Harlow AGS Show 27th February 2016

[Maggi Young]

If you cannot attend the SRGC Dunblane Early Bulb Day on 20th Feb. for an early show/talk fix, you can catch Alan McMurtrie's talk and Jacques Amand's display on the 27th Feb. and enjoy the AGS Harlow Show too !



Plant sales - not sure of Lockyers will still attend  after the   recent  death of Mr W. Lockyer  - best to check on that.

[chasw]

That's great Maggi,we cant make the RHS show,but had planned to go to Harlow ...............so an excellent result

[Maggi Young]

Be sure to look out for Jan Jeddeloh and her Father,  from the USA, attending their first UK Show. 

( http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=13880.msg351545#msg351545 )

[Maggi Young]

Re-Tweeted from Solène Dequiret -
"Well done @Kit Strange for gold medal for beautiful pictures of what's look like amazing trips ‪#‎AGS‬ Harlow show "

Kit Strange is also the Harlow Show Secretary - a  multi=talented woman!

[Maggi Young]

From the comments of a  Channel-Hoppers  it seems the show was not as full as previous years, due to the daft winter I expect - and Tim Ingram has  suggested also that the benches were not  so full. Tim has  posted some pix of the show  on FB - here is a composite.....

[Maggi Young]

Tim Ingram also  posted this  pic .......
 
"The Harlow Alpine Garden Society Show. Peter Taggart's rather remarkable personal display of corydalis and other bulbous plants...   "

[Maggi Young]

Tim Ingram also posted this  thoughtful comment......

 
"This is a poor photo, because the light was very low, but I wanted to show it just to raise a thought about the Harlow Alpine Garden Society Show today (and it should be viewed with.....my other photos ). This has always been an exciting Show because it is a time when the garden is really coming to life in early spring and there are some amazing specialist nurseries who attend - so for example: Aberconwy, Edrom and Keith and Roz Wiley from Wildside (who were next to us). The plants are completely fascinating, which is what this blurry image sums up of the young lady holding a fine potful of snowdrops and talking to someone else. But the number of plants on display was much reduced over previous years and it is hard not to get the feeling that these remarkable plants are not getting the audience they warrant in the gardening media, and gardening world in general. The reason why they should is in the following couple of entries because even if you don't exhibit plants - and are never likely to - the alpine and rock plant societies do revolve around this detail and skill of growing plants and it is something worth celebrating."

[Philip Walker]

Some of my photos from yesterday
Fritillaria

[Philip Walker]

Tulip and Crocus

[Philip Walker]

Iris,Narcissus and Gymnosperm

[Philip Walker]

Cyclamen

[Philip Walker]

Hepatica,Primula,Adonis and Helichrysum

[Maggi Young]

Great selection, Philip. It seems  bulbs ,corms and tubers are as popular as ever! 

[Maggi Young]

Tim Ingram also posted this  thoughtful comment......

 
"This is a poor photo, because the light was very low, but I wanted to show it just to raise a thought about the Harlow Alpine Garden Society Show today (and it should be viewed with.....my other photos ). This has always been an exciting Show because it is a time when the garden is really coming to life in early spring and there are some amazing specialist nurseries who attend - so for example: Aberconwy, Edrom and Keith and Roz Wiley from Wildside (who were next to us). The plants are completely fascinating, which is what this blurry image sums up of the young lady holding a fine potful of snowdrops and talking to someone else. But the number of plants on display was much reduced over previous years and it is hard not to get the feeling that these remarkable plants are not getting the audience they warrant in the gardening media, and gardening world in general. The reason why they should is in the following couple of entries because even if you don't exhibit plants - and are never likely to - the alpine and rock plant societies do revolve around this detail and skill of growing plants and it is something worth celebrating."

 More from Tim :
" I was talking with Keith about the way plants and gardening are presented on television (and in some ways generally) and it seems at times to be a triumph of looks over experience, if that is a way of putting it. The responsibility lies with programme makers (and dare I say it, the horticultural charities, including the AGS) to understand better the personal nature of gardening and the freedom of expression that comes from it. I am probably idealistic and naive in saying this but I have also studied plants and gardened all my life - and at one time was awarded a Research Fellowship by the Royal Society whilst observing plants academically. That knowledge of plants is as much within us as thinking individuals as it is within the societies we belong to."

[Maggi Young]

Another picture of Peter Taggart's display of his bulbs at Harlow - photo this time by Shanemjr Lambie