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Title: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: shelagh on June 15, 2009, 02:52:44 PM: Just to remind everyone that the Pudsey Show is back at Pudsey Civic Hall on Saturday. The usual suspects will be taking part in the Pudsey Pig Competition (if Elaine has checked out the Owls to see all is OK). Though you might like to see afew folk getting in a bit of practice, down by the lake north of Malaga last week.
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: ranunculus on June 15, 2009, 02:57:30 PM: By god, Shelagh ... JohnnyD's eyebrows are getting thicker! Must be all that Spanish cheese? ;D
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: Martinr on June 15, 2009, 05:22:19 PM: I hope Brian's not going to wear that shirt on Saturday. It'll put me right off my grub!
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: Martinr on June 15, 2009, 05:24:03 PM: Or perhaps it's part of a cunning plan to beat the opposition and win the pig.
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: Diane Clement on June 15, 2009, 05:41:08 PM: Quote from: Martinr on June 15, 2009, 05:22:19 PM
I hope Brian's not going to wear that shirt on Saturday. It'll put me right off my grub!

Can't believe anything will do that, Martin ;D
It's the lack of a tie that worries me, second time only in public I think (or is it the third ??? )
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: Maggi Young on June 15, 2009, 05:52:50 PM: Johnny's Mickey Mouse impression is the worst I've seen :P

Is warm weather training allowed in the Pudsey Pig regulations? Seems to be not quite cricket, if you ask me.
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: ranunculus on June 15, 2009, 06:01:27 PM: Quote from: Maggi Young on June 15, 2009, 05:52:50 PM
Is warm weather training allowed in the Pudsey Pig regulations? Seems to be not quite cricket, if you ask me.
Especially if you get the runs, Maggi? Oops, apologies everybody!

... and Martin ... would you wear a tie with your pyjama jacket?
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: JohnnyD on June 17, 2009, 02:13:10 PM: Anything goes Maggi in our quest to prevent stuff going beyond its 'sell by date', warm weather or not! ;D
J.
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: Maggi Young on June 17, 2009, 02:29:36 PM: Crumbs! I had no idea Gin had a 'sell by' date! Mind you, that could be because it's never lasted long enough for me to find out :-X ( I have a lot of thirsty visitors, y'know ::) )
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: Lesley Cox on June 17, 2009, 10:05:37 PM: Is that Martin Rogerson? He seems to have incredibly clean fingernails for a gardener, and in summer time too. :)

That was cruel of you Maggi, to mention the word "cricket." :'(
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: Maggi Young on June 17, 2009, 10:50:22 PM: Quote from: Lesley Cox on June 17, 2009, 10:05:37 PM
Is that Martin Rogerson? He seems to have incredibly clean fingernails for a gardener, and in summer time too. :)

That was cruel of you Maggi, to mention the word "cricket." :'(
Sorry Lesley, cricket mention just slipped out.... like a lot of catches lately....... you know we lost too :P

If you're meaning is that Martin in the pic re G&T, then ,no, that is the gardener and Pudsey Pig contestant known as Brian Smethurst; the other half of Black Pudding Girl, Shelagh 8)
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: Lesley Cox on June 18, 2009, 12:04:55 AM: Oh, so it is. I'm mixing my Brians and my Martins.

At least we both got further than the Aussies Maggi. ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: shelagh on June 18, 2009, 03:32:53 PM: By the way Maggi it wasn't just warm weather training, we were at altitude too.
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: Maggi Young on June 18, 2009, 04:45:41 PM: Quote from: shelagh on June 18, 2009, 03:32:53 PM
By the way Maggi it wasn't just warm weather training, we were at altitude too.
I knew it.... see, that's an unfair advantage. I think the other piglets should demand you four have blood tests.... you might have been EPO doping too..... like the shamed cyclists :o Who knows what you might be smuggling into those black puddings, Shelagh :P
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: Maggi Young on June 19, 2009, 01:37:22 PM: I expect that in spite of the heavy rain and hail that has been around in the UK recently, there will still be plenty of grand plants safely tucked in alpine houses to make a wonderful display at the AGS Pudsey show tomorrow. May I wish everyone travelling to the show a safe and happy day out... good luck to all exhibitors... we look forward to seeing some photos of your plants later.... and may the Best Porker Win in the Pudsey Pig guzzling contest :o ::) ;D
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: shelagh on June 20, 2009, 08:16:43 PM: Well I am disappointed. Cliff left the Pudsey Show early and I was sure he would have posted the results of the Pudsey Pig Competition by now. Well I won't spoil it for you all you will just have to wait for the official photographer to 'do his thing'.
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: shelagh on June 20, 2009, 08:18:06 PM: By the way there were plants as well at Pudsey, but lets get things in perspective! ;D most of us were there for the food.
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: ranunculus on June 20, 2009, 08:22:49 PM: Oh Shelagh,

