Early Spring show - AGS 1st March

[Maggi Young]

Quote from: Maggi Young on Today at 01:01:57 PM

    Hope it's a fine day for those at Harlow today: AGS  EARLY SPRING SHOW, Mark Hall School, First Avenue, Harlow, Essex, CM17 9LR.

A win for Bob and Rannveig Wallis : Farrer Medal winner: Corydalis verticillaris

picture from twitter   

[WimB]

Had a great day at Harlow, bought too many plants  and enjoyed a lot of wonderful plants and people 

Some pics for those who couldn't attend

3 x Primula allionii
Anemone caucasica
Corydalis maracandica
The farrer medal winner Corydalis verticillaris
Crocus corsicus

[WimB]

And some more:

Really wanted to take this one with me 2 x Cyclamen alpinum f. leucanthum
Daubenya aurea
Dionysia 'Bernd Wetzel'
Dionysia 'Cinderella'

[ranunculus]

Wonderful images, Wim.

[WimB]

And some more:

Dionysia hybr.
Iris winogradowii
Primula allionii 1
Primula allionii 2
Primula allionii 'Anna Griffith'

[Maggi Young]

So, you had a good channel hop, Wim?  Great photos of the plants  - perhaps  it's as well you couldn't take those big plants home - the ferry would sink!

[WimB]

And more:

Primula allionii 'William Burrow'
Pterostylis curta
Ranunculus crithmifolius
Saxifraga 'Cumulus'
Scilla libanotica

[WimB]

So, you had a good channel hop, Wim?  Great photos of the plants  - perhaps  it's as well you couldn't take those big plants home - the ferry would sink!

Yes, we had a great Channel hop....we took the Eurostar...no danger of sinking 

You might recognise some Belgian people in these two pics! 

[WimB]

Wonderful images, Wim.

Thanks, Cliff!

[Maggi Young]

Yes, we had a great Channel hop....we took the Eurostar...no danger of sinking 

You might recognise some Belgian people in these two pics! 

  Eurostar for the Eurostars!    Is this a first? 

[WimB]

  Eurostar for the Eurostars!    Is this a first?

Probably  First time for me at least!!

[Jon Evans]

Hi
I have now uploaded my photos from the show to the AGS website:

http://www.alpinegardensociety.net/discussion/atshows/AGS+Early+Spring+Show+at+Harlow+st+March/18481/

Jon

[Maggi Young]

Oh, that's great Jon- thanks for the note. 

[Maggi Young]

Four pages of photos from Jon  via that AGS link - so many good plants but I was very taken with these three : the diminutive and quite perfectly formed Iris kolpakowskiana exhibited by Peter Taggart ; A pot of Lapeirousia oreogena from  George Elder which just vibrated with colour   and the feathery Ypsilandra thibetica from  Diane Clement.

[Tim Ingram]

I would agree with Maggi about the Lapeirousia, especially after reading Jon's comments about the colour of this plant and how difficult it is to capture it photographically. I would like to thank Kit Strange and her team who organised the Show, and provided us nurserypeople with beautifully prepared tables and regular supplies of coffee and tea; and it was nice to see students and growers from Kew. Kit told me that she had tried various ways of advertising the Show more widely, and as our experiences with the Kent Shows too the results can seem very limited, so it must be good to have it described here and catch the attention of more real plantlovers. It is a great start to the year in the south-east and always a really stimulating day.