SRGC Aberdeen Show May 16th 2009

[Maggi Young]

batch 14 ....

 P5162487. Penstemon absarokensis from Cyril
 P5162488. Daphne petraea 'Tremalzo', Dionysia in foreground ; from Cyril
 P5162490. Penstemon acaulis ; from Cyril
 P5162490a. and again 
 P5162491. wee Celmisia philocremna 
 P5162492. Sedum pilosum from Nick Boss
 P5162493. Myosotidium hortense
 P5162494. Myosotidium hortense 2 : the Chatham Island Forget me not
 P5162495. Primula sieboldii.... from Mike Dale .

[Maggi Young]

batch 15.....

 P5162489. Cyril winning three pan, new rare or difficult, to win the Esslemont Quaich. Dionysia involucrata alba is the one at the front, Daphne and Penstemon behind.
 P5162496. Incarvillea zhongdianensis
 P5162497. Trillium luteum
 P5162498. part of Mike Hopkin's winning entry to Class Jubilee A (small six pan)
 P5162499 Edraianthus pumilio.  Mike Hopkins also won the trophy for most points in Section 1.
His wife, liz, won the Brian Bull award for winning   the twp pan clss 63 in  Section two, with a Gentiana acaulis and a Lewisia... pix elsewhere, I think.....

[Maggi Young]

Now for my, often rather fuzzy, pix.... people keep sneaking up behind me and poking me to make me.... and the camera, wobble! 

 01 Ian Young begins proceedings by adressing the Judges .... it's the only way some of them can find  their way home!! 
 02 judges  look a bit bemused...._did he really say that?
 03 John M and The Prez.
 04 section2 judges.
 05 RBGEa.
 06 RBGE b.
 07 ian balances on chair to take a pic.
 08 RBGE whole display
 09 Mike H six pan
 10 Cyril  Lafong's winning six pan : the Forrest medal plant is the fat panful of Cypripedium calceolus var pubescens in the centre.

[Maggi Young]

part two

11 judges in blurJohn Mitchell, Ian Christie Jean Wyllie
 12 Rhododendron  'Ermine', best rhodo in show for Stan da Prato
 13 double trillilums
 14 bench.jpg
 15 Scots natives
 16 bench2.jpg
 17 fuzzy Forrest medal plant
 18 Cyp. 'Sebastian'
 19 Cyp 'Rascal'. these three from Cyril
 20 Lewisia 'Joyce Halley' from M H.

[Maggi Young]

part three...

21 Lewisia columbiana MH
 22 RBGE combo Dactylorhiza and  Anisotome
 23 dact anisot combo  with flash
 24 Androsace bulleyana1
 25 Andro bulleyana2
 26 RBGE right side 1
 27 a moment of peace: Helen McGregor chats with a friend
 28 hall view: Luptons centre, James Meff, right towards back
 
 30 Jean Wyllie and Liz Mills, nominated to be our next President 

[Maggi Young]

part 4....

31 Helen is surrounded by Jean and Liz
 32 Allium akaka.
 33 trees Alan Weepers
 34 Frances McKelvie
 35 hall view 3
 36 last of Sect 2
 37 Epimedium  grandiflorum from  Lois Thompson
 38 painted fern Rosemary Lupton
 39 sect2 ranuncs class  Lesley Glasser's  Clematis 'Pixie'
 40 sect2 cyp calc  John  Owen from Askival

[Maggi Young]

part 5
 41 sect2 primulas  + John  Graham's winner
 42 prim eliz killalley
 43  2 pan sedums,  Roma's on the  right
 44  lewisias Struan Elspeth centre
 45 Telesonix jamesii.
 46 Petrophytum hendersoni
 47 Epimedium pinnatum colchicum.
 48 three  from China, Anne and Viv C.
 49 Mike Dale and  Barry Caudwell 
 50 bench with  wee Rhodo 'Sarled'

[Maggi Young]

part six.....

51 some need other diversions: Ian Doig reads a newspaper
 52 bench view  Carole B and Dr Rock to centre right; Pearl Dale and Heather far left
 53 clematis marmoraria b
 54 Myosotis  albosericea
 55 mecs  M. x cookei  in  foreground and M. punicea
 56 mec 2 M. punicea
 57 bench Primula sieboldii and Dianthus nivalis Mike Dale
 58 Townsendia incana
 59 Globularia  and Phlox ?
 60 silene and epimedium.

[Maggi Young]

part seven
61 Arisaema nepenthoides
 62 bench with Globuaria  Blue Bunnets
 63 rhodiola rosea.
 64 bench AT red ticket
 65 bench
 66 hall
 67 sales area
 68 cheery welcome at the door from Vilma and Lesley
 69 Hon. Pres. Bette Ivey  and John Mitchell
 70 Ian and Netta

[Maggi Young]

last part....

 71 RBGE Androsace bulleyana 2
 72 RBGE right side 1
 73 hall
 74 hall,  Roma Helen McG
 75 hall Luptons centre
 76 hall across sect 2

[ChrisB]

Great Show, great pics Maggi/Ian!  Looks like it was a lousy day, but that's really good because it means you don't begrudge being inside!  Some stunning plants, too many to mention.  One thing though, that was a very unusual pose you took in batch two Maggi, if I got myself into that position I think I'd have to see the chiropractor!

[Maggi Young]

I got into a worse one at the end, Chris, when I was  flat out, wriggling into and out of an under-stage cupboard to retrieve a fallen class divider, but luckily no-one had a camera that time!!

Luckily the rain was not soild all day, so enough folk were tempted out to make the show a success from the point of view of visitors.... as well as great fun for the rest of us!

[Lesley Cox]

A million grateful thanks Maggi for this huge collection of pictures. What an effort you've made for us all. A great show, as they all are. I'm really getting to know the Aberdeen and other Scottish locals now. Of the two women in pic no. 27 "a moment of peace," the one on the left looks exactly like my grandmother. But she'd be way over 100 by now so probably not.

[Maggi Young]

You are most welcome, Lesley!
Your Grandmother-look-alike is local Member and key Show Team Member, Helen McGregor....she IS a grandmother, right enough!!   

[Lvandelft]

Many thanks for posting so many pictures of even more interesting plants, Graeme and Maggi!
Very nice to walk with you along the filled benches (if I was there again  ).
Maggi, you've been rather busy during my beauty sleep ('she' means, I need it  ). I see it was far after midnight...