AGS Harlow 28th Feb '09

[tonyg]

Luc - thanks for posting.  HOW did we miss meeting?  I was the only forumist wearing his SRGC sweatshirt!
I was also towing a slightly bored 11 year old around.  It was going to be a whole family outing but Amy was ill and Jacinta had to stay behind to look after her.  In the last minute re-organising I managed to leave my camera behind ... so no pics from me

[David Nicholson]

Thanks for posting the pictures Luc, very enjoyable.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Thanks for the response everyone !

Diane, the Retic was really good but I'm afraid not as good as the picture - I had it somewhat underexposed..

Lesley - no pix of forumists... sorry... plants are the stars of the show !    To be honest I didn't drag my camera along all day - I only took it out of the car to shoot some pix at the show - meetings with forumists were in the sales area (where else???    I'll have to think about it next time !

Sorry to have missed you Tony... you are a brave man wearing the SRGC sweatshirt amongst all the green ones... 
Still it wasn't enough for me to run into you - maybe try a pot of Crocus in your buttonhole next time   And I didn't see an 11 year old being dragged along either... 

Enough small talk - here's some more pictures :

1) Tulipa edulis
2) Tulipa illiensis - sorry not quite sharp
3) Tulipa polychroma

And then some white flowers with green bits 

4) Galanthus 'Augustus' (giant snowdrop if you ask me !)
5) Galanthus 'David Shackleton'
6) Galanthus 'Little Dorrit'
7) Galanthus plicatus 'Sophie North'
8   Galanthus 'Sharples'
9) Galanthus "Wendy's Gold"
10) Galanthus - sorry missed the name but I found it such a wonderful pot that I didn't want to withold it.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Last batch for tonight ! - some great Cyclamen pots !!!

1) Corydalis popovii
2) Cyclamen coum pewter leaf
3) C. coum
4)  "    "
5)  "    "
6)  "    "     f. alba
7) Hepatica's on the bench
8 Hepatica japonica
9) H. japonica 'Orihime' -   I grow the same.... it has 12 flowers this year... 
10) H. nobilis - a very nice one I thought.

Maybe more tomorrow !

[tonyg]

We'll meet next time Luc!  I accidentally left my camera at home - it obviously did not matter, you have done a much better job than I would have.  Thanks!

[Maggi Young]

Luc - thanks for posting.  HOW did we miss meeting?  I was the only forumist wearing his SRGC sweatshirt!
I was also towing a slightly bored 11 year old around.  It was going to be a whole family outing but Amy was ill and Jacinta had to stay behind to look after her.  In the last minute re-organising I managed to leave my camera behind ... so no pics from me

Having hard time getting used to idea Ruth is  now 11!! Where do the years go?

[mark smyth]

Galanthus XYZ looks like Primrose Warburg or Spindlestone Surprise

[art600]

Galanthus XYZ looks like Primrose Warburg or Spindlestone Surprise

There was certainly a large potful of 'Primrose Warburg' 

[tonyg]

There was a curious result in the 1 pan iridacae class.  It was won by a nice pan of Crocus labelled C vernus vernus.  Lovely dark purple BUT I reckoned it was a tommy. 
Julie - if you read this take a look at Whitwell Purple on the link below
http://www.srgc.org.uk/discus/messages/5012/8868.html?1129846074

[Lesley Cox]

Maybe as common as muck but those pots of Cyclamen coum are truly outstanding, so many flowers per square inch.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Galanthus XYZ looks like Primrose Warburg or Spindlestone Surprise

Thanks for helping me out Mark. Now I remember, it definitely was Primrose Warburg !

Maybe as common as muck but those pots of Cyclamen coum are truly outstanding, so many flowers per square inch.

There were even more there Lesley - I didn't photograph them all ! 

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Time to conclude - here's the last batches.

1) Adonis Fukuyokai - marvelous plant !
2) Corydalis seisumiana
3) Dionysia 'Anielle' - unbelievable !
4) Dionysia..... - sorry, missed the name - but it looked perfect !
5) Gymnospermum alberti
6) The hepatica exhibition from the RHS - awesome !
7) same - a bit underexposed... sorry 
8 Massonia echinata
9) Primula allionii - 3 pan exhibit
10) Primula allionii 'Anna Griffith'  - What a cracker !

[Luc Gilgemyn]

And here's the last batch - (not the least !)

1) Primula allionii 'Chivalry'
2) Primula 'Arduaine' - stunning !
3) Primula 'Elisabeth Earle'
4) Primula 'Tantallon'

Somme Saxes to finish :
5) Saxifraga 'Maria Callas'
6) Saxifraga x goringana - grown to perfection I think
7) Saxifraga - 3 pan exhibit

That's it folks - please forgive and/or correct any misnaming on my part.
Thanks

[Maggi Young]

What fun to enjoy this virtual visit to an English show, through the eyes of an Englishman and a Channel Hopper.  Thanks, Giles and Luc.

Some very well grown plants to inspire and delight.
Luc, you  have mis-spelled Dionysia 'Annielle' ( you missed an "n")
This lovely plant was named by Cyril Lafong for his wife Annielle and perhaps some may be interested to know a little of the history of the plant?
The form was raised in Germany by Michael Kammerlander from a cross between DD.curviflora and tapetodes, made in 1988, and plants, under the number MK8809/2 came to the UK in the 1990s.  A plant grown on by Cyril was given the cultivar name 'Annielle' when the plant was awarded a PC in 1997.

Another seedling MK8809/1 had smaller, narrower petalled flower and that became 'Monika' but 'Annielle' is, to my eye, prettier with the larger, fuller flowers.

Cyril mentions the plant in his article in the latest issue of the Rock Garden No. 122, page 91 and the plant received a "write-up" in the AGS Bulletin Vol. 65 No.4 page 415, when it got its PC from Joint Rock in 1997.

[Lesley Cox]

I thought Dionysia 'Annielle' was a very poor plant. It has a HOLE in it.