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SRGC Shows and Events => Events => Topic started by: Diane Clement on April 27, 2008, 12:07:24 PM
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The AGS show is held within a larger event run by the North of England Horticultural Society.
I'll start the ball rolling with a few pictures of some of the trade stands. I apologise for the poor quality of these shots - tents with bouncy floorboards, dodgy lighting and no tripod at this stage made for some wobbly shots.
Pottertons Stand won a Premier Award from the North of England Hort Soc and a large Gold from the AGS. Jackie Potterton busy on shot 3
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Jacques Amand's stand
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Slacktop nurseries also won a Premier award from the Northern Hort Soc and a large gold from the AGS
An innovative design, with purple troughs
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And finally, Edrom's stand with owner Terry Hunt looking surprised and blurred on the second picture
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And a few more from Edrom's stand, with a stunning plant on the last shot
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And from the AGS show, waiting for a caption
(Fellow forumist Sue Gill ... what is she doing ... ??? ??? )
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Fellow forumist Sue Gill ... what is she doing
Knitting a new pair of slippers for a lady Orchid.
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Looks as if she is knitting baby socks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :P
Derek
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Michael, Your picasa web album is a first for the forum and a brilliant way of showcasing your plants.
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cheers ;D
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..... crocheting a £5 note to buy yet more plants?
Many thanks for posting these pics Diane. We spent last week-end in Yorkshire having gone especially to go to the Harrogate Spring Show!! Must get either a new secretary, a new calender, or both, or next year I complete the garden events calender and not Maureen!
Glad to see that Slack Top Nursery won a prize, it is one of my favourite nurseries.
We did fill part of the hole in the social programme by visiting Harlow Carr (RHS Garden) and although there were good displays in the Alpine Houses I have to say that the rest of the garden was disappointing with little to see.
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..... crocheting a £5 note to buy yet more plants?
Being green it would have to be a £1 note? ::)
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Long but nice day at Harrogate yesterday. Weather stayed fine and a good attendance.
Just a few of my photos from the show benches, as usual the ones that caught my eye, were new or different to me.
First the Farrer winning plant Erythronium oregonum and a close up.
Thirdly an Erythronium I'd not heard of before (that doesn't mean much) Erythronium kinfanus.
A shot of the 3 pan Primula class.
Lewisia nevadensis rosea
Narcissus tenuifolius x trianthus
finally for this batch a well flowering Soldanella.
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A second batch now.
A couple of Arisaemas first.
Arisaema nepthanoides and a close up.
Arisaema thunbergii ssp. urashima and close up.
Cyprepedium macranthos and close up
finally Daphne petrea 'Grandiflorum'
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Final batch for tonight.
Iris sctchi and close up.
Tulipa haweri and close up
Calantha discolor and close up
Lastly Pleione edgecombe
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Thanks to Mick for his pics. Here's a few more of mine
General views of the benches
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What a nice display, thanks for the photos, Diane and Mick.
The Erythronium thatwas unknown, by the name "kinfanus", is, I rather think, the hybrid from our own Susan Band, actually named 'Kinfauns'. (it is a cultivar name rather than a species, as the seemingly latinised "kinfanus" would suggest!)
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Androsace studiosorum "Doksa" and A helvetica x pubescens
Androsace alpina
Primula "white Lady"
Primula albenensis
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Meconopsis delavayi
the much admired Correa reflexa nummularifolia shown by Shelagh and Brian Smethurst
Fritillaria liliacea
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Some good plants raised from seed
Fritillaria epirotica
Shortia soldanelloides
Berneuxia yunnanensis
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Ericaceae:
Leiophyllum buxifolium
Rhododendron campylogynum Myrtilloides
Cassiope Randle Cooke
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Hotly contested 3 pan mixed - one shrub, one non-shrub and one foliage. In Miss World style,
Third place: Shelagh and Brian Smethurs
Second place: yours truly
First place: Cecilia Coller
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It's lunchtime now.
Picnic for the Dowers and the Smethursts, chips for MartinR. A bottle of pop or two for accompaniment.
