Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
SRGC Shows and Events => Events => Topic started by: Diane Clement on July 11, 2010, 10:15:13 PM
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Pershore is a warm part of the country and the couple of weeks leading up to the show have been hot, and it's been dry for several weeks in many areas. I must admit that I thought the show benches would be a bit thin as plants would have gone over quickly, but I was proved wrong as the benches were full of glorious colour.
Some visitors had even driven 300+ miles from Scotland to see a summer show :o :o
OK, I'll cut the chat and get on with the pictures ....
They're in a rather random order that I took them in, but I haven't the energy to make any logical order of them
Pinus mugo "Suzy" shown by David Philbey
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Possibly my favourite plant of the day,
Androcymbium striatum shown by George Elder
Thymus cilicicus shown by Tony Lee
and another pot of the same shown by Ivor Betteridge
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Lovely images, Diane ... many thanks for posting.
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One for Lesley
Campanula "Blythe Spirit" - there were several plants on the bench, the notes accompany Graham Nicholl's entry, but the picture is of Eddie Spencer's plant. I think the notes contain a slip of the pen, and should say that the seedling was from Maie Blythe.
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Best plant in the show (although not winning a Farrer medal) was Trachelium asperuloides shown by new Show Secretary, Eric Jarrett.
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I'll continue with the campanula theme
Campanula raineri x pulla shown by Lionel Clarkson. One of Brian Burrow's hybrids, hence the BB number on the label
Campanula "Stansfieldii" shown by Brian and Shelagh Smethurst
Campanula fragilis shown by Eddie Spencer
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A general view of the large 3-pan Campanula class, the nearest winning threesome was from Paul and Gill Ranson
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Another pan of Campanula fragilis, this one shown by Cecilia Coller
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Congratulations to John Bunn who won his gold medal, with this pan of Dianthus erinaceus "Duguid form"
(how does it differ from the normal form, does anyone know??)
I have a few more pictures, but they will now have to wait until tomorrow.
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This looks like a lovely show.... many thanks Diane for taking us there.
There are some terrific Campanulas but why was it decided that that super Trachelium asperuloides was not worth a Farrer? Seems very mean!
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Congratulations to John Bunn who won his gold medal, with this pan of Dianthus erinaceus "Duguid form"
(how does it differ from the normal form, does anyone know??)
By not flowering? :-\
Thanks Diane for the campanula picture, but actually, quite a few slip-ups there and GN should have known better as he's had it all in writing.
Campanula 'Blithe (not Blythe) Spirit' is a seedling from C. 'Maie Blyth' (not Blythe). It was a friend who raised it but I got some going for him. The other, 'Silver Chalice,' is one of mine but isn't white, but a very pale silvery lavender with a typical carpatica-type flower, just about stemless over a cushion-shaped plant. The flowers are much bigger than 'Blithe 'Spirit' and more so than its parent 'Maie Blyth' The whole plant in full flower is exactly the same shape as that glorious Trachelium. BUT..... I have come very close to losing it in recent hot, dry summers and am having to start all over again to get some propagated.
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This looks like a lovely show.... many thanks Diane for taking us there.
There are some terrific Campanulas but why was it decided that that super Trachelium asperuloides was not worth a Farrer? Seems very mean!
Although the trachelium was considered good enough to be best in show, I think that it wasn't given a Farrer as it was thought not to be big enough (it was in a 19cm class, in that size pot).
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Thanks Diane for the campanula picture, but actually, quite a few slip-ups there and GN should have known better as he's had it all in writing.
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Thanks for putting it all straight, Lesley. There were about 6 pots of "Blithe Spirit" on the show bench, from various exhibitors. I guess these were all propagations from Graham's original plant.
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Although the trachelium was considered good enough to be best in show, I think that it wasn't given a Farrer as it was thought not to be big enough (it was in a 19cm class, in that size pot).
Good grief! Size isn't everything..... ??? Surely the award is to the best ( most meritorious plant in the show, I don't remember the rules saying anything about the biggest. :P
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Surely the award is to the best ( most meritorious plant in the show, I don't remember the rules saying anything about the biggest. :P
I think there is a difference in rules between AGS and SRGC, in that the Farrer isn't automatically awarded to the best plant in the show. After all the judges have voted for the best, another vote is taken to establish whether the plant is worthy of a Farrer. So on this occasion, the majority voted not to award a Farrer.
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A few more pictures of the show
Cut flower class
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In the SRGC the Judges can decide that there is not a plant worthy of a Forrest Medal, but then we wouldn't call any other plant the BEST in show! :D
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It's to be hoped it's still alive and flourishing by the time it's judged large enough to win a Farrer Medal then. If the exhibitor has to wait that extra time, he/she could be put off taking cuttings or permitting seed to form, in order to preserve the perfect shape, so size as a criterion could be self-defeating if the plant died without being propagated. ???
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At the Pershore show, there is an award for The Weirdest Plant. There isn't a class for this, so the judges have to prowl around and nominate any oddities. There are usually a few oddities at this time of year, and in recent years prizes have gone to an Allium, a Eucomis and a peloric digitalis. This year the prize went to a Pelargonium tetragonum, a plant with more stem than most relative to its other parts. A few small leaves and a couple of flowers. Not exactly a showy plant, but one for the specialist to get excited over! Impossible to photograph, so here's the flower
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Another nomination for "weird" was Junellia aff. morenonis.
