Next AGS Show - Summer North Saturday, 15 June

[ranunculus]

Three views of the show benches at Pontefract.

[JohnnyD]

Just a few shots of the show at Featherstone.

The heaving and lovely benches.
The PP competition - John Bunn manfully 'steaking' his claim on the left with Peter Farkash wondering 'how does he do it?'.
The worthy winner with his prize.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Just back from another splendid AGS Show held at Featherstone, Pontefract today 15th June 2013, where the benches were filled with colour, diversity and overwhelming beauty.  A wonderful array of species vied for the host of prizes and Show Secretary, Eric Rainford and his splendid team should be justifiably proud of this tremendous event.  There were a number of contenders for the Farrer Medal and Alan Furness from Hexham reigned supreme with his immaculate Lewisia rediviva.

Alan Furness - Farrer Medal winner 2013
Farrer Medal exhibit - Lewisia rediviva
Farrer Medal exhibit - Lewisia rediviva

Good grief, what a plant !!!! Many congratulations !

[JohnnyD]

The two panorama pics were obviously too wide.
here's another try.

[JohnnyD]

Still didn't work - must try harder!!!!!!!!!!!

[JohnnyD]

If at first .........

[ranunculus]

They do work, John ... but you must use the blue bar that appears at the bottom of the screen to scroll across.

[JohnnyD]

ooohhh Yeees
Thanks Cliff,
JohnnyD

[David Nicholson]

The dining room looks pretty posh  for the average PP venue....- how did they let you lot in?
 You must have sent Sue to make the booking?

It can't have been in Featherstone, they don't use knives and forks there. They tear it with their bare hands.

[JohnnyD]

Unless it's curry - then they wear rubber gloves!

[veteran vet]

The one problem with digital cameras is that they encourage you to take too many pictures which then have to be edited etc etc but at last job done. As you may have gathered from the forum so far the Summer North Show was first class with a broad range of plants on view, I got the impression that there was a North South devide with the folk from the South having more plants typical of this show in normal years than those from the North, eg most campanula were exhibited by midlands south whereas to us in the North campanula are still a week away from producing good flowering....it made for a fine competition.
A run through some pictures then
Saxifraga longifolia hybrid (4) Tony Lee
Saxifraga 'Southside Star' (4) J&C Dower
Campanula shetleri (7) M&A Sheader
Physoplexis comosa (6) George Young
Dianthus 'Eileen Lever' ( Edward Spencer

[veteran vet]

Silene pusilla ( George Young
Lewisia 'George Henley' (9) Cliff Booker
Dactylorhiza foliosa (11) Peter Farkasch
Rhodohypoxis 'E A Bowles' (12) B&S Smethurst
Roscoea humeana alba (12) F&P Bundy

[veteran vet]

Rhodiola trollii Cecilia Coller (13), yet again the winner of the most points in the Open Section
Eriogonum flavaum (15) Alan Furness, the picture does not do it justice
Pimelia ferruginea (17) Cecilia Coller...a lovely plant, I have tried it many times but always seem to lose it over winter, doesn't like the climate up here
Sarmentosa repens (18) W&J Wright. Jim says they have a special b ox for carrying to shows in, I can see why
Leiophyllum buxifolium (21) Brian Russ, a huge plant

[veteran vet]

Campanula carpatha (1) M&A Sheader...I did like this
Stachys candida (1) M&A Sheader
Nototriche macleanii (1) M&A Sheader....liked this even more!
Scutellaria laeteviolacea (37) Cecilia Coller
Asperula gussonii (37) Ian Instone

[veteran vet]

I don't often do Sedum but I show the entry in the 3 pan class that won for B&S Smethurst
Sedum brevifolium induratum
Sedum furfuraceum
Sedum hirsutum baeticum
Calceolaria tenella (38) M&A Sheader
Saxifraga valdensis (hybrid) J&C Dower...it was shown as straight S valdensis but am pretty sure it was no...still a good palnt with short. robust stems