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Title: AGS Loughborough 7 March 09
Post by: annew on March 06, 2009, 06:33:39 PM
I'll be at the show in the morning and from 2pm onwards. Any forumists present, please introduce yourselves  :D  Good luck exhibitors!
Title: Re: AGS Loughborough 7 March 09
Post by: Diane Clement on March 06, 2009, 06:34:59 PM
I'll be at the show in the morning and from 2pm onwards. Any forumists present, please introduce yourselves  :D  Good luck exhibitors!

See you there, Anne.  ;)
Title: Re: AGS Loughborough 7 March 09
Post by: Mick McLoughlin on March 06, 2009, 06:36:29 PM
We'll be there also
Title: Re: AGS Loughborough 7 March 09
Post by: ichristie on March 06, 2009, 06:50:59 PM
Hi to all, I will be at the Blackpool show and hope that I can meet up with you then cheers Ian the Christie kind.
Title: Re: AGS Loughborough 7 March 09
Post by: ian mcenery on March 06, 2009, 07:17:33 PM
I'll be at the show in the morning and from 2pm onwards. Any forumists present, please introduce yourselves  :D  Good luck exhibitors!

I shall also be there  8)
Title: Re: AGS Loughborough 7 March 09
Post by: Martinr on March 06, 2009, 07:22:23 PM
As will I. 3 plants packed in the boot of the car already. That should leave plenty of time for Nursery browsing and Pudsey Pig training  :P
Title: Re: AGS Loughborough 7 March 09
Post by: annew on March 06, 2009, 07:28:24 PM
I'll look for the guy with the curly hair and the dummy then, Martin!
Title: Re: AGS Loughborough 7 March 09
Post by: annew on March 06, 2009, 07:29:15 PM
I wasn't referring to any companion you may have with you....
Title: Re: AGS Loughborough 7 March 09
Post by: Martinr on March 06, 2009, 08:07:28 PM
It's not quite so curly, it doesn't cover all my head but it's slowly changing back to a colour which in black & white looks much the same. It also sprouts out of bits of my face it didn't then. That'll be the gravity effect! No dummy tomorrow (either meaning), she's doing something else I never said that OK!!!!!!! :-X
Title: Re: AGS Loughborough 7 March 09
Post by: Paddy Tobin on March 06, 2009, 08:38:12 PM
I can only hope you all take your cameras with you and post generously on the forum on your return.

Paddy
Title: Re: AGS Loughborough 7 March 09
Post by: David Nicholson on March 07, 2009, 09:53:15 AM
It's not quite so curly, it doesn't cover all my head but it's slowly changing back to a colour which in black & white looks much the same. It also sprouts out of bits of my face it didn't then. That'll be the gravity effect! No dummy tomorrow (either meaning), she's doing something else I never said that OK!!!!!!! :-X

 ;D ;D
Title: Re: AGS Loughborough 7 March 09
Post by: Giles on March 07, 2009, 04:15:25 PM
ummmmm.........I obviously can drive the fastest down the M1.....
My favourite plant at the show.
Doubtless many superior photos to follow....(when they've learnt where top gear is ;D ;D)
Title: Re: AGS Loughborough 7 March 09
Post by: Zdenek on March 07, 2009, 04:40:53 PM
Hi to all, I will be at the Blackpool show and hope that I can meet up with you then cheers Ian the Christie kind.
I hope I will be at the Blackpool show too, even with my hat.
Title: Re: AGS Loughborough 7 March 09
Post by: Brian Ellis on March 07, 2009, 04:44:51 PM
Presumably the scent was amazing too Giles.  One I must look out for as it would look good with the snowdrops. ;)
Title: Re: AGS Loughborough 7 March 09
Post by: Giles on March 07, 2009, 05:38:31 PM
A very pleasant scent, not at all of the sweet and sickly variety. It reminded me something....but I can't think what (!)
Title: Re: AGS Loughborough 7 March 09
Post by: Martinr on March 07, 2009, 06:47:11 PM
Giles, finding top gear is not the problem. You were home posting while the rest of us were still there packing up our plants and clearing up the hall! :P
Title: Re: AGS Loughborough 7 March 09
Post by: Paddy Tobin on March 07, 2009, 07:07:55 PM
Good start to the reports, Giles.

