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Title: KENT AGS SHOW - 21 march 2015
Post by: Yann on March 21, 2015, 08:14:21 PM: Back from UK, my camera autofocus already in bad condition failed this afternoon, it was quiet hard to have good shots.
Anyway here're some photos of the show. More to come in the evening.
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Post by: Yann on March 21, 2015, 08:16:57 PM: more from the show
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Post by: Yann on March 21, 2015, 08:18:38 PM: Narcissus panizzianus
Narcissus alpestris
Fritillaria carica
Colchicum kesselringii
Fritillaria aff. assyriaca
Title: Re: KENT AGS SHOW - 21 march 2015
Post by: Yann on March 21, 2015, 08:21:47 PM: Muscari and Iris
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Post by: Yann on March 21, 2015, 08:34:35 PM: Fritillaria were the stars of the show

Fritillaria stenanthera
Fritillaria sewerzowii
Fritlllaria kittaniae
Fritillaria bucharica
Fritillaria aurea
Title: Re: KENT AGS SHOW - 21 march 2015
Post by: Yann on March 21, 2015, 08:41:21 PM: Hyacinthella glabrescens
Fritillaria purdyi
Hyacinthella dalmatica
Tulipa schrenkii
Tulipa biflora
Title: Re: KENT AGS SHOW - 21 march 2015
Post by: Yann on March 21, 2015, 09:09:50 PM: Dyonisia
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Post by: Yann on March 21, 2015, 09:11:21 PM: Saxifraga
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Post by: Yann on March 21, 2015, 09:15:44 PM: Ornithogalum sibthorpii
Corydalis magadanica
Iris winogradowii
Crocus minimus 'Bavella'
Corydalis darwasica
Title: Re: KENT AGS SHOW - 21 march 2015
Post by: Yann on March 21, 2015, 09:21:03 PM: Hepatica japonica x yamatutai
Hepatica nobillis var japonica
Tulipa cretica
Fritillaria amana
Hepatica x schlyteri
Title: Re: KENT AGS SHOW - 21 march 2015
Post by: Matt T on March 22, 2015, 07:14:23 AM: Great photos, Yann. Well done for making the journey over, but it's probably quicker and easier for you to get there than me?! Such a good range of different plants on display. You can really feel that spring is in full flow now.
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Post by: Luc Gilgemyn on March 22, 2015, 08:55:24 AM: Couldn't make it this year Yann, so many thanks for showing some pix !
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Post by: Maggi Young on March 22, 2015, 10:21:35 AM: Yann - a very fast report from France on the Kent Show to a Scottish-based forum with world-wide readers - I love these international projects !!! 8)
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Post by: Yann on March 22, 2015, 10:27:43 AM: i don't mind frontiers :D
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Post by: Yann on March 22, 2015, 10:37:22 AM: Puschkinia scilloides var libanotica alba
Dionysia 'Inka Gold'
Dionysia 'Monika'
Dionysia 'Andreas'
Fritillaria mutabilis
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Post by: Yann on March 22, 2015, 10:42:37 AM: Fritillaria gibbosa
Tulipa (forgot the species)
Draba sphaeroides
Tecophilaea cyanocrocus var. leichtlinii
Crocus vernus subsp albiflorus
Title: Re: KENT AGS SHOW - 21 march 2015
Post by: Maggi Young on March 22, 2015, 10:45:04 AM: Quote from: Yann on March 22, 2015, 10:27:43 AM
i don't mind frontiers :D
We should have a new motto - fleurs sans frontières 8)
Title: Re: KENT AGS SHOW - 21 march 2015
Post by: Luc Gilgemyn on March 22, 2015, 10:56:58 AM: Quote from: Maggi Young on March 22, 2015, 10:45:04 AM
We should have a new motto - fleurs sans frontières 8)

Yes, with Gennaro Olivieri and Guido Pancardi as judges... 8)
(testing memories here)
Title: Re: KENT AGS SHOW - 21 march 2015
Post by: Maggi Young on March 22, 2015, 11:35:56 AM: Well, of course, I am far too young to remember those guys in Jeux sans frontières.......... ::) ;D
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Post by: Luc Gilgemyn on March 22, 2015, 01:26:33 PM: Not many reactions Maggi, this Forum must be a young audience....

;D ;D ;D ;)
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Post by: Neil on March 22, 2015, 01:33:44 PM: I remember that, and I am this side of 50 so young then!

Nice photos Yann by the way.
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Post by: David Nicholson on March 22, 2015, 06:14:27 PM: Many thanks for your report Yann.
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Post by: Maggi Young on March 23, 2015, 02:22:59 PM: Pictures from Jon Evans HERE (http://www.alpinegardensociety.net/discussion/atshows/KENT+SHOW+/19849/) :)
Title: Re: KENT AGS SHOW - 21 march 2015
Post by: Yann on March 23, 2015, 06:15:52 PM: With a good camera and a layout it's better, Jon's photos are wonderfull
Title: Re: KENT AGS SHOW - 21 march 2015
Post by: Matt T on March 23, 2015, 06:19:58 PM: Nobody forewarned us there would be a pan of Narcissus watieri full to bursting. Incredible.
Title: Re: KENT AGS SHOW - 21 march 2015
Post by: Matt T on March 23, 2015, 06:26:47 PM: George Elder's Fritillaria stenanthera is pretty impressive too and I like the way Joy Bishop has cunningly trained her Tropaeolum.
Title: Re: KENT AGS SHOW - 21 march 2015
Post by: Maggi Young on March 23, 2015, 06:36:30 PM: Quote from: Yann on March 23, 2015, 06:15:52 PM
With a good camera and a layout it's better, Jon's photos are wonderfull
Jon is a very accomplished photographer - but readers around the world who never get to these shows can enjoy any photos just the same!
Title: Re: KENT AGS SHOW - 21 march 2015
Post by: Jon Evans on March 23, 2015, 07:39:55 PM: Thank you - I'm glad you are enjoying the pictures. The one thing I sometimes feel I should try harder to convey is the relative sizes - the camera tends to make all plants the same size. Look at the dionysias for example, or the miniature frits against something like stenanthera.
I try to post all the pictures I take, both for those who couldn't make it to the show, and for the exhibitors who are always delighted to see their plants featured. Taking this formal style of pictures gets me to look hard at the plants, in order to find the best aspect and angles, and having carried the pot the length of the hall, I usually know whether a plant is scented, for better (N. panizzianus) or for worse (Biarum pyrami comes to mind).