Irish AGS shows - and some others 2017

[Maggi Young]

Dublin AGS Show

will be on Saturday 8 April  10:00–15:30   at Cabinteely Community School, Cabinteely, Co. Dublin.
http://www.alpinegardensociety.ie/


Dublin  AGS Show last year


Ulster AGS Show, will be on Saturday, 22nd April, at Greenmount College, Antrim.

http://www.alpinegarden-ulster.org.uk/


Primula 'Netta Dennis'  which won the 2016 SRGC Quaich at Ulster AGS SHow for  Susan Tindall. Photo by Heather Smith

[shelagh]

Saw some of the gentlemen in the picture enjoying Hexham Show on Saturday.

[Maggi Young]

It is also the Chesterfield AGS Show this Saturday as well- at Brookfield School Chatsworth Road, Chesterfield S40 3NS -

Nurseries attending are Choice Landscapes, Wildside Nursery, Hartside Nursery, Alpine Plant Centre, Potterton, Laneside Orchids, Aberconwy and  Harperley Hall - so quite a few nursery folks will be  spreading themselves around the country to attend both AGS and SRGC shows

Neil Huntley of Hartside, who will also have a stand at Edinburgh SRGC show, tells me that  local Chesterfield folks are having to make an extra effort to get the show together after the very unfortunate illness of  Show Secretary John Savage - we are sure all will be well for the show - and of course our main thoughts are with John and his family - and hope he makes a full and speedy recovery.
Get well soon, John!
 

[Martinr]

Indeed thanks are due to the local, and not so local, folks who've rallied round to make sure the Chesterfield Show is a success and gives John a boost as he recovers.

[Maggi Young]

Chesterfield AGS Show 2017- at Brookfield School Chatsworth Road, Chesterfield S40 3NS -

Nurseries attending are Choice Landscapes, Wildside Nursery, Hartside Nursery, Alpine Plant Centre, Potterton, Laneside Orchids, Aberconwy and  Harperley Hall - so quite a few nursery folks will be  spreading themselves around the country to attend both AGS and SRGC shows

Neil Huntley of Hartside, who will also have a stand at Edinburgh SRGC show on the same day, tells me that  local Chesterfield folks are having to make an extra effort to get the show together after the very unfortunate illness of  Show Secretary John Savage - we are sure all will be well for the show - and of course our main thoughts are with John and his family - and hope he makes a full and speedy recovery.
Get well soon, John!



And this  from Diane Clement: Don Peace wins the Farrer medal at Cleveland Show with Androsace vandellii -
Well done, Don!  Super plant  and Androsace vandellii is one  which has won many Forrest Medals over the years too- a "good do-er" for the Show bench for sure.

I'm not a great lover of Drabas - but this Draba longisiliqua is something else! It won a Certificate of Merit and. John and Gill Saxton Memorial trophy for best plant native to Europe for Martin Rogerson at Chesterfield - photo from Lawrence Peet who also showed some other pix on Facebook of the fine plants at the show.

[Maggi Young]

Photos of some crackers from Chesterfield from Lawrence Peet


Finley Swift trophy for best plant in a pan not exceeding 19cm, Daphne petraea Lydora for Ivor Betteridge at AGS Chesterfield


Ranunculus alpestris Certificate of Merit for Ian Kidman[/b] at Chesterfield AGS


Rhododendron racemosum dwarf white form and the Chesterfield Vase for best pan of Ericaceae for Robert Rolfe.[/b] A plant that came on the train and by taxi!!!!!


Certificate of Merit for Geoff Rollinson and Androsace villosa taurica


Farrer medal for Geoff Rollinson and Primula henrici at Chesterfield AGS show today

[ranunculus]

Geoff Rollinson and his stunning Farrer Medal exhibit at Chesterfield AGS Show.

[Maggi Young]

Excellent portrait of the man, Cliff ...... and the plant looks pretty good too!

[Maggi Young]

Other AGS shows today - 15th April - are Kent at Sutton Valence - here's a pic from Derry Watkins' Tweet  of the  plant sales going well for the Levers of Aberconwy....



And this  from Diane Clement: Don Peace wins the Farrer medal at Cleveland Show with Androsace vandellii


Well done, Don!  Super plant  and Androsace vandellii is one  which has won many Forrest Medals over the years too- a "good do-er" for the Show bench for sure.
 

[Maggi Young]

Farrer Medal winner at Kent AGS Show at Sutton Valance today is  this neat, well-flowered Ramonda from Ivan Pinnick. Photo by Paddy Parmee



Ramonda nathaliae JCA 686

[Philip Walker]

From today's Kent show.
Best plant in the novice section and best plant in a pot not exceeding 19 cms.
Labelled as Iris reichenbachii,but the judges left a note saying probably I.schachtii.
Modesty forbids me mentioning the exhibitors name.

[Maggi Young]

Well done, Philip!!   A lovely Iris .

[Maggi Young]

From Paddy Tobin on FB -

"Isn't this the most divine trillium ever! It is Trillium 'Bob Gordon', grown by Billy Moore and won a Farrer Medal for Billy at the recent Alpine Garden Society show in Dublin."
The photograph is from Paddy Smith.Passed to Paddy T. by Harold MacBride.

This wonderful trillium, named for one of the very best and most charming of Irish gardeners, and shown, photographed and shared with us by four more - Billy Moore and Paddy Smith and  thanks to Harold MacBride and Paddy Tobin for sharing!

[Philip Walker]

Thank you Maggi
It was better the day before,I had to take 3 flowers off.
My other 1st places.
Intermediate 3 pan-Anemonella thalictroides 'Rosea', Oscar Schoaf' and Betty Blake'
Novice dwarf Narcissus-N.bulbocodium-taken at home
Novice seed grown-Ranunculus amplexicaulis,sown Jan '11-taken at home
I've got some other photos to put up from around the show,when I have more time.

[Maggi Young]

Pat Crossley's report on the Dublin AGS Show :
http://www.alpinegardensociety.net/shows/reports/Dublin+AGS+Show+/327/