SRGC Perth Show 20th April 2019

[Maggi Young]

The  Perth Show  will be  in the  Bells Sports  Centre, Hay  Street , Perth on 23rd April 2019





 All Welcome!!

[Maggi Young]

You may remember  this  post  from the  Stirling Show in Dunblane  thread ....
Can I bring this urgent  note to the attention of readers  and show-goers:
The following plants were taken from the showbench by mistake - Narcissus Ballet Girl, Senecio leucophyllus, ( silvery  foliage)  Synthyris stellata, (round  leaves, blue spire  of  flowers) these were in a cardboard box belonging to M& H Taylor - please can they be returned to Edinburgh Show.  


Sadly  there was  no return of the plants  at  Edinburgh, but  Margaret and  Henry  Taylor  would  like it  known that they will attend the  Perth Show - so if  anyone  found "extra" plants  in their  car  after the  Stirling Show, the Taylors will be  delighted to have them returned  in Perth.
 This is the  pot  of  Narcissus  'Ballet Girl' which was one  of the three plants that went  missing - it  is the  Taylor's own hybrid....

[Maggi Young]

One  plant that will not  be  at  Perth today - this  lovely  Lewisia tweedyi  from Sue  Simpson Watt -


 - George Watt has  hurt  his knee and the two of them are  confined to home for him to recover - get well soon, George!!

[Maggi Young]

A couple  of the  plants  that are  in Perth - on the  sales stand  of  Ardfearn Nursery...


Primul modesta fauriae



Iris  schachtii, purple  form

[Maggi Young]

RBGEdinburgh Alpine  Dept.  has  prepared a dispay  for the  Perth Show  - here are  some  photos  from Petra Palkova ....
at the  potting shed  in  Edinburgh, with  Scott  Cook and  John Mitchell....


at the  Show  ...







 Lovely  display - thanks  to Petra for these  photos!

[Maggi Young]

Super pot of Pleione 'Tongariro' wins Forrest Medal (Best in Show) for Francis & Margaret Higgins in Perth.
 Photo from  SRGC President  Julia  Corden   


Beautiful pot  of  orchids! Well done, Francis and  Margaret!  A reward  for your  long  journey  from  Berriedale!
 

[Stan da Prato]

Snaps of winners. The Higgins also won the Dundas Quaich for class 2,three plants from  different genera and the travelling Alpines  2001 trophy for  a cushion plant. Alan Weepers won the bulb trophy with Muscari Siberian Tiger and the Perth Trophy for most  points by a Perth group member. David Millward's  Rhododendron  dendrocharis Glendoick Gem that won at Edinburgh last week took the Cox Rhodo trophy.

[Stan da Prato]

Graeme Butler's hybrid primula won the Murray Lyon trophy for a resident  in the Tayside area. Sheila McNulty won a bronze medal, the John Duff prize for best plant in section 2 and the Perth Salver for most points in section 2. Your correspondent won the Alexander Caird Trophy for class 1 six pans , the Bobby Masterton trophy for an Asiatic primula and the Middleton trophy for most firsts in the open section

[David Nicholson]

So, Primula 'Celtic Maiden' has moved from being White to Yellow between Sandy's Perth report of 15 April 2017 and Stan's report today? Surely not

[Maggi Young]

Tempted to say it's  any  girl's  prerogative to change her  mind, David - but perhpas this  needs  checking! 

[Maggi Young]

I am grateful to the editor of  the  SRGC journal The  Rock Garden, for this  lovely  photo from Perth today - I really  must include  his  comments, also .......

"Dear All
This may amuse you. I think it is a lovely picture of some of the Perth Show ladies … or of some of the Perth Show lovely ladies … or of some of the lovely Perth Show ladies? Perhaps all of them! (An editor never sleeps).

Regards

Anton "


Nicola, Joyce, Heather, Ann and  Margaret

[Stan da Prato]

Nick Boss won The Joyce Halley Award for a plant raised  from  seed with his Townsendia.
A view of all the trophies

[Maggi Young]

So, Primula 'Celtic Maiden' has moved from being White to Yellow between Sandy's Perth report of 15 April 2017 and Stan's report today? Surely not

 Got  this  info from  Graeme and  Hilary  Butler, who raised  both 'Celtic Maiden' and the  "imposter" as  it  now  seems, in Sandy's  2017 report!

"The plant in photo from 2017 was most likely Sue Watt's : Graeme had wrongly labelled a couple of plants in 2016, when recovering from a serious bout of swine flu. He alerted her to this mistake. The plant in that pic is our P. 'Late Frost'  which is also featured correctly in that report ( on  page  11) . 'Celtic Maiden' also appears correctly in Primula 3 pan class in same report. "

 So, case solved!!

[Maggi Young]

Sandy Leven's  report  on the  Forrest  medal plant  -and Francis  and  Margie  Higgins .....

http://files.srgc.net/Showreports/Perth-Forrest2019.pdf

[Stan da Prato]

First two benches.