Paddy
Title: Re: AGS Loughborough 7 March 09
Post by: ichristie on March 07, 2009, 07:53:10 PM
Well I am delighted that so many people will be at Blackpool show I have a meeting after lunch but please meet up sometime after that in the tea room area cheers ian the Christie kind.
Title: Re: AGS Loughborough 7 March 09
Post by: annew on March 07, 2009, 08:54:24 PM
Well I made it home somewhat later, but almost all my photos were either out of focus or too dark. With much adjustment these are the best I could do!
A plant! - Iris kusch.... can't see the end bit but I liked the very shiny, white rimmed leaves and lovely dark blotch on the falls.
John Gennard (who had taken some wonderful plants) and me.
Diane Clement with her superb pot of Colchicum (sp?) which won the Royal Bank of Scotland Trophy. She is considering donating it back to the bank to help in their current problems.
Title: Re: AGS Loughborough 7 March 09
Post by: ChrisB on March 07, 2009, 08:59:07 PM
Oooh, that Iris is nice!!!
Title: Re: AGS Loughborough 7 March 09
Post by: Eric Locke on March 07, 2009, 09:11:40 PM
Anne , I am not surprised your photos were poor today as the natural light in the show hall was so bad.
Very good show however.
Just a couple of not very good shots before my batteries failed !!

Eric
Title: Re: AGS Loughborough 7 March 09
Post by: Maggi Young on March 07, 2009, 09:33:52 PM
Looks to have been LOTS of goodies!!
Title: Re: AGS Loughborough 7 March 09
Post by: shelagh on March 07, 2009, 09:34:18 PM
I didn't have my camera with me today, no excuse really, however there were several visitors to the show today.  Firstly Malcolm McGregor ex editor of the SRGC Journal and his houseguest Peter Korn from Gothenburg.  Also  Kimihiko, Diane 's friend from Japan.  Have to say that it was a terrific show with the best selection of Saxifrages I've seen for many a year.  Our friend Annew was also seen in conversation with Mary Randall who was doing the Show Report and they were talking diminiative daffodills.  Thought I'd mention it 'cos Anne is too shy and retiring to do so.
Title: Re: AGS Loughborough 7 March 09
Post by: johngennard on March 07, 2009, 09:38:30 PM
The best show for many years with a thousand entries I am told and of very high quality.It was a pleasure to put faces to names in the case of Dianne and Anne and their winning entries were of superb quality well worthy of their red cards.I loved Dianne's Colchicum szovitsii(pure as driven snow)and a narcissi from Anne was particularly attractive.Judging from the number of forumists wielding cameras I am sure that they will be satisfying our thirst for pictures particularly Peter Maguire who looked deeply engrossed.
Title: Re: AGS Loughborough 7 March 09
Post by: Maggi Young on March 07, 2009, 09:49:41 PM
My goodness, a thousand plants! wonderful!!
Great to "see" you, too, John.... so nice to have a face to put to the name  :)

I  must say that Diane's Colchicum does just look absolutely in the peak of condition  8)


Malcolm told us in one of his famous phonecalls ( think war and peace over the telephone wires) yesterday that he had Peter visiting ...... Swedish visitors, Japanese visitors.... what a world-wide bunch of chums these Forumists have!


 No room for you camera in the bag with the sandwiches, Shelagh, or is there a handy pub?

