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SRGC Shows and Events => SRGC Shows Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Carol Shaw on May 15, 2009, 02:40:16 PM
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The car is packed with books and plants - including a sample copy of Bill Terry's book on blue Mecs. 'Blue Heaven' Shortly David and I will be setting off to drive through the 'Severe Weather Warning' weather to Aberdeen... I don't 'think' D. has put the snow shovel in but this is only due to the fact the car is packed to the gunnels... If, big if, our Saramatum actually comes into flower on the trip I suspect that wild weather or not we will have windows open. Oh well it IS Aberdeen show and I can't remember a year when it was warm mild and sunny... Go on Maggi prove me wrong :P
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Oh, Carol, there have been years when is has been sunny..... not necessarily warm....it tends to be breezy, but it has been sunny on several Aberdeen Show Days..... looks like we're not getting one of those days, tomorrow..... very cold and wet her and pretty windy.... horrible really.... wonder how many public visitors will come out in this weather? I'm tempted to stay at home myself!! :o
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I hope you have lots of fun anyway !!! :D
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I'm sure we will all have a marvelous time, Luc. Rather off-putting that there is a "severe weather warning" though..... how bad will it get?
Hope to get lots of photos for the Forum, anyhow..... though may not get them loaded till next week.... got a very busy few days after the show.
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Good luck and I look forward to seeing photos from Aberdeen ;)
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A flavour of the Aberdeen Show. Weather outside dreich, atmosphere inside great.
Graeme Strachan (More pics to follow)
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And more photos.
Graeme
Primula Elizabeth Killelay.JPG
Globularia cordifolia Blue Bunnets.JPG
Androsace bulleyana.JPG
Primula Kusum Krishna.JPG
Folk.JPG
More folk.JPG
Epimadium Grandiflorum NANUM.JPG
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I hope Carol got her mug of hot chocolate all right, maybe with a little dash of something in it? :)
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And finally...
Graeme
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In anticipation. ;)
Eric
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As Maggi said elsewhere no mug of hot chocolate but we had great fun and a good show... I suspect there will be no pix. from the Youngs before Monday at earliest! We forgot our camera... but I DID see lots of folk snapping away so fingers crossed they will post pix. There was a good turn out of Aberdonians too, very hardy folk they breed there!
Maggi I too remember many sunny days at the Show, we even took Lily for a walk last year... I also remember the number of layers I usually wear when we are the Show but I feel the cold. Actually when the hall was full of visitors I even took off my SRGC gillet!
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Thanks for posting all these pictures.
The weather may have been cold & wet, but it looks like there were lots of stunning plants at the show.
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Pity about the weather, although it looks like people are having fun ratting through the seeds, would love to see a pic of the plants for sale bench ;D
I love the little epimedium.
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Thanks for the photos from the Show Graeme, they give a real insight in to the venue and exhibits. I particularly love the leaf and colouring of the P Kusum Krishna - Hurrah for a white table top cloth that sets off each individual plant in a much better light - especially when light levels are low from the weather outside ;D
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Thanks for those pics Graeme, blast from the past for me, brings back happy memories of the excitement of exhibiting, I still have my 1st place certificates from the Aberdeen show along with my degree certificates!
Well done and bravo to all those who organised, judged and exhibited!
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We miss you guys, Chris, perhaps you should come back for a visit for the next show?
No photos from us yet, still to tidy the show paraphenalia and gett everything clean and ready for next year. Potting Shed at the BBC for me this morning and it was so nice today that I had to take the opportunity for a nice walk before catching up with the emails etc.
Looks like Southport had a lot of plants on the bench; we were a few down on last year but it worked rather well in that folk could see the individual plants rather beeter that way, so no real problem there :)
Show hall looked very pretty, even though the weather was mostly dull and duller. Thanks Graham, for having the strength after your efforts volunteering at the show to get some photos online.
As usual, it takes many many hands to make light work of a show day..... if I listed all the folks who gave so generously of their time and talents to make the day such fun, you'd think I was reciting the phone book! There were many helpers and many who were there all day, working their socks off in all sorts of capacities and they all add up to a lovely friendly, fun gathering with happy socialising as well as great plants.... what could be nicer?
Good to welcome some folks to the Aberdeen show for the first time, including some of our NZ visitorsd from last weeek, who had juggled their holiday to fit in another visit ot Aberdeen to see the show. We were so pleased they came and they looked pretty happy with the day, too. They certainly took the prize for the "we've come furthest" competition.
