Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
SRGC Shows and Events => Events => Topic started by: Mick McLoughlin on May 09, 2009, 10:35:34 PM
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Just got back from a long day at the Malvern show, 4:00 o'clock start this morning. So just a couple of shots of the benches and one of the Farrer winning Androsace from Claire Oates.
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Many thanks Mick ... excellent images. Congratulations to Claire, a beautiful androsace.
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A few more pics ready now:
Again no particular order, and just ones that caught my eye.
3 plants from one continent
Podophylum delavayi
Dianthus squarossus
6 rock plants distinct
Pleione el pico
Sedum furfuraceum
Primula frasisca
Lewisias
Lewisia columbiana
Lewisia cotyledon
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Lovely pics Mick, I didn't make it to Malvern this year. Any prizes??
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Lewisia cotyledon 'sunset strain'
One for Cliff Ranunculus oreophilus and close up
Saxifraga cebennensis
Cypripedium pubescens
Podophylum delavayi with flowers
Cypripedium calceolus and close up
Silene hookerii ssp. the subspecies was named but couln't read it off my pic of the label
Celmisia species
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Thanks for the pics Mick.
I went to the Malvern Show on Friday, so missed the alpines on Saturday.
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Lovely photos, Mick; don't know how you managed so well when the show hall looks like a dark chicken shed!
Super Celmisia gracilenta...so cute!
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Thanks David. We had 2 firsts in Section C, foliage and Lewisia, and a number of seconds.
Orchid I didn't get the name of and a close up.
Cypripedium fargessi and close up
Corokia cotoneaster
Rhododendron Polaris
Rhododendron Sarled and close up
This weeks longest name entrant Chamaecyparis obtusa yatsubusa chirinen
Sempervivum class
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Many thanks Mick ... super images.
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I was a dark chicken shed Maggi, Agricultural show hall actually. The camera was still set up with the automatic flash from Mel's prom in the week. It seemed to work OK so I left it on.
Sempervivum arachnoideum
and a close up for the entry of hardest jigsaw puzzle picture.
Mini garden winner
Helichrysum sessiloides
Smallest plant in the show? Amistostigma keiskei
Serapias x gofreyi and close up
Arisaema ringens
Myosotis albosericea
Cyclamen peloponnesiacum
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Arisaema sp
Cushion plants
Dionysia servestanica and the winner of the hardest jigsaw puzzle picture as a close up.
In the rare in cultivation class Notothlaspi rosulatum also with notes.
Also in the same class Nototriche macleanii
Narcissus 'Solveig's song'
Aethionema kotschyi
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Finally for all you Section C fans out there, and all those thinking about entering in future shows (you know you want to):
Section C entries
Section C foliage class
Section C Lewisia
Section C rock plant in flower
Section C 3 pan class.
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Lovely photos, Mick; don't know how you managed so well when the show hall looks like a dark chicken shed!
Super Celmisia gracilenta...so cute!
Mick, many thanks for the pix. as Maggi says the 'Show Hall' looks like a chicken shed or cattle byre... What were the organisers thinking of bunging wonderful plants in there ??? ???
Oh... and thanks for all the photos - much appreciated :)
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Thankyou very much for the photographs - we all appreciate it :D
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Exceptional images, Mick ... and WHAT a superb Notothlaspi rosulatum from Paul and Gill ... SO envious.
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Mick - thanks for sharing all these super photos. ::)
I will make it to this show one day. ;)
Eric
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Thanks for all the photographs Mick you posted from the Malvern show - even thought the location may not be attractive the exhibits are terrific and I am particularly fascinated by the Notothlaspi rosulatum and 49 in the c section which won first prize too :)
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Some excellent entries in Section C, Mick..... I hope that you will have emboldened a few folks to take the first step to showing.
I know you and Mandy are enjoying yourselves.... 4 am starts notwithstanding :P It is fun to exhibit and I do comment it to any of you who are tempted; go on, have a go :D
I'm hoping that someone in reach of Aberdeen show next weekend is reading this and thinking, 'yes, why not'?
