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Re: EAST LANCS AGS Show 21 March 2009
« Reply #30 on: March 22, 2009, 04:56:23 PM »
It was a brilliant day and my feet are still reminding me that I was on them for most of it. 70 exhibitors and about 700 plants, couldn't be better, a few days of sunshine had brought everything out.  It was interesting that there were a lot of different plants from those at Blackpool the week before.  Totally exhausting though especially since the table firm had it down for the following week.  Though to give them their due they did load up and make to the show hall from Southport for 7pm.  Several of the set-up team were eyeing a couple of sofa's in the foyer in case they were even later than that.  Still despite everything Carol and her team had everything ready on time. As we say every Saturday morning from March to whenever 'IT'S SHOW TIME' (quotation from Jim Carrey in 'The Mask').
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Re: EAST LANCS AGS Show 21 March 2009
« Reply #31 on: March 22, 2009, 05:25:20 PM »
Super pictures from a great show. I like the shows. Thanks.
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Re: EAST LANCS AGS Show 21 March 2009
« Reply #32 on: March 22, 2009, 05:52:00 PM »
My sincere thanks to the skillful photographers for taking me to such
a beautiful show !
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Re: EAST LANCS AGS Show 21 March 2009
« Reply #33 on: March 22, 2009, 09:00:28 PM »
Quote from: Carol Shaw on March 21, 2009, 10:19:33 PM
Quote from: maggiepie on March 21, 2009, 09:44:57 PM
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?

WOW!!! But you're right of course. It's at the big "expo" type things that the plants get sold off afterwards, so that the exhibitors don't have to take them all home; stuff propagated especially for the event; quick-growing and soon to be common as muck since such events are nothing but advertising for the hort industry and a showcase for what is about to hit the unsuspecting market in billions, propagated for 20 cents each and sold for $25.
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Re: EAST LANCS AGS Show 21 March 2009
« Reply #34 on: March 22, 2009, 09:43:23 PM »
Many more to post ... a few more this evening.


Dionysia zetterlundii
Down the showbench
Dramatic Frit' imperialis
Farrer Medal plant
Farrer Medal close-up
Fritillaria bucharica
Frit' close-up
Frit' close-up 3   Fritillaria x aff. pineticola
Fritillaria davidii
Full length fritillaria

« Last Edit: January 20, 2010, 01:35:10 PM by Maggi Young »
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Re: EAST LANCS AGS Show 21 March 2009
« Reply #35 on: March 22, 2009, 09:50:43 PM »
Next batch from East Lancs ...

Fritillaria gibbosa
Fritillaria hermonis
Saxifraga oppositifolia - Best in B for first time exhibitor, Norman Davies from Bacup
From stage
Incredible colour
Iris nusariensis 2
Miniature garden exhibit by forum members Mike and Mandy McLoughlin
Narcissus
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Re: EAST LANCS AGS Show 21 March 2009
« Reply #36 on: March 22, 2009, 09:53:49 PM »
Oh Cliff, how could you NOT look for the name of the stunning orange frit? ???
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Re: EAST LANCS AGS Show 21 March 2009
« Reply #37 on: March 22, 2009, 10:15:47 PM »
An incredible display and I thank warmly the exhibitors and especially the photographers. The show "staff" who arrange it all are true heroes. Surely this must be one of the best ever show years in the UK?
« Last Edit: March 23, 2009, 12:44:38 AM by Lesley Cox »
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Re: EAST LANCS AGS Show 21 March 2009
« Reply #38 on: March 22, 2009, 10:19:30 PM »
Further batch for this evening ...

Narcissus rupicola
Pretty tulip
Primula 'Pink Aire'
Pterostylis 'Nodding Grace'
Saxifraga 'Red Poll'
Saxifraga 'Dawn Frost'
Saxifraga dinnikii
Saxifraga Lismore Carmine
Beautiful shrubs
Three fritillarias
« Last Edit: March 22, 2009, 11:16:41 PM by Maggi Young »
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Re: EAST LANCS AGS Show 21 March 2009
« Reply #39 on: March 22, 2009, 10:25:25 PM »
Quote from: Lesley Cox on March 22, 2009, 09:53:49 PM
Oh Cliff, how could you NOT look for the name of the stunning orange frit? ???

Lesley ... stay calm, stay calm ... your travelling photographer will not let you down ...


Fritillaria x aff. pineticola


More images tomorrow ... the best are yet to come!   ;D
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Re: EAST LANCS AGS Show 21 March 2009
« Reply #40 on: March 23, 2009, 12:52:07 AM »
Well thanks Cliff. You always come up trumps. The name is something of a conundrum though as pineticola is a synonym for bithynica so this is presumably a hybrid close to bithynica then? Mmmm. Whatever, a stunning colour.
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Lesley Cox - near Dunedin, lower east coast, South Island of New Zealand - Zone 9

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Re: EAST LANCS AGS Show 21 March 2009
« Reply #41 on: March 23, 2009, 07:14:12 AM »
Hi Lesley,
The relevant label in full - hope this helps?
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Cliff Booker
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Re: EAST LANCS AGS Show 21 March 2009
« Reply #42 on: March 23, 2009, 08:07:43 AM »
Thank you all for showing us these beautiful displays on the full benches.
I enjoyed it very much.
Looking at those huge clay pots, Lancashire people must have stong backs!
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Re: EAST LANCS AGS Show 21 March 2009
« Reply #43 on: March 23, 2009, 10:35:12 AM »
You are most welcome, Luit ...

Just a few more to post this morning and then ten 'nice' shots later ...

Three super sax's
Trillium rivale
Tulipa linifolia Lilliput
Viola spathulata
Woodsia
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Re: EAST LANCS AGS Show 21 March 2009
« Reply #44 on: March 23, 2009, 10:46:10 AM »
Little Ollie is playing quietly on the sofa at the moment so I probably have just enough time to post my final ten shots from East Lancashire Show 2009 ...

Hope you have enjoyed these glimpses of such a wonderful show ...

Benthamiella
Fritillaria davidii close-up
Fritillaria close-up
Fritillaria crassifolia
Iris close-up
Iris graeberiana
Iris nusariensis
Narcissus close-up
Scilla melaina
Tuliip close-up
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