AGS Midland Show at Solihull on 18th APRIL 2009

[ranunculus]

More later, when the sun goes in ...

Uvularia grandiflora
Veronica ochtensis
Vibrant

[Diane Clement]

Fully recovered yet Diane? 

No, pretty tired still!  It usually takes me a day to recover from a show.
Thanks to Cliff and Giles for showing their pictures, it gives me chance to see plants I didn't see on the day (how can that be possible, I wonder?  but after my 7th show this year, there is only one show in which I have seen all the plants on the show benches and that was Chesterfield, where I was show reporter and was "allowed" in during judging).   

Good to meet everyone, lots of forumists there. 

[ChrisB]

Thanks everyone, lovely pics, looks like it was a great show!  Well done to all the hard working organisers....

[Pete Clarke]

Just the 2 decent pics of palnts that took my eye out of a superb show.
primula maximowiczii.
Wurmbea recurva.

[ranunculus]

Lovely images Pete ... many thanks for posting ...

A few more from me this evening.

ASARUM MAXIMUM
CORREA MANNII
CYPRIPEDIUM FOLIAGE
CYPRIPEDIUM FORMOSANUM
FABIANA FOLIOSA
FABIANA CLOSE-UP
FRITILLARIA BENCH
RAMONDA NATHALIAE
SOLDANELLA HUNGARICA
SUNLIGHT THROUGH PTEROSTYLIS

[ranunculus]

SECOND BATCH

SUNLIT PAEONY
TULIPA WHITTALLII
ANCHUSA CAESPITOSA
CASSIOPE BADENOCH
CASSIOPE LYCOPODIOIDES
CYPRIPEDIUM MACRANTHOS
CYPRIPEDIUM MACRANTHOS CLOSE-UP
RANUNCULUS x ARENDSII CLOSE-UP
RHODODEDRON IMPEDITUM
RHODODENDRON PATTY BEE

[ranunculus]

THIRD BATCH


SALIX RETUSA
THREE PAN FOLIAGE
AQUILEGIA GRAHAMII CLOSE-UP
ARISAEMA CLOSE-UP
BENCH COLOUR 2
BENCH COLOUR 3
BRIAN AND JO WALKER TAKING A WELL-EARNED REST
CALANTHE
CALCEOLARIA CLOSE-UP
CLEMATIS 'YLVA'

[ranunculus]

BATCH FOUR   ...    MORE LATER

CYPRIPEDIUM
DAPHNE THREE PAN
DODECATHEON
ERITRICHIUM HOWARDII
IRIS CLOSE-UP
LEWISIA CLOSE-UP
MARTIN ROGERSON TAKING IMAGES - IVOR BETTERIDGE SMILING
NARCISSUS OBESEUS
NARCISSUS CLASS
NARCISSUS SOLVEIGS SONG

[Diane Clement]

MARTIN ROGERSON TAKING IMAGES - IVOR BETTERIDGE SMILING 

This picture also contains another registered forumist ... 

by the way, is Martin photographing his hand here? 

[ranunculus]

My apologies Di ... I haven't been introduced!

Martin thought it was a hardy palm. 

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Another fabulous show ! What a load of cracking plants !! 

Thanks for the wonderful pix Cliff and Giles, you make me feel even more sorry that Solihull is out of 'hopping range"..  - should make it a two day's hop... perhaps next year ... 

Giles, you seem to be driving around the odd mile or so to visit the shows... did you already miss one this season ?? 
You must have felt quite at home amongst all these glorious Daphne !

Thanks again for sharing !

[ranunculus]

Thanks Luc ... a few more to post while little Ollie slumbers in his push-chair ...

ORCHID ARRAY
OXALIS LACINIATA CLOSE-UP
PENSTEMON CLOSE-UP
PHLOX
PLEIONE CLASS
Primula Coolock Violet
Ranunculus bilobus
and close-up
Three pan exhibit
Trillium ozarkianum

[Lvandelft]

Another fabulous show ! What a load of cracking plants !! 

Right so it is!!!

[Ragged Robin]

A feast for the eyes - just amazing, such a range of perfect plants 

[ranunculus]

Many thanks Luit and Robin...

We have an East Lancashire AGS Group meeting this evening ... featuring a lively lecture by NOT ONLY John Dower BUT ALSO Shelagh Smethurst, so no more images to be posted tonight apart from these two photos captured during the presentation speeches.
It's strange, but all show prize-givings look like religious festivals ...

Jim Almond, Brian Russ and John Harrison.  What hymns are being sung?