RHS Halls feb 2010

[KentGardener]

Hi All

Just back from a most enjoyable afternoon at the RHS halls in central London.  

Sorry - not a lot of time to write about the afternoon - but I did meet lots of lovely people - and saw lots of nice plants, and also met a good few forum members:  No group photo today (the thought did cross my mind..... but knowing how difficult it was getting everyone in one place at one time in a garden last Saturday I dismissed it as a non starter today  ).


(as I always find in the RHS halls it is really diffilcult to take any good pictures on my little snap and shoot camera as the light in there is not great).  Here are what seem the best pics of the 80 or so I took.

1 - Foxgrove snowdrops stand.




2 - Alan Leslie's wonderful buttonhole (can you name the flowers?)


3 - A stunning clump of the poculiform 'Gloria'


4 - My sort of thing..... 'Fuzz'


5 - (I think I remember this right) Flocon de Neige


6 - 'Mordred' (I've been trying to get hold of one of these since 2008  -any offers?  


7 - the 'design' aspect fo the meeting!  I would rather just have the plants!


I shall show the Galanthus that were put before the joint rock in a separate post.

[mark smyth]

I see Alan B and I can't remember the name of the lady in black

[Maggi Young]

It's been a horrible wet snowy day here, so the thought of spending time indoors seeing flowers so prettily displayed OUT of the weather is most appealing!

The displays do look lovely.... a lot of those little white ones..... but what could you possibly see in "Fuzz"??  Poor deformed creature that it is.  

[steve owen]

A few more from today's RHS Show;

[steve owen]

And some more.....

[emma T]

i liked fuzz , halfway and trymmings on the avon bulb stand. It was a wonderful display. The sent when i first arrived in the hall was grand.

[steve owen]

and finally.......

The "not-Warei" is a nice un-named seedling on the Foxgrove stand.

[snowdropman]

And some more.....

Steve - nice pics. Was 'Pom-pom' on the Avon Bulbs stand?

[snowdropman]

i liked fuzz , halfway and trymmings on the avon bulb stand. It was a wonderful display. The sent when i first arrived in the hall was grand.

Hi Emma - do you have any more information (a photo maybe) of 'Halfway'?

[emma T]

I did take a picture of it ,but on a camera borrowed from my sister . I hope to download the pictures tommorow. I dont have any info about it. " Halfway " was on the avon bulbs stand. It looked like a plant i would like in my collection.

[steve owen]

And some more.....

Steve - nice pics. Was 'Pom-pom' on the Avon Bulbs stand?

Chris
Yes, it was.

[KentGardener]

The plants put before the joint rock were VERY late in being displayed to the public this year, so I hope I have managed to get a photo of everything before they were wisked away to their homes.

'Margaret Biddulph' - no award

'Gerard Parker' - no award

'Benhall Beauty' - no award

'Celia Sawyer' - PC

'Trumps' - PC

'Robin Hood' - PC

[Martin Baxendale]

Nice to see 'Hambutts Orchard'. Haven't seen it in  a long time. Found in the garden of and named after the house in Painswick where my family lived when we first moved down from Scotland in the 1960s.

As we were moving out after renting the house for a year or so, who should be moving in (arriving with vans full of snowdrops in huge pots) but Brigadier and Mrs Matthias who had just sold Hyde Lodge, a couple of valleys over from Painswick, the home of their famous Giant Snowdrop Company, and were renting Hambutts Orchard while they looked for a house to buy in Painswick.

Didn't take long for my parents, both keen gardeners, to get to know the Matthias's and their gardener, Mr Ransome and start swopping snowdrops.

[snowdropman]

And some more.....

Steve - nice pics. Was 'Pom-pom' on the Avon Bulbs stand?

Chris
Yes, it was.

Thanks Steve

[snowdropman]

I did take a picture of it ,but on a camera borrowed from my sister . I hope to download the pictures tommorow. I dont have any info about it. " Halfway " was on the avon bulbs stand. It looked like a plant i would like in my collection.

Thanks Emma - look forward to seeing the pic.