Author Topic: Kendal SRGC/AGS Show 2019 (Read 5448 times)

Maggi Young · « **on:** March 07, 2019, 07:28:30 PM »

Kendal Show 2019

Nurseries attending Kendal Show this year ......

AGS and SRGC members - enter free - non members £3 - remember your membership card, folks!

Maggi Young · « **Reply #1 on:** March 16, 2019, 11:32:27 AM »

Photos from David Morris at Kendal Show
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Scottish Rock GC rules at Kendal this year - so Forrest Medal awarded to "best in Show"
Frank & Barbara Hoyle win the Forrest medal for best in show with Saxifraga ‘Coolock Kate’ at Kendal @ScottishRockGC @Alpinegardensoc show as part of a stunning 6 pan exhibit

Such fun to win a Forrest Medal in the same week as the anniversary of Forrest's birth is celebrated!

The six pan entry from the Hoyles

What super growers Frank and Barbara Hoyle are! Just look at the quality of that sixpan entry!

Maggi Young · « **Reply #2 on:** March 16, 2019, 01:05:05 PM »

Julia Corden SRGC President has sent some photos from the show ....

Frank Hoyle smiling broadly (and why not indeed?!!) beside his super entry in the six-pan class

Maggi Young · « **Reply #3 on:** March 16, 2019, 01:09:37 PM »

more from Julia ....

David Millward (Dr Rock) and Stan da Prato (Snapper Stan) looking at David’s beautiful Narcissus.

Trillium nivale

Corydalis 'Lentune Rouge'

Maggi Young · « **Reply #4 on:** March 16, 2019, 01:16:20 PM »

some more ---

Dionysia aretioides

Dionysia tapetodes 'Kate'

Hepatica japonica Gyousei

Iris nusariensis x Iris aucheri 'Olof' - this plant was shown by Jim Almond. The cross was first made by Arnis Seisums. You can see the plant some years ago at the first Kendal Show in this show report by Sandy Leven from 2014: files.srgc.net/Showreports/Kendal2014.pdf ( in 2014 the Hoyles won a Farrer medal with a large Cyclamen!)

Maggi Young · « **Reply #5 on:** March 16, 2019, 08:05:06 PM »

This picture posted by Razvan Chisu on FB shows just how large the potfuls are in the Hoyles' six pan entry!!

Nice to see that great smile from Raz - he isn't around the forum much these days - but he is heavily involved in AGS activities and the Saxifraga Society..... for example, he edits the Sax Society journal and leads many AGS tours.

Maggi Young · « **Reply #6 on:** March 16, 2019, 08:36:06 PM »

Sandy Leven's report on the Kendal Forrest Medal plant ....

http://files.srgc.net/Showreports/Kendal-Forrest2019.pdf

..... sent from an hotel in Gloucester, en route to Devon $:-\$
Thanks Sandy - hope the weather is better in Devon!!

AlpinealexO · « **Reply #7 on:** March 16, 2019, 11:22:21 PM »

A fantastic day out despite the terrible weather!
One of my favorites, Dionysia Aretioides, a close contender I am sure to the Forrest medal, as part of the 6 pan.

As well as the fabulous Forrest medal plant, Saxifraga 'coolock kate'
Not sure how the flower is so consistent in colour as that hybrid tends to lose its colour on some of the flowers by the time the plant is covered, remarkable!

Stan da Prato · « **Reply #8 on:** March 17, 2019, 08:44:03 AM »

The big six pan was indeed a very fine exhibit so here is a set of photos of the six individual plants. Besides winning the Forrest medal with Sax. Coolock Kate the Hoyles had the Ulster group quaich for best Primulaceae with the big Dionysia and of course the AGS medal for the class .

Stan da Prato · « **Reply #9 on:** March 17, 2019, 08:52:36 AM »

The rest of the six then Don Peace's winning six small pans for the other AGS medal- he also won the Hollett Trophy for most firsts in the open section, Lawrence Peet's Sax longifolia which took the Kirby Cup for best foliage award, the Duncan Lowe award for best plant in a 19cm pot went to John Dixon's Dionysia.

Stan da Prato · « **Reply #10 on:** March 17, 2019, 09:05:22 AM »

The Ralph Heywood trophy for best shrub went to Alan Furness' Vaccinium retusum-on the left- then the Michael Roberts Trophy
for section 2 won by Frank Dobson, the David Mowle award for best bulbs in section 2 went to Heather Barraclough's Narcissus cordubensis, while Michael Osborn took the Reginald Kay Trophy for section 3.

shelagh · « **Reply #11 on:** March 17, 2019, 09:12:46 AM »

Also a special award for Assistance in the face of Pouring Rain should go to David Morris who when an exhibitor found he had a flat tyre stepped in and had it changed in just a few minutes.

Well done David.

Stan da Prato · « **Reply #12 on:** March 17, 2019, 09:21:45 AM »

Indeed he did but I had put my camera away by then so failed to record the chivalrous gesture. I'm not sure I managed all the certificates of merit either but Dave Millward had one for his pot of Narcissus obesus Lee Martin form and Peter Hood's Corydalis sewerzowii -on the right in the second photo- also received a certificate.