AGS Loughborough Autumn Show 1st October

[Martinr]

It's only a month away...time to start panicking. Anyway I've already been asked for a list on the nurseries attending so here it is.

Aberconwy
Choice Landscapes
Edrom
Laneside Hardy Orchids
Little Heath Farm
Parham Bungalow
Potterton
Tale Valley
Thuja Alpines
Hartside
Buried Treasure
Cambridge Bulbs
Miniature and Choice Bulbs
Copton Ash
Nigel Sandham troughs and containers (some of you will have seen Nigel at the Bakewell Shows)

Hope to see lots of you there

Martin

[Maggi Young]

Quite a list, Martin! 
The appearance of Thuya alpines must mean that Simon Bond is in better health now? That's good news.

[chasw]

Hope to make this one

[Martinr]

Entries are flooding in...should be a good one

[Maggi Young]

Excellent news, Martin - have a great day!!

[Maggi Young]

Another reason to visit the Loughborough show ...... on Facebook, Tony Hale has posted  about these Saxifragas  .....
"( The first)  pic  shows 40 silvers, the  (next) one shows 39 kabschias. I shall be taking them to Loughboro AGS show tomorrow for sale on the members table. Maybe see some of you during the day."




Sounds like an offer you can't refuse!
 
Have a great day, folks!

[Palustris]

Oh!!!!!!!!! Wish I could get there as it opens.
Boss has just seen the photos and sniffed. "More blooming saxifrages!"

[Graeme]

Oh!!!!!!!!! Wish I could get there as it opens.
Boss has just seen the photos and sniffed. "More blooming saxifrages!"

me too but got to wait for Mrs G to get back from the hairdressers before we can go........ so probably miss the bacon butties as well

[Martinr]

Alas Graeme, bacon butties are a thing of the past as we no longer have access to the kitchen but, fear not, you won't go hungry

[Maggi Young]

Some photos from Facebook  form the show .
These  from Michael Myers, first,  a pic of Bob and Rannweig Wallis's three pan class of Biarum pyrami, Rhodophiala bifida and Hyacinthoides ciliolata.



Cyclamen  and show bench





Sternbergia sicula winning a Certificate of Merit for Ian Robertson


Crocus vallicola won the Farrer Medal for best plant for Alan Furness - what a cracking potfull!

[Maggi Young]

A few pictures  pinched from Razvan Chisu!

 Raz' photo of that winning Crocus


Cyclamen hederifolium 'Tilebarn Shirley'


Biarum pyrami


Habenaria radiata

[Maggi Young]

a couple more pix from Razvan....


Narcissus obsoletus


 posy of leaves


more beautiful foliage

[Palustris]

Got there in time to see the Saxifrages then the Boss said those dreaded words. "Just where are you going to put them?" So I had  to leave many of them there.
Nice show though.

[David Nicholson]

Brave Eric, you need to be brave

[Martinr]

That Biarum should come with its own fume cupboard. I wouldn't fancy having it in the car.

Thanks to all who came and made it a successful day.

Now what was it Zebedee used to say.....................