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SRGC Shows and Events => SRGC Shows Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Maggi Young on March 15, 2008, 07:57:22 PM
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News has reached me of the Farrer Medal winning plant at Blackpool Show today, 15th March.
This show is a joint AGS/SRGC show and this year it is the turn of the AGS rules and so a Farrer Medal was awarded to the best plant in the show.... which I'm told was a superb pan of Corydalis popovii grown by our chums Carole and Ian Bainbridge! That's two medals to two chums in two weeks.....we do have some very clever friends!
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Just got back from Blackpool. Here is a picture of the Farrer winning plant, for now.
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Hi, Mick ! What a lovely potfull that is! Looking very good indeed..... I would post warmest congratulations to Carole and Ian but they don't "do" the website :P so I'll thank Mick for posting the pic, instead!!
Did you have a good day, Mick?
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Yes thanks Maggi. I met MartinR and Diane as they offered to help me in first show, thanks to them both. Everybody concerned was very helpful, no traumas for a first timer. I introduced myself to Ian, he said he'd to get back over the border by midnight as his visa expired then, looked to have had a good time 'down south'.
Oh by the way I had 2 first and a second with 3 plants, more by luck than judgement I think. Both myself and Mandy enjoyed ourselves, Mandy even registered herself as an exhibitor for the next time, so the competition is on. Just got to get the stubborn plants from this week to flower for next weeks effort!!
So anybody else who's thinking of giving the shows a try give it a bash, they don't bite.
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Well, yes, three tickets from three plants sounds pretty good to me ! Two firsts and a second is not to be sneezed at, I'm delighted for you. 8) 8)
Great to hear that Mandy is going into battle with you... that'll spice up the competition ;D
Very handy to get some advice from those folks who have been through the whole rigmarole before....it can be somewhat bewildering until you've done it a few times and realise it is actually quite straightforward.... ;)
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Dropped Daughter and boyfriend off in Blackpool, so managed to have a couple of hours at the show itself. As usual I was busy with the camera. For tonight just a number of overviews of the show, I'll try and show some individual plants tomorrow. Anybody else with pics feel free to join in.
First 2 general views of the showbenches.
There were a large number of very good Primulas on show.
Dionysias were in evidence, not something I grow(yet). how do they get them to flower like that?
If all this colour is too much for you a selection of foliage plants.
Finally a line up of Narcissi.
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Thanks Mick for the lovely picture of our 3 pan foliage entry, Sedum furfuraceum, Sedum hirsutum beaticum and Asplenium trichomanes, they didn't do anything but it's nice to see them on the forum. The Farrer medal winner Corydalis popovii was absolutely spectacular and very well deserved. Congratulations to Ian and Carole. Incidentally the new SRGC Jubilee trophy was won by a Scot, the AGS Director of Shows Jim McGregor.
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Shelagh, thanks for mentioning the SRGC Jubilee Trophy..... this is a special prize to be awrded at each show this year, the 75th jubilee of SRGC... the prize being a print of a watercolour by Anne Chambers ( SRGC star and RHS Gold Medallist for her botanical art) ..... I had heard the good news about Jim's win... but can you tell me what his plant was, please??
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Maggi, 3 pans bulbous. Picture attached
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A superb Corydalis popovii! Congratulations
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Congratulations on your first venture into showing Mick, now you have caught the bug there'll be no stopping you ;)
What a super plant that Corydalis popovii is, and so well grown. They are fast growing on me, and I must do something about acquiring them...I see that Mike Smith has some at Hythe Alpines, I must go across there before it is too late!
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Martin R. - thank you! Lovely entry, isn't it? A fitting recipient of the first Jubilee award, I'm sure.
The Jubilee award will be made for different clases at each SRGC show, and at the AGM Photographic competition....sometimes for the winner of a particular class, sometimes for the best plant from a small number of classes.
The prize for each winner is a print of a botanical painting, commissioned by SRGC from Anne Chambers, of Cyclamen repandum peloponnesiacum. the original is to be auctioned at the Discussion Weekend, I believe.
