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SRGC Shows and Events => Events => Topic started by: Maggi Young on June 13, 2013, 06:47:55 PM
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Seems ages since we heard from any of the AGS shows but the next one is this coming weekend:
AGS Show - Summer North Saturday, 15 June - 12.00 noon to 4.00 pm
Venue: The Chesneys Centre, Regent Street, Featherstone, Pontefract WF7 5EW
I think our recent American visitor is being taken along to see this show - hope everyone has a great day!
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Pudsey Pigs out in force?
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Alas, this piglet will be missing, off to see some wild flowers :)
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Have a great trip, Martin ... more food in the swill trough for the rest of us!!! :P
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Thanks Cliff, who knows maybe I'll manage to sell a few book using my advanced marketing skill. 'No rucksack should be without one.'
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Friends,
please look out for Elisabeth at the show and say hello - she's coming, I think, with Adrian Young.
Cliff, maybe you met on your NARGS tour? Elisabeth is a friend of Anne S..... 8)
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Friends,
please look out for Elisabeth at the show and say hello - she's coming, I think, with Adrian Young.
Cliff, maybe you met on your NARGS tour? Elisabeth is a friend of Anne S..... 8)
I can't seem to find a photo so I pinched this of her from elsewhere!
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Maggi, we were wonderfully fortunate to visit Elisabeth and Rod's magnificent garden during our NARGS Tour in 2010 and enjoyed splendid hospitality and a magnificent meal at their beautiful home. We hope to meet up with Elisabeth at the show and entice her to the pub to experience a Pudsey Pig competition before she has to dash south for her flight to Paris?
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:) Cliff, that is good news indeed -and since Elisabeth eats like a bird your trophy will be safe! :)
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... and since Elisabeth eats like a bird your trophy will be safe! :)
Yes, a turkey vulture!!!! x
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Yes, a turkey vulture!!!! x
Speaking of which, last Monday one swooped in front of my car - about 20m ahead - in northern Nova Scotia. This is the farthest north I have ever seen one, usually you see them circling on drafts far overhead in the Annapolis Valley, Halifax being the limit. Now they're 100 miles north of Hfx. Boy are they big, I thought it was a Dreamliner coming into the Caribou, NS airport for a recharge.
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Just back from another splendid AGS Show held at Featherstone, Pontefract today 15th June 2013, where the benches were filled with colour, diversity and overwhelming beauty. A wonderful array of species vied for the host of prizes and Show Secretary, Eric Rainford and his splendid team should be justifiably proud of this tremendous event. There were a number of contenders for the Farrer Medal and Alan Furness from Hexham reigned supreme with his immaculate Lewisia rediviva.
Alan Furness - Farrer Medal winner 2013
Farrer Medal exhibit - Lewisia rediviva
Farrer Medal exhibit - Lewisia rediviva
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Thanks Cliff, WOW what a plant. Who won the PIG?
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Thanks Cliff, WOW what a plant. Who won the PIG?
Hi David, I was building up the tension ... but since you asked ... after a fraught (and gluttonous) Pudsey Pig competition, with over twenty competitors and mountains of food, we could do little else but present the prize for a second time to the voracious and very worthy John Bunn. Congratulations, Mr Bunn ... and we hope the stomach pump worked. LOL.
John Bunn - in the white (splitting) shirt to the right of the image.
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Congratulations to Alan for that Farrer winning plant and to John Bunn for his Pig winning performance - what a day of excitement and success :D
The dining room looks pretty posh for the average PP venue....- how did they let you lot in?
You must have sent Sue to make the booking? ::)
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The dining room looks pretty posh for the average PP venue....- how did they let you lot in?
You must have sent Sue to make the booking? ::)
They thought we would raise the profile of the place ... it's a wedding, conference venue of repute ... I should have said it WAS a wedding, conference venue of repute.
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Three views of the show benches at Pontefract.
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Just a few shots of the show at Featherstone.
The heaving and lovely benches.
The PP competition - John Bunn manfully 'steaking' his claim on the left with Peter Farkash wondering 'how does he do it?'.
The worthy winner with his prize.
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Just back from another splendid AGS Show held at Featherstone, Pontefract today 15th June 2013, where the benches were filled with colour, diversity and overwhelming beauty. A wonderful array of species vied for the host of prizes and Show Secretary, Eric Rainford and his splendid team should be justifiably proud of this tremendous event. There were a number of contenders for the Farrer Medal and Alan Furness from Hexham reigned supreme with his immaculate Lewisia rediviva.
