AGS SOUTH WEST SHOW-SATURDAY 30 APRIL 2016

[David Nicholson]

Since we seem to publicise AGS shows significantly better than does the AGS I apologise for the lateness of this.

Saturday 30 April, South West AGS Show to be held at West Exe School, Hatherleigh Road, Exeter EX2 9JV (for Sat Nav [what they!?] use EX2 9JR)

It will be interesting to see if the show suffers on the benches or in the audience by being moved from it's former date in late March/early April. It now clashes with a substantial local Garden Festival!

I have no details of Nurseries attending apart from a very welcome return to the end of the known world by Aberconwy Nursery. Mrs N has only this week been sold to a white slave trader and therefore the proceeds (which were significant) will be liberally spread amongst the Nurseries there.

Were I a betting man (and my tip for the Grand National has ever since been delivering our milk) I'd suggest that of those Nurseries attending, in addition to Aberconwy;  Wildside; Choice Landscapes; Parham Bungalow Plants; Copton Ash?; Desirable Plants; Long Acre Plants; Thuya Alpine Nursery et al will be amongst them.

[Maggi Young]

Deeply disturbed to hear of the fate of Mrs N - though  thankfully, bless, her, she has the escape tactics of a Houdini and will thus doubtless shortly be returned to her rightful place -  great chance meantime for you to indulge in some serious retail therapy at the show!  Have a great day!

[David Nicholson]

If said WST gets as much ear-ache about buying yet more plants as I do she could be back on the next bus!

[Lesley Cox]

Let go David (or pushed?) in an excellent cause.

[David Nicholson]

Farrer at Exeter, Androsace vandellii ex Nuria exhibited by Alan and Janet Cook.

More pics to come when I have sorted them out.

[Maggi Young]

Super plant - Androsace vandellii is SUCH a great plant!  Well done  Alan and Janet Cook!

[David Nicholson]

Some pictures from Exeter of plants that took my eye.

There is a possibility that I might have wrongly attributed some plants to the wrong owners for which I'm sorry that my infallible system was not so. I can only say that it took me some time, that I could little afford, to give Jon Evans his annual photography tutorial.

Lewisia tweedyi- a first for Alan and Janet Cook (they really did have a good day)
Primula henricii- first for Eric Jarrett
Androsace villosa kosopolyansksii- another first for the Cook's
Saxifraga exarata adenophora-  ditto

[David Nicholson]

..... and more

A three pan from the Cook's:-
Serapias lingua
Cryptomeria japonica Tenzan-sugi (what a label!)
Petrocoptis glaucifolia

Cyclamen pseudibericum a first for Paul and Gill Ranson

[David Nicholson]

.... and more

Cyclamen x schwarzii-  from seed sown October 1996, a first for Ian Robertson
Lewisia cotyledon from Mavis and Sam Lloyd
Iris reichenbachii- a first fro Tim Lever
Sebaea thomasii- a now familiar plant from Tim Lever and a familiar first

[David Nicholson]

.... and yet more:-

A first winning three pan from Clive Dart:

Berberis darwinii compactum
Pieris japonica 'Little Heath'
Rhododendron pumilum 'Purple Gem'

Trillium rivale from seed sown January 2006- fr a first for Paul and Gill Ranson

[David Nicholson]

even yet more!

Daphne modesta  seed sown Jan 2009 a first for Martin and Anna Sheader
Claytonia megarhiza v. nivalis from Lionel Clarkson
Salix repens from St. Kilda, a first from Ivan Pinnick
Iris schachtii a first from Richard Horswood

[David Nicholson]

More:-

a three pan from the Ranson's with Notes, yes, another first:-

Raoulia bryoides
Haastia pulvinaris
Arisotome imbricata
Notes

[David Nicholson]

More.....

Kalmia polifolia 'Compacta Alba' a first for Gemma Hayes. If I were a Judge (but I don't have the Latin, as someone once said) this would been my Plant of the Show.
Dionysia 'Monika' a first for Pauleen Carless
Phyteuma nigrum from seed sown January 2013 from Pauleen Carless. A fascinating plant
Saxifraga 'Allendale Desire' a first for Duncan Bennett

[Maggi Young]

Good to hear you've been giving Jon Evans the benefit of your experience, David    - I'm sure he's as grateful as ever - he's certainly learned very well!       

 Some cracking plants - and the Cooks really did have a good day, didn't they? 

That nice rhodo is wrongly named though - it is 'Purple Gem' I'm sure but  that is a  hybrid of  R.  minus Carolinianum Group x fastigiatum 
That's nothing to do with  R. pumilum which is the little pink cutie that Kingdon Ward called his  "Pink Baby" - here's a pic of that from an old Bulb Log  the flowers are  just over 1cm in size - tiny!

[David Nicholson]

A three pan Primula that I didn't get the name of the exhibitor:-

Primula allionii 'Snowcap'
P. 'Janet Aldritch
P. 'Linda Pope'