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SRGC Shows and Events => SRGC Shows Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Maggi Young on April 15, 2014, 08:36:15 PM
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Perth 19 April NEXT EVENT!
SRGC Perth Show 19th April 12.00 noon to 4.00 pm
Bell's Sports Centre. 11 Hay Street, Perth, PH1 5HS - directions here (http://www.liveactive.co.uk/venues/bells-sport-centre/how-to-get-there)
Late entries accepted until one hour before judging.
STAGING: 8.30 - 9.45 am, Saturday. NO STAGING ON FRIDAY NIGHT.
JUDGING: Begins at 10.00 am
PLANT SALES: Begin at 11.00 am
Please consult the 2014 Show Schedule for all details: click here (http://files.srgc.net/show_info/ShowSchedules2014.pdf)
N.B. Some details may be incorrect in the printed version of the Show Schedules.
Last year the Forrest Medal was won by Saxifraga andersonii, grown by Carole (SRGC President) and Ian Bainbridge - photo by Stan da Prato
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The Forrest medal was won by a large and perfectly uniform pan of Iris suaveolens exhibited by Cyril Lafong. Cyril also had a merit cert for Hymenoxis acaulis caespitosa as well as the Dundas Quaich for Class Two 3 pans of rock plants.
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Graeme Butler took the RS Masterton Trophy for the best Asiatic primula with P cashmeriana. Peter Semple brought in a Fritillaria pallidiflora which was probably the heaviest plant in the show and which was awarded best bulb and the Joyce Halley award for best plant raised from seed. Margaret & Henry Taylor received the Murray Lyon Trophy for the best plant shown by someone resident in the Tayside area with Tropaeolum brachyceras. Tim Lever had a merit cert for the fine Sebaea which won a Farrer medal last weekend. I brought quite a few plants so received the Middleton trophy for most points in Section 1 as well as the trophy for class 1 six pans.
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In a very good section 2 Sue Simpson again did very well taking the Bronze medal and the Trophy for most points. She also won the Cox Trophy for best Rhododendron in show with the plant that had won a similar award at Edinburgh the previous Saturday and a merit cert for the trough of clematis which also did well at Edinburgh. F & H Higgins came down from Berriedale to put some good plants on the benches and took the John Duff award for best plant in section 2 with a Pleione.
More snaps tomorrow .......
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Some terrific plants there, Stan - and you seem to have cracked the problem of the strange lighting in the hall - looking much better than usual there.
Super Forest plant from Cyril- congratulations!
I do like your six pan entry , Stan - interesting range, which is always fun.
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The customary quick tour of the benches starting with a view of the hall just before the public were admitted then to section 1 class A and along the first bench.
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now back along side 2 of the first show bench with Scottish native plants, foliage plants and cushions and on to bench 2 daphnes and ferns.
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moving down the second bench with lots of colour from lewisias and narcissus and round the corner to Asiatic primulas.
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progressing through succulents, more bulbs mainly tulips and other types of primulas.
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moving on past ericaceous plants, orchids, ranuncs, other plants and plants lifted from the open ground.
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some more views from section 2
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People among the plants
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and more
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People buying plants at the club stall or from the 6 nurseries present: Aberconwy, Askival, Ardfearn, Binny, Hartside, Rumbling Bridge.
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...the rest
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the nice food supplied and served by local members is always a feature of the Perth show.
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Smashing report as usual Stan. Was it a very big hall or was it very quiet people-wise?
Could someone tell me please what is the purpose of a "Certificate of Merit"?
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people at work
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Smashing report as usual Stan. Was it a very big hall or was it very quiet people-wise?
It is a big sports hall but most pics were taken once many of the visitors had left as it is easier to see the plants then
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as usual there were several candidates for the caption competition
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"We can't give Certificates of Merits for trousers, sorry"
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David,
Certificates of Merit are generally awarded to exceptional plants that did not quite win one of the other awards, but are deserving of special recognition, or at least that's my understanding of them.
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Thanks for that Peter. So really it's the "Nice plant but not nice enough to win anything so we'll give it a Certificate of Merit" prize. Or am I just an old cynic ;D
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I think that is too cynical a view, David.
