Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
SRGC Shows and Events => Events => Topic started by: Diane Clement on March 25, 2007, 08:42:35 PM
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I'll start the ball rolling with pictures from this show on Saturday, held in a new venue at Bacup.
A popular genus at the moment, fascinating flowers. I believe this one is sometimes called the Kiwi flower
Asarum campaniflorum and close up of flowers.
A silvery foliage plant Celmisia spedenii
And Cyclamen coum
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And a few more
Primula farinosa a nice potful grown from wild collected seed by Robert Rolfe
Fritillaria davidii
Tecophilaea cyanocrocus
and last, a fantastic cross generic hybrid Sericamptis capitata (Serapias lingua x Anacamptis morio), resulting in petals in an unbelievable shade of magenta.
That's all from me. I spend too much time talking at these shows and end up with not many pictures. There were others clicking away so hopefully more to follow (Cliff? John? ...?)
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Thanks for this, Diane, you seem to have had a very pleasant day at the show... but it always is a lovely day out, isn't it?
The bi-generic hybrid orchid, Sericamptis capitata (Serapias lingua x Anacamptis morio), is super... what a colour! Love it! Looks a neat grower, too.
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The bi-generic hybrid orchid, Sericamptis capitata (Serapias lingua x Anacamptis morio), is super... what a colour! Love it! Looks a neat grower, too.
Fantastic plant, one of Barry Tattersall's. Barry did the cross, Richard Manuel did the flasking. Barry grew it and showed it in his impeccable style. I don't think the photo does justice to the colour, it was unreal!
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Thanks Diane - appreciate your letting us in to the show !! :-*
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Diane, why ever is that Asarum sometimes called the kiwi flower? Very nice though it is (aren't we all?) I can't see any resemblence.
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Lesley, I think that asarum is called the kiwi flower becase the interior ofthe flowers looks like a cut kiwi fruit. There was another photo of this plant in another thread, a close up... I'll try to find it....
....... it's in a post by Ola; reply no 36 on March 5th;
page three of that thread : http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=301.msg7074#msg7074
Ola gives the name as Asarum capaniforme, Diane as Asarum campaniflorum and I think it is Ola who is correct .
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Nice pics Diane and now that you have got the ball rolling I will add my two penneth.
These few are all orchids mostly, I think, that superlative grower Barry Tattersall's.
1 Anacamptis papilionacea, one of my absolute favourites.
2 Anacamptis papilionacea detail
3 Another Anacamptis butthis time A.syriaca
4 Neotinea lactea
5 Neotinea lactea detail
I must try to remember to take a piece of grey card to place behind the subject to get rid of the annoying distractions behind but there was one bench that had a mono background but of an 'in your face' blue, as you can see from the next detail shot of
6 Ophrys-x-Emmae a hybrid between O. speculum and O.bertolonii
More later.
Thank you and goodnight
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Great pix, John. Barry Tattershall is a super grower, I'd like to meet him sometime.
That blue background is stunning in the Orphys x Emmae picture, what a grand pic!
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Ah :), that makes up for the total lack of orchids at the Stirling show :(
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Maggi,Barry is a great guy and a mine of information as well as having a seemingly endless collection of orchids, which are all grown to the highest level of excellence.
Anthony, sorry that's all the orchids but here are a few more odds and ends.
Hang on, I tell a lie, there is a little Ophrys (I think it is tenthredinifera) in the cut flower section. They are all beautifully presented but it takes a greater nerve than mine to take a pair of scissors to some of the flowers shown.
Now some Frits
F. carica
As I was taking that one Robert (fount of all wisdom) Rolfe said that next it was F.carica var browning or was it brownling. Anyway it does have a brownish edge to the petals as can be seen in the detail shot.
Next F. gibbosa
You may remember I talked about backgrounds in my last lot, well some rather eary spectres crept into this shot of F. yuminensis. It was taken on a slow shutter speed diue to the poor light.
Now a detail shot with the spirits exorcised.
