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General Subjects => General Forum => Topic started by: Gail on May 04, 2019, 07:22:26 PM
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Just a few photos of the East Anglian Show at Wymondham, Norfolk today; some lovely plants and even lovelier people! Excellent nurseries attending including Pottertons and Aberconwy.
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Lots of colour from the Lewisias
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Allium shelkovnikovii 'Sarejn' won the Sudbury prize for best pan of bulbs for Robert Rolfe
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Very impressive panful of Iris cristata x lucustris
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I thought this was a Podophyllum, but turn your back for a moment and its name changed....
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I seem to be in a primula mood at the moment (having recently spent rather more than I should have with Barnhavens) so was drawn to the several potfuls of various forms of P. sieboldii shown, and grown from seed, by Ian Instone.
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But the one that won my 'plant I would most like to take home' award was this primula, here ready to have a proper photo taken by Doug Joyce. Unfortunately I looked at the label, thought to myself "I'll remember that" and of course don't...
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I used to enjoy visiting this show, despite the fact that Wymondham seemed a bit of a trek from Cambridge. Now its five and a half hours away by car - so thanks for the pictures, Gail.
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Diane Clement tweeted this super shot of Don Peace with his Farrer Medal winning Cypripedium parviflorum at the East Anglia show .... cracking plant, isn't it?
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Don was asked how old the plant was - he replied that he'd "bought it at one of the AGS shows during 2011. From memory it had a couple of flower stems. It had 4 flowers the following year and then went onward and upwards from there"
- not bad going!
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Hi Gail
The blue Primula was Wharfedale Bluebell. I have only just got back from Norwich, so it will probably be towards the end of the week before I can post any pictures to the AGS website.
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Thanks Jon, will add it to my shopping list...