To win a certificate of merit a plant must be exceptional in some way. It need not have been in the running for one of the trophies, ( in other words not merely a consolation prize!) it may be very well grown, perhaps a fine example of a plant that is very difficult to grow ..... in some way exceptional, (in a good way!!) anyhow.
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The show looks grand - Julia and her Team will have been pleased with that, I'm sure. I do hope they are enjoying a quiet day with chocolate as a reward.
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as usual there were several candidates for the caption competition
Picture 1: "She's behind you!".
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Super show summary Stan, bet everyone has gone home tried but happy! Congratulations to Cyril for yet another stunning plant!
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Definitely too cynical David, Sue Simpson's Clematis tenuiloba 'Ylva' being a case in point. Superbly grown and looking wonderful in its small fish box trough (which was within prescribed pot dimensions), but it wasn't even within the the remit of any of the formal prizes.
(see Stan's pic 131, reply 3 in this thread)
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Yes, I agree Peter the Clematis was superb but my question would be why wasn't it within the remit of any of the formal prizes since it fulfilled the pot size requirements. It's just in my mind the C of M doesn't have the same "ring" to it as a Forrest or a "First" or is a C of M sort of converted to a points score?
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The Clematis will likely have won a "first" in its class, though, David.
The Certificate of Merit is a very high level of award, on a par with Best in Show, or Best Primula and so on- to recognise a plant with is really worthy of note and reward.
Growers are invariably very pleased to get a Certificate of Merit - it's every bit as prestigious as one of the various trophies. Of course, the Forrest is the top of the tree, but the other trophies and Certificates of Merit are the next level.
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Can I just say, as a newcomer to this exhibiting business, I was delighted to receive a Certificate of Merit for my clematis. Not the easiest of plants to get looking like that, so it was nice to be appreciated (and twice too!)
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Well done Sue. I nearly took my miserable little Pulsatilla albana off the table when I saw your amazing entry....
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Sandy's Perth Show Forrest Medal report here :
http://files.srgc.net/Showreports/PerthForrest2014.pdf (http://files.srgc.net/Showreports/PerthForrest2014.pdf) 8)
Edinburgh Show report is online now too:
http://files.srgc.net/Showreports/5Edinburghshow2014.pdf (http://files.srgc.net/Showreports/5Edinburghshow2014.pdf)
See all show reports here :
http://www.srgc.net/site/index.php/shows/sample-menu (http://www.srgc.net/site/index.php/shows/sample-menu)
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Wasn't Cyril's iris magnificent, and the report Sandy filed about so appropriate too! Another Lafong triumph....
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Hi we've just had the figures in and we had a record number of public, plants on benches, cakes and sunshine :). the Certificate of Merits are for fantastic plants that have won a first but not quite a forrest and the judges think that they were very well grown. Thank you to everyone who showed plants, volunteered to help with the show or who just came.
Julia Perth show sec
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That's great news about your show stats, Julia - it certainly looked a lovely show from the photos.
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I’ve been a bit busy this week, and thus rather late in posting my pictures from the Perth show, so I hope that these images are still of interest. At least it’s something to look at whilst you’re waiting for pictures from the Highland show ;D.
I was just wandering along the benches taking pictures of anything that caught my eye, so here’s a personal take on the show.
1. A lovely potful of Uvularia palida, smaller than the commonly seen P. grandiflora and obviously thriving in the pot. Unfortunately I did not make a note of the exhibitor.
2. Cyril Lafong’s fine Trillium grandiflorum roseum in perfect condition.
3. Another fine plant from Cyril: Androsace muscoidea. Still some flowers to come, but looking superb.
4. Tim Lever’s Sebaea thomasii that won a Farrer medal the week before at the Midland AGS show – ‘only’ a Certificate of Merit this time for this much-travelled plant.
5. Watt Russell’s Paris quadrifolia, subtle flowers set off by fresh green foliage
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6.Pteridophyllum racemosum – part of the Bainbridges’ six pan entry.
7. Trillium pusillum pusillum – another part of the Bainbridges’ six pan entry. Not sure about that pot though……… ::)
8. Margaret and Henry Taylor’s Ranunculus parnassifolius ‘Pink Form’. I believe that this is the form they collected seed of from the Nuria area of the Pyrenees.