The Forrest medal was won by Cyril Lafong, with a really chubby thicket of Cypripedium calceous var pubescens.
More details of plants and people in a couple of days time, when I find where the camera is in all these boxes that are lying about the place!
I think indication are that the show was a financial success as well, with enough monies coming in to pay all the hall hire costs etc, si that is good news too..... I thought our Treasuruer, Bill McGregor was likely to have a pleasing day when 6 gallons of soup was consumed.... that's about 30 litres, I think.... a lot of leek and potato soup, anyhow! Lord knows how many buns the Kitchen Gang buttered and filled ..... LOTS!!! ;D ;D
Another brief word of thanks to all the marvelous volunteers who made the day terrific.....the Aberdeen Team of SRGC is truly fantastic.....( pity about the local football teams, but, hey, you can't have everything!) ........ thank you, Friends, you are the BEST!
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Superb images from an excellent show, Graeme ... many thanks for posting (and is it possible to join a Cyril Lafong masterclass at the earliest opportunity? What a grower - what a showman - what a pleasure to see such magnificent plants - MANY THANKS, CYRIL).
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I don't know what happened to these pictures of Graeme's. They were posted them last night but have only just appeared on Carol's and my screens. They definitely weren't there at lunchtime today - bad weather in the Glens again?
Whatever, many thanks for the pictures, Graeme, they help to extend the delights of the show experience for those of us fortunate enough to be there.
Is it an ageist thing or does everyone see pictures posted of plants they insist they never saw at the show. Did Graeme nip down to Southport for a couple of pics? I'm sure I never saw that lovely little Aquilegia on the bench. Oh hum.
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David, Graham had posted his pix in a new thread and I merged the two.... you had not spotted the other thread before I merged them this afternoon!
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Great stuff, Batman!
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Pity about the weather, although it looks like people are having fun ratting through the seeds, would love to see a pic of the plants for sale bench ;D
I love the little epimedium.
So do we Helen... it is such a perfect wee plant - thankfully the judges thought so too!
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That's a lovely pot of Cypripedium pubescens, and I take it a pot of C. 'Sebastian' behind left?
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Yes, Anthony, it is 'Sebastian' and, it was really gorgeous; so elegant ; I loved it!!
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Thanks to all for the comments - much appreciated.
I must say thank you to the workers behind the serving hatch who put up with my strange sense of humour all day on Saturday. I think that they thought it was novel having a man helping in the kitchen. (or trying to help or just trying)
Q. What kind of soup?
A. Potato and Leak or Leak and Potato.
Anyway enough of that.... Here's my last, last, last final photos.
Graeme
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Great pictures Graeme - Thanks very much for giving us a window to watch this excellent (despite the weather...) show ! Gorgeous plants once again.
Not very often I've seen Silene acaulis, shown in the last batch, flowering so well in captivity.
Thanks again !
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I'm so pleased to see Epimedium grandiflorum 'Nanum'. I have this plant and somehow had lost its name. Now I shall keep it safe. It is a superb plant, love the foliage with the dark red edge when it first emerges. The flowers are a bonus!
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Mmm. Nice green patio pot. ::)
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Mmm. Nice green patio pot. ::)
There were several, Anthony... and very smart they looked, too. Very practical homes for plants in many cases :)
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They are really great for my cyps as they are not porous so don't dry out and frost won't crack them like it does the terracotta ones.
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They are really great for my cyps as they are not porous so don't dry out and frost won't crack them like it does the terracotta ones.
And tough enough to withstand children, dogs and footballs, for the most part. They look a lot neater when sitting about "empty" when the plants are dormant than terracottas, too.
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Pity about the weather, although it looks like people are having fun ratting through the seeds, would love to see a pic of the plants for sale bench ;D
I love the little epimedium.
So do we Helen... it is such a perfect wee plant - thankfully the judges thought so too!
Congratulations, Carol ;D
Btw, can someone tell me what the plant third from the top in the third lot of pics posted by Graeme is? ???
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I hope that Maggie has a picture of Sauromatum venosum as it was on the bench on Saturday. We tried desperately to get it to open, so it obliged this morning (Monday). Pity. There is now a nice aroma in the front porch.
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Btw, can someone tell me what the plant third from the top in the third lot of pics posted by Graeme is? ???
