Wakefield tulip society show

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and now English tulips in earnest....


...English tulips are shown in beer bottles...

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...more of the English blooms...

...the judges are always happy to explain their reasoning, even to members of the public...


...this really is a tulip great show...

...I do recommend a visit in 2013, details can be obtained from the society's website

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A 128 page fully-illustrated book "Flames and Feathers" celebrating English tulips was published earlier this month. It's a great read and worth purchasing for anyone with an interest the growing and showing of tulips. It includes chapters on cultivation, showing, growing (including hybridising and raising from seed), tulip virus and social history. The illustrations provide a comprehensive overview of the very many varieities - a couple of many illustrated pages are captured below.

To order the book make contact through the webpages of the www.tulipsociety.co.uk

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Some pictures from the 2013 Show

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and a few more...

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and finally...

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Just a reminder that the 179th Annual Show will be held on Saturday 17 May 2014 at Primrose Hall, Horbury.

More information at http://www.tulipsociety.co.uk/index.php/component/gcalendar/event/cGk1NTZ2NTdsa2l2ZmRnYTIwMWNxcG9mbzggc2VjcmV0YXJ5QHR1bGlwc29jaWV0eS5jby51aw/1?start=1400281200&end=1400367600&Itemid=586 

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2014 pictures - alas I went with uncharged battery! Hence only few shots

Due to the odd spring all the growers south of, say, Doncaster had no flowers to show whereas those further north were reasonably especially from Scandinavia.

Teresa Clements (Harrogate) won many of the classes. 

Interestingly, flowers brought from growers in Sweden and Denmark also did well - usually their blooms are too late for the show. They came on the plane neatly wrapped in shoe boxes to prevent being crushed.

It was still a great show even if entries were down .

http://www.tulipsociety.co.uk/

(edit by maggi - I have rotated the photos for you, Frazer)

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Wakefield and North of England Tulip Society 183rd Annual Show

Primrose Hall, Green Park Avenue, Horbury, Wakefield. WF4 6EG.

12 May 2018

Staging 10am to 12noon. The classes will be called at 12 noon prompt and will be followed immediately by judging. Open to the public 2.30pm to 4.30pm

Presentation of trophies at 3.30pm.

http://www.tulipsociety.co.uk/