AGS Cleveland Show 2011

[veteran vet]

Stockton on Tees was basking in hot sunshine nearly all day...most unusual for this show as I have been there on some very cold Easter Saturdays. As John Richards said at the start of prize giving it was a May show in April. Norma Pagdin had been slightly worried as to level of entries but the benches were awash with colour and plants of excellent quality, the only classes that were virtually non existent were European primulas otherwise the classes were well supported.
The Farrer Medal went to an old hand at winning Farrers, Geoff Rollinson with a pan of Androsace cylindica x hirtella he had raised from seed...pan size approx 25cm to give an idea of scale
Another androsace not so often seen now was
Androsace muscoidea longiscapa shown by Ian Kidman

[veteran vet]

I will do one more post then have to get on, is too nice a day to be indoors so more later
I have put three plants for the Rare in Cultivation slot in as one post together with the relevent notes
Allium mirum....Robert Rolfe
Campanula dasyantha....Brian Burrow
Linum boissierii....Geoff Rollinson

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Problem with downloads...will try again

There was a fine display of Cypripediums on the benches, indeed a C calceolus was in contention for the Farrer so I will do a few together
Cypripedium calceolus.....Brian Burrow and close up
Cypripedium Gisela....Robin Pickering...a 30cm panful minimum...and close up followed by a few close ups only
Cypripedium Gisela Pastel...John Savage
Cypripedium franchetii....Ian Leslie

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Trilliums and some other bulbs
Trillium sulcatum....Tony Lee best pan from N America
Trillium luteum...Brian Russ
Trillium grandiflorum close up.....John Richards
Trough winner J&C Dower
Trough 2nd M & M McLoughlin

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Bulbs now
Iris acutiloba....Ray Drew
Iris iberica elegantissima....George Young
Iris barnumae x paradoxa....Ray Drew
Iris taurica....Lionel Clarkson
Fritillaria pyrenaica....Barry Richardson

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Fritllaria epirotica....George Young...had a post show mating session with one shown by Robert Rolfe! For interest of the bulb despot I did show a yellow form of F epirotica in the rare in cultivation class which appeared last year in a pot of normal epirotica. Robert R had seen this once in the wild many years ago when out with Jim Archibald
Dodecatheon clevelandii alba...Jim Watson, best pan Primulacae in Intermediate
Lewisia cotyledon...Barry Winter...a massive pan, part of his large 6 entry. Also in this class Barry had
Pleione formosana

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Lewisia x 'Patricia Forrest'.....Alan Furness
Oxalis enneaphylla alba....Tom Green, quite nicely in character which is hard to do with oxalis
Ranunculus parnassifolius ....W & J Wright...and in close up
Daphne malyana....John Savage

[Martinr]

Of course George has neglected to mention that he had a particularly successful day winning both large and small 6 pans and the open aggregate. Well done!

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Thanks Martin, was trying to keep that bit quiet but seeing as how you have mentioned iy here are a few of my plants
Helichysum sessiloides
Hymenoxis lapidicola
Leontopodium nivale nivale

[veteran vet]

a few more from my day bootful
Iris paradoxa 'Choschab' and a close up
Leiophyllum buxifolium nanum
Viola adunca....this was grown from seed, some thought not quite right for adunca

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last one of mine I have a pic for
Townsendia condensata....for me this has always been an 'annual' till this particular plant produced 4 side rosettes this spring and flowered, really needs sun to open...I left last years flower untouched in the middle as did not want to 'huff' the plant
Now for plants from other folk...I did take a few of others plants
Campanula bellidifolia .....B & S Smethurst
Cassiope 'Arctic Fox'...Lionel Clarkson
Corydalis rupestris...R & S johnson...the picture does not do the plant justice, was a worthy winner in a strong class
Rhododendron sargentianum ....Dave Mountford...a Certificate of Merit job

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missing Rhododendron sargentianum, Dave Mountfort
Rhododendron 'Egret'
Rhododendron 'Wren'...both the last two by M & E Linney
Penstemon uintahensis...Peter Farkasch

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Lamium armenum...Tommy Anderson. I have so many seedlings of this germinated in my plunge this year seems any easy way to get new plants
Phlox grayii....Anne Vale
Primula kisoana alba....Dave Riley...nearly but not quite recovered from his duties at the International Conderence...I forgot to ask him how his mallard ducklings that appeared beside his alpine house while he was away at the conference were getting on
Primula seiboldii 'Snowflake...Barry Richardson

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only a few left now
Saxifraga pubscens 'Snowcap'....Mark Chidlerhouse, a huge pan...went up for Farrer...the largest of many examples of Snowcap on the bench
Tiarella cordifolia 'Cygnet'...Mike Dale...part of a 3 pan winning the 3 pan 1 continent class in the Large Open

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Ramonda nathaliae...B & S Smethurst
Ranunculus seguieri and
Trollius europaeus.....both by Brian Burrow

and thats my lot, is cooling down outside now so time to do some watering