AGS East Anglian Show

[Brian Ellis]

Just back from the show and about to process the pictures.  First of all a cup of tea and something to look at, the Farrer plant was exhibited by Joy Bishop from Lightwater Phlox nana ensifolia

[Brian Ellis]

Class 1 Cecilia Coller 6 pan including two super Asarums and a stunning Gentian
Class 2 Alan Newton Cypripedium calceolus x cordigerum, Ramonda serbica, Daphne Petraea 'Tremalzo'
Class 3 Joy Bishop Phlox nana ensifolia
Class 5 Cecilia Coller Primula sieboldii alba

[Brian Ellis]

Class 6 George Young Androsace strigillosa
Class 7 Ian Instone Haberlea rhodopensis
Class 8 Lee & Julie Martin Cyclamen persicum
Class 9 Martin Rogerson whoops no names
Class 9 Lewisias were back left L. Trevosia, Middleright L. cotyledon hybrid, front was a L. Carousel Hybrid - Thanks Martin.

[Brian Ellis]

Class 10 Martin Rogerson Lewisis columbiana ssp wallowensis
Class 11 Martin Rogerson Lewisis leeana alba x cotyledon
Class 12 Maureen Ledgerton Saxifrage pubescens 'Snowcap'
Class 14 Colin & Elaine Barr Cypripedium calceolus

[Brian Ellis]

and the pictures for

Class 11 Martin Rogerson Lewisis leeana alba x cotyledon
Class 12 Maureen Ledgerton Saxifrage pubescens 'Snowcap'
Class 14 Colin & Elaine Barr Cypripedium calceolus

[Brian Ellis]

Class 15 Cecilia Coller Pleione Versailles x Pleione bulbocoides 'El Pico'
Class 17 Ivor Betteridge Trillium grandiflorum 'Flore pleno'  This was lovely, mine, bought last year went to the great Alpine Show in the sky!
Class 18 Elaine Sharpe Thalictrum orientale
Class 20 George Young Petunia patagonica F & W 9290 sown Jan 2001

[Maggi Young]

Many congratulations to Joy (who I last saw wrestling a large trolley with show plants around the East Midlands Conference Centre) on that lovely Farrer plant.

Super photos, Brian, very good of you to share these with us... must have been a super day. 

[Brian Ellis]

It was lovely, some great plants and I had a nice rest on the door for an hour!

Class 21 Jean Rich Fritillaria camstchatcensis alpina aurea Best Pan of Bulbs
Class 22 Ruth & Alan Jones Daphne Jasminea
Class 23 Dave Mountfort Rhododendron kusianum, Gaultheria pyroloides (Sikkim form), Rhododendron trichostomum
Class 24 Brian & Shelagh Smethurst Leiophyllum buxifolium

[Brian Ellis]

Of course the best bit was meeting up with old friends and having a good chinwag

Class 25 Ian Instone Rhododendron trichostomum
Class 26 Ivor Betteridge Larix kaempferi 'Nana'
Class 27 Cecilia Coller Podophyllum delavayi, Hakonechloa macra aureola, Tanacetum Haradtanii
Class 28 Brian & Shelagh Smethurst Celmisia longifolia

[Maggi Young]

 EAST ANGLIAN SHOW AT WYMONDHAM HIGH SCHOOL, FOLLY ROAD, WYMONDHAM, SOUTH NORFOLK, NR18 0QT must have been a long trip for the Smethies and George Young.... well done those well travelled folks!

It was the ULSTER  AGS Show at
GREENMOUNT AGRICULTURAL AND HORTICULTURAL COLLEGE, MUCKAMORE, ANTRIM today as well......hope the Irish contingent had a good day too.

Just hoping someone who went to Glasgow had a camera!

[Brian Ellis]

Not so far for Cecilia to travel though 

Class 29 Jean Rich Ophioglossum vulgatum, Adiantum pedatum subpumilum (own spores April 2000), Cystopteris sudetica (from spores March 2004)
Class 30 Alan & Janet Cook Asplenium trichomanes Best pan of Fern
Class 31 Cecilia Coller Sempervivum erythraeum, Jovibarba arenaria from Murtal, Sempervivum ciliosum var Galicicum from Ochrid
Class 32 Cecilia Coller Sempervivum nevadense

I just love to see these big pans of Sempervivum!

[Brian Ellis]

Class 33 Clive Dart Sedum furfuraceum
Class 34 Alan & Janet Cook Draba longisiliqua
Class 36 Dave Mountfort Aetheonima sp., Ramonda nathalie 'Alba', Iris gramineus, Rhododendron trichostomum, Rhodohypoxis Baurii 'Badger', Lithospermum diffusum 'Heavenly Blue'
Class 37 Michael Sullivan

[Brian Ellis]

Class 41 Cecilia Coller Epimedium grandiflorum Nanum, Iberis oschtenica, Pleione 'El Pico' (P. verailles x P. bulbocodiodes), Penstemon eriantherus, Saxifraga 'Snow cap', Lewisia 'George Henley' AGS Medal 6 pans rock plants, distinct, not more than two of any one genus
Class 42 Lee & July Martin Cypripedium parviflorum, Celmisia gracilenta,  Arenaria hookeri var desertorum

[Brian Ellis]

Class 43 Anne Vale Campanula carpatha
Class 44 Ivor Betteridge Disporum smithii 'Rick', Phlox grayi, Athyrium filix femina, Allium sbelkovnikovii

[mark smyth]

Why can't my Ramonda look like that!? Only one flower stem this year