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SRGC Shows and Events => Events => Topic started by: Peter Maguire on June 16, 2007, 06:47:56 PM
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I know that competition is always intense to post the first pictures after a show, so I thought I'd try to be first this time with a picture of Cecelia Coller's Farrer medal winning Sarmienta repens. More will follow when I've had spomething to eat.
Peter
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Good Grief! What a whopper! Mrs Coller does have some of the most amazing plants.....I am always astounded at how many shows she attends and with such a super range of plants.
I expect you'll be ready for a good supper after a long day down to Leeds, Peter? I hope the weather was better than it has been here today, and that the awful flooding in the area we have seen on TV is abating and did not affect the attendance at the show.
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Well, the weather was vastly improved - we even had some sunshine for, oh maybe ten minutes. The roads were dry and fairly empty as the dire weather forecasts meant that no-one was travelling, only the hardened plant-nuts.
Final batch for tonight, it's been a long day.
Campanula x GF Wilson, shown by Brian and Shelagh Smethurst
Cypripedium reginae alba, shown by John Hollingworth (apparently there was some discussion amongst the judges whether this was actually a hybrid)
Arisaema candidissimum, shown by Tony Rymer
Lilium nanum, another plant from Cecelia Coller
Peter
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Some stunning plants there Peter, and very fine fotos. I'm looking forward to more please.
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Thanks for starting the thread Peter, some great pictures. Assuming Cliff is away on holiday I'll add a few of my own.
Being my first year visiting shows I've no idea whether the quality or range of plants is up or down, but we saw a lot to interest us.
First a general view of the show benches.
Then a view of the another view of the Farrer winner showing it has just as many flowers on the reverse side.
There was also another Sarmienta repens that won a First in another class.
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Some of the other classes.
A selection of 3 entries in the 3 pan class.
Another 3 pan entry.
3 pans of cushion plants.
The smaller cushion plants
and flower arrangements.
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Next Hepatica nobilis var japonica are the leaves really that shiny.
Massonia species.
Paris polyphylla
and Ourisia polyantha 'cliftonville scarlet'.
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Entering a bit of a blue phase now.
Starting with Wahlenbergia gloriosa.
Then a couple of Campanulas
Campanula ephisia and
Campanula garganica
Dactylorhiza foliosa
and two Roscoea humeana
'inkling' and 'Rosemoor plum'
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A couple of Gladiolus.
Gladiolus geardi
and another one I didn't get the full name of Gladiolus i.......
does anybody know of a good source of these types of Gladiolus as I feel an interest coming on.
Back to the show another new one to me Monopsis unidentata.
Saxifraga cuscutiformis
and yet another new species (to me) Anomatheca laxa.
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A few Arisaemas now, after my daughter had agreed to buy me a couple for fathers day, bless her.
Arisaema ciliata and detail.
Arisaema consanguineum
Arisaema formosissima
and Arisaema aff. utile
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Final lot from me now.
A couple of Allium
Allium bollanderi
Allium crenulatum
to finish off 3 Rhodos
Rhododendron 'chipmunk'
Rhododendron nakahari
and Rhododendron 'pink pancake'
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Nice pictures Mick, it's good to see well taken photos from the show bench as that's how most people see them.
In case you are wondering why my pictures seem to be 'staged', its was because I had been asked, along with Jon Evans, to records the pictures for the AGS bulletin show report. There are some advantages to this, as you get to officaily remove someone else's plant from the bench, replace it with an AGS card to explain why the plant isn't there, and photograph it under controlled conditions. The down side is that you have to work quickly to ensure the plant returns to the show bench as soon as possible so that the paying public have a chance to enjoy it, you can't start until the judging is complete and the show reporter gives you the list of plants that he wants a records of, and some of those pots are very heavy! Even with two of us sharing the repsonsibility, we finally got lunch and a cup of tea at three o'clock after a solid three hours work.
