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SRGC Shows and Events => Events => Topic started by: Brian Ellis on May 03, 2008, 06:41:49 PM
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Well it looks like I'd better start the ball rolling Tony, you must have been busy :)
Class 1 AGS Medal winner, Cecilia Coller
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Class 2 including the Farrer medal winner -Rhodondron x Maricee
Lee & Julie Martin
Class 3 Joy Bishop Celmisia allennii
Class 4 Cecilia Coller Dodecatheon
Class 6 Cecilia Coller Androsace studiosorum 'Doksa'
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Class 9 Alan & Janet Cook 3 pan
Class 10 Lee & Julie Martin Lewisia tweedyi rosea
Class 11 Alan & Janet Cook Lewisia cotyledon Birch hybrid
Class 12 Mark Childerhouse Saxifraga pubescens Snowcap - Certificate of Merit
Class 13 Diane Clement Ophrys bombyliflora - hope you have a better photo Diane
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Class 14 Ray Drew Cypripedium fasciolatum
Class 15 Cecilia Coller Pleione El Pico P. Vedrsailles x P. Bulbocodioides
Class 16 Joy Bishop 3 pan, Iris reichenbachii, Tulbaghia cominsii, Iris x Vera
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Class 17 Margaret Brine Trillium Luteum - Sudbury Prize, best pan of bulbs
Class 18 Ian Sharpe Thalictrum orientalis
Class 19 Dick & Valerie Bathe Calanthe sieboldii, Arisaema kiushianum & Calanthe discolor
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Class 20 Sorry no note of whose this was Oxalis enneaphylla minutifolia
Class 21 Cecilia Coller Podophyllum delavayi - one of my favourites of the day
Class 22 Hedi & Jim Hancox Deutzia gracilis 'Nikko'
Class 25 Cecilia Coller Class 23 Diane Clement Andromeda polifolia, Rhododendron Ginny Gee, Rhododendron davidsonianum x pemakoense
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Class 26 Lee & Julie Martin Chamaecyparis obtusa 'Bambi'
Class 27 Cecilia Coller 3 pan
Class 28 Lee & Julie Martin Stachys chrysantha
Class 29 Gerry Downey Cheilanthes eatonii, Asplenium obtusatum ssp nordlanticum, Ophioglossum vulgatum
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Class 30 Gerry Downey Asplenium obtusatum var. obtusatum
Class 31 Cecilia Coller Sempervivum ciliosum var. galicum from Mali Hat, Semp. erythraeum, Sempervivum ciliosum var. galicum from Ochrid
and I'm afraid that is all from me as I ran out of battery, replaced it with my spare and I hadn't charged it up! :'( My aplogies, hopefully some of the others will have other photos.
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Lovely pictures Brian, some cracking plants there, I would have been pleased to get anywhere near that quality. Did Brian Ellis have anything on show?
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Brian - you have done us proud!!
I was there for the morning but I had to work this afternoon/evening. I contemplated a quick post here to the Rhododendron thread - to let Maggi know her favourite genus had scooped a Farrer down south! (BTW did you get a whiff of the scent on it? Pungent is one word that springs to mind :P)
I did take a few pictures, maybe one or two of plants you have not featured. I will post when time allows. Thanks for your great pics.
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No David, nothing from me... I have a long way to go to reach the standards that were displayed today!
Tony, I think pungent is a good description. I might be able to scrounge a few pictures from David, if he has taken pics of the labels!!
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Thank you for all these pictures Brian.
Must have been a wonderful show. These Podophyllum and Thalictrum are real stunners!
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Thanks Brian for some lovely shots. One correction, the 3 pan Ericaceae in class 25 was shown by Diane Clement. Hopefully some pictures from me later although I was guessing where to point my camera due to a view screen failure and as yet I haven't downloaded them. Now I must go and unpack yesterday's plants before I do anything else.
Martin
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Apologies to Diane, I was basing this on the photo of the first card that I took...did I take photos of the wrong plants?
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Apologies to Diane, I was basing this on the photo of the first card that I took...did I take photos of the wrong plants?
No problem, Brian. You took the right plants but matched the wrong card. The 3 pan Ericaceae was class 23 (my plants ;D ) and that matches your pictures. Class 25 was a one pan Rhodo which was won by Cecilia Coller with a magnificent R Yaku Fairy (maybe you didn't get a picture of that)
Thanks for all the pics, sorry we didn't meet up, we did debate how many forumists were there yesterday, so we need to add your name to the list. There may be a few pix from me later.
Meanwhile, we are awaiting news and pictures from East Cheshire show, also held yesterday ...
