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AGS show at Harlow 4th March 2017
« on: March 04, 2017, 10:05:57 PM »
It was the AGS show at Harlow today.
 Kit Strange, from Kew Gardens and also Show Secretary ( ably assisted by the Livermores, among others!)  has had a busy time! She posted pix of some super plants being packed up ready at Kew to go to the show and I believe that the Kew Display has been awarded a Gold Medal.




Solène Dequiret  won a Silver medal for her display of  photos of Californian plants  ( this is the youtube link in the photo )



and a forumist has hit the premier award for the second show running - this time it is Peter Hood, who was awarded the Farrer Medal  for a super  pan of Corydalis sewerzowii
The photos are from Don Peace on Twitter.




 Well done, Peter!
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Re: AGS show at Harlow 4th March 2017
« Reply #1 on: March 05, 2017, 02:26:22 PM »
Pic from Tom Freeth of Kew  of this plant which won an Award of merit  (pending naming check) at the  early spring joint rock meeting at Harlow yesterday. 
Tulipa orithyoides


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Re: AGS show at Harlow 4th March 2017
« Reply #2 on: March 05, 2017, 02:38:40 PM »
More photos from Tom Freeth on Twitter  re Kew exhibit at Harlow .... ( https://twitter.com/tfreeth/status/838295600932220928 )









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Re: AGS show at Harlow 4th March 2017
« Reply #3 on: March 05, 2017, 05:49:52 PM »
Some photos from Harlow

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Re: AGS show at Harlow 4th March 2017
« Reply #4 on: March 05, 2017, 05:52:26 PM »
A few more

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Re: AGS show at Harlow 4th March 2017
« Reply #5 on: March 05, 2017, 05:56:18 PM »
Last few
The final 3 are from the novice section and just to show that anyone can have a go.You don't have to compete with the top growers.

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Re: AGS show at Harlow 4th March 2017
« Reply #6 on: March 05, 2017, 06:03:18 PM »
Well done Philip, nice set of plants. I hope you've caught the exhibiting bug. In a few years your Ypsilandra will be up there with the one you pictured in the open section :)

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Re: AGS show at Harlow 4th March 2017
« Reply #7 on: March 05, 2017, 06:18:44 PM »
It has been bigger,but it was doing nothing ,so I divided it to see if it would get going again.I now have 2 small bits in flower.

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Re: AGS show at Harlow 4th March 2017
« Reply #8 on: March 05, 2017, 06:24:24 PM »
And three very good plants  they are, Philip - well done!  Exhibiting really can be fun- good luck for the future!
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« Reply #9 on: March 06, 2017, 07:24:48 PM »
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I have posted my photos of the Harlow Show, which was excellent, on the discussion forum for the AGS website.  I cannot post them here, so please don't ask.  If you are interested the link is: http://www.alpinegardensociety.net/discussion/atshows/Early+Spring+Show+Harlow+/20297/

I hope you enjoy them
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Re: AGS show at Harlow 4th March 2017
« Reply #10 on: March 06, 2017, 08:49:11 PM »
I'm sure we will enjoy them, Jon - thank you!
 
....... excellent to learn of Jacques Amand International medal and also David Livermore's success. ..... lots more to see too!
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« Reply #11 on: March 07, 2017, 08:49:50 AM »
Another picture from the superb exhibit staged by Kit Strange et al from Kew at the Harlow Show. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1849387425327190&set=o.7574226993&type=3&theater&notif_t=feedback_reaction_generic&notif_id=1488848245068779. Iris nusairiensis.

Just another comment - elsewhere and for some time I've felt strongly that the Alpine Garden Shows - but not only these, alpine gardening in general - do not get advertised sufficiently to the wider horticultural world. The Show at Harlow was extraordinary in the quality of plants grown and exhibited, but also in the range of plants available from specialist nurseries, and both these aspects are vital features of these Shows. To encourage more interest in gardening with these plants - not only in displaying them at the Shows - and thus attracting more people to join and participate in the Alpine and Rock Garden Societies, I would personally like to see more partnership across the different societies. That is my personal opinion simply as a member of several of them. As Robert Amos says in his thoughtful article 'Just how do we assess the true value of alpines?' (AGS Journal 84, March 2016) - "AGS members must make a collective effort to educate both ourselves and the public of the ecological value of alpine plants... If we get this message across, positive change will happen, like in plants, from the roots up". This is what the Alpine Shows do if they really do attract more people to discover these plants, but how they fail if they don't.
Dr. Timothy John Ingram. Nurseryman & gardener with strong interest in plants of Mediterranean-type climates and dryland alpines. Garden in Kent, UK. www.coptonash.plus.com

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« Reply #12 on: March 07, 2017, 08:35:54 PM »
thank you for sharing photos of the show
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