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SRGC Shows and Events => SRGC Shows Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Maggi Young on April 30, 2010, 09:30:28 PM
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I hope everyone going to this show tomorrow will have a great day out.... take plenty photos and post them to the Forum to share with those of us who cannot be there ::) :D
John, Bill and all the Glasgow Gang will be looking forward to a good show, I'm sure.... have fun, everyone!
VENUE: Milngavie Town Hall, Main Street, Milngavie, Glasgow
LOCATION: 9 miles NW of Glasgow on the A81. The Town Hall is near the
town centre, opposite the car park for Milngavie railway station.
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Just back from the Glasgow show. Here are a few general views. Ian Young was busy with his camera so Maggie will have some work to before posting. The food was up to the usual high standard as the pictures show. Off to watch Dr. Who now !!!
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Some more. The picture of six pots are from the top.
Primula Elisae
Dionysia caespitosa Daphne petraea punchinello Daphne Petraea
Primula Bractea Androsace Hirtella x cylindrica
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A few more. As I have said already there should be a lot more pictures to come from the number of cameras in operation at the show.
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I have just finished preparing well over a hundred pix from the show, taken by Ian .... but I have work at the BBC tomorrow and I'm too tired tonight, so I'll post them another time!
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Here's just a few that I took.
Alison Ward's fabulous Trillium rivale;
Acer plamatum 'Mikawa Yatsurusa';
Cyril Lafong's Daphne petraea 'Idro' which was awarded a PC;
Cyril's Cypripedium 'Ursel';
Alan Gardner's Cypripedium 'Sunny' and
C. 'Sabine';
Paris quadrifolia;
Tom green's Sebaea thomasii which received a Certificate of Merit;
Celmisia spedenii and
Jean Wyllie's Shortia soldanelloides 'Magna'.
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Good morning! Here we go with Ian's Glasgow photos.....
This six pan comprised, (from the back, left to right)
Primula ellisae Dionysia caespitosa ssp. caespitosa Daphne petraea'Punchinello'
Daphne petraea Primula bracteata Androsace hirtella x cylindrica
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some classes call for 3 pan entries
Sebaea thomasii, Zaluianskya , Rhododendron 'Wren'
Trillium grandiflorum roseum, Saxifraga, Primula 'Kusum Krishna'
Erythronium, Prinula elissae, Ptreridophyllum racemosum
The award for three pans rhododendron was won by this handsome trio from Stan Da Prato..... from left..'Shamrock' 'Wee Bee' and 'Razorbill'
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next up is a pretty Trillium erectum x flexipes
As ever: click on the pix to enlarge them....
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Sandy Leven getting his photos for his show report.....
Flowers and foliage close-ups of Pteridophyllum racemosum
I'd have called this plant Daphne gemmata.... shows how much I know :-[ :-\
In fact, because it has five petals and not four, it is Wikstroemia gemmata...
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Androsace sp. aff forrestiana
Celmisia spedenii
Paris quadrifolia flower , close
Paris quadrifolia
Primula veris
two Primula veris plants
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Fritillaria persica flower spike
Myosotis eximea
Podophyllum delavayi foliage and close-up
Trillium pusillum and close-up
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Saxifraga cinerea
lovely fat Saxifraga
heads of Iris Sari edit: possibly a a hybrid of iberica and paradoxa.
Primula nana x sessilis
Primula 'Emily'
P. Emily's parentage
Primula bracteata again, plus a close-up
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Primula wanda
Primula sino-purpurea
Primula ellisae
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Androsace next......
A.villosa
A. villosa and A. vandellii from Sam Sutherland
A. muscoidea from Tom Green
A. cylindrica x hirtella
that plant from above
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no more an Androsace..... Douglasia laevigata
two Anemonellas... in front is A. 'Cameo'
Anemonella ? thalictroides
Anemone close and the full plant
Fritillaria pyrenaica 'Bernard Tickner'
Firtillaria meleagris
Tulipa linifolia
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Trillium rivale- I believe this plant was shown by alison Ward...Alison is the daughter ofthose late, great growers and SRGC Members Don and Joan Stead.