I heard a whisper the Judges' lunch was going to be fairly fancy...... :o   no point in spoiling them, in my opinion !  ::)

Title: Re: AGS Loughborough 7 March 09
Post by: Mick McLoughlin on March 07, 2009, 09:51:18 PM
As everybody has said the lighting conditions were very poor. I've tried to do some improvement but there is still a colour cast, but here goes.
This will be our 2nd year of showing, still learning the basics and trying to get decent plants  together to show. Picture one shows Friday night with all plants in the kitchen for labelling and pot cleaning.
7:15 start with a steady drive down to Loughborough in time for staging at 8:30.
Then over to Mandy's brother who lives in Loughborough for coffee and cakes before returning to the show after opening.
I must say that it looked like a very good turn out of exhibitors and when we returned at 12:15 the hall seemed quite full with visitors.
Title: Re: AGS Loughborough 7 March 09
Post by: Mick McLoughlin on March 07, 2009, 09:58:01 PM
As has already been said the standard was very good with the cushion plants standing out especially.
First 2 general views of cushion plants.
Then the 6 pans distinct winner.
3 pans Saxifrage distinct.
3 pans Primulacea.
3 pans Fritillaria distinct.
3 pans new or rare in cultivation.
Title: Re: AGS Loughborough 7 March 09
Post by: Maggi Young on March 07, 2009, 10:02:52 PM
I see that Mandy had a great garden entry, eh?  8)

It is good to get the atmosphere and feeling for the look of the show hall, even with fuuny colour casts.... it's the flavour that counts for these things, I love to see a lot of faces I know, too, thanks, Mick!

Those fat cushions are amazing.... I fear some may have been overstuffed to bursting point....... did anyone check to see if there were dead sheep under those biggest ones?? :o
Title: Re: AGS Loughborough 7 March 09
Post by: Mick McLoughlin on March 07, 2009, 10:15:26 PM
Quote
I see that Mandy had a great garden entry, eh?  Cool
Yes Maggi it got a second to a large piece of tufa planted with saxifrage all in flower. There was only an entry in the open section for gardens. Unlike next week at Blackpool when all three will get an airing.
I have some pics of individual plants, if you want I can post them, but don't take the colours for granted.

Correction: Thinking about it the Tufa may have been planted with primula, unfortunately didn't get a picture.
Title: Re: AGS Loughborough 7 March 09
Post by: Maggi Young on March 07, 2009, 10:40:07 PM
Speaking personally, I'd like to see your pix and just enjoy them, Mick ..... I can make allowances for the colours not being quite true with the strange hall lights and I expect others can too!



Can you remember whose the big six and three pan cushion entry growers were?
Title: Re: AGS Loughborough 7 March 09
Post by: Giles on March 07, 2009, 11:14:52 PM
Maggi,
Sax Soc members.
(and they might reveal themselves)
Title: Re: AGS Loughborough 7 March 09
Post by: Maggi Young on March 07, 2009, 11:16:45 PM
Maggi,
Sax Soc members.
(and they might reveal themselves)
Good thinking, Giles, cunning plan to coax them into the  open eh? ....... excellent scheme!
Title: Re: AGS Loughborough 7 March 09
Post by: Lesley Cox on March 08, 2009, 12:33:17 AM
Oooh, that Iris is nice!!!

Oooh, that Iris is difficult!!!
Title: Re: AGS Loughborough 7 March 09
Post by: Mick McLoughlin on March 08, 2009, 12:48:45 AM
Maggi not sure which ones you mean.
The 6 pan distinct was from David Hoare( I believe) apologies if the second name is spelt wrong.
Title: Re: AGS Loughborough 7 March 09
Post by: Mick McLoughlin on March 08, 2009, 12:51:33 AM
The three pan primulaceae were Paul and Gill Ranson from Chippenham
Title: Re: AGS Loughborough 7 March 09
Post by: Mick McLoughlin on March 08, 2009, 12:54:41 AM
3 pan saxifrage Mark Childerhouse from Brigg
Title: Re: AGS Loughborough 7 March 09
Post by: Diane Clement on March 08, 2009, 07:48:27 AM
No room for you camera in the bag with the sandwiches, Shelagh, or is there a handy pub?