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And a few pictures, apologies for any repeats of Brian's
My car was very full of rhododendrons among other things
Sedum humifusum shown by Cecilia Coller
Saxifraga "Snowcap" received a Certificate of Merit for Mark Childerhouse
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There were two non-competitive displays which both gained silver medals
A historic display of auriculas
and a display by Norman Stevens of Cambridge Bulbs
close up of Allium aff shelkovnikovii
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Lewisia class
Cypripedium fasciolatum shown by Ray Drew
Pleione El Pico
Podophyllum delavayi close up both these shown by Cecilia Coller
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Iris reichenbachii shown by Joy Bishop
4 pan mixed class with 2 foliage and 2 in flower won by Cecilia Coller
Stachys lavandulifolia from this class
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Jim and Hedi Hancox have some super pots of Shortia soldanelloides grown from seed. Here are two versions - a pale pink (and close) and the latter a lovely dark pink
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You will realise by now that a lot of classes were won by local lass Cecilia Coller who brought her usual van load, plus husband with an additional car load of plants. Congratulations to Cecilia for winning the aggregate and filling the show benches yet again with a magnificent array of plants
Here is Cecilia sniffing violas with husband Mervyn and Julie Martin (on the right)
In front of them is Lee and Julie Martin's Cyclamen persicum
Here is what they were sniffing ...
6 cut flowers from Julie Martin (1st) and
6 cut flowers from me (2nd)
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Lee and Julie Martin also did well,
Dianthus squarrosus from their large 3 pan
and the same 3 pan included their Farrer medal winning plant
Rhododendron "Maricee"
I believe it was their 21st Farrer medal :o
Congratulations, Lee and Julie who I think may be lurking out there. 8)
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Quote from TG post re Rhododendron 'Maricee'
I was there for the morning but I had to work this afternoon/evening. I contemplated a quick post here to the Rhododendron thread - to let Maggi know her favourite genus had scooped a Farrer down south! (BTW did you get a whiff of the scent on it? Pungent is one word that springs to mind
Reply via email from Julie Martin
As I use my employer's computer/server I can only go into the forum and read it - but can't make any comments. So we thought we would like to let you know that R.Maricee has a delicate sweet scent. Unfortunately as it was as at the back of the bench, your nose would have picked up the very pungent smell of the Eriogonum caespitosum which was in front and formed part of our three pan - even the beautiful scent of the Dianthus alongside was overpowered by it. Growers of Eriogonums would quickly detect the particularly nasty odour that the flowers emit (we smelt it in the car all the way to and from the show).
There you go Julie - feel free to use me as a middleman anytime ... but you could always splash out on a home internet connection ... hmmm, having seen the fantastic plants you and Lee grow, perhaps there would not be time for such frivolities at home :)
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Looked a super show....many thanks to Brian and Diane for taking us all there so beautifully.
Message from Safeway at Wolverhampton...'Please return our containers for recycling...contents in the green bin please'. (See first image on page 2 of this topic).
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As referred to earlier my attendance at the show was limited to a morning on the computer dealing with late entries and results entering. I did find time to take just a few pics.
I cannot help feeling that the benches in Norfolk were poor relations to those in Stockport and Glasgow (but then we are hardly in alpine territory here!) However the view from the stage was still a good one. Can you identify the three gents at the theatre?
A close-up of Rhododendron x Maricee - every floret was in perfect condition.
The pungent Eriogonum caespitosum
2 Shots of the super Auricula display
3 Iris details from Norman Stevens (Cambridge Bulbs) Silver medal winning display. Hope I have remembered the names correctly.
Iris sari
Iris paradoxa
Iris stolonifera
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Super show - super pics - thanks. :)
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Thanks Diane and Tony for the rest of the pictures. I'm glad Jane-Ann's Auricula theatre featured. Here is one last photo from me filched from the cameraman, an absolute little treasure Spiranthes sinensis var amoena who couldn't resist such ladies tresses!
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Can I guess Kit Grey-Wilson and Lee Martin .... but WHO is in the middle?
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2 correct Cliff :)
I think the middle one is best known for his Essex Garden although my first guess would have been a more Northern expert who has Suffolk connections :-\
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Can I guess Kit Grey-Wilson and Lee Martin .... but WHO is in the middle?
Dick Bathe?
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So good to see a Rhodo getting the premier award 8)
Huge congratulations to Julie and Lee on adding yet another Farrer to their hefty tally..... in their shoes, I would have celebrated with a cake !!
Looks like a vary colourful show... well done to all involved.... especially to Celia Coller and Mervyn for their devotion to the shows. I'm hoping that some of the exhibitors at the Aberdeen show in a couple of weeks need to break out their spouse with a second car load, too! ::)