FCHS Autumn Show- Australia

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I got to the Ferny Creek Horticultural Society's Autumn Show late this afternoon and got a few pics to post;
First some items from the Rock Garden Section:
Blue Ribbon in cut-flowers won by Lois Lucas with a posy laced with Nerine filifolia
Blue ribbon in the potted plants won by Andrew Van Rennes with Cyclamen mirabile (possibly ex Tilebarn Nicholas?)
Helene Hodgskiss' Cyclamen graecum
Oxalis massoniana
Narcissus viridiflorus - obviously someone who grows it better than I do and can bear to sacrifice so many blooms!!
cheers
fermi
PS don't worry, Maggi, I haven't forgotten the Rhodie-fanatics Ravers!

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Some more from the show,
Hydrangea display
Banksia table arrangement
Inge Hammer's Lilium primulinum
Lois' Nerine pudica
Ruth Thierry's Blue Ribbon Aeoniums
cheers
fermi

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Bench with nerines
Nerines en masse
massed nerines
composites and camellias
...hmmm seems the only pics left are of rhodies!
cheers
fermi

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Okay, Ravers, here are some Rhodie pics!

bench of vireyas
single stems of small vireyas
stems of larger vireyas
vireyas
more vireyas!

cheers
fermi
(more individual stems next!)

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Rh laetum
pink hybrid
Pondi (?) Peach
Irian Jaya
pale pink hybrid

cheers
fermi

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A rather leggy plant of Rh kochii
cheers
fermi

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Rh multinervium x Rh truncicola (2 pics)
Rh ericoides
Andrew Rouse's Blue Ribbom hybrid - Rh kochii x 'Simbu Sunset'
'Highland Bonsai'
cheers
fermi

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This one was stunning but the label was indecipherable! so I'll show the label as well - maybe someone can work it out?
third pic is Rh jasminiflorum ssp heusseri
Rh tuba
2 long tubular types together
cheers
fermi

[johnw]

Wonderful vireyas Fermi.  That indecipherable is rhododendron radians.


johnw

[ashley]

They are wonderful, aren't they. 
Unfortunately I've seen very few in real life so greatly appreciate your photos Fermi.

[David Nicholson]

Enjoyed your pictures Fermi, many thanks.

[Maggi Young]

The whole show is spectacular - can't imagine ever having that many Narcissus viridiflora to be able to cut them    - but the rhodos, especially the Vireyas are simply breath-taking. The long- tubed ones are stunning - pretty special humming bird needed to pollinate those eh?

Given the very long connection between the Ferny Creek Hort. Society and the SRGC, I really had to make new topic for this. 

Thanks, Fermi! 

P.S. Have changed the link in the rhodo thread to this one.

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John,
Thanks for the ID!
Ashley,
We can't even grow Rh. ponticum here, let alone Vireyas So I do enjoy seeing them at the Shows.
Maggi,
Quite a few FCHS members belong to SRGC and it was the first international club that I joined.
Thanks for setting up the new thread and changing the link,
cheers
fermi

[Julia]

Fantastic pictures thank you for sharing them

[Maggi Young]

Maggi,
Quite a few FCHS members belong to SRGC and it was the first international club that I joined.
Thanks for setting up the new thread and changing the link,
cheers
fermi

Ferny Creek /SRGC connections do go back a long way  - with articles from B. Watson appearing in the Journal from 1959 ........

From the Journal Index :

WATSON, B.: A Letter from Australia, 26/73
Early May at Ferny Creek, Victoria, 25/349
Ferny Creek, Victoria, 25/355
In Quiet Appreciation. 27/125
Leaves from Ferny Creek. Victoria. 26/29

 All these journals are available to read online HERE , of course.