TWO MINUTES MORE AND I WOULD HAVE BEEN POSTING!

Back in two minutes ...
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: ranunculus on June 20, 2009, 08:39:09 PM: Best in Show first and then ... the Pudsey Pig result with images ...

Congratulations to Lee and Julie Martin from Pevensey for winning 'Best in Show' (no Farrer Medal this time) with another magnificent campanula ...

Many more images to follow ... after the Pudsey Pig celebrations.
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: ranunculus on June 20, 2009, 09:15:19 PM: THE PUDSEY PIG COMPETITION 20th JUNE 2009

Competitors - by table ...
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: ranunculus on June 20, 2009, 09:24:15 PM: ... And on to the dramatic result. I would have worded this more hilariously if allowed the time to think, but Black Pudding Girl is eager for the pictures so something has to suffer ...

THE PUDSEY PIG CHAMPION FOR 2009 IS ... Wait for it ...

CAROL KELLETT from CHORLEY
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: shelagh on June 20, 2009, 09:36:17 PM: Brilliant photos Cliff and a good time was had by all. The Owl at Rodley was most hospitable and did us proud.
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: Maggi Young on June 20, 2009, 09:40:14 PM: [attach=1]

Well done , Carol! Is that not two years on the trotter?
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: ranunculus on June 20, 2009, 09:46:00 PM: Oh no, Maggi ... the worthy winner in 2008 was the indefatigable John Bunn (see adjudicator in England top - slimmed down to a matchstick since his triumph last year) ... Carol came a very creditable second.
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: Maggi Young on June 20, 2009, 09:50:15 PM: Hey! I know there are no rules but Table 1 has the same contestants as Table 6! :o
This is definitely jiggery-piggery ::)

AH! Yes , I remember now: Carol came in a bristle behind John in the 2008 contest, but what a crackling good fight they all put up ;D
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: Maggi Young on June 20, 2009, 10:17:08 PM: Comment from Ian...... he's glad it snout to do with us, for that is one tricky tusk to judge the Pudsey Pig :-\ :P

Sorry, the puns seem to be catching.... possibly an outbreak of swine flu :-X

Back to the plants..... seems a hard decision not to give a medal to that lovely campanula ..... did it have huge bald bits round the back which spoiled its chance? Looks a worthy winner from its photo :-\
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: Maggi Young on June 20, 2009, 10:28:29 PM: How did Mick and Mandy get on in the contest.... they are first -time piglets, aren't they?

Young Rogerson looked keen, but the chip buttie between courses must have been the clincher for Carol, wasn't it? What style, what class, what a Piglet!! 8)

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Tomorrow is Martin Rodgerson's birthday.... he was probably just using the Pudsey Pig contest as a warm up event for his cake tomorrow ;)
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: ranunculus on June 20, 2009, 10:45:32 PM: It was a beautiful Campanula that was as well flowered to the rear as it was at the front ... the consensus of opinion was that the medal was withheld because the 'dome' was gaping open slightly at the top, but this was simply due to the weight and movement of the flowers on the 250 plus mile journey up from the south of England. It was, without doubt, the best plant in the show and, in my very humble opinion, would have fully deserved the award of a Farrer Medal, especially at a time of year and during a season when large and floriferous plants are very much at a premium.
Congratulations to Eric Rainford and his team on resurrecting this excellent show and many thanks to everyone who participated on the day.

