Glasgow Show at Milngavie, Saturday 7th May 2011

[angie]

Thanks from me too, it's great to see what I have missed.

Angie

[Anthony Darby]

Nice to see Cyprepidium parviflorum and calceolus looking very good.

[Richard Green]

Yes. there was a good show of orchids and that Daphne calcicola just gets better with each passing year !

[Maggi Young]

Spotted you  busy at the plant stall, Richard!

[Maggi Young]

Stan, what a great set of photos to let us feel the flavour of the show. The hall at Milngavie has good light, of course, and this really helps your photos to feel fresh. thanks for all your effort in taking them and posting them... it's a lot of work, I know! 

[Stan da Prato]

I required several infusions of  home baking  to keep my strength up.
SdP

[David Nicholson]

Cracking set of pics Stan, thanks for your report.

[Maggi Young]

I required several infusions of  home baking  to keep my strength up.
SdP

I can well imagine it, Stan... but, as we've seen, the Glasgow bakers are well beyond par in their efforts... those meringues alone could keep any army marching. 

[Richard Green]

I cannot take credit for running the plant stall entirely on my own, as the photographs seem to indicate.  I think my colleagues had just slipped away for another "infusion of home baking" at that point.   We all needed some sustenance (dare I say some Danish pastries?) after dealing with so many Danish customers!

[TC]

I can second that about the catering.  We got held up trying to get through Glasgow from the South due to preparations for a road race on Sunday so I had to remember my "rat race" to the Clyde tunnel.  Of course, I was trying to navigate from memories of the 1970's.  Guess what, they had changed the road layouts, built new housing schemes and blocked off roads.  Anyway,we got through the tunnel, through Anniesland cross and got stuck again at Bearsden cross due to a traffic accident. All this meant that we arrived at Milngavie at noon instead of about 1100.  Quick decision required - plants or food?.  No contest, the plants would still be there after lunch.  A quick right turn was made and we were in the catering area first !!  We had first choice of the homity pies and meringues before the mob came in. The large meringues were chosen and appreciated.  The plants were rather good too !

[Rob Potterton]

A close up of Cyril's Daphne calcicola.

[Lesley Cox]

That is REALLY a superb plant.!!!
Were there any of our Danish Forumists among the visiting delegation?

[Richard Green]

None of the Danes owned up to being Forumists to me......

[Maggi Young]

I can't really see well enough in the picture to see if there are any I recognise... will get Ian to take a closer look, he knows more of the Danes than I do, anyway.

There were a few at the Nottingham Conference but we didn't manage to get them in a photo there!

[Maggi Young]

Is there a chance to let me know something about the origin of the violet in the fourth pic and how it is labelled?

Gerd, The violet is in the display of the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, so I will ask Elspeth or John next week,  if someone else hasn't got a note  of it.

 Gerd, Elspeth tells me tha Viola is V. aff  sororia.

I have asked her, and she is willing to help, if it is possible to have plant lists of the RBGE displays to put on the Forum with the photos of the displays.So  that is something I'll be working on with Elspeth in due course.