SANDWICHES!  Maggi!   ::) ::)  The Pudsey piglets don't do sandwiches.   8)
There was plenty of room in Shelagh's bag as her prize winning plant didn't take up much space  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: AGS Loughborough 7 March 09
Post by: Mick McLoughlin on March 08, 2009, 09:47:39 AM
pictures of individual plants in no particular order(apart from alphabetical)
Adonis fukujukai
Arisotome imbricata
Chionodoxa albescens
Colchicum szolvitsii
Cyclamen coum
Title: Re: AGS Loughborough 7 March 09
Post by: Mick McLoughlin on March 08, 2009, 09:50:22 AM
Dionysia 'Andreas'
Dionysia 'Blue achat'
Dionysia 'Ludek Zvolonek'
Fritillaria pudica
Fritillaria sp.
Title: Re: AGS Loughborough 7 March 09
Post by: Mick McLoughlin on March 08, 2009, 09:54:59 AM
One for the 'white fever' sufferers
Galanthus trym
Ipheion sellowianum
Iris reticulata 'Clairette'
Ophyrus  tenthredinifera
Primula vulgaris
Saxifraga 'Coolock gem'
Scilla ingridae
Ypsilandra thibetica
Title: Re: AGS Loughborough 7 March 09
Post by: shelagh on March 08, 2009, 10:31:36 AM
I'm surprised you need to ask Maggi, no self respecting member of East Lancs. would miss the pub lunch.  Mind you it's amazing how many hangers on we have attracted.  Still a great day to start the season.
Title: Re: AGS Loughborough 7 March 09
Post by: SAXIFRAGE at LYMINGE on March 08, 2009, 12:09:42 PM
Yes Mike I must plead guilty to the 6pan. It was good to meet John Gennard at the show. I will attempted to post some pictures, this will be a first.
David
Farrer Medal Plant Dionysia Curviflora grown by Nigel Fuller
Royal Bank of Scotland Awared grown by Diane Clement
View of the Show
My 6pan of Saxifrage
3pan Dionysia from Paul & Gill Ranson
Title: Re: AGS Loughborough 7 March 09
Post by: Paddy Tobin on March 08, 2009, 01:25:05 PM
Wonderful plants.

Diane's colchicum is outstanding.

Paddy
Title: Re: AGS Loughborough 7 March 09
Post by: Carol Shaw on March 08, 2009, 02:47:41 PM
Great pix. and great plants! Many thanks all... ;D
Title: Re: AGS Loughborough 7 March 09
Post by: Diane Clement on March 08, 2009, 06:54:44 PM
Wonderful plants.  Diane's colchicum is outstanding.  Paddy 

Thanks, Paddy, it's even better today  :'(  :'(
Title: Re: AGS Loughborough 7 March 09
Post by: Diane Clement on March 08, 2009, 07:25:36 PM
A few pix from yesterday.  Thanks firstly to Doreen, Eric and all the helpers for what must have been one of the most successful shows on record.  A massive number of entries caused by a harder winter than normal that held back the cushion plants.  The dionysias and saxifragas were (literally) weighing the tables down and were plants of the highest quality.  When David Hoare put his six pans of sax down he was concerned whether the table could take the weight.   
I didn't take many pictures, too busy catching up with everyone.  It was nice to meet up with and chat with lots of forumists.
So sorry, just a few pix

Wonderful Epigaea gaultherioides shown by Harry Roberts.  What a difficult plant to show, the flowers don't last long. Also difficult to photograph: icing sugar pink flowers in a room with yellow lighting don't go together
Title: Re: AGS Loughborough 7 March 09
Post by: Diane Clement on March 08, 2009, 07:26:55 PM
Crocus dalmaticus shown by Robert Rolfe.  I am not sure whether this was the same pot that won the Farrer medal last week, as he had several pots of it.
Title: Re: AGS Loughborough 7 March 09
Post by: Diane Clement on March 08, 2009, 07:29:23 PM
Two mini gardens in the class, very different
The winner was an amazing lump of tufa planted up mainly with Primulas and saxifragas by David Philbey
The second was a lovely garden from Mandy McLoughlin, with lots of different plants and foliage.
Title: Re: AGS Loughborough 7 March 09
Post by: Diane Clement on March 08, 2009, 07:31:55 PM
Ypsilanda thibetica (shown by me) the best scent in the hall  8)  8)
Title: Re: AGS Loughborough 7 March 09
Post by: Diane Clement on March 08, 2009, 07:36:34 PM
And to finish, Narcissus cyclamineus - part of a 3 pan shown by John Gennard

