AGS show Cleveland 2008

[Lvandelft]

Thank you Diane. Beautiful pictures!
Worth staying up so late (midnight here) and look at your pictures. 

[Rob]

Thanks for the show report. It's great seeing all the pictures.

[ian mcenery]

Diane as one of those who rolled over and went back to sleep thanks.

How did the Colchicum do?

[Lesley Cox]

Wonderful pictures Diane. What a show it must have been! I love your frit, whatever it turns out to be, and the others too of course. And Oh those Corydalis

[Diane Clement]

Diane as one of those who rolled over and went back to sleep thanks.  How did the Colchicum do?

The colchicum had its moment of glory at Blackpool where it got an Award of Merit from Joint Rock
(see Mick McLoughlin's posting http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=1521.20 )

Sadly, by Cleveland, it was going decidedly papery so it didn't make it.  I'm now desperately trying to keep as much of it as possible going for next year.  It does like quite a lot of water from now to form its leaves but it has a nasty habit of rotting at the base of the leaves and I nearly always lose some of the corms so the potful hasn't really increased for the last 3 years. 

[Martinr]

Some pictures of plants not posted by Diane (and one or two repeats because they deserve it). In this first batch we have Saxifraga Lismore Carmine, Primula allionii, Primula x pubescenes, Corydalis solida Beth Evans and Iris Graberiana.

[Martinr]

Well, I made a right mess of that didn't I. Let's try again

Some pictures of plants not posted by Diane (and one or two repeats because they deserve it). In this first batch we have Saxifraga Lismore Carmine, Primula allionii, Primula x pubescenes, Corydalis solida Beth Evans and Iris Graberiana.

[Martinr]

Some more (the spelling mistake in the last posting has nothing to do with the editorial cock up competition in the Rock Garden)

Fritillaria sewerzowii, Melicytus alpina, Viola jooii, Corydalis schanginii (I think), Narcissus triandus albus

[Martinr]

And some more.

Primula Lismore Sunshine, Anacamptis longicornu, Trillium rivale, Iris zaprjagajewii, Asarum campaniforme and another Trillium rivale

[Martinr]

And finally...Pieris japonica Prelude, Narcissus yepesii, Primula Netta Dennis, Cymbidium goeringii, CAPTION COMPETITION 1 and CAPTION COMPETITION 2.

I think they were probably saying rude things about the photographer!

[Brian Ellis]

Thanks to you both for this outing to the show, wonderful plants and a ver nice frit. Diane, well done.

[Ian Y]

Thank you Martin and Diane for the wonderful pictures from Cleveland - it is almost as good as being there.
The time taken by formists to post pictures from the shows is a very valuable resource for plant lovers from around the world who cannot get to the shows - some will never have been at a show.

Diane your frit is very beautiful and I suspect it is near to F. crassifolia but I could not see the distinctive linear nectaries that would indicate that species when I saw it at Blackpool - I did not think you would have appreciated me pulling a flowers apart.

[shelagh]

Super pictures, thanks to Diane and Martin.  By the way Martin your second picture of Brian and Diane was obviously taken after the pub lunch.

[Lvandelft]

Thanks to you both Diane and Martin.
I've seen a beautiful show this way.

[Martinr]

Shelagh, I'm just trying to figure out if Diane is actually sucking her thumb! (pictures are undoubtedly post pub)

Diane, I think Ian's inviting you to dissect a flower and post the pictures, there's a challenge.