DUNBLANE EARLY DWARF BULB DISPLAY 20/02/16

[Maggi Young]

Modest star, Cyril Lafong, was presented with his GOLD medal award to commemorate winning 50 Forrest Medals by Club President David Rankin - that's 50 Best in Show Plants! Cyril was also presented with an award by Pam Whittle Pres. of the Royal Caledonian Hort. Society- well deserved recognition on both counts!
 pic by Julia Corden

[Maggi Young]

Alan McMurtie had several of his Iris reticulata  hybrids up for consideration by  the Joint Rock Garden Plant Committee -

He tells me that 'Spot On' was recommended for Award of Merit, and 'Sunshine' and 'Scent Sational' were recommended for Preliminary Commendations   

The plants on display  in Dunblane   were in the Gold Medal winning display  by Jacques Amand International at the RHS  London Show  earlier this week

[angie]

Thanks everyone for organising another good day out for us at Dunblane. Always look forward to this and those bacon rolls smelt so nice when we arrived. Lots of lovely plants to buy and nice catching up with friends.
Nice to see Cyril Lafong receive his medals, well deserved just wish that he would give us hopeless growers a chance 
Thanks everyone.
Angie 

[YT]

Thank you for sharing the show pictures, Maggi and Stan

And congratulations Cyril

McM's hybrids Iris 02-ID-1 and I. ‘Mars Landing’ are put on the top of my wish list!

[fermi de Sousa]

How wonderful it must've been to be there! I'm so jealous! February is not a month for us to be away from the garden.
'Mars Landing' is outstanding - especially to those of us who love brown flowers! Sadly it will be a miracle for us to get it here in Australia 
cheers
fermi

[Stan da Prato]

A few snaps of some nice bulbs outwith John Amand's display: Crocus tauricus, Iris winogradowii, I. Sheila Anne Germaney and I. histrio aintabensis   and one entertaining  exhibit  of three garden centre primroses. 

[Stan da Prato]

a few snaps of the many and varied  things people do at the early bulb day.

[Stan da Prato]

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[Julia]

Great day had by all, thank you Sandy for organising the day. Stan thank you for posting pictures so we can see what we missed - as never enough time in the day 😃

[YT]

... and one entertaining exhibit of three garden centre primroses.

Thank you for the additional pictures Stan I wish I had been there!

Didn't you see garden pansies with shocking pink containers this year by the way?

[Matt T]

What a fantastic start to the SRGC events in 2016. I'm just back home, so a bit late bringing my photos to the party, but will post them regardless as there are a few plants that have not been shown yet (believe it or not, there were more than just Irises on show!) 

Starting with the snowies:
Galanthus 'Gold 'n Green' - a hybrid created by Henry Taylor (G. p. 'Wendy's Gold' x G.n. 'Janet Aspland')
Galanthus 'Little Ben' - huge flowers on a wee dote of a plant (I managed to tuck one away into a boot in my luggage and it has safely made it home on the plane!)
Galanthus alpinus
Galanthus 'Alison Hilary'
Galanthus gracilis

[Matt T]

Ok, here are the Reticulata Irises. Some large pans of Alan's plants were away to Joint Rock when I was snapping, so some of the others:
00-DH-1
'Reine(?) Immaculata'
01-ID-1
'Velvet Smile'
98-EQ-2

[Matt T]

Fritillaria alburyana
Helleborus thibetanus
Colchicum luteum
Colchicum szovitsii
Corydalis schanginii

[Matt T]

Now my favourites, the Crocuses. Tightly closed when carried in to the hall, they opened up nicely. All lovely!

Crocus malyi
Crocus reticulatus 'Feathered Sulphur'
Crocus cvjicii
Crocus biflorus alexandri
Crocus reticulatus

[Matt T]

Finally, our own Cyril Lafong receiving his award from the Caley and Alan McMurtrie enthusing the audience for his many hybrids.