Blackpool Show 2013

[Palustris]

Hopefully the only gas will be from the bacon butty brigade!

[ranunculus]

... And the visiting lecturer!!!!   

[Maggi Young]

We will all be hoping for a perfect show day - and a super talk !

BLACKPOOL SHOW
16th March 12.00 noon to 4.00 pm
SHOW SECRETARY: Mr Lionel Clarkson,
6 Warwick Place, Normoss, Blackpool, FY3 7SS
Telephone 01253 394993 (Lionel.Clarkson@agsgroups.org)
(Please state if a member of AGS, SRGC or both)

VENUE: Collegiate High School, Blackpool Old Road, Blackpool FY3 7LS

DIRECTIONS: A586 towards Blackpool. After Poulton le Fylde turn right at next set of
lights into Blackpool Old Road.
ENTRIES: To Show Secretary by Tuesday before the Show.
(C Section Entries at any time – advance notice of a large entry would be
appreciated)
STAGING: Staging: 7.00pm to 8.00pm on Friday and 8.00am to 9.45am on Saturday
JUDGING: Begins at 10.00 am
RHS JOINT ROCK GARDEN PLANT COMMITTEE: will meet at 12.00 noon.
Plants for consideration must be registered by 11.00 am.

There will be a Talk by Cliff Booker at 2pm:  'The Cream of Alpines'

See full schedules for the shows here http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=9922.0

[Jeff Hutchings]

With Loughborough being off last week I have decided to open my nursery on Saturday morning for anybody wanting hardy orchids; terrestrial orchid composts or pumice 93 grades including 0 to 2 mm). I have sent a number of direction maps to the Show Secretary. The nursery address is Bells Bridge Lane, off Cockerham Road, Nateby,PR3 0DQ ( 11 miles from the show venue) and I will be open from 10.00 to 1.30. Jeff Hutchings, Laneside Hardy Orchids

[frits.kp]

What were your favourites at the Joint Rock Blackpool show ?

I have picked my three
Dionysia bryoides and I know we have seen this many times before but the skill involved still blows me away.
Dionysia aretioes, likewise above and only a little easier but where would the show be without a giant Dionysia.
Cyclamen alpinum leucanthemum, the Farrer memorial medal winner, best plant in the show by Dave Riley of Kendal.

Now come on join in the post, I know there are plenty of pictures out there.

[ChrisB]

That cyclamen takes some beating.  Wonderful exhibit!


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[Maggi Young]

Three great plants indeed, Kevin.
Good day had by all?

[frits.kp]

Fabulous day Maggie, great show plants, usual plant stalls were I feel guilty coming home with so many plants bought, I have to sneak them in the house a few at a time like a naughty boy buying magazines! I will be murdered If Suzanne finds out how much I spent. A brilliant, Yes Cliff Booker a brilliant talk "cream of alpines" and a great catch up with friends.
(in case you ask, no Suzanne doesn't come on this forum, not interested in plants at all)

[ArnoldT]

I will be murdered If Suzanne finds out how much I spent.

Isn't that a familiar statement.

[ranunculus]

A brilliant, Yes, Cliff Booker, a brilliant talk "Cream of Alpines" and a great catch up with friends.

Aw shucks, Kevin ... many thanks my friend.  Even more appreciated after your excellent talk entitled; 'Flower hunting in Portugal' to the East Lancs AGS Group last week.  Highly recommended.

[peter hood]

  I feel guilty coming home with so many plants bought, I have to sneak them in the house a few at a time like a naughty boy buying magazines! I will be murdered If Suzanne finds out how much I spent. 

Have you not learnt the purpose of the scissors in the exhibitors tools.

It is to cut the price labels off the plants before you go home!

On a different note, thanks again, Cliff,for your entertaining talk. What with that and lunch,we only just found time to look at the plants!

[Palustris]

Must have been good, I took 335 photographs!
Nice to see Kevock Nursery there too.

[Palustris]

One or three pictures from Blackpool.
http://www.ideasforgardens.net/palustris/AGS_Blackpool_2013/
Mistakes can be rectified when notified!

[Maggi Young]

One or three pictures from Blackpool.
http://www.ideasforgardens.net/palustris/AGS_Blackpool_2013/
Mistakes can be rectified when notified!

My word, Eric, you have been very busy! What a huge selection of pictures. 
Dionysia 'Tess' is lovely  .... and Primula allionii 'Lepus' is trying VERY hard to be a dionysia, isn't it?  Love them both!

[ranunculus]

Well done Eric ... what a feat of endurance and note taking.

I'm afraid my own photographic exploits at Blackpool were meagre in comparison and more than usually curtailed by a lecture appointment in the afternoon and a great hunger for the delicious meat pie and scones on offer.
I didn't have time to take any notes and most of these images were obviously effected by precursory nerves at the thought of lecturing to such a distinguished audience!!!
Anyway, just for the hell of it, here are a few unlabelled (my apologies) offerings to give another brief view of some of the exhibits.