If you mean this pic, Helen, then it is Anemonella 'Betty Blake'
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I hope that Maggie has a picture of Sauromatum venosum as it was on the bench on Saturday. We tried desperately to get it to open, so it obliged this morning (Monday). Pity. There is now a nice aroma in the front porch.
No dear there is a stench in the front porch...
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I think you should give the plant a little less viagra! It looks as though Aberdeen had a good show despite the weather, the Scots are a hardy lot. Thanks for letting us have a glimpse of whats on show. Good to see Nick Boss still doing his stuff
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Yes, thanks Maggi, that's the one.
It's beautiful, will have to keep my eye out for seeds.
I notice it wasn't listed in the last seedlist.
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I notice it wasn't listed in the last seedlist.
Lots of seed isn't Helen :(
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I notice it wasn't listed in the last seedlist.
Lots of seed isn't Helen :(
Carol, maybe now would be the time for people to start requesting seed they are interested in for the next seedlist ;)
It couldn't hurt eh ;D?
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Carol, maybe now would be the time for people to start requesting seed they are interested in for the next seedlist ;)
It couldn't hurt eh ;D?
You can try... I personally doubt we will get any but - hope springs eternal!
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Good grief, how many thousands of items on the seedlist ??????? and Carol is still taking a pessimistic approach :o
Carol, lie down in a darkened room for half an hour to restore your usual confidence.... take chocolate if needed! ;D
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take chocolate if needed! ;D
Just take chocolate, needed or not, the 'n' word is irrelevant! ::)
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take chocolate if needed! ;D
Just take chocolate, needed or not, the 'n' word is irrelevant! ::)
All donations of chocolate gratefully received ;D
Maggi I think the seed list is a blooming miracle! Where else would you have the opportunity to get some of the seed? Even if we had to pay double what we do now it would be peanuts really :D
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Double peanut and seed chocolate and I thought we were a gardening club :o
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I have two flower buds on plants labelled Arum creticum SRGC seed January 2003.
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Apologies: still no time to prepare the photos from the Aberdeen Show.
Members visiting the SRGC shows are now asked to "sign in" to satisfy the Charity Commissioners as to the number of members taking up the availability of free entrance to the shows ; In sorting the paperwork from the show I find that a Dutch Member of the SRGC visited the show but he did not make himself known to Ian or myself so that we could welcome him. what a pity :'(.... perhaps he is very shy, so I will not give his name. I hope if he visits again next year, he will say hello. :-\
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Okay, Ian has resized his pix but not named any so I'll put them on in batches and rename as and when I can..... these first ones from staging on Saturday...
355 Struan Harley, Elspeth McIntosh, at front. Mike Dale in Tartan check shirt, at middle of pic
356 Carol and David Shaw tweaking the plants they staged on Friday evening
357 Mike Dale , Stan da Prato in the far centre, wearing blue jacket
358 soggy but smiling Carole Bainbridg
***359 ***360 ....raining hard outside...
361 but Carole is still bringing plants in and still smiling!
362 Ian Bainbridge
363 Prez Ian Christie, John Mitchell RBGE, and our own Nick Boss from Aberdeen Group
364 Locals, though still capable of getting lost; Bob Maxwell and Convenor Mike Hopkins
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second batch....
P5162365. Maggi Young and Carol Shaw
P5162366. Jean Wyllie
P5162367. large flower wilts on bench
P5162368. heavy plant crossing, I think :-\
P5162369. and
P5162370. Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Gold Medal winning display
P5162371. A lovely chance pairing of an Anisotome growing with a Dactylorhiza RBGE stand.... a gorgeous combo.
P5162372. part of RBGE display
P5162373. centre of RBGE display
P5162374. Iris cycloglossa
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perhaps he is very shy
Is that possible, a shy Dutchman? They are very rare overhere ;D ;D ;D
I for myself am still very happy when thinking back of visiting the Show. Must be three years, (already ::) but I still remember
the beautiful displays and meeting so nice people. :D :D :D
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At the risk of seeing even more dire pix of myself 'More please Miss'
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batch three....
P5162375. the fragrant Iris cycloglossa again
P5162376. another part of RBGE stand, including Androsace bulleyana, which was given a Certificate of Merit.
P5162377. close up of one Androsace bulleyana
P5162378. / P5162379. / P5162380. three shots of Cyril Lafong's winning six pan entry
P5162381. and P5162382 Cypripedium 'Sebastian'
P5162383. Cyp. 'Rascal'
P5162384. Cyp. 'Pixie'
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batch four....