Lastly a nice little Iris hippolyta
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More lovely pix, John. I agree, it would take some nerve to chop a flowering stem off that orchid! Perhaps it got damaged and the owner decided to cut his losses, so to speak! I remember doing that with something a bit rare in a flower posy for a show once... impressed folks greatly, I hadn't the heart to admit the stems had been chewed through by slugs!!
Re Frit. carica browning/brownling... new one to me, must get the BD through for a look!
I hope you sniffed that Frit. yuminensis, it is yummy, which is more than can be said forthe average frit!
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John, I hear that your Trillium rivale was looking good... no pic for us?
Somewhat surprised to learn Farrer went to Geoff's Saxifraga which won the Forrest last week.... I know that it is a different medal, but since the Blackpool show is "joint" it seems rather against the spirit of the rules to me, if not the letter. For "visitors" information: there is a rule , in both SRGC and AGS, that the same individual plant may not be awarded a the premier medal more than once in a given show season .
Thus, if Fritillaria carica won a Farrer/Forrest medal this week, then the same plant could not win a Farrer/Forrest next week, unless it was another plant of Frit. carica altogether. So the Blackpool Show is a joint SRGC /AGS show, that is why I find the decision to award a Farrer to the same plant this week at East Lancs, rather odd. Any other opinions on this matter?
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John, I've just loved all your recent photos, these no exception. I hope you go to many more shows as they come up. Wish I could join you.
So really Maggi, you mean Fritillaria yummyensis? Oh dammit, there I go again, scratch that.
I do see some slight resemblence to the cut surface of a kiwifruit I suppose. Funny I didn't notice Ola's note at the time but I think I had my attention fixed on the rather panda-like species below it. They're all stunners.
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Fantastic Photos John .... some of the best ever on the forum. (And thats in a forum with lots of great photographers!) Thanks!!
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I was certainly grabbed by the ghosties ;) I think that photo deserves an award. Not sure what for, but there's something about it. Isn't that Wilberforce on the right?
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Good morning all,
Many thanks to Diane and John for their wonderful photos of the East Lancashire Show. It is always difficult having to switch venues for these type of events but we were very pleased with our new hall in sunny Bacup (though the lighting could have been improved a little)..... the constant stream of visitors and the feedback we received from exhibitors and public alike was very gratifying. Congratulations to Carol Kellett and her well-drilled team on staging another highly successful event.
I'm afraid my photographic contributions will now pale into insignificance alongside the aforementioned (could I borrow your tripod at the next show please John...the difference is very discernible, especially in such difficult lighting conditions), but Maggie did request an image of John's beautiful Trillium so, in for a penny...in for a euro?
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Well, that's a good start....three images and not one of them featuring the Trillium....here we go again....
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Getting better...this posting lark is coming back to me after a prolonged absence due to advanced senility and creeping inertia. A few more from East Lancs 2007.
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...And now the dregs from the bottom of East Lancs image file for 2007.
...And I am CERTAINLY not referring to the featured exhibitors, their exhibits or the tremendous plants....many thanks to you all for your wonderful contribution to Bacup 2007.
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Thank You very much for posting the pics. It gives us the chance to see the event even though we did not make it there.
Kind regards
Joakim
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Great pictures Cliff. You don't need my tripod with a hand as steady as yours. I was warned about the effects of sex, drink, drugs and rock n roll but I suppose having to use a tripod in one's dotage isn't too high a price to pay. ;D
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Exactly the reason why I now need to borrow your tripod John!
I missed out on the drugs though as I was always too inebriated in the squat I shared with eleven stunning and free-thinking Swedish lady naturists (and their teenage daughters).
Do you remember Fantasy Island?
Thanks for the kind comments....
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....And Mr Forrest..quite uncannily I also captured 'the Bacup spectre' as he tried to spook Tim Lever into parting with a pot of Ourisia for less than the asking price.
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Looks suspiciously like that nice Mr Rogerson to me!!!!