Trillium luteum and close-up
Trillium cf decipiens SDR2303 - three pix
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Muscari armeniacum 'Blue Spike'
Gagea fibrosa
Fritillaria pallidiflora
Arisaema sikokianum and close-up
Arisaema lobatum Mt Emei form
Erigeron leiomerus
Lewisia
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the show hall
Sempervivum tricolor
Cyril Lafong, caught blinking :D and Peter Semple
Erysimum helveticum drenowskyi ...twice
Astragalus utahensis and close-up
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Maggi (& all show posters), thank you so much for your efforts. They are greatly appreciated by those of us unlikely to see many of these plants otherwise, or so well grown and presented.
Once the web team has cracked the 'smell' function on the forum, perhaps they might consider developing a 'how is this plant grown so well' button for the show threads ;) 8)
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Daphne petraea clone 97/T3
Daphne arbuscula radicans- a lovely plant!
Sandy and Cyril
Cassiope wardii , twice
Large Cassiope
Rhododendron 'Dora Amateis'
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Maggi (& all show posters), thank you so much for your efforts. They are greatly appreciated by those of us unlikely to see many of these plants otherwise, or so well grown and presented.
Once the web team has cracked the 'smell' function on the forum, perhaps they might consider developing a 'how is this plant grown so well' button for the show threads ;) 8)
That would be a great asset, wouldn't it? I must say, when I am at the shows, I do take particular care to check that some of these truly breath-taking plants are REAL and not ceramic or culinary inventions, such is the level of perfection we see! ;D
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Some great pictures of some amazing plants! I'd love to know more about Ian Christie's Nagaland-lily, has it been identified?
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Another stunning group of pictures and for the first time in 30 years i did not have a selling stand so time to take a few pictures. i have some the same as already posted but the plants were so good, cheers Ian the Christie kind
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Acer palmatum 'Mikawa Yatsarusa'
Lewisia tweedyi alba
Sandy snaps Cyril and a large Androsace ;D edit: which I now learn was the winner of the Forrest Medal for Best Plant in the Show.... androsace vandellii
Hall view with Lewisias
Astragalus and Hymenoxys
Hymenoxys acaulis caespitosa ?
A selection of smart conifers
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Some great pictures of some amazing plants! I'd love to know more about Ian Christie's Nagaland-lily, has it been identified?
It is a gorgeous lily, isn't it, Bjørnar? I'm told it went up to Joint Rock committee and was given a Preliminary Commendation. It's being called a form of L. mackliniae.... but some have doubts!
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Two Daphnes
Andromeda polifolia 'Shibitsu'
Kalmiopsis leachiana 'Shooting Star' , twice
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onto some orchids......
two pics of Cypripedium 'Ursel'
two pics of Cypripedium 'Sabine'
cyp. 4
hall view
Cyp. 'Sunny' ( fasciolatum x calceolus)
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Calceolaria 'Walter Shrimpton'
Epimedium
Cymbalaria globosa rosea
Lathyrus vernus roseus
Primula laurentiana
Tulipa linifolia
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Astragalus argophyllus... three pix....
Astragalus purshii concinnus ..two pix
Glassford Sprunt taking notes
Ronald and Lyn Bezzant
Stan Da Prato and David Millward
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Bob Edge and Rodger Smyth, Glasgow Group members
Ian Christie and David Rankin
Graeme Butler and Ian the Christie Kind- Ian not only had time to take pictures, he had time to be IN them as well! :)
Jim Jermyn and Jim Sutherland, Neil Huntly in the background
These two were described as Richard as "the two mugs" .... Sam Sutherland and Richard Barr
Iris Sari and "5 petal shrub"! The Iris was grown by Show Secreatary John Lee, I think. The BD says John and his Team held a great show, as ever :) 8)
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on the home run now.......
