AGS Summer North Show at Pudsey on Saturday 20th June

[Maggi Young]

Maggi
Being new entrants in the Pudsey pig we were made very welcome and a good time was had by all.
As we have said before at all shows we are made very welcome and enjoy the meeting side of it as much as the showing. After our first year of showing we are enjoying it very much and would again encourage anybody thinking about it to give it a go.

Cheers
Mick

Well, Mick, wearing my other "hat" as a Show Secretary, I can tell you that these words of yours are music to my ears... as they will be to every other Show Sec. in SRGC and the AGS  or any Club which holds shows for its members! Shows are a wonderful public platform for the organisation to highlight just what we are interested in and what can be achieved in growing these plants and are a fab way to attract new members but, without a constant influx of new exhibitors who will be enthused by their participation and carry on the wonderful traditions of these fantastic shows, the shows will dwindle and can close altogether. Words like yours to show that exhibiting can be great fun, and not at all a frightful ordeal leading to humiliation for newcomers, are worth a great deal. I hope folks reading these pages, and others like them in the Forum, will see that it is possible to learn a terrific amount from taking part in the shows and that is is always more fun to be fully involved with an event than it is merely to be a spectator. Most importantly, it must be remembered that with only spectators, there is NO event!
Any Show which has a healthy number of entrants in the "beginners'" sections is a healthy show and that is what all of us involved in any show of the SRGC or AGS are striving to encourage.
I can assure you that at any show, even the most successful multi-medal winning growers will be heard to remark most favourably on a show where the beginners' section is well supported. This is because it augers well for the future. When folks like you and Mandy get the show bug and begin to support not only a show local to you but also take the time to travel to enter other shows as well, then the sound of the singing hearts of show secretaries around the country can be heard! Visiting exhibitors can be cited as examples for locals to follow and with luck the entries increase all over the place!!  
You are an inspiration and a shining example, THANK YOU!!  Ian and I were so touched by the great friends we made and the amount of things we learned from taking up showing. It is some of the best fun you can have with your plants.... and your clothes on!  
I hope that your endorsement and all the wonderful photos we see in these pages give some other folks a wee nudge in the direction of supporting a show as well .... it only takes just a plant or two to make a start and if every local member did just that every show would be much the richer, and I don't doubt it would lead to more members joining in the travelling caravan of exhibitors as well.
And it's not compulsory to compete for the Pudsey Pig! 

[johnw]

I don't think that is Podophyllum pleianthum, arty or otherwise.

Looks like Podophyllum delavayi from here and holding its foliar colour rather well.

I think we are approaching 4" of rain since Saturday night and much more on the way, dark, gloomy and foggy here.

Cliff - What was that smashing variegated Disporum?

johnw

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Thanks again for the hard work Cliff and Mick !
As Luit, I'm quite surprised by the diversity of beautiful, unknown (ot me at least) and unexpected plants exhibited at this time of year !

[JohnnyD]

Following up Maggis comments on the generosity of showers, and as a complete aside to the show itself and Pudsey Pig comp. - can you guess what is going on here with all this Al foil?

[Martinr]

I guess as I'm just out of shot I'm disqualified from entering. Is there a prize?

[David Nicholson]

Take Aways??

[Lesley Cox]

I was going to suggest doggie bags?

[Maggi Young]

I was going to suggest doggie bags?

Ah, yes, for the failed piglets, perhaps?
I think I may have found another possibility......
 
they're branching out into fashion design.......

[JohnnyD]

Sorry folks - nothing so exotic.
We were simply taking a pinch of fresh pulsatilla seed kindly brought by Lionel Clarkson and wrapping it in the redundant bacon butty foil.

Good guys these showers.
J.

[ranunculus]

That's what he told the drug squad officers on Saturday ... quite a nasty incident really!   

[ranunculus]

Cliff - What was that smashing variegated Disporum?

johnw

Sorry John .... only just spotted your query - Disporum smithii 'Riele'  - beautiful, isn't t?

[johnw]

Sorry John .... only just spotted your query - Disporum smithii 'Riele'  - beautiful, isn't t?

Cliff thanks for the name...simply breath-taking.

Is it available?

johnw

[ranunculus]

Hi John,
Grown and exhibited by the prolific Ivor Betteridge this beautiful disporum was last listed for sale at a U.K. nursery in 2006.  I have never seen it for sale at shows over here so it looks like it is in the hands of very few growers. Sorry ... I wouldn't mind a try as well!   

[Maggi Young]

Good guys these showers.
J.

You mean the Show-ers are not a right shower, Johnny? 

[fermi de Sousa]

Just caught up with this thread. Some great plants and pics; nice to see a few Aussies! Pimelea, Wahlenbergia and Stylidium!
cheers
fermi