It looked like it was made from pipe cleaners.
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And just to finish, two Arisaemas,
Arisaema fargesii and
Arisaema franchetianum
sorry for the enforced use of flash on these, I was getting very poor exposure under the leaves.
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Pelargonium tetragonum is very odd.... I'm seeing little aliens behind that flower......don't tell CK I said so, please! ;)
The Junellia is, without question, made from pipe cleaners.... the children next door made something very like it just last week.... don't know what the flowers were made from, though.... ;D
I'm looking at that neat cut flower class and thinking what I always think when I see pix of that class from the AGS shows..... beats the blazes out of staggering to and from the show with a great car load of heavy plants!
That being said, I once nearly gave up the ghost from the strain of showing cut Rhodo trusses at Glasgow.....keeping them upright in transit, sorting them out..... how these folk manage at all those hundreds of horticultural shows around the country to stage all the cut blooms I don't know....bloomin' hard work in my opinion!
Those cute little dishes with dinky flowers in seem manageable , though.... 8)
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That's all I got round to taking. I realised that I never got a picture of the Scottish guests (they were Sandy Leven and daughter) so sorry for the mysterious earlier reference!
Lots more pictures, much better than mine, by Jon Evans on the AGS site:
http://www.alpinegardensociety.net/discussion/atshows//Pershore+Show+/420/?page=1 (http://www.alpinegardensociety.net/discussion/atshows//Pershore+Show+/420/?page=1)
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Perfect Arisaemas...!
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Perfect Arisaemas...!
Thanks! (did you know they were mine! They won me a three pan, so I was pleased)
Pelargonium tetragonum is very odd.... I'm seeing little aliens behind that flower......don't tell CK I said so, please! ;)
you never know, she might even read it herself! Carol loves weird plants, the weirder the better I think. She'd like the reference to aliens!
The Junellia is, without question, made from pipe cleaners.... the children next door made something very like it just last week.... don't know what the flowers were made from, though.... ;D
The flowers smelled vile, like, you know that certain smell of Frits ::)
I'm looking at that neat cut flower class and thinking what I always think when I see pix of that class from the AGS shows..... beats the blazes out of staggering to and from the show with a great car load of heavy plants!
... Those cute little dishes with dinky flowers in seem manageable , though.... 8)
Actually they are a bit of a pain and every time I do it, I say never again. The rules state they have to be exhibited in "the vases provided" which vary in size and shape from show to show. It also means you have to arrange them on the morning of the show, in situ. This does make it fair to all, but you don't know what pots you are going to get. I used to write down which show you got big pots and which small and I thought I was quite well prepared, but then one year a certain show secretary (;D )bought new pots and they were very different from the previous ones.
It is a bit of a fiddle to sort them, I always take the pots back to my car and sort them out there, then carry them back into the show hall in the lashing rain and gale force wind. No, I don't know how the real flower arrangers manage.
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Hi Dainne, thanks for the super pictures and I do like the weird entries shows some sense of normality, cheers Ian.
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Super pix Diane !!
Thanks so much for this Summer show fix ! ;D ;D
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Thanks for your great photos and report from AGS Pershore, Diane, the Campanula exhibits are really lovely - congratulations to everyone showing.
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I hope that you will all have followed Diane's link to Jon Evans' photos on the AGS site?
His comments about the plants being a little smaller... and thus in lighter pots... is amusing.... he has to carry around the plants to photograph them and really appreciates the lighter specimens!! ;)
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Diane
Lovely show, loved the weird plant 8)
I have never grown Arisaemas but after seeing yours and also seeing some growing in Maggi and Ian's garden I wantlike to give them a go.
Angie :)
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Excellent, Angela, I will give you some babies later in the year!
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Thanks for the 'prod' Maggi, Jon's report and photos make another interesting view of the AGS at Pershore and I absolutely love his super photo of Campanula trogerae :)
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Excellent, Angela, I will give you some babies later in the year!
Thanks Maggi for the kind offer of some of your babies... I promise to look after them and give them a good home.
Angie :)
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I want I want I want!
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Now I get the PM. I dont want babies but lots of the plants shown ;D
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Now I get the PM. I dont want babies but lots of the plants shown ;D
Alright, I won't take offence that you don't want my babies, Mark! :-X :P
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Mark, it takes more than wanting to make a baby anyway. ;D
Angie you will learn very quickly that arisaemas are addictive. They come into that "curious rather than beautiful" class but since beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I think they are all beautiful and I'm sure that if Maggi gives you some babies, she won't give you a black eye to go with them even though - under some circumstances - she'd probably be prepared to.???
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Lesley I have admired them but didn't think they would be hardy in Aberdeen, but after seeing them growing in Maggi's garden its a must plant to try , just got to find the room ( see what I can throw out of my garden ) I have a pony paddock and sadly no more ponies :'( so maybe I could creep into there...NO I MUST NOT... I know if I put a spade into the pony paddock there will be no stopping and as I am getting old I better not ::).
Derek is just leaning over my back, wont say what he has said :-X...Oh Maggi he has just pointed out that its Ian and Maggi's garden SORRY Ian.
Angie