Alan Furness - Farrer Medal winner 2013
Farrer Medal exhibit - Lewisia rediviva
Farrer Medal exhibit - Lewisia rediviva
Good grief, what a plant !!!! Many congratulations !
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The two panorama pics were obviously too wide.
here's another try.
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Still didn't work - must try harder!!!!!!!!!!! ???
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If at first .........
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They do work, John ... but you must use the blue bar that appears at the bottom of the screen to scroll across.
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ooohhh Yeees :P
Thanks Cliff,
JohnnyD
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The dining room looks pretty posh for the average PP venue....- how did they let you lot in?
You must have sent Sue to make the booking? ::)
It can't have been in Featherstone, they don't use knives and forks there. They tear it with their bare hands. ::)
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Unless it's curry - then they wear rubber gloves! ;D
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The one problem with digital cameras is that they encourage you to take too many pictures which then have to be edited etc etc but at last job done. As you may have gathered from the forum so far the Summer North Show was first class with a broad range of plants on view, I got the impression that there was a North South devide with the folk from the South having more plants typical of this show in normal years than those from the North, eg most campanula were exhibited by midlands south whereas to us in the North campanula are still a week away from producing good flowering....it made for a fine competition.
A run through some pictures then
Saxifraga longifolia hybrid (4) Tony Lee
Saxifraga 'Southside Star' (4) J&C Dower
Campanula shetleri (7) M&A Sheader
Physoplexis comosa (6) George Young
Dianthus 'Eileen Lever' (8) Edward Spencer
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Silene pusilla (8) George Young
Lewisia 'George Henley' (9) Cliff Booker
Dactylorhiza foliosa (11) Peter Farkasch
Rhodohypoxis 'E A Bowles' (12) B&S Smethurst
Roscoea humeana alba (12) F&P Bundy
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Rhodiola trollii Cecilia Coller (13), yet again the winner of the most points in the Open Section
Eriogonum flavaum (15) Alan Furness, the picture does not do it justice
Pimelia ferruginea (17) Cecilia Coller...a lovely plant, I have tried it many times but always seem to lose it over winter, doesn't like the climate up here
Sarmentosa repens (18) W&J Wright. Jim says they have a special b ox for carrying to shows in, I can see why
Leiophyllum buxifolium (21) Brian Russ, a huge plant
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Campanula carpatha (1) M&A Sheader...I did like this
Stachys candida (1) M&A Sheader
Nototriche macleanii (1) M&A Sheader....liked this even more!
Scutellaria laeteviolacea (37) Cecilia Coller
Asperula gussonii (37) Ian Instone
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I don't often do Sedum but I show the entry in the 3 pan class that won for B&S Smethurst
Sedum brevifolium induratum
Sedum furfuraceum
Sedum hirsutum baeticum
Calceolaria tenella (38) M&A Sheader
Saxifraga valdensis (hybrid) J&C Dower...it was shown as straight S valdensis but am pretty sure it was no...still a good palnt with short. robust stems
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Saxifraga cebennensis (40) John Mullaney
Saxifraga ilonakhensis (40) Tommy Anderson
Primula forrestii (40) Alan Furness
Campanula pelia (41) John Bunn (he of Pudsey Pig fame this year)...split his shirt carrying this back to the car!!)
Euryops acaeus (43) Cecilia Coller
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The South American high altitude cactus type plants are not often seen at our shows but they certainly add colour when they appear. Unfortunately I did not get the class or exhibitor for the first three shown in a 3 pan class
Echinops backbergii
Rebutia fiebrigii
Gymnocalycium bruschii var niveum
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The Farrer Medal was won by Alan Furness with what he says is his oldest plant, 25 years or so
Lewisia rediviva (44)
Allium crenulatum (48) Tommy Anderson
Allium nevskianum (49) Ivor Betteridge
Allium campanulatum (49) Robert Rolfe, as enthusiastic as ever
Rhodohypoxis thodiana (50) Ivor Betteridge
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I was fortunate enough to win the small 6, some of the plants I had in the class were
Arenaria hookeri v desertorum
Leucogenes leontopodium
Silene argaea
Dianthus 'Pudsey Prize'
Eriogonum ovalifolium var nivale
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Rebutia simoneana (51) Paul Street...he may have been the exhibitor on those shown earlier
Nassauvia guadichaudii (51) George Young
Rhododendron camtschaticum (51) Dave Riley...was a better colour than the picture shows but the sun was streaming in through the roof at the time
Leucogenes leontopodium (52) Alan Furness..all right I have already shown a picture of another one but is worth it
Celmisia semicordata ssp stricta (53) Alan Furness
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Wonderful report and images, George ... just one correction - the superb Saxifraga ilonakhensis in Class 40 was exhibited by Geoff Rollinson and not Tommy Anderson.
