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Title: SRGC/AGS Show at Ponteland Saturday 10th October 2009
Post by: Maggi Young on October 10, 2009, 04:33:24 PM: This year the show at Ponteland is held under SRGC Rules and so a Forrest Medal was the premier award ofthe day. News from Ponteland has arrived to tell me that Barry Tattersall, from Twickenham, made the journey north with his rather lovely pot of Diplodium coccinum, (the terrestrial orchid that looks like an extra in Star Wars) to bag the Forrrest Medal to make a pair with the Farrer that the plant won recently.... in Loughborough .

Many congratulations to Barry, who, I expect, thinks a weekend away from home was certainly worth the effort!! 8)
Title: Re: SRGC/AGS Show at Ponteland Saturday 10th October 2009
Post by: Rob Potterton on October 10, 2009, 08:39:47 PM: ..... and here is the winning plant from the show bench today.
Title: Re: SRGC/AGS Show at Ponteland Saturday 10th October 2009
Post by: Maggi Young on October 10, 2009, 08:47:20 PM: I take back the "extra in Star Wars comment".... it is more like a crowd scene in Star Trek!

Fabulous potful, but it seems a tad overcrowded to my eye, but I'm told it looks superb in real life.
Title: Re: SRGC/AGS Show at Ponteland Saturday 10th October 2009
Post by: veteran vet on October 10, 2009, 10:27:35 PM: I attach a few pictures, as usual a random selection from what was a very fine show with lots of flowering plants exhibited, this year crocus being to the fore with many fewer Gentiana than normal.

SRGC Class 3 Diplodium coccinum Barry Tattersall Forrest Medal .jpg
SRGC Class 10 Cyclamen hederifolium album T&A Jones.jpg
SRGC Class 11 Cyclamen persicum David Boyd.jpg
SRGC Class 12 Cyclamen rohlfsianum Ivor Betteridge.jpg
SRGC Class 13 Three pans ferns.jpg
Title: Re: SRGC/AGS Show at Ponteland Saturday 10th October 2009
Post by: veteran vet on October 10, 2009, 10:31:42 PM: As usual we were supported by many members of the Scottish showing fraternity, many of them taking photographs which I hope will reach the forum

SRGC Class 20 Galanthus peshmennii Ian Kidman.jpg
SRGC Class 20 Sternbergia sicula John Richards.jpg
SRGC Class 25 Celmisia spedenii Ian Leslie Best foliage plant .jpg
SRGC Class 36 Crocus goulimyi 'Dark Form' David Boyd.jpg
SRGC Class 36 Nerine humilis David Boyd.jpg
Title: Re: SRGC/AGS Show at Ponteland Saturday 10th October 2009
Post by: veteran vet on October 10, 2009, 10:34:58 PM: Some more additions, I have added the class number, plant ID and exhibitiors names to the pics to help viewers

edit by maggi: and I have added the file names to the text to enable searching :)

SRGC Class 37 C hederifolium album, Oxalis massonorum Barry Winter.jpg
SRGC Class 37 Oxalis perdicaria 'Cetrino' Ivor Betteridge.jpg
SRGC Class 38 Oxalis purpurea Ian Leslie.jpg
SRGC Class 39 3 pan crocus John Richards.jpg
SRGC Class 39 bCrocus tournefortii Don Peace.jpg
Title: Re: SRGC/AGS Show at Ponteland Saturday 10th October 2009
Post by: veteran vet on October 10, 2009, 10:38:51 PM: The gourmet guzzlers were kept happy throughout the day bu the plentiful supply of treats available from the 'canteen', the day being started of by Alan Newton bacon buttie specials with added black pudding...v popular

SRGC Class 39 Crocus goulimyi John Richards.jpg
SRGC Class 39 Crocus goulimyi 'Manni White' John Richards.jpg
SRGC Class 42 Cyclamen graecum David Boyd.jpg
SRGC Class 42 Cyclamen graecum ssp candicum Ian Kidman.jpg
SRGC Class 47 Cyclamen cilicium album Ian Kidman.jpg
Title: Re: SRGC/AGS Show at Ponteland Saturday 10th October 2009
Post by: veteran vet on October 10, 2009, 10:41:18 PM: A final selection

