AGS East Anglian Show

[Brian Ellis]

at least its better than my Trillium grandiflorum Flore pleno Mark

Class 45 Ian Instone Dodecatheon pulchellum 'Red Wings'
Class 46 Alan & Janet Cook Androsace armeniaca var macrantha
Class 47 George Young Dicentra peregrina alba
Class 48 Martin Rogerson Lewisia columbiana hybrid, Lewisia rediva x 'Little Plum', Lewisia rediva x longipetala - nice bit of staging!

[Brian Ellis]

to be continued later. 

[Gerdk]

to be continued later. 

Yes, please! Enjoyed your report very much!

Gerd

[johnw]

Wonderful show Brian.   Now you really can't leave us hanging without a cultivar name on the Disporum smithii, it would be too cruel.  What a plant!

Our group had its public sale today. I spied a medic friend who I hadn't expected and asked "What are you doing here?"  He said you people are really good at advertising, there was a poster in the operating room all week long.

johnw

[Maggi Young]

Brian, I think that nowhere is too far for the redoubtable Mrs C. Coller.... she is a marvel and the delight of every show secretary within reach of her van, I am sure. Such exhibitors with so many fine entries are manna to a Show organiser! 

Seeing a lot of plants at this show that were also on the benches in Glasgow today, which is rather worrying for the Aberdeen show, on the 21st!  Time for the pre -show panic to set in.... what will there be in two weeks time?

[veteran vet]

Really good pictures and on the web site so early, thank you,
I did not have far to travel today but my plants did yesterday courtesy of Alan and Brenda Newton...hope Alan hasn't got a hernia carrying the P patagonica as was in a 36cm pan...was actually in an 18cm pan grown out through bottom into the plunge sand and I double potted it into a larger pot on Thursday with a large volume of plunge sand!!!...took quite a bit of doing I may say

[Martinr]

Thanks Brian, now I don't feel pressured to process photos tonight, which after two 3 hour drives is just as well!

Class 9 Lewisias were back left L. Trevosia, Middleright L. cotyledon hybrid, front was a L. Carousel Hybrid

Good day, excellent show and Cecilia scoring 29 points! I can't muster that many, never mind 29 capable of winning a first!

[Peter Maguire]

George, very impressed by your Petunia patagonica. Mine doesn't have a flower on it yet.
(mind you it didn't flower last year either)

[veteran vet]

Peter, I did a count yesterday and gave up/lost count when got to 200 flowers, there had to be quite a lot more as still a third of pot to go

[Lesley Cox]

Thanks a million Brian for the excellent photos and great show report.

As an afterthought maybe if our various groups were to put up posters in many different but apparently unlikely places, we would gain some members otherwise ignored. The operating theatre, the local butcher's  shop, golf or tennis clubs, Govt department buildings, HM Prisons or wherever (that last would have to be for the staff of course, yet many low security prisoners are keen gardeners within their system. Why not alpines too?) At the most recent meeting of Otago Alpine Garden Group 7 new people attended a workshop after posters were handed round at my market. Not sure how many joined but they were all very enthused and asking questions so obviously interested.

[johnw]

As an afterthought maybe if our various groups were to put up posters in ...HM Prisons or wherever

Lesley - Precisely. That's how we got our Executive?*

johnw

*locally - not SRGC!

[Brian Ellis]

Thanks all, but really it is the exhibitors who travel far and wide and share their expertise with us that are to be thanked.  Last session for tonight...
Class 49 Alan & Janet Cook Lewisia rediviva
Class 50 Lewisia ‘Ben Chace’ Dave Mountfort
Class 51 Cecilia Coller Saxifraga ‘Snow Cap’
Class 52 Ray Drew Cypripedium ‘Maria’

[Brian Ellis]

Class 53 Cecilia Coller Allium nevskianum, Tulbaghia conninsii, Allium crispum sown 15 - 7 - 08
Class 54 Ivor Betteridge Allium shelkovnikovii
Class 55 Ivor Betteridge Allium nevskianum
Class 56 Cecilia Coller Pelargonium havlas

[Brian Ellis]

Class 57 Alan Newton Cypripedium tibeticum
Class 58 Ruth & Alan Jones Daphne jasminea
Class 59 Alan & Janet Cook Lewisia rediviva
Class 60 Martin & Anna Sheader Rebutia minuscula (mountains of N Argentina), Esterhuysenia alpina, Gymnocalycium bruchii (high mountains of Cordoba, N. Argentina)

[Brian Ellis]

Class 61 Brian & Shelagh Smethurst Anisotome imbricata
Class 62 Ivor Betteridge Cheilanthes microphylla
Class 63 Nassauvia abbreviata var abbreviata, Calceolaria laguria-blancae, Nototriche macleanii x N. aretioidesexhibitor card not snapped!