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Re: SRGC Highland Show Nairn 2013
« Reply #30 on: April 28, 2013, 05:30:58 PM »
Preparation- is Barry trying to pollinate the tulip with his beard??

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Re: SRGC Highland Show Nairn 2013
« Reply #31 on: April 28, 2013, 05:43:08 PM »
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Re: SRGC Highland Show Nairn 2013
« Reply #32 on: April 28, 2013, 05:50:35 PM »
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Re: SRGC Highland Show Nairn 2013
« Reply #33 on: April 28, 2013, 06:07:36 PM »
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Re: SRGC Highland Show Nairn 2013
« Reply #34 on: April 28, 2013, 06:08:52 PM »
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Re: SRGC Highland Show Nairn 2013
« Reply #35 on: April 28, 2013, 07:01:20 PM »
Nice pictures, Stan. I was getting worried for you when they didn't appear earlier but had forgotten that you were staying over the Saturday night.
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Re: SRGC Highland Show Nairn 2013
« Reply #36 on: April 28, 2013, 08:00:35 PM »
Hi folks

The narcissus is a selection of N. r. watieri.   We got a bulb from the SRGC Bulb exchange at a Discussion weekend many years ago; think it may have come from Sheila Maule or Lynn Bezzant.

The plant is shorter than many watieris, has a completely flat, reflexed corona - ie no cup at all, look at the pictures, and multiplies well, unlike many. When the plant went to the RHS Joint Rock Garden Plant Committee, it was awarded an Award of merit subject to it being given a cultivar name, so we registered it with the Narcissus register as Abaleish, the Berber word for snowflake.

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Re: SRGC Highland Show Nairn 2013
« Reply #37 on: April 28, 2013, 08:14:12 PM »
Hi , Bainbridges : Two Forrests in two weeks- pretty good going , Folks- reason to be cheerful for sure!!  8)
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Re: SRGC Highland Show Nairn 2013
« Reply #38 on: April 28, 2013, 08:36:28 PM »
Take a look at the photos that appeared on the 'Gurn' http://www.flickr.com/photos/gurnnurn/sets/72157633350337889/?share=mail
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Re: SRGC Highland Show Nairn 2013
« Reply #39 on: April 28, 2013, 08:41:23 PM »
Ooh, great photos - got a shock in this one : IMG_5298 - thought for sure you had The Duke of Edinburgh visiting the show.......... ;D

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gurnnurn/8686135209/#in/set-72157633350337889
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Re: SRGC Highland Show Nairn 2013
« Reply #40 on: April 28, 2013, 09:17:45 PM »
Ooh, great photos - got a shock in this one : IMG_5298 - thought for sure you had The Duke of Edinburgh visiting the show.......... ;D

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gurnnurn/8686135209/#in/set-72157633350337889

Could almost be Maggi! However, given we had no sudden influx of polis or security I think probably not... and I don't think HRH interests follow his ma-in-law!
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Re: SRGC Highland Show Nairn 2013
« Reply #41 on: April 28, 2013, 09:23:14 PM »
Glad to see you're safely returned Stan.

That Soldanella mimima is a cracker - we haven't had one look like that for years  :-X

Maggi - that is Francis and Margaret Higgins Soldanella! Now you know why we are delighted they will be at the Discussion Weekend when you will be one of  the three lady judges :)
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Re: SRGC Highland Show Nairn 2013
« Reply #42 on: April 28, 2013, 09:38:40 PM »
Could almost be Maggi! However, given we had no sudden influx of polis or security I think probably not... and I don't think HRH interests follow his ma-in-law!

Since the Queen Mum was SRGC Patron, there might be an opening there........ ;) :-\
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Re: SRGC Highland Show Nairn 2013
« Reply #43 on: May 01, 2013, 09:27:17 PM »
I didn't take many pictures at Nairn
Here are a few, some of which may be of plants different from those posted before.

Last year I went for a walk along the lovely beach but this year it was too cold.  Just took a couple of snaps and headed back into the town

Androsace idahoense x laevigata
Androsace tangulashanensis,  in the 3 pan class with the Soldanelle minima
Nick Boss's beautiful Androsace vandellii
Roma Fiddes, near Aberdeen in north East Scotland.

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Re: SRGC Highland Show Nairn 2013
« Reply #44 on: May 01, 2013, 09:33:14 PM »
Another pic of the Soldanella minima
Sandy Leven's entry in the three pan class
Calceolaria uniflora var darwini
and a close up of Auricula 'Black Jack'  which was darker than it appears here
Roma Fiddes, near Aberdeen in north East Scotland.

 


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