Carol Kellett tries a sausage
Tony Lee (Chief Lurker) and Harry Roberts (King of the Rhododendrons) compare lunchboxes
Tony isn't so sure about the contents of his
and whilst all this is going on, Shelagh is scoffing the cake
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Diane and Mick, thank you for these Show pictures.
Wonderful!!!!!!
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Super images....many thanks to Diane and Mick for showing us what we missed.
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Diane and Mick, thank you for these Show pictures.
Wonderful!!!!!!
Thanks, I have a few left, they will have to keep until tomorrow
Super images....many thanks to Diane and Mick for showing us what we missed.
AAHH and where were you, Mr Buttercup?? Are you back in the country and did you have a good holiday, and if so, where are all the pics?
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And from the AGS show, waiting for a caption
(Fellow forumist Sue Gill ... what is she doing ... ??? ??? )
Knit one, slip one, drop one.....
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I think you got the 'flavour' of the show completely, Diane, many thanks! Was there Thursday and scoffed the best plants from the nurseries, but of course missed the alpine show ah well, you can't have everything in this world....
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Diane - Thanks so much for posting the wonderful Harrogate pictures. It was great to see Berneuxia yunnanensis, so different than B. thibetica. And that lovely frilly S. soldanellloides, well!
johnw
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Thanks Diane and Mick ! :D
Lovely to visit yet another show full of growing skills ! ;D
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Now that's what I can downright unfair taking pictures when i'm concentrating that hard!! Still when I've got nice warm hands from my gloves . . . and no dropped stitches (yet!).
There were some great plants in the AGS show and Chris had left a few for us to buy!
A couple of my favourites after an 'I don't believe it' moment
This is flower arranging!!!! Argghh
Paris quadrifolia - the plant I'd most like to take home if there was a fire. . .
and a beautifully colour matched trio
Sue
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OH! It's a flower arrangement ..... ???.... I thought it was the decoration from the top of the Picnickers chocolate cake, before Shelagh S. got to it ;)
As to the well matched three pan entry.... I DO like it when there is a real attempt to make a fully balanced entry, size, colour, presentation.... looks so good when it is done like that. 8)
But, Sue, why do you feel the need for sludge -green gloves? I thought you'd go for something rather brighter?? :-\
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colour resolution must be poor in Aberdeen tonight - it's sea green, hand spun and dyed silk and alpaca - not sludge green - the light in the show hall was odd so maybe that's it ;D
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colour resolution must be poor in Aberdeen tonight - it's sea green, hand spun and dyed silk and alpaca - not sludge green - the light in the show hall was odd so maybe that's it ;D
Probably my fault.... I didn't think somehow you'd favour sludge green..... mind you , with all the pollution there is about these days, who's to say what colour the sea is??!! :-X You do enjoy your luxury textiles, don't you? And why not , indeed.... good to give those silk moths and alpacas work ::)
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Ooh, it's hard suffering from camera deprivation so thanks to those who did have working equipment. I note Diane doesn't say who was about to scoff the big plate of chips sitting on the picnic table!
Sue's new gloves will look nice in what were gentle shades but I wish she'd taken the advice to use knitting needles instead of cocktail sticks! Life is too short.
And finally...Sue, what about that pattern for knitting Daleks?
Now I'm of to the digital photography threads to figure out what new camera to buy.
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AHA! I thought as much... I'd spotted the tasty looking chips on the table ;D
We just thought Sue was knitting with cocktail sticks because having spent so much on the luxury wool, she couldn't afford metal needles. ::)
By the way, Martin, apropos nothing at all, certainly nothing to do with any comments you may have made in the past..... Ian's beloved Uncle Arthur, (who was a police inspector in Scarborough, though this has no bearing on the story) used to tell Ian when he was a little boy that if he rubbed the greasy chip paper on his chest , he would grow a wonderful hairy chest........... :-X
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And????
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Well, Anne, in Ian's case, that's for me to know and you to wonder....... :-X
As for Martin, we'll have to wait and see, but.... here's a hint.......
