AGS Pershore show 10 July 2010

[Diane Clement]

A few more pictures of the show

Cut flower class

[Maggi Young]

In the SRGC the Judges can decide that there is not a plant worthy of a Forrest Medal, but then we wouldn't call any other plant the BEST in show! 

[Lesley Cox]

It's to be hoped it's still alive and flourishing by the time it's judged large enough to win a Farrer Medal then. If the exhibitor has to wait that extra time, he/she could be put off taking cuttings or permitting seed to form, in order to preserve the perfect shape, so size as a criterion could be self-defeating if the plant died without being propagated.

[Diane Clement]

At the Pershore show, there is an award for The Weirdest Plant.  There isn't a class for this, so the judges have to prowl around and nominate any oddities.  There are usually a few oddities at this time of year, and in recent years prizes have gone to an Allium, a Eucomis and a peloric digitalis.  This year the prize went to a Pelargonium tetragonum, a plant with more stem than most relative to its other parts.  A few small leaves and a couple of flowers.  Not exactly a showy plant, but one for the specialist to get excited over! Impossible to photograph, so here's the flower

[Diane Clement]

Another nomination for "weird" was Junellia aff. morenonis.
It looked like it was made from pipe cleaners.

[Diane Clement]

And just to finish, two Arisaemas,
Arisaema fargesii and
Arisaema franchetianum
sorry for the enforced use of flash on these, I was getting very poor exposure under the leaves.

[Maggi Young]

Pelargonium tetragonum is very odd.... I'm seeing little aliens behind that flower......don't tell CK I said so, please!

The Junellia is, without question, made from pipe cleaners.... the children next door made something very like it just last week.... don't know what the flowers were made from, though....

I'm looking at that neat cut flower class and thinking what I always think when I see pix of that class from the AGS shows..... beats the blazes out of staggering to and from the show with a great car load of heavy plants!
That being said, I once nearly gave up the ghost from the strain of showing cut Rhodo trusses at Glasgow.....keeping them upright in transit, sorting them out..... how these folk manage at all those hundreds of horticultural shows around the country to stage all the cut blooms I don't know....bloomin' hard work  in my opinion!

Those cute little dishes with dinky flowers in seem manageable , though....

[Diane Clement]

That's all I got round to taking.  I realised that I never got a picture of the Scottish guests (they were Sandy Leven and daughter) so sorry for the mysterious earlier reference!

Lots more pictures, much better than mine, by Jon Evans on the AGS site:

http://www.alpinegardensociety.net/discussion/atshows//Pershore+Show+/420/?page=1
 

[Maggi Young]

Perfect Arisaemas...!

[Diane Clement]

Perfect Arisaemas...!

Thanks! (did you know they were mine!  They won me a three pan, so I was pleased)

Pelargonium tetragonum is very odd.... I'm seeing little aliens behind that flower......don't tell CK I said so, please!

you never know, she might even read it herself!  Carol loves weird plants, the weirder the better I think.  She'd like the reference to aliens!

The Junellia is, without question, made from pipe cleaners.... the children next door made something very like it just last week.... don't know what the flowers were made from, though....  

The flowers smelled vile, like, you know that certain smell of Frits 

I'm looking at that neat cut flower class and thinking what I always think when I see pix of that class from the AGS shows..... beats the blazes out of staggering to and from the show with a great car load of heavy plants!
...   Those cute little dishes with dinky flowers in seem manageable , though....  

Actually they are a bit of a pain and every time I do it, I say never again.  The rules state they have to be exhibited in "the vases provided" which vary in size and shape from show to show.  It also means you have to arrange them on the morning of the show, in situ.  This does make it fair to all, but you don't know what pots you are going to get.  I used to write down which show you got big pots and which small and I thought I was quite well prepared, but then one year a certain show secretary  ( )bought new pots and they were very different from the previous ones.   
It is a bit of a fiddle to sort them, I always take the pots back to my car and sort them out there, then carry them back into the show hall in the lashing rain and gale force wind.  No, I don't know how the real flower arrangers manage.   

[ichristie]

Hi Dainne, thanks for the super pictures and I do like the weird entries shows some sense of normality,  cheers Ian.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Super pix Diane !!
Thanks so much for this Summer show fix ! 

[Ragged Robin]

Thanks for your great photos and report from AGS Pershore, Diane, the Campanula exhibits are really lovely - congratulations to everyone showing.

[Maggi Young]

I hope that you will all have followed Diane's link to Jon Evans' photos on the AGS site?
His comments about the plants being a little smaller... and thus in lighter pots... is amusing.... he has to carry around the plants  to photograph them and really appreciates the lighter specimens!! 

[angie]

Diane

Lovely show, loved the weird plant
I have never grown Arisaemas but after seeing yours and also seeing some growing in Maggi and Ian's garden I wantlike to give them a go.
Angie