By the way, the full name of your second Gladiolus is Gladiolus illyricus, and I think I'm correct in saying that Ian Christie used to have this or a similar species on his list.
Here's a further batch from me (they've also been cross-posted on the AGS website):
Campanuls choruhensis (Tommy Anderson)
Rebutia costata (Chris Bowyer) - best plant in section B, but we did wonder why it wasn't in flower as we were photographing it.
Rosularia rechingeri (Chris Bowyer)
Allium bolanderi (Robert Rolfe)
More to follow.
Peter
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A final batch for today.
Campanula shetleri (Cecilia Coller)
Roscoea humeana alba (er...., me)
Viola spathulata (Brian Burrow)
Dactylorhiza 'Eskimo Nell' (Tony Rymer)
Ourisia polyantha 'Cliftonville Scarlet' - detail (Lee & Julie Martin)
Peter
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Great pics, guys!
Mick, thanks for the pic of Campanula ephesia as I have one in bud (grown from Seedex seed) which I thought looked suspiciously like C. incurva, but I'll give it the benefit of the doubt and hope it opens a nice blue like your pic.
Silverhill Seeds in South Africa sell most of the gladdies from that part of the world! Worth the wait for some of those delicate and very un-Edna like blooms! You could say, well above Everage!
cheers
fermi
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Shame on you Fermi. Didn't Barry Humphries get something in the new Birthday honours list? I like the thought of Dame Barry.
I may be able to send you some seed in a couple of months Mick, of Gl. carmineus. It's a little beuty and quite short.
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Thanks for the pictures Peter and Mick - great work - stunning plants.
I'm always amazed with the number of totally unknown plants to me, that make their appearance on the summer shows.
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That's a very kind offer Lesley, thank you.
I have some Gl flanaganni seedlings from this years seed exchange are there any special requirements for overwintering etc.
Regards,
Mick
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What a lovely trip to Leeds! Peter, I must say, your Roscoea humeana alba is a stunner... It is my favourite Roscoea... the shape of the flowers and that pristine white is just so beautiful. It seems to be doing well for you in a pot... any tips for pot culture?
Like Mick, I think I feel the need for Glad tidings! For years I've been thinking, must try some of those, never done it... but the last year on this forum I have seen so many Gladious looking gorgeous that I really will be paying attention to next year's seed lists!
Oh, and congratulations for your girl's Father's Day gift, Mick... obviously well trained... and what a nice gift... beats the blazes oiut of a another pair of socks, eh?
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Hi Maggi,
Sorry not to have replied to your request for information earlier - a 'dodgy' back has prevented me sitting down in front of the computer for too long; must have been those heavy pots at the weekend.
I can't say that I've done anything special with the Roscoea; firstly it came from Ian III (Christie), but he probably has a waiting list by now as many people in Leeds asked me where I had managed to get it from. As far as pot culture goes I repotted it after obtaining it in a dormant state into a plastic pot (it's double potted in clay for the show bench. Compost is simple, it has to be for me ;); I generally use two basic mixes and this was my 'humus mix': equal parts of John Innes No2, composted bark, chipped bark, grit and chopped moss, with a little perlite added (for luck rather than for any scientific reason). It is then stood outside overwinter on a shaded sand bed where I keep my Arisaemas, Cypripediums, etc and subjected to concentrated neglect until the flower spike emerges, when it is worshipped.
Not difficult at all then, the hardest part is obtaining some material in the first place. I think I first saw the plant about ten to fifteeen years ago 'behind the scenes' at Edinburgh Botanics, when it had may even have flowered for the first time in this country, and it has been top of my wants list ever since. Here's another view for you....
Peter
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I thought I'd post a few final pictures from Leeds, all close-ups, and verging on the abstract.
Ornithogalum ponticum 'Sochi' (Jon Evans)
Larix kaempferi 'Blue Dwarf' (John & Jean Morris)
Adaintum aleuticum ssp. subpumilum (Harvey Shepherd)
Peter