Hexham Spring Show - AGS/SRGC - Hexham 28th March 2020

[Maggi Young]

This  year the  show  is  under  SRGC rules.##
Show  Secretary  Angus  Thompson tells  us ... " We are progressing with the planning for the show and at this time the show will proceed. The arrangements are exactly the same as 2019 - with the same venue and car parking arrangements.
However - if the corona virus escalates over the next 2 weeks we will seek guidance and advice from the authorities and Martin Rogerson the AGS national show secretary will advise whether we proceed."

The  Show was  cancelled as  a result  of  corona virus crisis




##  Cliff Booker  will be  hoping to repeat  his  Farrer Medal winning success  last  year  with a  Forrest  Medal this  year! Good  luck to Cliff  and  all the  exhibitors!


Cliff with  his  Farrer Medal  winning Shortia  uniflora at Hexham 2019 

[Stan da Prato]

My online entries. Not all of these would have made it to the actual benches but are posted to brighten up  depressing circumstances.  Some overlap  with last week's post for Stirling. Most are grown outside.
Section 1 36 cm pots max Class 1 six pots  Hacquetia Thor; Draba mollissima; Saxifraga Cranbourne;
                                                               Primula elatior; Polygonum tenuicaule; Saxifrag cv.

class 20 three pots bulbs- Tulipa turkestanica; Narcissus Tete a Tete ; Puschkinia scilloides libanotica

class 25 Australasia- Microcachrys tetragona

class 30 one from Japan - Cryptomeria japonica spiralis

class 32 on edwarf shrub-Skimmia reevesiana Little Ruby

[Stan da Prato]

class 33 one ericaceous  not a rhodo -Erica x veitchii Exeter.

class 34 Rhododendron Joachim Reich

class 35 one conifer- Picea abies Lucky Strike

class 36 three for foliage effect- Ranunculus Brazen Hussy; Rhododendron cv; Calluna Spring Torch.

class 37 one foliage Impatiens omeiana variegated form and quite hardy. Must correct the label.

[Stan da Prato]

class 38 one grey foliage ? NAS? Dudleya farinosa  said to take-5 C in California but needs it very dry and wouldn't  stand our winter wet.

class 39 one fern- Adiantum venustum

class 40 one Crassulaceae-Sedum furfuraceum

class 41 one natural cushion -Gypsophila aretioides

class 46 six vases - here old plastic bottles- Puschkinia  libanotica; Rhodo Christmas !! Cheer; N Arctic Bells;
                                                               Corydalis malkensis; Tulipa schrenkii; Primula marginata

[Stan da Prato]

class 47  mini garden with a few more flowers open than at Kendal

Section 2 19cm pots class 50   no more than two from one genus:
Saxifraga Winifred; Heloniopsis jaonpica; Cyclamen coum silver leaf;
 Primula Pink Ice; Bukiniczia cabulica; Primula Aire Mist;

class 52 three from different genera -Chionodoxa sardensis;  Ornithogalum oligophyllum; Puschkinia libanotica.

class 56 one Asiatic Primula P Netta Dennis.

class 57 one European Primula P elatior

[Stan da Prato]

class 68 one ranunc not a hepatica- R ficaria Cuprea.

class 76 three bulbs- N minor; Scilla bifolia; N nana;

class 80 three Narcissus - N  pumilus; N Elka; N Yellow Sailboat

class 81 one Narcissus N Elka.

class 83 three from one genus - Tulipa humilis;  T neustruevae;  T polychroma.

[Maggi Young]

Another  one-man show! Thanks, Stan!

[Stan da Prato]

not quite finished
class 89 one British  native-N pseudonarcissus lobularis

 class 93 one ericaceous - Gaultheria procumbens

class 94 three conifers- Chamaecyparis pygmaea Tsukumo; Cryptomeria japonica Yatsubusa; Abies balsamae Piccolo.

class 95 one conifer - Chamaecyparis obtusa Aurea.

[Stan da Prato]

class 96  one foliage Coprosma Fireburst

class 97  one fern Cheilanthes eatonii

[angie]

Well done Stan. Thanks for sharing your lovely plants , helps brighten up our day.

Angie 

[peter hood]

We should be busy at Hexham now, the hall would shortly close for judging. I don't know everything I would take, but I almost always take a lot of Primula henrici. I would almost certainly have dug up this Primula elatior from the garden. I think there would have been a few of these Corydalis. - Frodo or Beth Evens or one of the other solida.

Doubtless there would be a few others, Juno Iris, Primula allionii hybrids etc., but these will do for now.

[Ian Y]

Thanks Stan and Peter for showing your plants here in a virtual Hexham Show.
Lets hope more will follow your excellent example and share the pleasure of their plants in this space.......

[Maggi Young]

Thanks  for  getting  involved, Peter - I'll take the  chance  to give you  further  congratulations  on your  lovely  Farrer  winning  plant  at the  Theydon Bios  show!

 Peter Hood with Corydalis sewerzowii - photo by  Don Peace   February  2020