Specific Genera / Primula / Re: Primula-February to April 2008 on: April 09, 2008, 06:19:58 PM :o
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The question is....no I won't ask, it's personal. Instead, did the chips have to wrapped in a specific newspaper?
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Re hint...yes but I didn't say where I'd lost it or gained it did I. I've come to the conclusion that going thin on top isn't losing hair, it merley sinks due to gravity and pops out elsewhere!
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Now that's what I can downright unfair taking pictures when i'm concentrating that hard!!
Sorry Sue, it was the complete concentration that caught my eye. Wonderful!
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The question is....no I won't ask, it's personal. Instead, did the chips have to wrapped in a specific newspaper?
I believe any local newspaper will do the trick, Martin.
Not sure if the fancy pre-formed trays that seem to have been used in Harrogate will work... you can but try though, eh?
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I've come to the conclusion that going thin on top isn't losing hair, it merely sinks due to gravity and pops out elsewhere!
Ooh, er!
Since women of a certain age are predisposed to become the "bearded Lady" I shall refrain from further comment and go back to admiring the plants. :-X
I must say I thought all the nursery displays shown by Diane were just super... not much wonder there was lots of shopping to be done :D
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Enough of this frivolity, back to the pictures
Part of Alan Spenceley's large 3 pan
Anemone lipiensis
Erythronium californicum White Beauty
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The previous exhibit only got second place, outdone by Tony Lee's winning trio
Sedum humifusum
Androsace studiosorum and
Trillium ludovicianum
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And aforementioned Tony Lee discussing tactics with Jim and Wilma Wright
Soldanella ?hungaricum? grown by Jim and Wilma
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Martin R's unbeatable Crassula socialis
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Asarum maximum
Primula Netta Dennis
Arisaema thunbergii urashima
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Cyclamen persicum Silver Leaf
Cyclamen repandum
a super Anemonella
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Amazing Miniature Garden
with Gardener and master of the craft John Dower
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and finally, Farrer medal winning Erythronium oregonum grown by Les Brown
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Diane, we were only passing the time until you'd finished your chips ;)
What cracking plants!
Mr and Mrs Wright are justifiably happy.
Great three pan from Mr Lee.... I don't suppose he'd like to find out how well that Trillium would "do" in Aberdeen? ::)
Don't believe the pan of Crassula socialis... it is plainly made from papier mache and old Fairy liquid bottles.
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What a super portrait of John Dower and his garden! Love it: that should be a christmas card chez Dower...be sure to negotiate a good price!
BD says he thinks that Farrer Erythronium is likely a hybrid... though none the less lovely for that.
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Diane, we were only passing the time until you'd finished your chips ;)
just for the record, I didn't finish the chips (had to leave room for cake :P )
Great three pan from Mr Lee.... I don't suppose he's like to find out how well that Trillium would "do" in Aberdeen? ::)
We're trying hard to convert him from a lurker, so if we ever do, you can ask him ::)
Don't believe the pan of Crassula socialis... it is plainly made from papier mache and old Fairy liquid bottles.
;D
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Just a couple more lots of pictures to finish off frm me.
The first three general pictures of the benches.
Then the bulb class entries.
Fritillaria clas
Lewisia 3 pan distinct
Pleiones and finally in th Rhododendron
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In the beautifully matched trio on page 3, Reply 30, what is the front plant please?
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In the beautifully matched trio on page 3, Reply 30, what is the front plant please?
Lamium microphyllum introduced from Turkey by Robert Rolfe, and shown by Cecilia Coller
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Great pictures from a great event congratulations to every one.
It is wonderful to see an Erythronium scoop the top award but from what I can see of the fillaments in the pictures I do not think it is pure E oregonum but a hybrid and it looks remarkably like the excellent late John Walker's E. 'Mini Ha Ha' - deserved winner what ever.
Good also to see so many friendly and familiar faces enjoying them selves in various ways.
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Hallo all, Just joined. Ian i'll put a closer photo up of the E oregonum? as soon as I figure out how.
Cheers
Les
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Welcome Les and many congratulations on your very impressive Farrer Medal winning plant. You will soon get into the easy habit of posting images.
