AGS Loughborough Autumn Show 1st October

[Maggi Young]

Sleep tight, Martin!

[Palustris]

Brave Eric, you need to be brave

And have elastic side gardens. And even deeper pockets. We did spend £75 on plants though.

[Graeme]

And have elastic side gardens. And even deeper pockets. We did spend £75 on plants though.

just got a couple of cyclamen - like I need anymore - and another Lindum primula I had not seen before and a few dry bulbs - after spending an hour driving round country roads because the A42 and M1 junction was blocked I was not really in the mood - at least there was good news a new venue for next year where I might get a bacon buttie.....

[Graeme]

[Graeme]

[Graeme]

and yes that plant did smell awful - you would need a trailer

[Maggi Young]

Hope a new venue will have white light as well as bacon butties! Some halls are blighted by that yellow glow! Thank goodness we know  how the plants really look. Some cracking cyclamen, there.

[Graeme]

Hope a new venue will have white light as well as bacon butties! Some halls are blighted by that yellow glow! Thank goodness we know  how the plants really look. Some cracking cyclamen, there.

Some decent light would have been handy - the original files are HDR - but spoiled by the yellow light.  There were some great plants on show

[Palustris]

Nice to see Robert Rolfe kneeling down outside taking photos for the AGS magazine and website.
Will try and sort my pictures out later, but the sun is shining and there are bulbs to be dealt with and apples to be picked.

[Martinr]

The new venue has much better lighting, both artificial and natural, but I'm afraid bacon butties will not be back on the menu. Fewer and fewer schools are prepared to allow the use of their kitchens.

Now for a day of cleaning and packing so all the stuff can go back in the attic for 5 months....just in case anyone thought the work finished when the show did

[Martinr]

And a good picture of the Farrer plant and its owner can be seen here

www.alpinegardensociety.net/discussion/atshows/Loughborough+Autumn+st+October/20254

[Maggi Young]

Mala Janes pointed out on Facebook that people didn't believe Alan Furmness when he said he had another plant the same as the Farrer plant at home ... here's the proof..... and how Alan keeps the mice off the gems....

[Maggi Young]

Many thanks to Mala Janes for reminding us that this was Alan Furness'  25th Farrer Medal - quite a record!  Even  more congratulations are due to Alan for this feat.

[Graeme]

Many thanks to Mala Janes for reminding us that this was Alan Furness'  25th Farrer Medal - quite a record!  Even  more congratulations are due to Alan for this feat.

he deserves one just for those baskets.....

It was a superb pan