Sandy Leven, Jim Jermyn ( who had brought Dieter Schacht along to see the show) with SRGC President Liz Mills
The Primula ellisae which won the Joan Stead Award for the best Primula in the Show
Primula ellisae , best primula from Carole and Ian Bainbridge
Alan Gardner and Bob Meaden entering the "sychronised stoop and peer class"- very successfully, it must be said ;D
Ian the Christie Kind gets into another photo ;D... this time with Anthony Darby
Just to show the fab catering at the show.... these yummy cakes 8) How could I have missed this event? :'(
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It is a gorgeous lily, isn't it, Bjørnar? I'm told it went yup to Joint Rock committee and was given a Preliminary Comendation. It's being called a form of L. mackliniae.... but some have doubts!
Stunning is an understatement! Thanks for posting these pics, a fantastic way to start the day! :D
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The Forrest Medal was won by a very large Androsace vandelii and Cypripedium 'Ursel' won the best Orchid both grown by Cyril the Glenrothes Greenfinger!
Ian is nothing like so greedy as I am, but even he was moved to say that the layout of homemade goodies could rival the best patisserie... and they were as delicious as they were attractive and seeing Tom's pic of the cake display I would have to agree.... well done Glasgow for such a great range of "eats" !!
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A big vote of thanks to Maggie for her Herculean task of sorting and posting the pictures. Maggie, you must have been cross-eyed by bed time. Taking them is the easy part....no offence Ian! When I was working on the few I took, my copy of Windows7 took the huff and informed me that I had an unlicensed copy and blanked out my screen so I could do nothing until I found my disk and registered it. By which time, I could not remember what I had attempted to post hence the number of edits I performed. It was a relief to know that a proper account of the show would appear. As to the cakes, very few of the ones on the tier had been consumed when we left. The display looked so good that people felt it was wrong to eat a work of art!
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Great job everyone! What a wonderful show. And those cakes looked mouthwateringly good.....
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You forgot to take of photos of the mouth-watering meringues - and they tasted as good as they looked.
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I missed the scones. Some little piggies had scoffed them all. ::)
Here is Ian Christie's Cypripedium, the name of which I have forgotten and another pic of the white one, which was Cypripedium 'Sabine Pastel' and Narcissus 'Bantam'.
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You forgot to take of photos of the mouth-watering meringues - and they tasted as good as they looked.
Never underestimate the Rockers: you want meringues... then here they are from Tom's photo, alongside the fruit flans which Ian said were just delicious!
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I missed the scones. Some little piggies had scoffed them all. ::)
Ian denies any guilt on that score.... says he was too busy with the fruit flans... which he says were more like cheescake and fruit, really ... he also reports that those ultra fancy cup cakes not onlu had great decoration but also had jam inside them!!
Good grief... how that man likes to make me suffer.
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My God! What wonders have been performed by all, whether growers, exhibitors, judges, bakers and eaters. And with two other shows on the same day, how can one possibly take in everything? Very grateful thanks to everyone and especially those who took the photographs for the benefit of those of us who are terminally deprived.
Although the alpines were, as always, exceptional, I have to say a word in favour of the little Acer, a delightful little tree, very much at home among the shortias and anemonellas.
May I dare suggest that Primula `Wanda' was in fact ". juliae?
Edit by Maggi.... most certainly..... I was on auto-pilot by that time of night when I named the files!
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Did anyone else notice the two ladies wandering up the tables admiring every exhibit, but touching each flower to point out its finer points to each other? I was talking to Anne Chambers when they approached us, and Anne moved a "Do not touch the plants" notice towards them which was igniored. When I asked them, very gently, not to touch the exhibits they turned their backs, and walked off in a huff. Hope they were not anyone's aunties?
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Forget the plants. The real star of the show was the food. As to the meringues, they came in two sizes. We bagged the large ones! For me the best items were the homity pies, of which I had two.
However, I only had one large meringue. The secret is to get in to the dining area before the show starts and have the pick of the menu.
I think there must be some symbiotic relation between meringues and plants. The best meringues I have seen were in the restaurant at Benmore gardens. They were six inches in diameter. The problem was whether to eat one before walking round the gardens or wait until later and take the risk they had all gone!
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Another great report of an excellent show !
Thanks Maggi and Tom : wonderful pictures, and glad to see that not only the plants were first class ! 8)
So much looking forward to visiting the Aberdeen show on May 15th !! :D :D
(maybe this last sentence should have been in the "I'm so happy" thread" 8)