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Diane Clement

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AGS East Lancs show 2007
« on: March 25, 2007, 08:42:35 PM »
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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Re: AGS East Lancs show 2007
« Reply #1 on: March 25, 2007, 08:48:07 PM »
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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Re: AGS East Lancs show 2007
« Reply #2 on: March 25, 2007, 09:27:39 PM »
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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Re: AGS East Lancs show 2007
« Reply #3 on: March 25, 2007, 09:38:35 PM »
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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Re: AGS East Lancs show 2007
« Reply #4 on: March 25, 2007, 09:43:31 PM »
Thanks Diane - appreciate your letting us in to the show !! :-*
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Re: AGS East Lancs show 2007
« Reply #5 on: March 25, 2007, 10:41:34 PM »
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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Re: AGS East Lancs show 2007
« Reply #6 on: March 25, 2007, 10:58:21 PM »
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 .
« Last Edit: March 25, 2007, 11:04:10 PM by Maggi Young »
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Re: AGS East Lancs show 2007
« Reply #7 on: March 25, 2007, 11:15:02 PM »
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.


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Re: AGS East Lancs show 2007
« Reply #8 on: March 25, 2007, 11:56:50 PM »
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!
« Last Edit: March 26, 2007, 12:08:30 AM by Maggi Young »
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Re: AGS East Lancs show 2007
« Reply #9 on: March 26, 2007, 09:36:23 AM »
Ah  :), that makes up for the total lack of orchids at the Stirling show :(
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Re: AGS East Lancs show 2007
« Reply #10 on: March 26, 2007, 09:33:13 PM »
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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Re: AGS East Lancs show 2007
« Reply #11 on: March 26, 2007, 09:43:29 PM »
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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Re: AGS East Lancs show 2007
« Reply #12 on: March 26, 2007, 09:51:21 PM »

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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Re: AGS East Lancs show 2007
« Reply #13 on: March 26, 2007, 10:35:41 PM »
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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Re: AGS East Lancs show 2007
« Reply #14 on: March 26, 2007, 11:42:08 PM »
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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