and part of the same 3 pan, Hepatica japonica - I am reliably informed by my Japanese friend Kimihiko that the cultivar name is
Yumeji
Title: Re: AGS Loughborough 7 March 09
Post by: Paddy Tobin on March 08, 2009, 07:55:38 PM
Diane,

That hepatica is a jewel, astonishing combination of colour and shape. Brilliant.

You said above, "Ypsilanda thibetica (shown by me) the best scent in the hall" What scent were you wearing?

Also, the miniature garden by David Philbey is an astounding example of perfection in cultivation.

Paddy
Title: Re: AGS Loughborough 7 March 09
Post by: ChrisB on March 08, 2009, 07:59:02 PM
What a stunning hepatica.  Thoroughly enjoyed your pictures, Diane.
Title: Re: AGS Loughborough 7 March 09
Post by: hadacekf on March 08, 2009, 08:15:12 PM
Thank you all together for the report of the show. Wonderful plants.
Diana, your colchicum be brillant!
Title: Re: AGS Loughborough 7 March 09
Post by: Lesley Cox on March 08, 2009, 10:00:27 PM
Really super plants and pictures Diane, in spite of difficult lighting. A question about the Ypsilandra which I've never seen in this country. It looks as if it is related to Heloniopsis. If so, does it propagate the same way, from the outer leaf tips poked into compost, with a new little plant growing from there?

Fabulous Epigaea. I'm looking forward to mine. :) :) :)
Title: Re: AGS Loughborough 7 March 09
Post by: Diane Clement on March 08, 2009, 10:05:54 PM
Really super plants and pictures Diane, in spite of difficult lighting. A question about the Ypsilandra which I've never seen in this country. It looks as if it is related to Heloniopsis. If so, does it propagate the same way, from the outer leaf tips poked into compost, with a new little plant growing from there?
Fabulous Epigaea. I'm looking forward to mine. :) :) :) 

Yes, Ypsilandra is in the same family as Heloniopsis (Melanthiaceae - which means honey flower, hence the fabulous scent). 
They do progagate in the same way as you say.  Also it is very easy just to pull apart divisions with roots. 
I look forward to seeing pix of your Epigaea  ;)
Title: Re: AGS Loughborough 7 March 09
Post by: Lvandelft on March 08, 2009, 10:18:48 PM
Just came after these pages this evening.
Thank you all for the beautiful pictures.
So many wonderful plants!
Title: Re: AGS Loughborough 7 March 09
Post by: Lesley Cox on March 08, 2009, 10:32:28 PM

I look forward to seeing pix of your Epigaea  ;)

It will be a while. The SEED is on its way to me as we speak. ;D A case of hope springing eternal in my breast.
Title: Re: AGS Loughborough 7 March 09
Post by: Diane Clement on March 08, 2009, 10:36:38 PM
It will be a while. The SEED is on its way to me as we speak. ;D A case of hope springing eternal in my breast. 

Hmm ....  I think it takes some time from seed to flower ::)   
Title: Re: AGS Loughborough 7 March 09
Post by: Peter Maguire on March 08, 2009, 11:55:24 PM
I can confirm what previous forumists have said - a wonderful show, with oustanding displays in many classes, especially saxifrages, which seem to have dome well this year. Several classes had 16-18 entries, and must have given the judges a hard time.