Simply go to 'Additional options'.....Browse.....Select your image (less than 295k) ... 'More attachments' (if you should wish to add further images)....and then, when you are happy to go ahead.... 'Post'.
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Hello, Les! Welcome to the Forum. Many congratulations on that lovely Farrer medal plant.
I'm sure you'll have no difficulty posting pix... a size of around 700 x 550 pixels is a good one for seeing without having to scroll acorss the screen.
Ian will be waiting happily for your shots!
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Here is a photo of E oregonum? Hopefully!
Cheers
Les
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What a lovely photo to begin with, Les! I see you have some sun today, too!
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And dry, so far. I think i'll chance my luck again with another photo. This is from SRGC seed & is supposed to be E californicum, but it looks very similar to E origonum. (although it's bits are white).
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Hi Les, welcome to the forum - I hope you will stick around and this will be the start of many posts of your fabulous plants.
Looking at your close in picture of your Erythronium oregonum I still suspect that it is a hybrid with E. californicum.
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The filaments of E. oregonum should be wide at the base and taper to the pollen end, like above, but yours seem to be more or less of a similar width this would indicate another species is involved.
Your picture of E. californicum looks correct, apart from the white pollen that you point out look at the filaments the are narrow and the same width along their length -compare them with your Farrer Medal plant.
Check out the Erythronium thread for lots of pictures and discussion on E. oregonum and also some hybrids.
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Thanks Ian. I think it might be prudent of me to continue this on another thread. Bulbs/Erythroniums maybe?
Cheers
Les
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Welcome Les, it's a cracking plant!
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;DThanks David.
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In the beautifully matched trio on page 3, Reply 30, what is the front plant please?
Lamium microphyllum introduced from Turkey by Robert Rolfe, and shown by Cecilia Coller
Thank you Diane. I wondered about L. armenum but what I could see of the label didn't seem to fit. One of my many "wants" but probably never will haves.
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Welcome to the forum, Les, and congratulations on the Farrer last Saturday. Shame you couldn't be there to revel in the glory!
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I'm a bit late posting my plant pictures from Harrogate as I had to clear some space on the hard drive before my computer would process them. :o Anyway, here's some of the plants that Diane, Mick and Sue didn't show you.....
Celmisia spedenii and C. semi-cordata aurigans
Androsace hirtella
Aquilegia canadensis
Arisaema engleri
Babiana angustifolia
Calanthe sieboldii
Calceolaria uniflora
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Cymbidium goeringii (the form that Wilma & Jim Wright won the SGRC jubilee award with at Hexham)
Cymbidium goeringii longibracteata, which holds the flowers lower than the foliage
Dicentra peregrina
Erigeron aureus 'Canary Bird'
Fritillaria gentneri - with one or two seedlings in the pot!
Iris sari
Lamium armenum - this one's for Lesley
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Lewisia tweedyii
Myositis albo-sericea
Plieone 'El Pico'
Primula petioletti
Saxifraga dinnikii
Saxifraga x malbyana
Viola pedata (my favourite plant at the show)
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The great attration of the Harrogate show for me is the other plants that one can see, making a good day out. Here are some of the other diplays:
2 Pictures from the Slack Top nursery display (I've used flash here as I didn't take my tripod with me)
Part of the Bonsai society's display
Nepenthes and Sarracenia on the display from Hampshire Carniverous Plants
Australian (?) plants seem to be the speciality of a nursery which was new to me - The Old Wallled Garden. These plants in the picture are maily Grevillea, I think
The Tulip show, with part of the Daffodil show in the backgound.
Peter
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Thank you Peter for this latest collection and especially for the delicious Lamium. As the song says..."Someday, somehow, somewheeeeeere."
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More great pix from Peter! That Viola pedata is as neat as a pin, isn't it? Love it!
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Maggie, I think the Viola is Lionel Clarkson's. I saw is in the boot of Wilma & Jim Wright's car when the brought my Eryhronium back. ( they took some plants for Lionel & Me.)
Cheers
Les