Malvern show 9th May 2009

[Mick McLoughlin]

Just got back from a long day at the Malvern show, 4:00 o'clock start this morning. So just a couple of shots of the benches and one of the Farrer winning Androsace from Claire Oates.

[ranunculus]

Many thanks Mick ... excellent images.  Congratulations to Claire, a beautiful androsace.

[Mick McLoughlin]

A few more pics ready now:
Again no particular order, and just ones that caught my eye.
3 plants from one continent
Podophylum delavayi
Dianthus squarossus
6 rock plants distinct
Pleione el pico
Sedum furfuraceum
Primula frasisca
Lewisias
Lewisia columbiana
Lewisia cotyledon

[David Nicholson]

Lovely pics Mick, I didn't make it to Malvern this year. Any prizes??

[Mick McLoughlin]

Lewisia cotyledon 'sunset strain'
One for Cliff Ranunculus oreophilus and close up
Saxifraga cebennensis
Cypripedium pubescens
Podophylum delavayi with flowers
Cypripedium calceolus and close up
Silene hookerii ssp. the subspecies was named but couln't read it off my pic of the label
Celmisia species

[Rob]

Thanks for the pics Mick.

I went to the Malvern Show on Friday, so missed the alpines on Saturday.

[Maggi Young]

Lovely photos, Mick; don't know how you managed so well when the show hall looks like a dark chicken shed!
Super Celmisia gracilenta...so cute!

[Mick McLoughlin]

Thanks David. We had 2 firsts in Section C, foliage and Lewisia, and a number of seconds.

Orchid I didn't get the name of and a close up.
Cypripedium fargessi and close up
Corokia cotoneaster
Rhododendron Polaris
Rhododendron Sarled and close up
This weeks longest name entrant Chamaecyparis obtusa yatsubusa chirinen
Sempervivum class

[hadacekf]

Many thanks Mick ... super images.

[Mick McLoughlin]

I was a dark chicken shed Maggi, Agricultural show hall actually. The camera was still set up with the automatic flash from Mel's prom in the week. It seemed to work OK so I left it on.

Sempervivum arachnoideum
and a close up for the entry of hardest jigsaw puzzle picture.
Mini garden winner
Helichrysum sessiloides
Smallest plant in the show? Amistostigma keiskei
Serapias x gofreyi and close up
Arisaema ringens
Myosotis albosericea
Cyclamen peloponnesiacum

[Mick McLoughlin]

Arisaema sp
Cushion plants
Dionysia servestanica and the winner of the hardest jigsaw puzzle picture as a close up.
In the rare in cultivation class Notothlaspi rosulatum also with notes.
Also in the same class Nototriche macleanii
Narcissus 'Solveig's song'
Aethionema kotschyi

[Mick McLoughlin]

Finally for all you Section C fans out there, and all those thinking about entering in future shows (you know you want to):
Section C entries
Section C foliage class
Section C Lewisia
Section C rock plant in flower
Section C 3 pan class.

[Carol Shaw]

Lovely photos, Mick; don't know how you managed so well when the show hall looks like a dark chicken shed!
Super Celmisia gracilenta...so cute!

Mick, many thanks for the pix. as Maggi says the 'Show Hall' looks like a chicken shed or cattle byre... What were the organisers thinking of bunging wonderful plants in there 

Oh... and thanks for all the photos - much appreciated

[Giles]

Thankyou very much for the photographs - we all appreciate it 

[ranunculus]

Exceptional images, Mick ... and WHAT a superb Notothlaspi rosulatum from Paul and Gill ... SO envious.