AGS Pershore Show 7th July

[Martinr]

Highlight of the Pershore show was the Farrer Medal won by forum members Brian & Shelagh Smethurst with a fine pan of Stylidium graminifolium. Two pictures attached, both of dubious quality due to the lunchtime celebrations and the poor lighting in the hall giving me a touch of camera shake. Better quality pictures on the AGS site.

Congratulations Brian & Shelagh

[Martinr]

Some more pictures from Pershore
Thymus cilicicus shown by Lee & Julie Martin
Lilium formosanum pricei, various exhibitors
Spigelia marilandica, Joy Bishop
Anagallis tenella Studland, Brian Russ
and Eucomis autumnale ssp amaryllidifolia, Bob & Rranveig Wallis

[Martinr]

And finally
Cecilia Coller's medal winning small 6 pan
Rhododendron nakaharae Mariko, Hedi & Jim Hancox
Paul & Gill Ranson's medal winning large 6 pan

[ranunculus]

Can we add our heartiest congratulations to Brian and Shelagh on their second Farrer Medal....couldn't have happened to a nicer couple.  Just a shame that Sue dragged me shopping instead of to the show....then again my photos would have been a bit shaky as well due to over consumption at lunch time....

[fermi de Sousa]

Congratulations, Brian and Shelagh!
Lovely to see an Australian Plant getting a Farrer Medal!
Stylidiums are an amazing genus with species like this from the East coast to fantastic dwarf forms in Western Australia, most of which aren't in cultivation - yet!
cheers
fermi

[rob krejzl]

The Stylidium is very nice. I have trouble convincing myself though that it isn't S. armeria, the tetraploid form which was separated from S. graminifolium a few years back.

[Maggi Young]

Well done, Shelagh and Brian!
What a good plant. A lovely summer celebration reason, a Farrer medal, hope you had a drink for us, too?!!

Celia Coller's six pan is a rhapsody in blue, isn't it? Is the white plant, center back, a Petrocosmea? Just shows how a dash of white can highlight the blues so nicely.

I wasn't expecting to see a Rhodo at this time of year, especially an azalea! Where do the Hancox live?

We have Eucomis just coming into leaf in the garden, so that was a surprise too!

Many thanks for sharing , Martin, it's appreciated very much.

[shelagh]

Many thanks for all your good wishes, I have to say we were thrilled and for Maggi's information Brian was wearing a tie!

Yes Maggi the patch of white was a Petrocsmea but I'm afraid I didn't take a note of which one.

Rob I haven't heard of Stylidium armeria.  Our plant was given us by a fiend (should be friend) quite a few years ago as S. graminifolium. He had grown it from Australian seed. I have managed to germinate seed from ours, and Brian has found a SSS in the pot, but they are the devil to get going. Still we continue to try.

Shelagh

[rob krejzl]

Shelagh,

Armeria's a sort of 'lost' plant - the original collection was made a long time ago but never properly examined. Seems to be almost exclusively coastal, and the flower spike is much better clothed in blooms - a better garden plant. Certainly more imposing than the S. graminifolium forms I grow or have seen here in Tassie.


Key to Tasmanian Stylidium: http://www.utas.edu.au/dicotkey/DicotKey/OTHERS/gStylidium.htm