SRGC/AGS Hexham Show 14th April 2018

[Maggi Young]

[Maggi Young]

[Maggi Young]

[Maggi Young]

[Maggi Young]

Many thanks for the photos, Alan!

[veteran vet]

some lovely pictures there from Alan Gardner, saves me posting some of my pictures though i will add where I can put in names and exhibitors. Was a nice show, blessed by good weather....actually had sunshine...and what I would have said was a reasonable number of general public through the doors and the sales tables seemed to sell what I hope was a fair amount of stuff.
I intend to post pictures starting from Class 1 on as that is how I took them...except there was no entries in class 1 so start with 2....Stan da Prato was a big miss both from the entries point of view and his photography, hope he is getting better steadily.
Class 2 from Don Peace, made up pf Corydalis solida ssp incisa, Primula 'Broadwell Milkmaid' and Callianthemum anemonoides
Primula 'Coy' from David Millward (3). Although he listed the breeding I am pretty sure it should be HME 443-87, from Margaret Earle who raised it
Androsace laevigata from Frank and Barbara Hoyle (4)
Primula 'Netta Dennis' from Joan Bradbury (6), she had some lovely specimens throughout the show
Androsace muscoidea breviscapa from me (....judges said it was a poor form

[veteran vet]

Dionysia 'Orion' from John Bunn (11) and here he is admiring plants with Barry Winter
Primula odontocalyx 'Snow Flurries' from Ian Christie (6)
Draba longisiliqua from Tommy Anderson, and here he is (will have to be at him about that look!!)

[veteran vet]

Hymenoxis torreyana from me in 13, had a job getting the flowers open as light so poor of late, spent some time in the house
Corydalis decipiens from Rod and Hillary Price (14)
Saxifraga retusa spp augustana won the Forrest Medal for Alan Furness, a splendid specimen. Alan also won the Eric Watson prize at the show with 3 celmisia
Narcissus rupicola watieri 'Abaleish' from Carole and Ian Bainbridge (20) .... sorry not the best picture

[veteran vet]

Tulipa heweri from Clare Oates (21) certainly brightened up the benches
Fritillaria yumminensis roseoflora (22) got an Award of Merit from the Joint Rock...again from me
Primula elatior ssp pseudoelatior from John Richards (21) and here he is talking to Dave Riley
Trillium rivale from Cyril Lafong, a nice seed raised plant from 'Purple Heart' (26)

[veteran vet]

Pulsatilla ambigua from F&B Hoyle (27), they had
Pulsatilla vernalis  in (29) 
Primula elatior from Mike Dale (28). The Dale's also had a lovely display documenting a road trip round the North of Scotland showing plants, view and wild life...much admired
Asarum maximum from Bob Worsely (30)....there he is in the middle with the wife!!.He is running the new East Cheshire AGS show this year, hopes they get good entries

[veteran vet]

Just realised this is listed as the 2017 show but the pictures shown at the start are all of the 2018 show, now see there is another Hexham Show 2018 been started...will just plod on, let the powers that be sort if they can
Class 50, known as the Small Six, winner takes an AGS Medal. Two fine entries but neither got a Red Sticker so Sue Simson (entry of the right) was second and Don Peace third. Some of the plants were
Dioysia 'Marika' from SS
Plieone 'Ueli Wackernagel' (DP)......am wackernageled just writing it out a few times!!
Callianthemum anemonoides (DP)
Soldanella alpina alba from Cliff Booker (55)

[Maggi Young]

Well spotted about the date, George!
Great photos - you had some  super plants as usual - and thanks for the  people pix as well!

[veteran vet]

Two plants in class 54 from Don Peace
Androsace vandellii and
Dionysia khuzistanica
Primula henrici from Peter Hood (44) he had a few at the show all very nice
A view down the Open bench from Class 1 on...not the best of shots but
Hepatica 'Millstream Merlin' from Dave Riley (69)

[veteran vet]

Maggie,I cannot understand how I missed it from the start, just saw Hexham and there was the right poster when I opened the posts up so never mind, you sorted it.
A run of Primula now
Primula juliae from Brian Burrow (57)
Primula albenensis from Ian Kidman (57)...is the real thing
Primula 'Loisach' from Alan Spenceley (58)...will have to be after him for a bit!!
Primula 'Broxbourne' from Clare Oates, won the class (59) against a big entry
Middle bench at the show, the Open small pans

[Maggi Young]

Better to ask how I got the date wrong in the first place, George!! 

Does anyone know what  Loisach means (is it a place perhaps?) in the  name    Primula 'Loisach' ?

edit to add .... had a rootle around  wikipaedia - which tells me :
The Loisach is a river that flows through Tyrol, Austria and Bavaria, Germany. Its name is Celtic in origin, from Proto-Celtic *lawo and *iskā, both of which mean "water."

The Loisach is a 113 km long left tributary to the Isar. The source of the Loisach is near Ehrwald in Austria. The Loisach flows past Garmisch-Partenkirchen and into the Kochelsee. At the Kochelsee the water that was diverted from the upper river Isar for power generation at the Walcheseekraftwerk joins the Loisach. The Loisach then flows out of Kochelsee and joins the Isar at Wolfratshausen. A canal joins the Isar and the Loisach returning the water diverted for power generation to the Isar before Wolfratshausen to reduce the risk of flooding in the town.

 Seems reasonable!