EAST LANCS AGS Show 21 March 2009

[vivienr]

I only had an old camera to take to the show so most of my pictures were too blurred to post.
I put these here merely to whet your appetites for the proper photographers who are probably exhausted after the show.

It was a lovely day with a wonderful display in an excellent venue. Very good homemade cakes too.

Well done to everyone involved.

[David Shaw]

How did anybody carRy that Sedum into the show hall? It should have been dropping bits all over the place!

[Paddy Tobin]

Good job, Vivien. Many thanks, Paddy

[Mick McLoughlin]

A picture of Mandy's mini-garden to start Vivien, she will be pleased.
A close up of the Farrer winner Primula allionii 'Crusader'
sorry I didn't catch the exhibitors name.
A good day was had in a splendid venue, congratulations to the organisation team again. Even through their 'trials & tribulations'.

[Mick McLoughlin]

As Vivien says there were a large number of plants on display. With all 4 rows of tables full.
The last couple of shows we've been to Saxifrage seemed to be dominant, but as the season changes, for me, the Primulas nudged in front this week. As displayed by the Farrer winner and the large number on the benches.
3 pan Primula distinct section.
But their was a great variety and something for all tastes (including the selection of home made cakes).
Foliage plants
Sempervivum and sedum
and cut flowers.
Not to mention mini-gardens

[maggiepie]

Wonderful plants and pics.
Am wondering if there is such a thing as a show where the winning plants get auctioned off after the event, it occurred to me nobody would want to win 
No shows around here as you can most likely guess.

[ranunculus]

Thanks Vivien, Helen and Mick for your kind words about the East Lancashire Show and our 'new' venue (to which we have eagerly returned after twenty years).
The day proved a tremendous success for Carol Kellett and her magnificent team and, as you probably suspected, I have a host of images captured on the day that I will post when the aches and overwhelming tiredness have waned.  Just one image at the moment of proud Farrer Medal winners; Mike and Christine Brown.

Congratulations to everyone involved in the show and our thanks to exhibitors, helpers, nurserymen, judges and organisers for their magnificent efforts on the day and, especially, last evening at a very traumatic setting up (of which more later).

[Maggi Young]

Vivien and Mick, what a display of photos, terrific, thanks!  
I hope I won't be casting a jinx on the upcoming shows, but it seems to me from what we have seen on the benches of the shows so far this year, that the displays are bigger and better than ever!

Goes to  demonstrate how sturdy the show tables need to be, doesn't it?  

 I must say that I  do not know that Primula variety 'Crusader' ... what a super colour and a magnificent plant ..... but then again, it comes, I discover , from the Browns...... they are very fine growers, of course.

[Maggi Young]

Wonderful plants and pics.
Am wondering if there is such a thing as a show where the winning plants get auctioned off after the event, it occurred to me nobody would want to win  No shows around here as you can most likely guess.

 Helen, that crashing noise was the sound of hundreds of exhibitors fainting at the very notion!! 

[ranunculus]

Just one more image tonight, Saxifraga 'Peach Melba' ... lovely colour, awful name ... off to bed to dream!

[Carol Shaw]

Wonderful plants and pics.
Am wondering if there is such a thing as a show where the winning plants get auctioned off after the event, it occurred to me nobody would want to win 
No shows around here as you can most likely guess.

You do want us to put our precious plant babies on the benches??? The very idea of someone bidding for one of our plants [never mind Squirrel's, Fred Hunt's, The Taylors', the Bainbridges' and others I could name] makes my blood run cold! What would be the point of taking years and years and years to bring a plant to the point of perfection to have it win a first and see it auctioned off to some oink who hadn't got a clue how to keep it alive but had a long pocket?

[Diane Clement]

I actually managed a "few" pictures today 

The walk to the lunch time pub was up hill through historic Whitworth's cobbled streets.  Here Peter Farkasch striding out with Tony Lee getting there eventually.     

[Diane Clement]

A couple of general views of the show bench.  Not only was this a good primula show, it was a good Primula Broadwell Milkmaid show.  The first picture shows that this plant almost needs its own class as there were so many exhibits of it.

[Diane Clement]

A ramdom selection of plants that caught my eye
Anemone caucasica

[Diane Clement]

Pieris nana 'Redshank' (although usually exhibited under its old name Arcterica)
Rhododendron forrestii Tumescens Group - what a colour!
Rhododendron petrocharis