SRGC Class 51 3 pan cushions 19cm Ian Kidman.jpg
SRGC Class 56 Crocus tournefortii Don Peace Best Plant in 19cm pot.jpg
SRGC Class 78 Gentiana scabra Anne Vale.jpg
SRGC Class 81 Crocus serotinus 'El Torcal' John Bunn.jpg
SRGC Class 93 Cyclamen mirabile Sue Gill Best Cyclamen in 19cm pot.jpg
SRGC Class 98 Sternbergia greuteriana John Bunn.jpg
Title: Re: SRGC/AGS Show at Ponteland Saturday 10th October 2009
Post by: Luc Gilgemyn on October 11, 2009, 02:20:25 PM: A lot of impressive potfulls again !! :o :o
Thanks for showing George !!
Title: Re: SRGC/AGS Show at Ponteland Saturday 10th October 2009
Post by: Maggi Young on October 11, 2009, 03:01:48 PM: Quote
As usual we were supported by many members of the Scottish showing fraternity, many of them taking photographs which I hope will reach the forum

BD had his camera, George, so I hope to see more pix when he returns after speaking to your Group on Monday night, though he'll be diving straight into the next Bulb Log, I expect :-X
Title: Re: SRGC/AGS Show at Ponteland Saturday 10th October 2009
Post by: Darren on October 11, 2009, 04:38:35 PM: That Diplodium is an amazing achievement. This is one of those species that starts to grow again almost as soon as it goes dormant and needs treating like Tropaeolum azureum - a very short dry dormancy but kept a little moist from mid summer onwards, otherwise it aborts the flower shoots. I've never managed to get a potful like that and I'm in awe!
Title: Re: SRGC/AGS Show at Ponteland Saturday 10th October 2009
Post by: Ragged Robin on October 11, 2009, 10:05:34 PM: Wonderful photos from the show - thanks so much for posting and giving a great overview of the event :)
Title: Autumn Show, Ponteland, Newcastle 10 October
Post by: ChrisB on October 13, 2009, 07:12:22 PM: Here are a few pictures from the show, folks. I didn't take very many as I was busy serving teas and cakes (many, many cakes).

The first is *THAT* Cyclamen mirabile - you know, the one that has already won two awards in Grangemouth... well herself is now quite smug as it won yet another accolade in Ponteland, and I'm left wondering what's going to happen to the two dozen orchids on the mantlepiece with all this hardware to be displayed. Yes, SueG's Cyclamen won another prize, and here she is collecting it from our nominated new President , Liz Mills.
Title: Re: Autumn Show, Ponteland, Newcastle 10 October
Post by: ChrisB on October 13, 2009, 07:14:40 PM: The Forrest Medal was awarded this year. Barry Tattersall had traveled from the deep south to bring us his beautiful diplodium coccinum, winner of the Farrer Medal just a week earlier. What a stunning plant this was!
Title: Re: SRGC/AGS Show at Ponteland Saturday 10th October 2009
Post by: ChrisB on October 13, 2009, 08:12:06 PM: And here are a few more:
Crocus goulimyi shown by Robin Pickering. The family travelled from Goole with a lot of entries, this was just one of them. Very pretty it was too.

Cyclamen graecum, what a lovely plant this was. I just had to take its photo. I think it belongs to David Boyd.

Few more cyclamen. The C. rohlfsianum was wonderful. Made me drool.
Title: Re: SRGC/AGS Show at Ponteland Saturday 10th October 2009
Post by: ChrisB on October 13, 2009, 08:18:10 PM: Few more:
Ian Kidman's Galanthus peshmenii - what a potful that was.
Anne Vale's Gentiana scabra
Alan Newton's Goodyearia schelchtenadiana
David Boyd's Polyxena odorata
The Smethurst's Saxifraga fortuneii 'Early Ruby'
Trevor and Angie Jones' spathoglottis pubescens

Great show, good plants, lovely soup, try to come next year.....
Title: Re: SRGC/AGS Show at Ponteland Saturday 10th October 2009
Post by: Maggi Young on October 13, 2009, 08:25:26 PM: Chris, we didn't get the Crocus pic!
Title: Re: SRGC/AGS Show at Ponteland Saturday 10th October 2009
Post by: ChrisB on October 13, 2009, 08:36:09 PM: sorry Maggi, talking on the phone ::)
Title: Re: SRGC/AGS Show at Ponteland Saturday 10th October 2009
Post by: Ragged Robin on October 22, 2009, 12:15:55 PM: Lovely photos of a great event , thanks to everyone ;)