AGS Harrogate Show 26 April 2008

[Maggi Young]

Hello, Les! Welcome to the Forum. Many congratulations on that lovely Farrer medal plant.
I'm sure you'll have no difficulty posting pix... a size of around 700 x 550 pixels is a good one for seeing without having to scroll acorss the screen.
 Ian will be waiting happily for your shots!

[Les Brown]

Here is a photo of E oregonum? Hopefully!
Cheers
Les

[Maggi Young]

What a lovely photo to begin with, Les! I see you have some sun today, too!

[Les Brown]

And dry, so far. I think i'll chance my luck again with another photo. This is from SRGC seed & is supposed to be E californicum, but it looks very similar to E origonum. (although it's bits are white).

[Ian Y]

Hi Les, welcome to the forum - I hope you will stick around and this will be the start of many posts of your fabulous plants.
Looking at your close in picture of your Erythronium oregonum I still suspect that it is a hybrid with E. californicum.

The filaments of  E. oregonum should be wide at the base and taper to the pollen end, like above,  but yours seem to be more or less of a similar width this would indicate another species is involved.
Your picture of E. californicum looks correct, apart from the white pollen that you point out look at the filaments the are narrow and the same width along their length -compare them with your Farrer Medal plant.

Check out the Erythronium thread for lots of pictures and discussion on E. oregonum and also some hybrids.

[Les Brown]

Thanks Ian. I think it might be prudent of me to continue this on another thread. Bulbs/Erythroniums maybe?
Cheers
Les

[David Nicholson]

Welcome Les, it's a cracking plant!

[Les Brown]

 ;DThanks David.

[Lesley Cox]

In the beautifully matched trio on page 3, Reply 30, what is the front plant please?

Lamium microphyllum introduced from Turkey by Robert Rolfe, and shown by Cecilia Coller

Thank you Diane. I wondered about L. armenum but what I could see of the label didn't seem to fit. One of my many "wants" but  probably never will haves.

[Diane Clement]

Welcome to the forum, Les, and congratulations on the Farrer last Saturday.  Shame you couldn't be there to revel in the glory!

[Peter Maguire]

I'm a bit late posting my plant pictures from Harrogate as I had to clear some space on the hard drive before my computer would process them.   Anyway, here's some of the plants that Diane, Mick and Sue didn't show you.....

Celmisia spedenii and C. semi-cordata aurigans
Androsace hirtella
Aquilegia canadensis
Arisaema engleri
Babiana angustifolia
Calanthe sieboldii
Calceolaria uniflora

[Peter Maguire]

Cymbidium goeringii (the form that Wilma & Jim Wright won the SGRC jubilee award with at Hexham)
Cymbidium goeringii longibracteata, which holds the flowers lower than the foliage
Dicentra peregrina
Erigeron aureus 'Canary Bird'
Fritillaria gentneri - with one or two seedlings in the pot!
Iris sari
Lamium armenum - this one's for Lesley

[Peter Maguire]

Lewisia tweedyii
Myositis albo-sericea
Plieone 'El Pico'
Primula petioletti
Saxifraga dinnikii
Saxifraga x malbyana
Viola pedata (my favourite plant at the show)

[Peter Maguire]

The great attration of the Harrogate show for me is the other plants that one can see, making a good day out. Here are some of the other diplays:
2 Pictures from the Slack Top nursery display (I've used flash here as I didn't take my tripod with me)
Part of the Bonsai society's display
Nepenthes and Sarracenia on the display from Hampshire Carniverous Plants
Australian (?) plants seem to be the speciality of a nursery which was new to me - The Old Wallled           Garden. These plants in the picture are maily Grevillea, I think
The Tulip show, with part of the Daffodil show in the backgound.

Peter

[Lesley Cox]

Thank you Peter for this latest collection and especially for the delicious Lamium. As the song says..."Someday, somehow, somewheeeeeere."