Hexham autumn show 2019

[Stan da Prato]

Some of the entries  laid out ready to load then found  a  red warning light on the Berlingo  so it's  in the garage and the plants are going nowhere. Frustrating! I hope  all who do make it have a good day. 

[Maggi Young]

Oh  no! What a  disappointment  - but  better safe than  sorry  with the  car  fault.  Beautiful array of  entries, Stan - they would  have  done  well and  given pleasure to the  show  visitors, I'm sure.

The  posters used  for  advertising the  show  ....





Like  Stan, I wish everyone  attending a  safe  journey  and a  fun day!

[Maggi Young]

Super photo from Peter Maguire of the Forrest Medal winning plant at today's Hexham alpine plant show - Crocus tournefortii grown by Alan Furness

[Maggi Young]

The  RHS Joint  Rock Plant  Committee has also awarded Alan Furness  with a  Cultural Commendation for that  lovely  pot of  crocus. 

[Maggi Young]

Yesterday was  Trevor  Jones' birthday - he had a  busy  day  helping out  at the  Hexham Show - but  - happily- still had  enough  puff  left  to  deal with the  candles  on his  cake  in the  evening  chez Newton!




Thanks  Alan Newton, Show  Secretary, for the photo!

[Maggi Young]

Christine  Boulby, known to many as the  SRGC  Subscription Secretary, always  enters   her  local shows and  yesterday she won the  best    plant in  Sect. 2, the  Newcastle  Trophy,  with this  Japanese  Saxifraga 'Fumiko'



 Christine  has  won this award  before too - a  good  habit to  be  making, eh?

[Maggi Young]

Pictures  from Christine  of  a  few  of the  plants  which took her  eye  at the  show  ....


Aylostera heliosa subsp. cajasensis grown by  John Dixon


Campanula  carpatha grown by  Alan Newton


Crocus  kotschyanaus subsp. kotschyanus from  Bob and  Rannveig  Wallis


Crocus tournefortii    - from Alan Furness


Cyclamen maritimum - from the  Wallises

[Maggi Young]

more  of  Christine's photos....


Ccyclamen maritimum - another  angle!


Cyclamen mirabile


 Cyclamen mirabile 'Tilebarn Nicholas'


Gaultheria crassus 'John Saxton'

[Maggi Young]

few more.... Thanks Christine!


Haemanthus albiflos


Pyrrosia sheareri


Shortia - grown by  George  Young


 Raoulia x leucogenes  ( natural hybrid)

[veteran vet]

Rather later in the day than I had planned to post a few pictures, glad Christine has made a start. No doubt all the exhibitors are glad the show was yesterday when at least there was no rain rather than today when it has rained non stop, I do not think I have ever seen my garden so wet, small streams and ponds all over the place.
I will do my usual pedantic post running through the show, plus a few general views.
First and second pictures are of the show scene, the empty spots on the tables were where we had left spaces for Stan's usual large entry, you were missed Stan.
Those expert exhibitors Bob and Rannveig Wallis had a very successful show, quite how they had room for so many plants in their car plus a trade stand!!
Class 1 from them Cyclamen Graecum ssp graecum, C. graecum ssp candidum and Oxalis speciosa
Class 4, Three Pan dwarf shrubs, won by Tom Green on left, second Alan Newton on right
Class 5, Fuchsia microphylla shown by David and Liz Livermore

[veteran vet]

Class 6, Juniperis horizontalis 'Neumann', shown by Don Peace
Class 7, 3 pan Cyclamen, won by B&R Wallis
Class 7 second was shown by Bob Worsely
Class 8, again from B&R Wallis earned them a Certificate of Merit with Cyclamen hederifolium ssp crassifolium
In the same class John Richards came second with Cyclamen hederifolium album, rather a nice specimen

[veteran vet]

Yet another Certificate of Merit for Bob and Rannveig was Cyclamen rohlfsianum, not seen it on the show bench in quite a while

Cyclamen hederifoium 'Silver Arrow' from Tommy Anderson (11), looking at the leaves you can see where the 'arrow' comes from

Three pans hardy ferns (12) shown by Rod and Hilary Price

Saxifraga fortunei 'Cherry Pie won class 14 for Tom Green (front right)

Class 15, 3 gentiana, won by John Richards

[veteran vet]

Class 19, again won by B&R Wallis with Cyclamen graecum ssp graecum, Biarum marmarisense and Oxalis lobata

Class 20, One Pan Bulbous

The class was won by Nerine masoniorum, from Tim Lever (back right)

The white flowered plant front left is
Colchicum speciosum album shown by Jacques Amand

The Forrest Medal plant exhibited by Alan Furness was Crocu tournfortii

[veteran vet]

Martin Hughes spent a lot of his time behind the show computer but still produced a plant I had never seen before
Haemanthus albiflos (24), did not earn a sticker but many people admired it

Flowering rather late in the year for me was
Cyananthus lobatus

Class 27, the autumn foliage class was won by Alan Newton with
Roscoea purpurea Royal Purple Group, certainly fitted the class

Celmisia spedenii won class 30 for me

Ozothamnus coralloides also did it for me in 31, winning the Millenium Trophy

[veteran vet]

Agapanthus 'Tinkerbell' won for Alan Newton (33)

Two winners for Barry Winter were
Symphoricarpos 'Coral' (35)
Sedum cauticolum (37), looked really good

Class 45, The Small Six was won by Bob and Rannveig with Oxalis speciosa, Cyclamens graecum graecum and maritmum, Colchicum cupannii ssp glossophyllum and Empodium flexile I know that's only 5 but I think the sixth had been removed for photogtaphy!!!)

At the back right Empodium flexile won the Patricia Furness Vase