P5162385. Sebaea thomasii
P5162386. Androsace cylindrica
P5162387. Mike Hopkins' six pan, including Gentiana acaulis, Lewisia columbiana and a Penstemon...
P5162388. Mike called this Clematis marmoraria, but it is a C. petrei type, we reckon.
P5162389. Lathyrus vernus rosea
P5162390. Lewisia 'Joyce Halley'
P5162391. Mike Hopkins' winning small ( under 17.5cm pot) six pan: Dionysia (?), Primula sieboldii, Incarvillea zhongdianensis, Aquilegia flabellata, Erigeron 'Canary Bird' , Edraianthus pumilio
P5162392. hall view
P5162393. Trillium luteum
P5162394. elegant Cyclamen persicum with sweet fragrance
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batch five.....
P5162395. Uvularia , Incarvillea, Primula sieboldii
P5162396. Clematis marmoraria and Myosotis albosericea
P5162397. perennial form of Meconopsis punicea
P5162398. perennial form of Meconopsis punicea
P5162399. Celmisia and Aciphylla spedenii
P5162400. Clematis marmoraria and Myosotis albosericea 2
P5162401. Myosotis albosericea
P5162402. pair of Oxalis with O. 'Gwen McBride ' in front
P5162403. two Lewisias
P5162404. ....and again!
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batch six.....
P5162405 John and Rosemary Lupton, Show Stewards
P5162406. Nick Boss' fine Silene acaulis, which won the Alpines 2001 Trophy for the best cushion plant, dwarves the Bainbridge's Kelseya uniflora alongside
P5162407. lovely spidery Celmisia
P5162408. a close up of the Celmisia flowers
P5162409. Silene californica ( is that right?) and Epimediun graniflorum namum from the Shaws
P5162410. a Phlox and a Globularia
P5162411. that lovely bright Silene again
P5162412. Lilium nanum
P5162413. stand-in stewards Carol and David Shaw and Section 2 Judges, Ian Bainbridge,Sam Sutherland and Elspeth McIntosh, see behind the winner of the Simpson Salver for the best Rhododendron: R. 'Ermine' shown by Stan da Prato
P5162414. Fritillaria hermonis
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batch 7.....
P5162415. That Frit. again, I think it is F. hermonis !
P5162416. across the hall from a sales table
P5162417. more sales plants from Ardfearn
P5162418. Allium akaka
P5162419. Gentiana acaulis in Section 2 ( beginner's section)
P5162420. Ian B, Sam S and Elspeth .judges of Section 2
P5162421. John Mitchell, Jean Wyllie and President Ian the Christie kind, judging Section 1
P5162423. Carol and David Shaw making the records of Sect. 2
P5162424. John and Rosemary Lutpon doing that job in Sect. 1
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batch 8......
P5162425 Maggi completing her record sheets.....
P5162426. Bob Maxwell completing his record sheets....
P5162427. foliage class in Section 2
P5162428. Clematis 'Pixie' from local member Lesley Glasser
P5162429. two other entries in Ranunculaceae class in Sect 2
P5162430. class for one pan Saxifragaceae in Sect. 2.... nice Tiarella wherryi at back right, behind Lois Thompson's Sax. which is a bit unevenly flowered in the centre because a hen isisted on brooding her chickens on it ::) :D
P5162431. only one entry each in the one pan Lewisia and Sedum classes in Section 2.
But this section in Aberdeen was still better supported than just about every other Sect. 2 in Scotland this year, I think. Edinburgh was not bad!
P5162432. Best plant in Section 2 and so winner of the Aberdeen Quaich, and also best exhibit from a first time exhibitor at an official SRGC show, was this super Cypripedium calceolus from John Owen of Askival. Nice one, John, and we hope a happy reward for your long and rather unpleasant journey to the show!!
P5162433.Primula sieboldii
P5162434. Trillium erectum
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batch 9.....
P5162435. show hall during judging
P5162436. primulas and dodecatheon
P5162437. primula yargonensis
P5162438. super Arisaema nepenthoides from anne and Viv Chambers.... this was awarded a certificate of merit 8)
P5162439.close up
P5162440. Lewisias
P5162441. Lewisia
P5162442. Lewisia
P5162443. Aquilegia
P5162444. Oxalis 'Ione Hecker'
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batch 10....
