CLEVELAND AGS SHOW - Saturday 3rd April 2010 at Stockton-on-Tees

[Diane Clement]

OK, I give in...why do you always want to call it Broadway Milkman?  

don't know, it just runs off the tongue easier!

[ranunculus]

OK, I give in...why do you always want to call it Broadway Milkman?  

don't know, it just runs off the tongue easier!

That comes from drinking it straight from the bottle!   

[ranunculus]

Just a selection of images captured at Cleveland ... hopefully with few duplicates?

ANEMONE BIFLORA
BENCH COLOUR
CALLIANTHEMUM ANEMONOIDES
ANDROSACE IDAHOENSIS X LAEVIGATA
CYMBIDIUM GOERINGII
DIONYSIAS
DIONYSIA 'MONIKA'
EXCELLENT MINIATURE GARDEN CLASS
FRITILLARIA GIBBOSA
HEPATICA COLOUR

[ranunculus]

Just a few more ...

SAXIFRAGA GEORGEI
SAXIFRAGA 'COOLOCK JEAN'
VIOLA TRIVERNATA
TECOPHILAEA CYANOCROCUS
SAXIFRAGA CLASS
ROSULARIA
PULSATILLA VERNALIS EXHIBITED BY BRIAN AND SHELAGH SMETHURST CLOSE-UP
PRIMULA IRREGULARIS 'SCHERAZADE'
PINK PERFECTION FROM IAN KIDMAN
FRITILLARIA SEWERZOWII

[ChrisB]

Diane,

David B. told me he calls P. 'Broadwell Milkmaid'  'Lumpy Bumpy'

[Lvandelft]

Superb images all. Many, many thanks for posting.
Any duplicates will never be too many for me   
You may fill a whole page with Anemone biflora and I will not complain 

[ranunculus]

You are very welcome, Luit ... a final batch from me for today ...

PHOTOGRAPHY DISPLAY BY DAVID L. SMITH
DIONYSIA ARETIOIDES
ERYTHRONIUM DENS-CANIS 'PURPLE KING'
HEPATICA CLOSE-UP
PINUS ARISTATA 'SHERWOOD COMPACT'
SAXIFRAGA CLASS
TRILLIUM RIVALE

[Lesley Cox]

Thanks Cliff and Diane, yes that was the right Primula and such a nice plant it is. One loves P. elatior of course but this subsp. is extra special I think.

Thanks too for all the extra pictures, some great stuff there. I like the 3 wise men. They look very tired but quite content so they must have enjoyed the show very much.

Surely that pot of Anemone biflora must be the finest plant ever seen of it, in cultivation or in the wild? It is truly magnificent. I hope it won a first prize.

And I was especially delighted with the pot of Frit. gibbosa, not so much the superbly grown bulbs, though heaven kows they were very fine, but the delightful markings both in and outside the flowers; the deeper spotting and the yellowish marks on the backs. Something quite wonderful there. Who were the growers of these two stars please?

[Diane Clement]

Surely that pot of Anemone biflora must be the finest plant ever seen of it, in cultivation or in the wild? It is truly magnificent. I hope it won a first prize. 

The Anemone biflora was grown by Ivor Betteridge, I'm not sure that it did win this week, but it won a Certificate of Merit last week at Exeter - a portrait shot of it here:
http://www.alpinegardensociety.net/shows/results/shows2010/shows/exeter/images/Jon_Evans/sizedanemone-biflora-exh-ivor-betteridge-COM-1.jpg.html

sorry, I'm not sure whose the Frit gibbosa was 

[ranunculus]

Hi Lesley,
Two more images of that superb Fritillaria gibbosa (and my final batch of images from Cleveland 2010), but I also have no record of the exhibitor. It may have formed part of a three-pan?

FRITILLARIA GIBBOSA
FRITILLARIA CARICA
FRITILLARIA CAUCASICA
FRIT' CLOSE-UP
FRIT' PERSICA
NARCISSUS PALLIDIFLORUS
NARCISSUS x SUSSANEA

[ranunculus]

The last six images ...

PIERIS JAPONICA 'DEBUTANTE'
CLOSE-UP
PRETTY LITTLE JAPANESE PRIMULA EXHIBITED BY CAROL KELLETT
TRILLIUM CLOSE-UP
and finally (knowing me) ... it has to be, doesn't it ..?
PULSATILLA VERNALIS EXHIBITED BY BRIAN & SHELAGH SMETHURST

[annew]

I'm not at all sure about the 'NARCISSUS x SUSSANEA'. It looks like a nice pot of straight N. triandrus subsp. triandrus. N x susannae would be the name we used to use for a hybrid between triandrus and cantabricus, which is sterile, so could not have been the parent. No doubt Rafa could tell us the minefield that is the group of new names for triandrus types crossed with hoop petticoat types.

[Diane Clement]

I'm not at all sure about the 'NARCISSUS x SUSSANEA'. It looks like a nice pot of straight N. triandrus subsp. triandrus. N x susannae would be the name we used to use for a hybrid between triandrus and cantabricus, which is sterile, so could not have been the parent. No doubt Rafa could tell us the minefield that is the group of new names for triandrus types crossed with hoop petticoat types.

This was discussed at length at the show and the consensus was that this pot was straight N triandrus.  The pot was from wild collected seed, so presumably collected from either or both parents and there would be no way of telling the seed was hybrid or not until grown on. 

I just happened to photograph the real thing yesterday, it's my absolute favourite narcissus
Narcissus x susannae

[Darren]

My pot of 'cantabricus and x susannae mixed', which was in the wild seed section of an AGS or SRGC distribution about 6 years ago were, unsurprisingly, all cantabricus.  

[Ragged Robin]

Thanks for more wonderful photos Cliff, especially taken by these:

PRETTY LITTLE JAPANESE PRIMULA EXHIBITED BY CAROL KELLETT

and finally (knowing me) ... it has to be, doesn't it ..?
PULSATILLA VERNALIS EXHIBITED BY BRIAN & SHELAGH SMETHURST