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So nice to see Calceolaria tenella; I remember growing this years ago and thinking what a delightful plant it is. And I must have seen that Lewisia rediviva in Alan Furness' greenhouse 12 years ago (after the Edinburgh Conference). It was well after flowering and the old seed heads were distributing seed all around. How incredible to keep a plant like that for 25 years! I also remember that Alan was constructing a wonderful circular tufa bed; I wonder how this looks now?
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Wonderful report and images, George ... just one correction - the superb Saxifraga ilonakhensis in Class 40 was exhibited by Geoff Rollinson and not Tommy Anderson.
There's a bit of confusion around these show plants, I believe ;) Some assistance has been received from my good friend Jon, who hopes to get his photos of the show loaded later tonight to the AGS site.
"A couple of corrections to George Young's show photo captions.
The three cacti including Echinopsis backebergii were exhibited by Martin &
Anna Sheader.
And the Saxifraga llonakhensis was indeed exhibited by Tommy Anderson. Geoff
Rollinson exhibited an even finer specimen, winning a Cert of Merit and a
PC, but the one shown in the photo is Tommy's."
Thanks, Jon! :-*
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My apologies, George ... I knew Geoff had received the C. of Merit, but hadn't spotted Tommy's fine plant on the day.
Geoff Rollinson's Cert. of Merit exhibit.
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Thanks for the additional information, the Sax was indeed Tommy's, I had suspected that the cacti were from the Sheaders but as the exhibit was at a very busy junction of benches in the show hall I just quickly took the pictures and moved on so as not to block the gangway for the paying visitors.
Its too hot outside (yes too hot, even in Northumberland) so I will put up the rest of my pictures
Phlox hendersoni (60) Brian Burrow, I like this, is nice and compact, he grew it from seed circa 2004 so not a young specimen
Campanula betulifolia (71) Pamela Anderson
Campanula exhibited as betulifolia by Cecilia Coller but as far as I am concerned is not, still rather nice mind you
Rhododendron campylogynum (I think) (77) Norman Davies was the best plant in the Intermediate section...another large pan
Iris acutiloba ssp lineolata (99) Andrew Ward
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Cypripedium lothal Pinkepank (10) B&J Walker, in the main their were fewer orchids on display this year than I remember from earlier years, still like them even if I struggle to grow them
Campanula formanekiana (7) Robin Pickering, by the amount of bud will flower over several weeks
Rhododendron trichostomum (2) Brian Russ, was just too large to get as one decent photo on the bench so you will have to make do with a close up
Lilium mackliniae 'Tantallon Group' (14) W&J Wright
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Last few. Living in the Pickering household in the run up to shows must be a bit fraught as husband and wife show as individuals so who decides who is going to get the prime specimens must lead to the odd argument unless they have strict his and hers greenhouses, frames etc. Nevertheless Margaret produced
Ramonda myconi rosea and
Delphinium nuttalianum in a three pan class that drew plenty of attention.
Last but by no means least, got missed in my earlier posts is
Moltkia petraea (54) Ivor Betteridge...is a better plant than the picture suggests
To repeat it was a good, interesting show with many fine exhibits, the Nursery stands seemed to do a good trade as they did not seem to have much to carry out at the end....as usual, despite saying I am cutting down on what I grow, came away with 5 new plants from them...will I ever learn. Again, as usual, the catering kept the inner self well replenished throughout the day. The tombola was massive, every ticket was a winner....never seen that before...so plenty smiling folk carrying off some distinctly odd prizes, but prizes none the less.
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George was kind enough to show our Sedum brevifolium indurratum in the 3 pan Crassulaceae. It was only just coming into flower last Saturday, thought you might like to see it now. Talk about flower power. Also Cecelia Coller's Sedum trollii was spectacular.
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Shelagh, that's a corker!
Looking at the number of large plants on the benches at Pontefract - specifically those which overhang the bounds of their pots - I feel I must say a word of congratulation to the exhibitors who must suffer great anxiety - as well as logistical problems - to transport these huge and often very fragile plants to the shows for our enjoyment. It's a nightmare to pack a car with these things, as I know from personal experience.
Well done to you all!