Mick and Mandy have obviously got a lot to learn about 'pea shoveling' and 'sticky toffee tactics', but they proved eager learners and we expect great things from them in the years to come. They were, of course, in the training stable of JohnnyD. at this year's event. With the tables being set out as they were we did wonder about awarding an honorary 'six pan' to one particularly laden table, but Peter Farkasch was let down by his fellow 'troughers'.
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: Lesley Cox on June 21, 2009, 12:36:49 AM: What a magnificent competition it must have been! 8) Most tables seem to have many potential and worthy winners but I couldn't argue with a chip buttie. (Even I have never been tempted by one of those. :o) I think the campanulate Julie could also have been a serious contender. (I can say that, being of just about the same shape, though less well groomed and jersied than she.)

As for the plants, the Campanula is a stunner while I still yearn in vain for that hectic Ourisia.
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: ranunculus on June 21, 2009, 10:04:41 AM: Back to reality and the first three batches of many plants from Pudsey ... no labels this time I'm afraid (unless they are displayed in the images), but I'm certain that any plants will be easily identified by our forum members if requested ...
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: ranunculus on June 21, 2009, 10:09:51 AM: Batch two ...
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Post by: ranunculus on June 21, 2009, 10:15:01 AM: Batch three ... many more to follow when Father's Day has been endured! :D
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: ranunculus on June 21, 2009, 10:17:02 AM: BREAKING NEWS - I am going to be a granddad again - little Ollie will have a playmate to practice his rugby tackles on!
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: tonyg on June 21, 2009, 12:36:25 PM: Congtrats Cliff 8) 8) But you hardly look old enough ;)
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: JohnnyD on June 21, 2009, 02:55:36 PM: Congrats Cliff, it must take a lot out of you! ;D
Nice pics too.

Pudsey was again a brilliant venue and the 'Pig' competiton - with 22 contestants - well up to snuff.

Well done Carol. :D
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: Luc Gilgemyn on June 21, 2009, 07:29:12 PM: Wonderful plants - wonderful pictures aaaand wonderful news Cliff !!
Many congrats to exhibitors, piglets, future parents and future grandparents second time over !!! ;D
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: ranunculus on June 21, 2009, 08:14:46 PM: Many thanks everyone ... on with the show. Two more batches this evening.
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: ranunculus on June 21, 2009, 08:20:11 PM: Final batch this evening ... many more to follow.
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: Lesley Cox on June 21, 2009, 11:05:11 PM: My favourite Ourisia, and I am very taken with Wahlenbergia stricta. If anyone wants to know, the pic in the 2nd batch with the first prize, is what I used to have as Dobrowskya tenella though I also have seen it as Dombrowskya. It may have been reclassified as Lobelia. It is a South African and I found it beautiful but quite tender. From the foliage and buds it is easy to see the campanula relationship between it and the wahlenbergia. :)

Hearty congtatulations Cliff and to the parents as well. They're doing (or have done) the work, after all. ;D And remember that girls play rugby nowadays.
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: Diane Clement on June 22, 2009, 07:32:37 AM: Quote from: Lesley Cox on June 21, 2009, 11:05:11 PM
the pic in the 2nd batch with the first prize, is what I used to have as Dobrowskya tenella though I also have seen it as Dombrowskya.

It's one of Cecilia Coller's plants (well, a large proportion of the plants on the show bench were) and she calls it Monopsis unidentata, although I think it did used to be Lobelia.
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: ranunculus on June 22, 2009, 11:16:38 AM: Some more images from Pudsey show 2009 ...
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: ranunculus on June 22, 2009, 11:22:29 AM: Next batch ...
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: ranunculus on June 22, 2009, 11:28:05 AM: Next batch ...
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: ranunculus on June 22, 2009, 11:33:02 AM: Final batch for today ...
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: arisaema on June 22, 2009, 12:22:56 PM: Great pics of some very interesting plants, Cliff, thanks for posting!

Did anyone catch what the label said on the yellow Cremanthodium, please?
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: Mick McLoughlin on June 22, 2009, 12:45:55 PM: Arisaema
It said the species was unknown with no location data, I think. I will try and post a pic of the label tonight when at home.
Cheers
Mick
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: arisaema on June 22, 2009, 12:55:55 PM: Thanks, Mick! I have some unflowered seedlings ex Holubec with very similar foliage, also unidentified.
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: Mick McLoughlin on June 22, 2009, 07:05:16 PM: Arisaema,
These are the pictures I took of the Cremanthodium at Pudsey on saturday, along with the propagation notes.
I too have some first year seedlings from seed collected in Nepal. Any cultivation tips would be gratefully appreciated.