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Here's a photo from President Ian, the Christie kind, of the Farrer winners and their Corydalis popovii, Carole and Ian Bainbridge
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No- one has sent me a pic of Jim from the show yet, so Ill take the chance to show him looking every inch the fine Scotsman, with wife Christine; taken at an SRGC Discussion weekend a few years ago!!
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Seems to have been another fabulous show ! 8)
Thanks for showing us the pix Mick - but I'm missing the pix of your own prize winners ;D
I hope to see lots more pictures soon !
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Come on Mick, I'm dieing to see your prize winners!
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Great picures Mick. It's my local show so I was busy for a great part of the morning logging the prize winners into the computer and then being close to home nipped back to let Teasel out for a play and a pee and then watched a wee bit of the rugby. When I got back I only had a brief time to photograph one or two exhibits before the light went.
I remembered to take my portable black curtain to hold behind the exhibits to get rid of the distracting backgrounds.
1 Primula Pink Aire, a rather impressive perfect dome.
2 Primula Arduane which was nicely top dressed with moss and so looked very natural.
3 A beautifully balletic Erythronium oregonum
4 There was just enough light from the window to backlight this lovely Pulsatilla Budapest Seedling and show off the gloriously hairy stems and flowers.
5 Pulsatilla Budapest Seedling from above.
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Hi John,
Didn't recognise you as the man with the black cape, I just strolled around and took pictures of anything that took my fancy. The light was a bit difficult for me, still learning with new camera. I've had to adjust one or two of the pictures as they seem a bit dark on my screen, if other forumists can let me know how they show on their screen would be helpful.
David and Luc they are nothing special Just an Armeria, Sempervivum and Primula to get a feeling of how a show works. John please thank everybody involved for a well organise event.
Now some more pics.
1) First a close up of the Farrer winning plants flowers
2) A 3 pan in flower entry
3) A Saxifrage 3 pan entry
Then a raft of Dionysia:
4) Dionysia ewesley lamda
5) Dionysia ewesley delta
6) Dionysia bryoides
7) Dionysia 'monika'
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Another batch now starting with a selection of the Primulas on show. I particularly liked the Primula 'mars' must keep an eye out for this one.
1) Primula 'aire mist'
2) Primula 'pink aire'
3) Primula 'mars'
4) An example of a 'pan planted as a rock garden'
A couple of Saxifrages
5) Saxifraga 'Coolock gem'
6) Saxifraga oppositifolia 'Iceland Form' which I think won a special award but can't remember what or to whom sorry!!
Two Fritillaria to finish this bit.
7) Fritillaria acompetala ssp Wendelboi
8) Fritillaria aurea
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John - the pulsatilla photo highlights the exquisite beauty of an alpine plant, exactly why I/We love them so much. Just seeing that makes me yearn for the mountains in summer!
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Don't know where the smiley came from in last post, perhaps its that pixie again Maggi??
A couple of Hepatica
1) Hepatica 'gyousei'
2) Hepatica 'Millstream merlin'
3) Ipheion sorry can't make out the full name from the label.
4) Draba longisiliqua
5) Massonia pustulata
6) Pleione eiger
7) Narcissus wateri x gaditanus
8 ) The Narcissus flower close up
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Great pictures John, I must see about making a screen for my shots at home. Last few of my pictures now
1) Iris suovealens
2) Soldanella carpatica alba
3) Soldanella close up
4) Crocus heuffelianus 'Carpathian wonder'
for Cliff (even though he's away sunning himself)
5) Ranunculus asiaticus
6) Colchicum szovitsii
7) Cyclamen pseudoibericum
The Pulsatilla would have been here but John's picture does it far more justice than mine.
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Specially for Luc and David seeing as they haven't interupted me:
My three entries.
From another post:
By the way David daffseek wasn't opening for me either.
A correction on the Sempervivum name. It should be Sempervivum calcareum 'Grigg's Surprise'. Many thanks to Luit for the correction.
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Don't know where the smiley came from in last post, perhaps its that pixie again Maggi??
