Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
SRGC Shows and Events => SRGC Shows Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Stan da Prato on October 04, 2019, 05:23:56 PM
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Some of the entries laid out ready to load then found a red warning light on the Berlingo so it's in the garage and the plants are going nowhere. Frustrating! I hope all who do make it have a good day.
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Oh no! What a disappointment - but better safe than sorry with the car fault. Beautiful array of entries, Stan - they would have done well and given pleasure to the show visitors, I'm sure.
The posters used for advertising the show ....
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Like Stan, I wish everyone attending a safe journey and a fun day!
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Super photo from Peter Maguire of the Forrest Medal winning plant at today's Hexham alpine plant show - Crocus tournefortii grown by Alan Furness
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The RHS Joint Rock Plant Committee has also awarded Alan Furness with a Cultural Commendation for that lovely pot of crocus. :)
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Yesterday was Trevor Jones' birthday - he had a busy day helping out at the Hexham Show - but - happily- still had enough puff left to deal with the candles on his cake in the evening chez Newton!
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Thanks Alan Newton, Show Secretary, for the photo!
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Christine Boulby, known to many as the SRGC Subscription Secretary, always enters her local shows and yesterday she won the best plant in Sect. 2, the Newcastle Trophy, with this Japanese Saxifraga 'Fumiko'
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Christine has won this award before too - a good habit to be making, eh?
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Pictures from Christine of a few of the plants which took her eye at the show ....
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Aylostera heliosa subsp. cajasensis grown by John Dixon
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Campanula carpatha grown by Alan Newton
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Crocus kotschyanaus subsp. kotschyanus from Bob and Rannveig Wallis
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Crocus tournefortii - from Alan Furness
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Cyclamen maritimum - from the Wallises
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more of Christine's photos....
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Ccyclamen maritimum - another angle!
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Cyclamen mirabile
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Cyclamen mirabile 'Tilebarn Nicholas'
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Gaultheria crassus 'John Saxton'
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few more.... Thanks Christine!
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Haemanthus albiflos
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Pyrrosia sheareri
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Shortia - grown by George Young
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Raoulia x leucogenes ( natural hybrid)
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Rather later in the day than I had planned to post a few pictures, glad Christine has made a start. No doubt all the exhibitors are glad the show was yesterday when at least there was no rain rather than today when it has rained non stop, I do not think I have ever seen my garden so wet, small streams and ponds all over the place.
I will do my usual pedantic post running through the show, plus a few general views.
First and second pictures are of the show scene, the empty spots on the tables were where we had left spaces for Stan's usual large entry, you were missed Stan.[attachimg=1][attachimg=2]
Those expert exhibitors Bob and Rannveig Wallis had a very successful show, quite how they had room for so many plants in their car plus a trade stand!!
Class 1 from them Cyclamen Graecum ssp graecum, C. graecum ssp candidum and Oxalis speciosa[attachimg=3]
Class 4, Three Pan dwarf shrubs, won by Tom Green on left, second Alan Newton on right[attachimg=4]
Class 5, Fuchsia microphylla shown by David[attachimg=5] and Liz Livermore
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Class 6, Juniperis horizontalis 'Neumann', shown by Don Peace[attachimg=1]
Class 7, 3 pan Cyclamen, won by B&R Wallis[attachimg=2]
Class 7 second was shown by Bob Worsely[attachimg=3]
Class 8, again from B&R Wallis earned them a Certificate of Merit with Cyclamen hederifolium ssp crassifolium[attachimg=4]
In the same class John Richards came second with Cyclamen hederifolium album, rather a nice specimen[attachimg=5]
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Yet another Certificate of Merit for Bob and Rannveig was Cyclamen rohlfsianum, not seen it on the show bench in quite a while
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Cyclamen hederifoium 'Silver Arrow' from Tommy Anderson (11), looking at the leaves you can see where the 'arrow' comes from
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Three pans hardy ferns (12) shown by Rod and Hilary Price
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Saxifraga fortunei 'Cherry Pie won class 14 for Tom Green (front right)
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Class 15, 3 gentiana, won by John Richards
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Class 19, again won by B&R Wallis with Cyclamen graecum ssp graecum, Biarum marmarisense and Oxalis lobata