Mick
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: ranunculus on June 22, 2009, 07:29:54 PM: Thanks Mick ... very interesting family. Keep those little seedlings going ...

Some more batches from Pudsey ...
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Post by: ranunculus on June 22, 2009, 07:34:36 PM: Next batch ...
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Post by: ranunculus on June 22, 2009, 07:40:16 PM: Next batch ...
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: ranunculus on June 22, 2009, 07:45:56 PM: Final batch from Pudsey Show 2009 ... lots more cameras at the event ... your impressions please.
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: arisaema on June 22, 2009, 08:25:39 PM: Mick;

Thanks! I've really just been treating them like any other perennial, so I may not be the right person to ask for cutivation advice... They were slow in their first year and spent the winter in a frame, but really took off this spring once repotted. Drainage doesn't seem to be an issue so I used my standard perennial mix; 4 parts peat, 2 parts bark, 2 parts perlite and 1 part gravel + Osmocote. They spent a couple of weeks in the greenhouse, and were put outside in an open, west facing bench as soon as the weather warmed up :)
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: Mick McLoughlin on June 22, 2009, 08:41:08 PM: Thanks for that Arisaema.
Best get on with the show pics or Cliff will be after us for hijacking his thread.
In no particular order except alphabetical
First a South American Adesmia microphylla
Allium (sorry can't read the species name from pic)
Arisaema consanguineum
Arisaema costatum
Arisaema erubescens
Erigeron chrysopsidis 'Grand Ridge'
Gladiolus imbricatus (species from memory?) and close up
Lewisia cotyledon
Podophyllum pleianthemum. any cultivation notes on this? (mandy bought one from the members stall)
OOps :-[wrong picture see below
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: Mick McLoughlin on June 22, 2009, 08:56:58 PM: A few more from me:
Saxifraga candelabrum and notes
Section C entrants
Sempervivum ciliosum var borisii
Sempervivum class
and finally Silver or grey foliage class

Maggi
Being new entrants in the Pudsey pig we were made very welcome and a good time was had by all.
As we have said before at all shows we are made very welcome and enjoy the meeting side of it as much as the showing. After our first year of showing we are enjoying it very much and would again encourage anybody thinking about it to give it a go.

Cheers
Mick
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: Mick McLoughlin on June 22, 2009, 08:59:15 PM: Ooops put the wrong picture of the Podophyllum pleianthus on there that one is for Cliff's arty page.
Original one now
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: Lesley Cox on June 22, 2009, 10:12:00 PM: Quote from: Diane Clement on June 22, 2009, 07:32:37 AM
Quote from: Lesley Cox on June 21, 2009, 11:05:11 PM
the pic in the 2nd batch with the first prize, is what I used to have as Dobrowskya tenella though I also have seen it as Dombrowskya.

It's one of Cecilia Coller's plants (well, a large proportion of the plants on the show bench were) and she calls it Monopsis unidentata, although I think it did used to be Lobelia.

According to Google, it is correctly Monopsis unidentata, but Dobrowskaya tenella and Lobelia tenella are synonyms. At least one reference calls it an annual but I always had it as a perennial, just needing a good trim over after it flowered, for new growth to emerge.
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: Lvandelft on June 22, 2009, 10:13:40 PM: Cliff and Mick, I enjoy your pictures very much. Interesting to see that at this time of year so many good
garden plants are shown, I mean plants which do not really need alpine house culture.
I hope to see many more pictures of this beautiful show.

Mick, the Allium might be A. insubricum.
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: Mick McLoughlin on June 22, 2009, 10:19:49 PM: Luit that matches what bit I can make out on the label
Thanks
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: Lesley Cox on June 22, 2009, 10:26:15 PM: I don't think that is Podophyllum pleianthum, arty or otherwise.
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: Maggi Young on June 22, 2009, 11:33:15 PM: Quote
Maggi
Being new entrants in the Pudsey pig we were made very welcome and a good time was had by all.
As we have said before at all shows we are made very welcome and enjoy the meeting side of it as much as the showing. After our first year of showing we are enjoying it very much and would again encourage anybody thinking about it to give it a go.