P5162445. Fern class
P5162446 Telesonix jamesii, from Ian and Carole B
P5162447. entry of three plants native to one country (America)
P5162448. three pans .... America Mike H.
P5162449. three pans.... China ..Anne and Viv C.
P5162450. Androsace bulleyana on RBGE display
P5162451. Androsace bulleyana again
P5162452. a Dactylorhiza and tiny Anisotome, chance combination, very cute on RBGE stand
P5162453. John Owen's fab Cyp.... did I mention it won a certificate of Merit as well ?? !! 8)
P5162454 cert. of merit winning Arisaema nepenthoides, niot seen too well against backdrop of Rhodo Ermine! with another arisaema to the right and the Shaw's Saurumatum, just a spike, flower not unfurled, to the left.
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batch 11....
P5162455. Primula veris, ( and Salix boydii, to the left background)
P5162456. Primula yuparensis, which won the Craig Cup for best primula fopr exhibitor John Graham, who also won the bronze medal for most points in section2
P5162457. Primula yupariensis 2
P5162458. Primula 'Elizabeth Killaly'
P5162459. Angela Townsley escapes the kitchen to see the show and find out if she has been successul with her entries.... she was! 8)
Somewhere I must be going to comeacross a photo of Cyrill Lafong's Forrest Medal winning pot of Cyp calceolus var pubescens :-[ It was in the centre of his six pan entry, shown earlier....... ::)
P5162460. Fred Hunt, Cyril Lafong and John Owen by John's terriifc Cyp. calceolus
P5162461 .Glassford Sprunt takes a close look at a nice pot of Brimeura (which refused to open its flowers for exhibitors Helen and Bill McGregor :P ) alongside Netta Milne, another of the hardworking show team
P5162462. Picea abies 'Llttle Gem' from Stan da Prato
P5162463.Ian Doig of Glasgow, views the conifers, that big pine is from Alan Weepers, of Fife
P5162464. Trophy winning Silene acaulis from Nick Boss
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batch 12.....
P5162465. along the RBGE display
P5162466. hall
P5162467. hall, Stan da Prato in his Blue jacket to the right, John Lee middle left
P5162468. Maggi with New Zealand visitors, Malcolm Garland, Phil ( Anna's boyfriend), his wife, SRGC Member Christine, and their daughter Anna. We had the pleasure of their company at our garden earlier in the week, along with Marcelle and Pat Garden ,also from NZ. Chris and Marcelle are chums but it was pure coincidence that they all visited us on the same day!! 8) The Garland party decided to try to get back to Aberdeen again for the show, after their trip to Orkney and we were really delighted to welcome them. Poor Chris had to spend most of the time with her hands in her pockets to help her resist a smash and grab raid on the plant stalls! These folks had been very good to Ian when he was out in NZ last year and the Gardens are chums of Jean Wyllie. It is great to meet up with these far-flung memebers of the SRGC and discuss plants... and much else besides!!
P5162469. nice pot of Fritillaria camschatensis from Bill and Helen McGregor ; Helen is a great baker who beavered all day in the kitchen and Bill is the local Treasurer
P5162470.Glassford, Dr Rock ( David Millward) , Mike H, Bob M. and Brian Hammond take a seat, David Aitken standing by
P5162471. Pteridophyllum racemosum from John Lupton.... look at the shine on that foliage!
P5162473. Globularia corifolia 'Blue Bunnets' from Ian and Carole Bainbridge
P5162474. Dianthus
P5162472. charming pot of Meconopsis delavayi from Helen Greenwood, the colour is true and truly yummy!
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baker's dozen batch....
P5162475. Polygonatum hookeri , absolutely tiny plant with sweet secented flowers
P5162476. Alastair McKelvie.... former SRGC Journal Editor, Membership Secretary, local Convenor, and Hon. Vice president .... Alastair has served the SRGC well in many capacities, over many years ...he did not enter any plants himself this year, intsead he gave another exhibitor, Dougal Mackintosh, a lift ot he hall with his plants. 8)
P5162477 Oxalis 'Gwen McBride'
P5162478 O. laciniata x enneaphylla
P5162479. the two previous Oxalis
P5162480. Anne Chambers, who brought her beautiful cards with botanical paintings as well as show plants
P5162482. a Paris
P5162483. another Paris
P5162484. and another Paris
P5162486. and another Paris 8)
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batch 14 ....