I nearly didn't take my camera out of the car, as the artificial lighting in the hall seemed worse than usual this year, and the curtains had been part-drawn due to sunshine earlier in the day. However, after a day spent mainly in conversation (when non-gardening friends ask why I get up at 5.30 and drive three hours to a show I tell them it's for the chat), I dashed round with my camera in the last half-hour photographing plants that had caught my eye. I think that I've now found a way to restore the natural colours at Loughborough, so I'll risk a few duplications:

- Firstly a lovely Hepatica japonica forma magna from our very own John Gennard.
- David Hoare's six-pan entry of saxifrages
- Corydalis malkensis, again John Gennard
- Cyclamen coum from...... yes, Mike and Christine Brown, who else?
- The entries in the large corydalis class
- Ray Drew's Adonis 'Fukujukai'
Title: Re: AGS Loughborough 7 March 09
Post by: Peter Maguire on March 09, 2009, 12:05:23 AM
- Saxifraga 'Coolock Gem' - the Jim Almond hybrid shown by Geoff Rollinson
- Ophrys tenthredinifera from Richard Manuel, one of many fine orchids he had on display
- A stunning plant shown as Hepatica nobilis, but later thought by all and sundry to be Hep. japonica, from Trevor and Angie Jones
- Scoliopus bigelovii from Bob and Rannveig Wallis. The blue mark on the leaf is, I think, a reflection from some ghastly blue lighting that was illuminating part of the raised stage, to complement the orange light elsewhere
- another Hepatica japonica form Clare Oates, this one was awarded a certificate of merit (and I think has previously won a Farrer medal)
- Diane's Colchicum szovitsii
Title: Re: AGS Loughborough 7 March 09
Post by: Peter Maguire on March 09, 2009, 12:19:02 AM
And finally...

- Dionysia afghanica shown by Derek Pickard
- Ju Bramley's 3 dioynisia entry
- the eighteen (I think) entries in the small Primula allionii class
- an interesting Dionysia hybrid shown by Paul Ranson. The colour under the hall lighting was odd, the nearest I could describe it was similar to coffee icing on a cake. I've balanced the colur here to what I think was correct for natural daylight; it's still an unusual colour, obviously one that will be liked and hated in equal measure.
- Anacamptis papilonacea, another of Richard Manuel's orchids
- I thought I would add something from the artistic section. The best painting in the show was a lovely study of an unfolding fern frond by Anne Wright, but I did not get a photo of this - sorry Anne. However the best photo display was from Jon Evans in the digitally altered class. He showed three composite images inspired by 17th century flower painters such as Jan Brueghel the Elder, and these three composite digital images captured the lighting and essence of the painting style beautifully. I can't begin to imagine how many hours of work went into these three pictures. Enjoy....
Title: Re: AGS Loughborough 7 March 09
Post by: Mick McLoughlin on March 09, 2009, 07:50:21 AM
Thanks for that Peter, I would be interested what settings you used for the corrections. Again thanks to all the organisers for a great show.

edit by Maggi:  Peter has made some relplies re colour correction and I have moved these to the Photographic thread    http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=54.360      :D
Title: Re: AGS Loughborough 7 March 09
Post by: Luc Gilgemyn on March 09, 2009, 08:33:38 AM
Thanks to all our reporters for the pix of this wonderful show !
What a mass of brilliant plants !  ;D
Special congrats to the forumists who did so well at the show !

Two more weeks until my next "hop" to the Kent show !  :D :D
Title: Re: AGS Loughborough 7 March 09
Post by: ChrisB on March 09, 2009, 12:26:07 PM
Yikes!  I'll never get to grips with pics at shows if that's what it takes.  Thanks for doing all that, Peter, the photos you have posted look wonderful, and what a great show it must have been.  Some of those pans were amazing.  thanks everyone for taking time to 'take me' to the show.
Title: Re: AGS Loughborough 7 March 09
Post by: johngennard on March 09, 2009, 05:40:45 PM
Congratulations Peter on mastering the lighting,it was nice to share a coffee and chat with you again following our first meeting at Wisley last year.I join with others in praising Eric and Doreen plus their dedicated helpers for the brilliant organisation of the show.Three shows a year must deserve some special recognition!!!
Title: Re: AGS Loughborough 7 March 09
Post by: Maggi Young on March 09, 2009, 05:49:01 PM
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Three shows a year must deserve some special recognition!!!