Cheers
Mick

Well, Mick, wearing my other "hat" as a Show Secretary, I can tell you that these words of yours are music to my ears... as they will be to every other Show Sec. in SRGC and the AGS or any Club which holds shows for its members! Shows are a wonderful public platform for the organisation to highlight just what we are interested in and what can be achieved in growing these plants and are a fab way to attract new members but, without a constant influx of new exhibitors who will be enthused by their participation and carry on the wonderful traditions of these fantastic shows, the shows will dwindle and can close altogether. Words like yours to show that exhibiting can be great fun, and not at all a frightful ordeal leading to humiliation for newcomers, are worth a great deal. I hope folks reading these pages, and others like them in the Forum, will see that it is possible to learn a terrific amount from taking part in the shows and that is is always more fun to be fully involved with an event than it is merely to be a spectator. Most importantly, it must be remembered that with only spectators, there is NO event!
Any Show which has a healthy number of entrants in the "beginners'" sections is a healthy show and that is what all of us involved in any show of the SRGC or AGS are striving to encourage.
I can assure you that at any show, even the most successful multi-medal winning growers will be heard to remark most favourably on a show where the beginners' section is well supported. This is because it augers well for the future. When folks like you and Mandy get the show bug and begin to support not only a show local to you but also take the time to travel to enter other shows as well, then the sound of the singing hearts of show secretaries around the country can be heard! Visiting exhibitors can be cited as examples for locals to follow and with luck the entries increase all over the place!! ;D
You are an inspiration and a shining example, THANK YOU!! Ian and I were so touched by the great friends we made and the amount of things we learned from taking up showing. It is some of the best fun you can have with your plants.... and your clothes on! :o ;D ;)
I hope that your endorsement and all the wonderful photos we see in these pages give some other folks a wee nudge in the direction of supporting a show as well .... it only takes just a plant or two to make a start and if every local member did just that every show would be much the richer, and I don't doubt it would lead to more members joining in the travelling caravan of exhibitors as well.
And it's not compulsory to compete for the Pudsey Pig! :-X
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: johnw on June 23, 2009, 01:29:56 AM: Quote from: Lesley Cox on June 22, 2009, 10:26:15 PM
I don't think that is Podophyllum pleianthum, arty or otherwise.

Looks like Podophyllum delavayi from here and holding its foliar colour rather well.

I think we are approaching 4" of rain since Saturday night and much more on the way, dark, gloomy and foggy here.

Cliff - What was that smashing variegated Disporum?

johnw
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: Luc Gilgemyn on June 23, 2009, 08:20:03 AM: Thanks again for the hard work Cliff and Mick !
As Luit, I'm quite surprised by the diversity of beautiful, unknown (ot me at least) and unexpected plants exhibited at this time of year !
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: JohnnyD on June 23, 2009, 12:08:06 PM: Following up Maggis comments on the generosity of showers, and as a complete aside to the show itself and Pudsey Pig comp. - can you guess what is going on here with all this Al foil?
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: Martinr on June 23, 2009, 05:19:57 PM: I guess as I'm just out of shot I'm disqualified from entering. Is there a prize?
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: David Nicholson on June 23, 2009, 05:24:05 PM: Take Aways??
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: Lesley Cox on June 23, 2009, 09:04:21 PM: I was going to suggest doggie bags?
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: Maggi Young on June 23, 2009, 09:11:07 PM: Quote from: Lesley Cox on June 23, 2009, 09:04:21 PM
I was going to suggest doggie bags?
Ah, yes, for the failed piglets, perhaps?
I think I may have found another possibility......

they're branching out into fashion design.......

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Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: JohnnyD on June 23, 2009, 10:58:23 PM: Sorry folks - nothing so exotic.
We were simply taking a pinch of fresh pulsatilla seed kindly brought by Lionel Clarkson and wrapping it in the redundant bacon butty foil. ;D

Good guys these showers.
J.
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: ranunculus on June 23, 2009, 11:55:22 PM: That's what he told the drug squad officers on Saturday ... quite a nasty incident really! :D 8) 8) 8)
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: ranunculus on June 24, 2009, 12:08:20 AM: Quote from: johnw on June 23, 2009, 01:29:56 AM

Cliff - What was that smashing variegated Disporum?

johnw

Sorry John .... only just spotted your query - Disporum smithii 'Riele' - beautiful, isn't t?
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: johnw on June 24, 2009, 12:56:14 AM: Quote from: ranunculus on June 24, 2009, 12:08:20 AM
Sorry John .... only just spotted your query - Disporum smithii 'Riele' - beautiful, isn't t?