P5162487. Penstemon absarokensis from Cyril
P5162488. Daphne petraea 'Tremalzo', Dionysia in foreground ; from Cyril
P5162490. Penstemon acaulis ; from Cyril
P5162490a. and again
P5162491. wee Celmisia philocremna
P5162492. Sedum pilosum from Nick Boss
P5162493. Myosotidium hortense
P5162494. Myosotidium hortense 2 : the Chatham Island Forget me not
P5162495. Primula sieboldii.... from Mike Dale .
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batch 15.....
P5162489. Cyril winning three pan, new rare or difficult, to win the Esslemont Quaich. Dionysia involucrata alba is the one at the front, Daphne and Penstemon behind.
P5162496. Incarvillea zhongdianensis
P5162497. Trillium luteum
P5162498. part of Mike Hopkin's winning entry to Class Jubilee A (small six pan)
P5162499 Edraianthus pumilio. Mike Hopkins also won the trophy for most points in Section 1.
His wife, liz, won the Brian Bull award for winning the twp pan clss 63 in Section two, with a Gentiana acaulis and a Lewisia... pix elsewhere, I think..... ???
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Now for my, often rather fuzzy, pix.... people keep sneaking up behind me and poking me to make me.... and the camera, wobble! :P
01 Ian Young begins proceedings by adressing the Judges .... it's the only way some of them can find their way home!! ;)
02 judges look a bit bemused...._did he really say that?
03 John M and The Prez.
04 section2 judges.
05 RBGEa.
06 RBGE b.
07 ian balances on chair to take a pic.
08 RBGE whole display
09 Mike H six pan
10 Cyril Lafong's winning six pan : the Forrest medal plant is the fat panful of Cypripedium calceolus var pubescens in the centre.
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part two
11 judges in blurJohn Mitchell, Ian Christie Jean Wyllie
12 Rhododendron 'Ermine', best rhodo in show for Stan da Prato
13 double trillilums
14 bench.jpg
15 Scots natives
16 bench2.jpg
17 fuzzy Forrest medal plant
18 Cyp. 'Sebastian'
19 Cyp 'Rascal'. these three from Cyril
20 Lewisia 'Joyce Halley' from M H.
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21 Lewisia columbiana MH
22 RBGE combo Dactylorhiza and Anisotome
23 dact anisot combo with flash
24 Androsace bulleyana1
25 Andro bulleyana2
26 RBGE right side 1
27 a moment of peace: Helen McGregor chats with a friend
28 hall view: Luptons centre, James Meff, right towards back
30 Jean Wyllie and Liz Mills, nominated to be our next President 8) 8)
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31 Helen is surrounded by Jean and Liz
32 Allium akaka.
33 trees Alan Weepers
34 Frances McKelvie
35 hall view 3
36 last of Sect 2
37 Epimedium grandiflorum from Lois Thompson
38 painted fern Rosemary Lupton
39 sect2 ranuncs class Lesley Glasser's Clematis 'Pixie'
40 sect2 cyp calc John Owen from Askival
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part 5
41 sect2 primulas + John Graham's winner
42 prim eliz killalley
43 2 pan sedums, Roma's on the right
44 lewisias Struan Elspeth centre
45 Telesonix jamesii.
46 Petrophytum hendersoni
47 Epimedium pinnatum colchicum.
48 three from China, Anne and Viv C.
49 Mike Dale and Barry Caudwell
50 bench with wee Rhodo 'Sarled'
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part six.....
51 some need other diversions: Ian Doig reads a newspaper
52 bench view Carole B and Dr Rock to centre right; Pearl Dale and Heather far left
53 clematis marmoraria b
54 Myosotis albosericea
55 mecs M. x cookei in foreground and M. punicea
56 mec 2 M. punicea
57 bench Primula sieboldii and Dianthus nivalis Mike Dale
58 Townsendia incana
59 Globularia and Phlox ????
60 silene and epimedium.
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part seven
61 Arisaema nepenthoides
62 bench with Globuaria Blue Bunnets
63 rhodiola rosea.
64 bench AT red ticket
65 bench
66 hall
67 sales area
68 cheery welcome at the door from Vilma and Lesley
69 Hon. Pres. Bette Ivey and John Mitchell
70 Ian and Netta
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71 RBGE Androsace bulleyana 2
72 RBGE right side 1
73 hall
74 hall, Roma Helen McG
75 hall Luptons centre
76 hall across sect 2
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Great Show, great pics Maggi/Ian! Looks like it was a lousy day, but that's really good because it means you don't begrudge being inside! Some stunning plants, too many to mention. One thing though, that was a very unusual pose you took in batch two Maggi, if I got myself into that position I think I'd have to see the chiropractor!