A very warm welcome and as much help as you need is available to get you started....... new exhibitors (and, in Scotland, that's Section II folks as opposed to Section C for the AGS ) are as welcome as a winning lottery ticket.... you're worth your weight in gold to the show circuit..... come and be made a fuss of! 8)
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Mick, thanks for showing pictures of this Show.
I know your feeling when starting to make photographs in a hall where is such bad light. :(
There were some very interesting plants obviously.
One question: Did botanists rename Corokia cotoneaster into Cotoneaster corokia? Cannot imagine ???
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One question: Did botanists rename Corokia cotoneaster into Cotoneaster corokia? Cannot imagine ???
No, the exhibitor made a mistake, but the judges left a note to put it the right way round!
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Thanks Diane! Things happen.. :)
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thanks for that Luit and Dianne, I've edited the text to suit.
Thanks for all the nice comments folks.
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Thank you Mick !
That makes it another show you allowed us to visit ! ;)
Great pix - wonderful plants !
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The Ransoms are skilled indeed to bring Notothlaspi rosulatum into flower in captivity but...I have to say it hurts a little to see it away from its wild and harsh habitat. And tho' it WILL die as the flower head dies, at least in nature it does set seed. Oh well.......it's probably envy on my part.
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Just back from a long weekend which included a visit to the Malvern Show on Saturday, of course we had to go the sheds and see the British Streptocarpus Society, now in their 10th year they got their first gold at Malvern 8)
Also had a good look round the show, well done Mick, I kept an eye out once I'd seen your name on the entries but didn't see you although we did bump into Cecilia Coller. Heavily laden with plants from the floral marquee I didn't take any photos so it was good to see yours, thanks.
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Back to the Corokia. What did the judges make of it? It's one of these plants that sometimes gets frowned upon because of its potential ultimate size.
This question has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that I have the cultivar Little Prince flowering in a pot!
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I don't know Corokia 'Little Prince.' Is it a UK selection? I grow the "ordinary" one and it is currently about 1.5 metres high.
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Lesley, not sure where the selection originated. It was awarded a Preliminary Commendation by the 'joint rock committee' in April 2002 when a plant grown by our very own John Dower was exhibited at Harrogate (thanks John the cutting is still alive and flowering as I write..and it survived our last fairly hard winter outdoors as well). It's writen up in volume 70, page 470 of 'The Alpine Gardener' and is said not to achieve the large size sometimes seen in garden specimens of the plant. Perhaps John can give us a bit more background
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Thanks Martin. It will certainly need a bigger pot if it grows to match mine. ;D
Does anyone have information about the green primula shown in the pic on page 1, as Primula frasica? It seems to me to have Vernales type foliage so I wonder if it's a form of polyanthus or similar? I like the colour and even the rather frilly flowers - not usually my thing in primulas but.......if it's a seed selection from somewhere like Barnhaven, I would be able to try it.
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Does anyone have information about the green primula shown in the pic on page 1, as Primula frasica? It seems to me to have Vernales type foliage so I wonder if it's a form of polyanthus or similar? I like the colour and even the rather frilly flowers - not usually my thing in primulas but.......if it's a seed selection from somewhere like Barnhaven, I would be able to try it.
Lesley, this primula is spelt 'Francisca' and has also been known as 'Green Lace'. It is a polyanthus type, not sure if it comes true from seed, it has now been micro-propped and therefore now commonly available in the UK. The original plant was found by Francisca Darts on a traffic island in British Columbia.
Personally I don't like it at all, green and frilly!
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Thanks Diane. That I do like it merely shows my tendency towards perversity. :D
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Excellent pictures of some exceptional plants. Yet again, so many I have never heard of before. Just for the records, the unknown orchidaceae on the first page that is yellow and brown/purple is Diuris, probably D. maculata of some description, but not certain of species. It's an Australian native orchid. I don't think I saw anyone else ID it so thought I would chime in while I am reading through some of these topics that I haven't got to before. I thoroughly enjoyed the pics!! Thanks.