Cliff thanks for the name...simply breath-taking.

Is it available?

johnw
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: ranunculus on June 24, 2009, 06:12:23 AM: Hi John,
Grown and exhibited by the prolific Ivor Betteridge this beautiful disporum was last listed for sale at a U.K. nursery in 2006. I have never seen it for sale at shows over here so it looks like it is in the hands of very few growers. Sorry ... I wouldn't mind a try as well! :D :D
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: Maggi Young on June 24, 2009, 12:46:19 PM: Quote from: JohnnyD on June 23, 2009, 10:58:23 PM

Good guys these showers.
J.

You mean the Show-ers are not a right shower, Johnny? ;D ;)
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: fermi de Sousa on June 25, 2009, 04:30:55 AM: Just caught up with this thread. Some great plants and pics; nice to see a few Aussies! Pimelea, Wahlenbergia and Stylidium!
cheers
fermi
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: JohnnyD on June 25, 2009, 08:44:18 AM: Isn't that the collective noun Maggi - a shower of Show-ers? :P
J.
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: Rob Potterton on June 25, 2009, 10:05:05 PM: Quote from: ranunculus on June 24, 2009, 06:12:23 AM
Hi John,
Grown and exhibited by the prolific Ivor Betteridge this beautiful disporum was last listed for sale at a U.K. nursery in 2006. I have never seen it for sale at shows over here so it looks like it is in the hands of very few growers. Sorry ... I wouldn't mind a try as well! :D :D

I was talking to Ivor as he carried Disporum smithii 'Riele' into the show - he said it was obtained from Blackthorn Nursery.
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: veteran vet on June 25, 2009, 10:16:44 PM: Been away for a few days since Sunday so pictures are very late so there will be repetitions but none the worse for that as there were so many good plants on view
Plant name and exhibitors are on picture....and below

Summer North 09 001 Pimelea ferruginea Celia Coller.jpg
Summer North 09 004 Sarmienta repens H&J Hancox.jpg
Summer North 09 009 Arisaema candidissimum Mavis Allanson.jpg
Summer North 09 011 Allium insubricum Tony Rymer.jpg
Summer North 09 014 Dactylorhizza fuschii hybrid John Dower.jpg
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: veteran vet on June 25, 2009, 10:20:17 PM: A few more, a most friendly show, the hall was a good size with plenty parking fairly close by for those of us with large pans

Summer North 09 017Lewisia x 'Ashwood Pearl'L&J Martin.jpg
Summer North 09 020 Campanula betulifolia G Young.jpg
Summer North 09 022 Campanula choruhensis L&J Martin.jpg
Summer North 09 025 Convolvulus x sundermannii George Young.jpg
Summer North 09 030 Celmisia semicordata A&M Morton.jpg
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: veteran vet on June 25, 2009, 10:22:28 PM: More

Summer North 09 027 Ourisia polyantha 'Cliftonville Scarlet' L&J Martin.jpg
Summer North 09 029 Orisia polyantha 'Cliftonville Scarlet.jpg
Summer North 09 033 Podophyllum pleianthum David Woolveridge .jpg
Summer North 09 036 Sarmienta repens W&J Wright.jpg
Summer North 09 039 Sempervivum arachnoideum Colin Henderson.jpg
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: veteran vet on June 25, 2009, 10:25:31 PM: It never fails to amaze me how the Pudsey gobblers stay so fit looking....must be all the running back and forward to the bar!