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Class 20, One Pan Bulbous
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The class was won by Nerine masoniorum, from Tim Lever (back right)
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The white flowered plant front left is
Colchicum speciosum album shown by Jacques Amand
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The Forrest Medal plant exhibited by Alan Furness was Crocu tournfortii
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Martin Hughes spent a lot of his time behind the show computer but still produced a plant I had never seen before
Haemanthus albiflos (24), did not earn a sticker but many people admired it
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Flowering rather late in the year for me was
Cyananthus lobatus
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Class 27, the autumn foliage class was won by Alan Newton with
Roscoea purpurea Royal Purple Group, certainly fitted the class
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Celmisia spedenii won class 30 for me
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Ozothamnus coralloides also did it for me in 31, winning the Millenium Trophy
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Agapanthus 'Tinkerbell' won for Alan Newton (33)
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Two winners for Barry Winter were
Symphoricarpos 'Coral' (35)
Sedum cauticolum (37), looked really good
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Class 45, The Small Six was won by Bob and Rannveig with Oxalis speciosa, Cyclamens graecum graecum and maritmum, Colchicum cupannii ssp glossophyllum and Empodium flexile I know that's only 5 but I think the sixth had been removed for photogtaphy!!!)
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At the back right Empodium flexile won the Patricia Furness Vase
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See O got one wrong in the last post!
Class 47 was won by Mala Janes and so she won The David Boyd Award with
Sternbergia sicula
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Oxalis massoniana from Gemma Hayes (47)
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Saxifraga fortunei 'Gokka' from Tom Green
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Class 55, three pan cyclamen was well supported
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Class 63, three pans Gentiana won by John Richards
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A Cyclamen that caught my eye was Cyclamen mirabile 'Tilebarn Nicholas' shown by Bob Worsley in 56 foliage and by Peter Hood in 60 flowering
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A Gentian shown by I & M Leslie (64)
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Crocus kotschyanus ssp kotschyanus from B&R Wallis (67)
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Cyclamen graecum won the Ewesley Salver for Don Peace
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Merendera montana 'Norman Barrett' from Mala Janes (68)
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Sternbergia grueteriana from I&M Leslie (69)
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In the same class Bob Worsley also has a Sternbergia, unfortunately I did not get the full name
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Oxalis lobata from Genna Hayes (79)
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Class 83, Autumn Colour, won by Ian Instone with Paeonia obovata (back right)[attachimg=5]
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Crocus boryi from Alan Furness in 71 earned a Certificate of Merit
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Crocus kotschyanus from David Millward (71)
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A picture of classes 85 & 86
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Class 89, 3 from seed won by Tommy Anderson
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Classes 93 & 94, class 94 on the left was won by Mala Janes at back with John Richards second at front, 93 class on the right right was also won by Mala
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Delosperma sphalmanthoides from Raymond Hurd (103)
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Saxifraga 'Sybil Trelawny' from David and Liz Livermore (111)
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Eriogonum strictum v greenei from Christine Boulby (121), already had a good post about the show, well done lass
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For those of you who have not been to this show I also show some shots of the plant sales area
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As you can see, plenty of room for the sales tables (still another corridor you have not seen) plus, to get to the show you go through a good sized restaurant which served snacks and full sized meals all day, they were jolly busy.
so that's it for another show, the new lighting and the white table sheets worked well, the public turned out pretty well...saw quite a lot of young folk which is good, and at the end of the day we were all cleaned up and tables stacked by 4-30, excellent
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After failing to get to the show it's really good to see Christine and George's pics.
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Sandy Leven's report on the Hexham Forrest Medal ......
http://files.srgc.net/Showreports/Hexham-autumn-Forrest2019.pdf (http://files.srgc.net/Showreports/Hexham-autumn-Forrest2019.pdf)
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Sandy's report on the Hexham Autumn Show is online now - includes all sorts of interesting facts!
http://files.srgc.net/Showreports/HexhamAutumnshow2019.pdf (http://files.srgc.net/Showreports/HexhamAutumnshow2019.pdf)