 I'll second that! Or, at the very least, help towards counselling!  ;)


Jolly hard work, let no-one tell you  otherwise!!
Title: Re: AGS Loughborough 7 March 09
Post by: Lesley Cox on March 09, 2009, 07:40:48 PM
My thanks too everyone. Outstanding plants, surely recognised as an overall very high standard.

It's probably blasphemy to say it but after a surfeit of P. allionii form and Dionysias, I enjoyed the Jon Evans photographs perhaps more than anything else.
Title: Re: AGS Loughborough 7 March 09
Post by: ian mcenery on March 09, 2009, 07:49:19 PM
Here are a few I don't think have been shown. I have colour corrected these as I remember it. Should have taken the SLR it would have been easy to do it on the spot  ::)

Narc Jim Lad one of Anne's

Hepaticas I think at least one of these if not both are John Gennard's
Celmisia longifolia - Brian and Shelagh Smethhurst's plant I think

Saxes and dionysias various

Crocus pelistericus

R calandriniodes
Title: Re: AGS Loughborough 7 March 09
Post by: Lesley Cox on March 09, 2009, 07:53:07 PM
It'as odd to see Crocus pelistericus with spaghnum moss around it but of course it is appropriate to the species and its natural habitat, which seems to me to amount almost to what we would term "wetlands."
Title: Re: AGS Loughborough 7 March 09
Post by: Martinr on March 09, 2009, 08:05:04 PM
Lesley, the botanical notes attached to Crocus pelistericus did state that in order to get the plant to thrive well enough to flower the pot had been plunged in the garden pond!
Title: Re: AGS Loughborough 7 March 09
Post by: johngennard on March 09, 2009, 09:00:43 PM
Ian,I can't take the credit for the wonderful pot of nobilis I'm afraid but the other one is japonica forma magna and is mine.
Title: Re: AGS Loughborough 7 March 09
Post by: Lesley Cox on March 10, 2009, 04:34:59 AM
Lesley, the botanical notes attached to Crocus pelistericus did state that in order to get the plant to thrive well enough to flower the pot had been plunged in the garden pond!
Gosh, as wet as that. Somewhere, maybe an AGS Bulletin, there's a pic of it with melting snow but where the snow has already melted it looks as if the crocus is growing from what amounts to a lake. I have a similar habitat pictured in a Japanese book, with Lysichiton camschatcense growing in water. Utterly beautiful in both cases.
Title: Re: AGS Loughborough 7 March 09
Post by: Tony Willis on March 10, 2009, 02:39:53 PM
Lesley, the botanical notes attached to Crocus pelistericus did state that in order to get the plant to thrive well enough to flower the pot had been plunged in the garden pond!
Gosh, as wet as that. Somewhere, maybe an AGS Bulletin, there's a pic of it with melting snow but where the snow has already melted it looks as if the crocus is growing from what amounts to a lake. I have a similar habitat pictured in a Japanese book, with Lysichiton camschatcense growing in water. Utterly beautiful in both cases.

I heard the garden pond story!! It is only necessary to keep them cold,shady and watered all year round,and certainly no spaghnum moss which I think is aritistic license.

Some wonderful pictures of the plants.I heard the show was the most successful ever from a financial point of view which is great for the organisers.
Title: Re: AGS Loughborough 7 March 09
Post by: tonyg on March 10, 2009, 03:51:37 PM
I concur with Tony W on Crocus pelistericus.  I am enjoying my first ever flower on this one.  It sat in the shady side of an open frame last summer.  Plastic pot on damp sand, our summer was so cool and wet that it still had its old leaves in early September.  In a 'normal summer' it might be hot and dry too long resulting in early leaf loss and no new flower bud.
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