people' pictures always attract more views than the most stunning plants? Another remarkable 'tour de force', Maggi ...
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Again a super show with so many interesting plants and super pictures.
Thank you Maggi.
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Isn't it strange that 'people' pictures always attract more views than the most stunning plants? Another remarkable 'tour de force', Maggi ...
We're all 'people' people at heart Cliff
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On the first page of this thread I posted thsi picture of Muscari mcbeathianum....[attach=1]
can anyone remember who showed this plant? ???