PERTH SRGC SHOW 2010

[Peter Maguire]

Interesting that Primula sinolisteri has survived the latest winter even though it's from Vietnam. I wonder how many experts would have been willing to bet on that!

[Maggi Young]

more.......
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Primula diantha version1 .... looking rather different from this next plant .....
Primula diantha version2
Primula elatior  in section2
Primula frondosa
Primula grigensis
Primula 'Harry Jans'
Primula hirsuta 'Stuart Boothman's variety'  
Primula knuthiana
Primula latifolia
Primula dryadifolia angustifoliacongestifolia

[Maggi Young]

Lots  more  photos to come, Robin and all will be revealed about the "ferny plant with white flowers" !!


Primula limbata
Primula marginata in foliage class
Primula nana x sessilis
Primula scotica tiny but elongated ...unlike the pan on the side of the RBGE dsiplay...really neat and tiny... which I managed to forget to photograph 
Primula 'White Lady'
Primula 'White Linda Pope'
Primula white
Primula 'Yellow Linda'
Primula_from rear_ P. veris_ 'Blue Sapphire' -'Dawn Ansell'
Primulas 'Aire Mist',_'Jackie Richards'_'Lilac Fairy'

[Maggi Young]

and yet more......
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Primulas more 2
primulas....more primulas
Primulas_'Aire Mist'_Wharfdale Sunrise'_'Pink Ice'
Primulas_from rear_ Aire Mist-Lismore Jewel_Pink Ice
Prmula allionii _from rear_ 'Aire Mist'_'forma'_'Snowflake'

Pteridophyllum racemosum Anne and Viv Chambers..... this "ferny" foliaged beauty is usually listed as being in the poppy family! It is a species of flowering plant endemic to Japan. It is the only species in the mono-generic family Pteridophyllaceae, which is sometimes treated as a subfamily of Papaveraceae.
Great, isn't it... and this was a fab specimen.

Pteridophyllum racemosum  and Hacquetia epipactis.... in  the class for two pans plants- lifted from the open garden.

Pulsatilla sukaczewii
Pulsatilla sukaczewii notes
Ranunculus calandrinioides

[Maggi Young]

still going........

Raoulia australis
red Frit meleagris from Dordogne seed MHT
Rhodo 'Cream Crest': this and the next one,shown in a two pan class....
Rhodo.'Rose Elf'

'Snipe' best rhodo inthe show from Stan da Prato, as were the others
Roma smiles.....Julia exits left, at speed
Saxifraga  georgei and S.andersonii in front  both from  Nick Boss
Saxifraga alpina
Saxifraga 'Christine'
Saxifraga cevennensis

[Maggi Young]

they're still coming.....

Saxifraga fortunei in foliage class
Saxifraga 'Nancye'
Saxifraga sempervivum
Saxifraga sp.
Sedum 'Capa Blanca'
sedum Rhodiola trollii  in square pot
Sedum spathulifolium
Semp.'Ball's variety'
Semp.'Purple Beauty'

[Maggi Young]

and yet more.....

Shortia uniflora
Soldanella carpatica x pusilla
Soldanella from Nick Boss
Stan Da Prato's mini  garden
Townsendia wilcoxiana:  seed ex Franz Hadacek in 2008 shown by Carol and David Shaw
Trillium chloropetalum  and T. pusillum to left
Trillium grandiflorum roseum: part of Cyril's six pan.
Trillium rivale
Tulipa urumiensis
two pan Sempervivim

[Maggi Young]

Right, now to the  display, awarded a Gold Medal, from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh.... the display brought by Elspeth Mackintosh, who masterminds the display and is the main carer of the alpines at RBGE and her boss, John Mitchell. The two of them are aided and abetted by Struan Harley.... as they were last week- in the kitchen at Edinburgh Show!These folk are nothing if not multi-talented, you know!


rbge full display
rbge leftside
rbge middle section
rbge rightside
rbgeclose1
rbge middle close
rbge Clem tenu. in display to show scale
rbge  tiny Clematis tenuifolia
rbge Erythronium helenae
rbge Erythronium howellii

[Maggi Young]

more from the RBGE  display..... I'm sorry there are not more photos of this but the light in the hall is not good and I wasn't getting very great results.  

A couple of fritillaries and an Iris graeberiana yellow falls.

[Maggi Young]

Now to Tom Green and his Forrest medal Sebaea  thomasii.....

Tom gets his medal and certificate from SRGC President Liz Mills

[Maggi Young]

lastly, one or two pix of the prize winners and other folks about the place.....

Julia Corden, Show Secretary  and Liz Mills, President: the presentation begins
background: James Cobb,FredHunt, Andrew Radley,foreground Elspeth MacIntosh_Dr Rock(David Millward) , Tom G and Sid 
Barry and the 'Save His Beard' sign, thoughtfully placed in the hall by the oprganising team...
Barry Caudwell,Cyril Lafong , John Lee
'The Prezz' and Henry Taylor.... Margaret is being shy....
Ian Bainbridge... it seems Carole is being shy, too!
Hiking companions:these two are often off  walking in the hills... Liz presents a certificate of merit to Anne Chambers for the entry of the Pteridophyllum and the Hacquetia.
Andrew Radley... now was this for the best exhibit for a member in the Tayside Region or the Perth Group? Andrew won one and  the Taylors the other!
Mike Hicks , Edinburgh Group Treasurer... only in his second season of showing, and doing well.

[ChrisB]

Wow, what a great, great show.  Thanks for the piccies Maggi.  I got seed of Bukiniczia and its germinated.  Wonder how long it will take to reach that size?  Wondered what on earth it was when I got the seed packet, but it turns out to be a plumbago, right next door to armeria, so looking forward to watching it grow.

[Maggi Young]

just one left, I think........
The Prezz and the Squirrel...... just because he didn't win the Forrest, doesn't mean Cyril wenty home empty handed... he won three trophies, and one Certificate of Merit, I think!!!  

Enjoy!

[Maggi Young]

Wow, what a great, great show.  Thanks for the piccies Maggi.  I got seed of Bukiniczia and its germinated.  Wonder how long it will take to reach that size?  Wondered what on earth it was when I got the seed packet, but it turns out to be a plumbago, right next door to armeria, so looking forward to watching it grow.

My pleasure, Christine.
Yes, the Bukiniczia has also been  Aeoniopsis cabulica and Dictyolimon macrorrhabdos ....when the flower comes it does  looks more like a Statice then........
I've heard some folk take the flowers off at first to encourage the plant to make offset rosettes because it is monocarpic.... but that doesn't always work,I don't think 

[Ragged Robin]

Pteridophyllum racemosum Anne and Viv Chambers..... this "ferny" foliaged beauty is usually listed as being in the poppy family! It is a species of flowering plant endemic to Japan. It is the only species in the mono-generic family Pteridophyllaceae, which is sometimes treated as a subfamily of Papaveraceae.
Great, isn't it... and this was a fab specimen.

Yes, it certainly is 'fab' and thanks for all the detail, Maggi, on everything else as well   
Your report is bubbling over with information about the plants and people and one can feel the 'buzz' as if one was 'there' - thanks so much 

So many prime Primulas too!