Mick, the little smiley with sunglasses (cool) came because you typed 8 followed by a bracket. 8) which is the code for a cool smiley!
Thanks for the pix Mick, and well done for your first show. I'm sure you will now be hooked and come and join us again at another show.
A few of my pictures to add
Scilla bifolia Norman Stevens shown by Robert Rolfe
Trillium nivale shown by Alan Spenceley
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Cyclamen coum
Mitella makinoi
Narcissus Betty Mae
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A fantastic trio of Celmisias shown for foliage by Ian Leslie
C spedenii
C semicordata aurigans
C philocremna
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A very compact Fritillaria bucharica shown by Jim McGregor
and another Frit shown by me that looks rather like the previous one but Janis Ruksans thinks could be a new taxa or a hybrid
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Many thanks for the further pix everyone ! :D
And congrats for your entries Mick - they look excellent ! Thanks for divulging the secret. ;D
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Thanks for all the pictures, congratulations on doing so well Mick, the plants looked glorious, sorry I couldn't make it this year.
Sue
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Congratulation all exhibitors and thanks the photographers.
Of a Forum member that cannot visit the Shows .
Franz
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Beautiful pictures, Beautiful Show.
Thank you for sharing.
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Thanks to Mick and Diane for the great pictures from Blackpool - it was great to meet you both pity there was not more time.
I have checked through my pictures to see what has not been shown so here are a few more from Blackpool
The first set are of the trade stands - I was blown away by the amount of flower that Ron McBeath had on his stand especially the Saxifragas. I did ask him if he could not find any well flowered plants to bring ;)
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A few general views of the benches.
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Now for a few plants.
Colchicum hungaricum
Tulipa cretica
Galanthus Kath Dryden
And one that I was delighted to see put on the bench by Don Peace Corydalis 'Craigton Red' one of mine :)
It only got a second but that was to Corydalis popovii the Farrer Medal plant.
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Specially for Luc and David seeing as they haven't interupted me:
My three entries.
From another post:
By the way David daffseek wasn't opening for me either.
Three nice little entries there Mick, well done. By the way Daffseek is working now.
Thanks for the pictures, hope the plants are as good at the South West AGS Show in Exeter next Saturday.
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The photos of the AGS Blackpool & Kent Show are on their website now.
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How could that superb Corydalis `Craigton Red' get only a second?
My great grandmother was born in Belper.
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How could that superb Corydalis `Craigton Red' get only a second?
Because it was up against the Corydalis popovii that won the Farrer.
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Oh well, fair enough I suppose. First equal though?
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First equal though?
Good thinking Lesley, it is a wonderful colour Ian, presumable the C.popovii also scored highly on difficulty of growth if it needs high light levels?
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My great grandmother was born in Belper.
Well, someone had to be Lesley! ;D
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First equal though?
Good thinking Lesley, it is a wonderful colour Ian, presumable the C.popovii also scored highly on difficulty of growth if it needs high light levels?
There was no contest the popovii was the clear winner certainly the best grown I have ever seen but I am sure that 'Craigton Red will win a red sticker one day.
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My great grandmother was born in Belper.
Well, someone had to be Lesley! ;D
;D ;D ;D Sorry David, it was undoubtedly the classic non sequitur but one of my 4 great grandmothers WAS born in Belper and at the bottom of Alan's post was the first time I'd seen the name or come across it EXCEPT as my GG's birthplace.
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My great grandmother was born in Belper.
Well, someone had to be Lesley! ;D
;D ;D ;D Sorry David, it was undoubtedly the classic non sequitur but one of my 4 great grandmothers WAS born in Belper and at the bottom of Alan's post was the first time I'd seen the name or come across it EXCEPT as my GG's birthplace.
Lesley, thought you might like to see this.
http://www.derbyshireuk.net/belper.html
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Thank you David, the link is much appreciated and I'm happy to learn a little about the town. Unfortunately I don't know my GG's family name or anything about her background but it's all interesting, just the same.
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by Sandy Leven
http://www.srgc.org.uk/shows/blackpool/report.html