Glasgow Show 3rd May 2014

[veteran vet]

Trillium grandiflorum from Tommy Anderson who won Class 1
Lamium armenum from Peter Hood, Cert of Merit

[veteran vet]

Primula veris variabilis was the Best Primula, shown by Barry Winter
Fritllaria liliacea from George Young, the Best pan Bulbous
Silene hookeri from Lionel Clarkson, who also had
Saxifraga cebennensis minor and
Androsace robusta ssp robusta

[veteran vet]

Last few
Erigeron vagus, also from Lionel Clarkson
Ranunculus insignis from Cliff Booker who also had
Ranunculus seguieri
And finally from Brian and Shelagh Smethurst
Sedum humifusum

All in all a splendid day, pity I lost my voice, or it was rather weak shall we say, probably from the pollen in the car on the way up to the show...was fine by later in the evening but that might have been the whisky

[suesimpson33]

Great to have all these photos as a reminder of what I have to try and achieve!

[veteran vet]

Great to have all these photos as a reminder of what I have to try and achieve!

If you keep on producing the likes of what you had on show last Saturday you will not have any problem. Get that new greenhouse up and running, lots of TLC  for the plants, buy whatever takes your eye when you get the chance, cultivate 'friends' who will give you what you can't buy by propagating material for you and that's it....one thing about the SRGC and the AGS is that people are, in the main, generous with spreading plants around, especially if they know the recipient is a good grower

[suesimpson33]

Maybe you will be one of these 'friends'!!!

[ranunculus]

Maybe you will be one of these 'friends'!!!

Clever move, Sue!!      You're getting the gist of this already.   

[suesimpson33]

Seriously though, so many people have already been very generous with their advice, time and donations! Keep it up guys!

[angie]

Where were you hiding, Angie?  I looked under the benches, in the middle of the Forrest, behind the cake stand, at the back of the array of silver trophies … you were nowhere to be seen???  You should have tripped me up, nudged me from behind or simply assailed me in a typically Scottish manner!!!   It was a great show, with some amazing plants.   Our contingent from East Lancashire did quite well with a handsome tally of red stickers and the welcome was as warm as the breakfast toast.

Cliff I was under the bench. I was waiting for the chance to pop up and grab Cyril's Cypripedium. Sorry I missed you. It was a great show and if you can never find me the chances is I am where the cakes are 
Great pictures of the show, so many plants that I wish that I could grow.

Angie 

[peter hood]

May I add my thanks to John and his crowd of helpers for his welcome every time we venture north of the border. The Glasgow show has become a fixture in my diary. (Has anyone ever tried driving from the North east of England to Norwich?)

Usually I bring my Camera to a show and go home without having used it. This time I took four photos; as my own plant has already featured, I am posting the other three.

The first one has already featured too, but we can't have enough pictures of such a super plant.

Next is Paris quadrifolia; only got the second for Native to Scotland - but it is a plant I love - it used to grow in woods near here, but the last few times I have been there it seems to have gone missing.

Finally Primula rufa from Margaret and Henry Taylor. This taxon does not get its own entry in John Richard's book, nor is it mentioned under synonyms; but under P. bullata it is mentioned as intermediate between that species and P.forrestii. The whole Bullatae section is about to get a makeover in a paper by David Rankin; expect some familiar plants to come out with new names! 

[Maggi Young]

Does anyone remember whose plant this is at the Glasgow Show know where to source this plant?   Spelling may more correctly be Cytisus ardoinoi

[Maggi Young]

Sandy Leven's Glasgow Show report is online here