9. Another plant from Cyril Lafong: Lewisia tweedyi ‘Lemon’. This looks like a plant that I remember seeing at the 2011 conference, if so, then it is looking as good as ever.
10. Rhododendron edgeworthii was the winner in the dwarf rhododendron class for J and A Thompson. Not really dwarf when fully grown, this young plant was in excellent condition and in a surprisingly small pot.
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11. Another view of the R. edgeworthii (especially for Maggi) ;)
12. A beautifully presented saxifrage from Margaret and Henry Taylor. I’ve always known it as S, grisbachii ‘Wisley’, but I guess we must now know it by its new tongue-twister: Saxifraga federici-augusti ssp. grisbachii ‘Wisley’
13. Graham Catlow’s Sempervivum calcareum was very distinctive – sempervivums are generally shown as a flat(tish) disc of rosettes, and this naturalistic display caught the eye of the judges to be awarded a first place.
14. That Iris. Cyril Lafong’s Iris suaveolens which won the Forrest medal for Cyril….again.
15. Another Certificate of Merit, Cyril’s Hymenoxys acaulis caespitose. Narrowly defeated in the vote for the Forrest medal, I did wonder later whether we got that one wrong…… However Cyril was happy either way. ;)
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16. Although I don’t grow any myself, I rather like some of the older varieties of auricula, and in the florists’ auricula class, this one caught my eye because of the unusual colouring: Auricula ‘Beechen Green’, show by F&M Higgins.
17. Watt Russell’s Tropaeolum tricolour. I think that this is the plant I generally see at the Edinburgh show – not sure if it is late this year as I missed the Edinburgh show. This scrambling plant is trained to form as column about 50cms high which is covered with the dainty, 1cm tall flowers.
18. Sue Simpson’s Rhododendron megeratum ‘Bodnant’ in section II won the EHM Cox trophy for the best dwarf rhododendron. The Rhododendron edgeworthii in section I was a lovely plant, but difficult to describe as dwarf.
19. Another view of the same plant – a close-up of the sumptuous flowers.
20. Another Sue Simpson plant – Pulsatilla vernalis. I was talking to Susann Nilsson, visiting the show from Sweden, about this and she wondered whether it may have been a hybrid Pulsatilla based on the leaf form. It certainly had an unusual grey back to the petals when viewed in the show hall, but this colour-balanced picture shows some of the more usual purple colouration. I think that the leaves are just that shape due their being young growth, but I know that Susann has a particular interest in the genus, so I’ll let others be the judge of it’s parentage….
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21. A close-up to help you decide.
22. Yet another Sue Simpson plant to finish (well I did say that I photographed plants that caught my eye, and her plants were outstanding in section II – she’ll be promoted upstairs to section I next year). Primula marginata ‘White Lady’
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8. Margaret and Henry Taylor’s Ranunculus parnassifolius ‘Pink Form’. I believe that this is the form they collected seed of from the Nuria area of the Pyrenees.
9. Another plant from Cyril Lafong: Lewisia tweedyi ‘Lemon’. This looks like a plant that I remember seeing at the 2011 conference, if so, then it is looking as good as ever.
Lovely photos, Peter.
Cyril has been showing that lemon tweedyi for a long time - I haven't been able to check all the old reports but he won a Forrest with it in Perth in 2008 - here's Ian's photo:
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and here it is from my pic
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-while I was looking for the lewisia, I was reminded of the great Forrest plant from 2007, Fritillaria liliacea from Fred Hunt .... pic by David Millward
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and this fantastic Ranunculus parnassifolius from Perth in 2007, pic by Tom Cameron
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Cyril has been showing that lemon tweedyi for a long time - I haven't been able to check all the old reports but he won a Forrest with it in Perth in 2008 - here's Ian's photo:
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If the Rhein were closer I'd jump into it.
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Sandy's Perth Show report is loaded to the main site HERE (http://files.srgc.net/Showreports/Perth2014.pdf)
Warning to those on dial-up or slow connections - it's a big file 10.7Mb.