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I got into a worse one at the end, Chris, when I was flat out, wriggling into and out of an under-stage cupboard to retrieve a fallen class divider, but luckily no-one had a camera that time!! :-X
Luckily the rain was not soild all day, so enough folk were tempted out to make the show a success from the point of view of visitors.... as well as great fun for the rest of us!
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A million grateful thanks Maggi for this huge collection of pictures. What an effort you've made for us all. A great show, as they all are. I'm really getting to know the Aberdeen and other Scottish locals now. Of the two women in pic no. 27 "a moment of peace," the one on the left looks exactly like my grandmother. But she'd be way over 100 by now so probably not. :)
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You are most welcome, Lesley!
Your Grandmother-look-alike is local Member and key Show Team Member, Helen McGregor....she IS a grandmother, right enough!! :D
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Many thanks for posting so many pictures of even more interesting plants, Graeme and Maggi!
Very nice to walk with you along the filled benches (if I was there again :D ).
Maggi, you've been rather busy during my beauty sleep ('she' means, I need it ??? ). I see it was far after midnight... 8)
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It was worth the wait Maggi !!
What a tremendous megapost !
Thanks a million for taking the time to show us all these gems - this really is the next best thing to being there !
I'm just wondering how some of these brittle plants got safely inside despite the gusting wind and rain !
Wonderful effort everyone !
Thanks
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Hi Maggie great pictures and a brilliant day forgot to say thanks for a great day if only you could add the Aberdeen charm and banter to the pictures. Cheers
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Thanks Maggi for your patience in resizing and labelling the pics. A veritable tour de force! :o A fabulous display of wonderful plants. The pot of Cypripedium calceolus is a worthy winner of the Quaich. Cyril's plant needs to be renamed C. parviflorum pubescens as it is no longer a subspecies of calceolus, but nonetheless it is an amazing plant. I certainly didn't have anything close this year.
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Many thanks for all the pix Maggi - I need to get a makeover before anyone takes another pix of me though :(
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Magnificent effort, Maggi and Ian. I know just how long that will have taken to accomplish ... certainly worth all that time and trouble, many, many thanks.
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Maggi, and everyone involved, thanks for the great shots of everything at the Aberdeen Show...what an effort, totally appreciated, to be revisited and mulled over at any time to savour the detail of the exhibits and 'meet' Members :)
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Thank you, Robin.
You know, we all have great fun at the shows ,to showcase the Club and the plants, and of course, for UK members they are very important to get together.
We are acutely aware that overseas members miss out on these super events and the Forum gives us a great way to share them with you as best we can.
It seems we are succeeding in that and it gives us all a lot of pleasure!
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Ian and I must again give our heartfelt thanks to all those kind and happy members who gave so generously of their time, talent and muscle power to make the Aberdeen Show so attractive and such fun.
Of course there are super Gangs of members putting on all the other shows, to the delight and gratitude of Show Secretaries and Members alike.... but we believe we really do have the Best Team anywhere, we're convinced of that. Some folks who are involved in all the aspects of the Group and some who cannot manage to attend the meetings but who turn out every year to work for the Show, some shy souls who are regulars, but who keep a low profile, except for Show time, when they are there in the front line, doing sterling service and playing a vital role in the day......all sorts of wonderful people, so typical of this fantastic Club . Fondest thanks and congratulations to you all! 8) :-*
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Maggi, it is you and Ian giving the show your all than enables your team to have so much fun whilst working hard. The two of you are an inspiration to us all! :-*
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Terrific pics and plants, congratulations to all.
Have to say I really enjoyed seeing people as well as the plants, I am starting to recognize people ( just a few but it's a start) ;D
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We are acutely aware that overseas members miss out on these super events and the Forum gives us a great way to share them with you as best we can.
It seems we are succeeding in that and it gives us all a lot of pleasure!
Believe me Maggi, the overseas members are hugely appreciative of all the efforts of the show teams and especially of the Forum team which shares it all with us.
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Sandy Leven's show report and Forrest Medal notice online now:
http://www.srgc.org.uk/shows/aberdeen/report.pdf
http://www.srgc.org.uk/shows/forrest2009/aberdeen.pdf 8)