Perth Show 2008

[Maggi Young]

Home safe after a lovely day at Perth Show, followed by great company and supper with Fred and Alice Hunt and some chums at Invergowrie, on the way home. Had only brief look at my photos, most of which are even fuzzier than usual. I may post some to see if you can actually manageto identify any of the plants from the crazt images I manage to produce!!

[Maggi Young]

A few pix for tonight, more after work tomorrow....
First,the  Forrest Medal winning plant, a really large and yummy Lewisia tweedyii lemon form.
2) said large and luscious Lewisia and proud grower, yes, you guessed it, it's the Glenrothes Greenfinger again, Cyril Lafong!
3) Now, a frit to test you..... who can see past this fuzzy photo to recognise Fritillaria hermonis amana
 Not many of you, I bet
4) here's a slighty better frit pic... F. graeca ssp graeca
5) another fuzzy effort... this is Fritillaria hispanica (dwarf form)  and Narcissus watieri, off to the right
I can honestly say that the pix do not do justice to the plants... huge apologies to the exhibitors whose fine plants I have mangled.

[Greenmanplants]

Hi Maggi,

Looks like another good judges lunch then.....you'll have to get the pics all done before the lunch!

The tweedyi looks a stunner all the same.

[Maggi Young]

Oh, John,  if only I could blame my incompetence on lunch but, honest injun, I was a sober as ....................a Judge I managed to mess most of this up in the morning! What a  twit!

[Lesley Cox]

A luscious lemon lewisia! You didn't eat it for dessert Maggi?

[Ian Y]

President Ian Christie asks Maggi if she is fit to use that camera and decides to set her a few tests.
Watched on by Bette Ivey(Hon President) and Elspeth MacIntosh(RBG Edinburgh).


Maggi taking the first test can she see that plant over there - what plant where?


Ok can you stand steady on a chair for five minutes without falling off?


Well she could not see the plant clearly and fell off the chair so she was passed fit to join the rest of the Judges - Carole Bainbridge, Ian Christie, Ian Bainbridge, Bette Ivey, Elspbeth MacIntish and Maggi Young.

[mark smyth]

Maggi are you spewing over the wee plant on the rock?

What are the three plants?

[Anthony Darby]

Mark, seeing as yesterday was primrose day, (so Jean 'Primrose' Wyllie told me), they are trying to decide which primrose maggi should knit into her next jumper!

[Maggi Young]

Mark, really!
Anthony..... easy for you to say, as a man wearing a lizard on the back of his shirt!!

So, those three primulas.....

Primula dryadifolia, P. bracteata, P. maximowiczii

The Primula dryadifolia, grown and shown in a very attractive and naturalistic fashion by Nick Boss, won the trophy for the Best Asiatic Primula

[Maggi Young]

Before I post a few more of my wibbly wobbly photos, I would like to thank my husband for his kind illustrations of the inner workings of the judicial processes of the SRGC. That's probably the last time either of US are asked to judge at Perth 
So, in for a penny, as they say.....
1) two entries in the two pan class of Section 2
2) Three plants, native to one country....American  Trilliums shown by Jim and Janet Paterson....who worked all day on the Club Plant Stall, with another exhibitor, Alan Weepers.... nobody gets an easy ride at an SRGC show, that's for sure!
3) There are some odd bods about though... not sure if these three are quite "with it" ? Bill Robinson from Paisley(grower of the Rosulate Viola discussed in the Forum recently) to the left and Ian (Bulb Despot) Young to the right, both falling asleep, it seems, while David (Dr. Rock) Millward is  in the middle, keeping watch 
4)Three  Italian primulas from Margaret and Henry Taylor. From back to front ( with a yellow Corydalis wilsoni and a Dicentra in the background) Primula crucis  ?, P. grignensis ?, P. albenensis
5) Six of the seven judges .... I originally had this pic labelled as "5 of 6 judges"..... perhaps  President Ian of the Christie kind ( shown at the right hand side.....should have set me an arithmetic test as well, to see if I could calulate my camera settings correctly The other judges are, left to right, Ian Bainbridge, (partly hidden) behind Ian Young, Carole Bainbridge, SRGC Honorary President Bette Ivey, Elspeth Mackintosh of RBGE and our esteemed President.
6) there were  several good plants in Section 2, the "beginners" section, which bodes well for the future of our shows....Aciphylla dobsoni
7)In the same class as the A. dobsoni was this Ozothamnus coralloides (formerly Helichrysum coralloides)
8)More Sect. 2 goodies,  Sebaea thomasii, a Pleione which won Best Plant in Section 2.... I think it is P. 'Rakata'  and a Primula aureata
9) Sect. 2 still.... Primula (labelled Auricula) 'Mojave'
10) As the Judges deliberated in Section 2, Julia was obviously worried that their brains would overheat and contravene the strict instructions posted on the wall of the show hall.....

[Lesley Cox]

More lovely plants, and great to see the people too. The gentleman in pic no 3 of Ian's post sure carries his future in front of him.

[Lvandelft]

So you have seen some very interesting and splendid plants there, Maggi.
Like this Primula dryadifolia, this must be beautiful.

Before I post a few more of my wibbly wobbly photos

And Maggi....., I would take another chair, when these plant-tables are so high.....      

[Anthony Darby]

More lovely plants, and great to see the people too. The gentleman in pic no 3 of Ian's post sure carries his future in front of him.

That's retired hospital consultant Glassford Sprunt Lesley.

[Ian Y]

Lesley, that is my dear friend Glassford Sprunt you speak of.

A few more people pics from me.

Cyril Lafong with the Forrest Medal plant.
Cyril with the Jubilee Award plant and the lovely print he would get if he had not already won one at a previous show.
Jean Wyllie with the Birthday Award I could not possible divulge how many she is celebrating (and live) but she is not as old as the SRGC.

[Ian Y]

John Lee and Mike Hopkins
Nick Boss and Roma Fiddes
Rhoma Fiddes, John Lee and Mike Hopkins
Dave Millward feels the need to phone a friend.