Summer North 09 044 Calceolaria unbellata Cecilia Coller.jpg
Summer North 09 047 Campanulla pelia L&J Martin .jpg
Summer North 09 049 x Brigandra calliantha H&J Hancox.jpg
Summer North 09 052 Silene pusilla Ian Kidman.jpg
Summer North 09 055 Lilium henryi G Young.jpg
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: veteran vet on June 25, 2009, 10:29:44 PM: The Cremanthodium came from a SSSE trip tp Sechuan but Ron McBeath was unable to give me any collection details, perhaps they will come to light in due course.
The G caespitosa was a truly fine plant, went up for the best plant in a 19cm pot but lost out to the Campanula pulla

Summer North 09 056 Allium narcissiflorum Lionel Clarkson.jpg
Summer North 09 059 Stylidium graminifolium B&S Smethurst.jpg
Summer North 09 066 Cremanthodium sp SSSE 241 George Young.jpg
Summer North 09 067 Cremanthodium sp SSSE241 George Young.jpg
Summer North 09 068 Gilia caespitosa Robin Pickering.jpg
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: veteran vet on June 25, 2009, 10:33:01 PM: Last few. This was probably my last show till autumn, time to get the garden ship shape and prick out seedlings, propagate etc

Summer North 09 070 Campanulla pulla Anne Vale.jpg
Summer North 09 074 Capanulla 'Jor Elliot' Margaret Pickering.jpg
Summer North 09 076 Rebutia aylostera Clive Dart.jpg
Summer North 09 079 Campanula jaubertiana Margaret Pickering.jpg
Summer North 09 082 Campanula persicifolia var planiflora Anne Vale.jpg
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: fermi de Sousa on June 26, 2009, 01:00:48 AM: Hi Veteran vet,
a very thorough view of the exhibits, especially identifying the exhibitors!
I like your convolvulus hybrid - does it "stay put" or does it sucker?
That lilium in reply #80doesn't look like a typical L. henryi; is it a select form?
Best wishes for the garden tidy-up and propagation!
cheers
fermi
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: Lesley Cox on June 26, 2009, 03:33:08 AM: While I don't know this convolvulus hybrid, these low, compact mat forms are usually not only non-runnung but extremely difficult to propagate. Root cuttings seem to be the answer for the very silky species.
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: veteran vet on June 26, 2009, 10:37:23 AM: The convolvulus does not sucker and as is mentioned is,for me, difficult to propagate. I bought the plant many years ago from David Sampson and I spoke to him just last week with regard to prop. and he told me that you needed heel cuttings taken early summer...he meant late May early June...and not to use heat. I have tried heel cuttings in the past which kept green for months but never produced roots. David grows it in the garden (E Sussex) and has done so for many years. I have not yey got a bit propd to try outside. I gather David originaly got the plant from Switzerland. So far it seems to have had little written about it but I gather Robert Rolfe is going to do a bit in his show report.
The Lilium henryi is dwarfer than some specimens I have seen but this one always flowers at about 1' high which is fine by me. I bought a bulb from Mike Smith (used to be Hythe Alpines) after seeing it exhibited at an AGS show.
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: Eric Locke on June 26, 2009, 10:43:29 PM: Nice photos George.

Eric
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: fermi de Sousa on June 28, 2009, 05:59:58 AM: Quote from: veteran vet on June 26, 2009, 10:37:23 AM
The Lilium henryi is dwarfer than some specimens I have seen but this one always flowers at about 1' high which is fine by me. I bought a bulb from Mike Smith (used to be Hythe Alpines) after seeing it exhibited at an AGS show.
It also looks a more upright plant than the usual form. Can you show a close-up pic of the inside of the flower, please, if you have one?
The Pudsey Show looks like one we'll have to try to get to (if we can ever afford to visit teh UK in "High Season" ;D)
cheers
fermi
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: veteran vet on June 28, 2009, 12:51:50 PM: Did not have a close up so took a few shots today of the last flower (just going over), hand held so I hope pics are good enough
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: fermi de Sousa on June 29, 2009, 12:34:54 AM: Quote from: veteran vet on June 28, 2009, 12:51:50 PM
Did not have a close up so took a few shots today of the last flower (just going over), hand held so I hope pics are good enough
Thanks for posting the pics, George.
The flower has less of the papillae at the base of the petals that the typical form" too. Does it set viable seed? ;D
cheers
fermi
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: veteran vet on June 29, 2009, 11:24:38 AM: Not shure re seed, I usually collect all seed from my pot grown lilys and sow it to see what comes up but have no seed pots with L henryi so imagine that so far it has not. I will monitor it more closely this year
Title: Re: AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June
Post by: Ragged Robin on June 29, 2009, 01:56:00 PM: Lovely collection of photos, George, thanks for posting them :)