EDINBURGH AND THE LOTHIANS SHOW 4th April 2009

[Maggi Young]

Going to continue with pix from staging or judging......
 The Judges were Julia Corden, Ian Christie,  Harley Milne, Sandy Leven, John Lee, Barry Caudwell .
 Reserve judges were David Millward and John Mitchell .  Show Secretaries are the Doctors Carole and Ian Bainbridge, of course.
Stewards were Alan Thomson ( whose wife , Jane was equally busy through at the Club plant stall), Ian Pryde, Frazer Henderson and Struan Harley.
Tallying the points were Ken East and Stan da Prato ......
Ian Y and I were taking photos.....
 click the pix to enlarge....

[Maggi Young]

on with the hall and judging......

click on the pictures to enlarge them.....

[Maggi Young]

a few more till we get to more plants!
 

click on the pictures to enlarge them.....

[Maggi Young]

I'm still going....... finishing with the judging.... later in the day came the presentation of trophies......
 stewards Alan Thompson  and Ian Pryde
 stwards and judges.jpg
 stewards Struan Harley and Frazer Henderson
 Ian announces web.jpg
 Ed. group Treasurer , Mike Hicks
 Pres. Ian gets a cup
 presentation to Squirrel
 Stan da Prato prize.jpg
 Sue and Hector Riddell
 Tom Green wins prize

[Brian Ellis]

Excellent pictures all, I feel as though I was there with you

[Maggi Young]

keep clicking those pix to see the enlarged versions....
 Sorry if some of these are duplicates of the earlier posting of others but it is hard to keep a check! 

3 Trillium rivale forms
 a narcissus class
 across the bench
 Androsace baltistanica
 Androsace muscoidea
 Androsace vandellii
 bench2
 bench 3
 3 pan class

[Maggi Young]

keep clicking those pix to see the enlarged versions....

 Some Ranunculaceae.....

 and some exibitors have different ideas about what to call the same plant.....

 Anemone  thalictroides Oscar Schoaf
 Ian and Carole  Bainbridge's  Adonis
 large flowered Paraquilegia  anemonoides grown by Sam Sutherland
 ranunculaceae
 Ranunculus abnormis  from Henry and Margaret Taylor
 Ranunculus crenatus
 Androsace laevigata GBG form
 Douglasia laevigata

[Lvandelft]

Lovely pictures and very interesting to see so many persons where already heard or
read about. Almost like being there, which reminds me of the beautyful flower paintings,
very good I was not there   

We've had an offer of Leadership from Sir Fred Goodwin, late of RBS, Cliff, but we thought we could do better without his help!

Where did I hear about RBS ?? Cannot remember, must be senior moments..    

[Maggi Young]

and still they come.....

Arum creticum
 bench2.
 bench Frit tubiformis
 bench Primula 'Stuart Boothman'
 bench view.
 bench view 2.
 bench view trillium.
 more Trillium.
 large trillium.
 Trillium 1

[Maggi Young]

keep clicking those pix to see the enlarged versions....

 Benthamiella patagonica close up
 Cassiope lycopodiodes
 catching the sun
 Cyril LaFong  three pans
 Celmisia hookeri
 New Zealanders including Aciphylla hookeri .... from Jean Wyllie
 now for.... Erigeron hookeri
 conifer corner
Draba bertolonii bench
 'Dyke' with rose gold ooffle dust

[Maggi Young]

keep clicking those pix, Folks!

 A sweet Corydalis angustifolia alba from Section 2
Erica 'Wintersun'   and Prunus
 frit and tulip colours
 group in the sunshine
 Haquetia  epipactis  'Thor'
 Haquetia epipactis
 Jeffersonia dubia alba.... truly pristine and very beautiful
 A three pan entry from the Taylors

[ashley]

Thank you everyone for these wonderful show reports
They are greatly appreciated by those of us at a distance.

[Maggi Young]

You'll see that there were a LOT of bulbs at the show ....... not all bulbs though.....

minigarden Stan da Prato
 minigarden Watt Nicholl...silly me that's a folk singer... I mean Watt Russell
 frit and tulip colours
 more daffs
 more narcissus
 N. 'Twin Stars'  shown by Jean W and raised in New Zealand!!
 narcissus bench
 tulip bench
 tulip close
 Sarcocapnos enneaphylla

[Maggi Young]

next a Saxifraga or two.......
 A lovely Saxifraga georgei from Sue and Hector Riddell
 Saxifraga ' Redpoll' ... I think this from Tom Green?
and
 Sebaea thomasii
 Santolina  'Lemon Fizz'

and some rhodos......
R. cephalanthum crebrifolium
R. dendrocharis Glendoick form
R. 'Snipe'
rhodos

Pulsatilla pratensis... a lovely plant
Pulsatilla vulgaris

[Maggi Young]

muscari now.......