AGS Caerleon Show Feb 14th

[Rob]

I had a look at the Caerleon AGS show today. Here are the first pictures.

The best plant was iris 'katharine hodgkin'

The best galanthus was 'ketton'

& the best crocus was biflorus nubigena from SW Turkey.

[Maggi Young]

Some super looking plants there ,Rob.  The buns look suitably delicious.

How was the weather?

[Rob]

The weather was quite cold & overcast, but there were plenty of hot drinks in the canteen. I noticed most of the big cushion plants weren't in flower, they must be later due to the weather.

Some of the plants which caught my eye are attached.

cyclamen alpinum
corydalis popovii
scilla siberica
iris hyrcana
galanthus transcaucasicus
galanthus plicatus
galanthus whittington

[hadacekf]

Super pictures from an interesting show. Thanks

[Rob]

The next batch that I've resized

primula hybrid 'chris norton'
scilla mischtschenkoana
dionysia mozaffarianii
dionysia 'peter edwards'
tulipa amana edulis
dionysia amethyst
primula 'anna griffith'
dionysia zdenek zvolanck
dionysia afghanica
dionysia gnom

[Lesley Cox]

Lovely plants though I'm not sure that I like the white gravel around the inner pots of Dionysia. In fact, I'm sure I don't!

What I DO like very much is that mobile cake cart. It would make a very useful potting table.

[johnw]

Some of the plants which caught my eye are attached.

Superb Rob.

What was the first snowdrop labelled #5, also cyclamen #8?

johnw

[Anthony Darby]

Lovely plants though I'm not sure that I like the white gravel around the inner pots of Dionysia. In fact, I'm sure I don't!

What I DO like very much is that mobile cake cart. It would make a very useful potting table.

I don't like that either Lesley. Far better to use the same gravel all over.

[Rob]

The cake cart was very popular as the cakes were only 50 pence per slice.

The last of my photos, if anyone else went hopefully they will add to the thread.

eranthis pinnatifida could only manage third!
calanthemum kernerianum
dactylorhiza romana
narcissus
hyacinthoides aristidis
fritillaria sewerzowii
daphne jezoensis
daphne ?
narcissus cantabricus eualbidus
merendera sobolifera

[johnw]

White gravel looks good nowhere, not even in fish tanks.

johnw

[Anthony Darby]

Gosh, that Merendera sobolifera looks much better that the straggly things that appear in my pot!

[Rob]

What was the first snowdrop labelled #5, also cyclamen #8?

I'm not sure what they are, I try and get the label in the photo or photograph the label separately with a little of the plant on the next shot, but failed with these.

The snowdrop is a plicatus, but I don't remember if it was a named cultivar.

[johnw]

  The buns look suitably delicious.

You would see them and Lesley the whole cart.


Reminds me of when I worked at Oldenburg's in Munich and a little lady came around twice a day with a cartload of strawberry tortes topped with almond slices. She came straight to me without asking. They were almost too beautiful to eat.

johnw

[Anthony Darby]

What was the first snowdrop labelled #5, also cyclamen #8?

I'm not sure what they are, I try and get the label in the photo or photograph the label separately with a little of the plant on the next shot, but failed with these.

The snowdrop is a plicatus, but I don't remember if it was a named cultivar.

Looks very simlar to 'Sophie North'.

[ranunculus]

White gravel looks good nowhere, not even in fish tanks.

johnw

Looks superb in the Dolomites, John!