Aberdeen show

[ChrisB]

I can't believe Mike entered me in section one, I'd never have dared myself.  Wasn't sure either was worthy of a place on the bench really, and I'd been breathing on the scilla to try to get it to start blooming, it was only just coming out when I gave it to Pearl to take for me.

Yes, the Dales love your Aberdeen Show, and isn't it nice the children are showing so much interest, it seems last year when they entered and won, they were hooked so to see their progression this year is wonderful.  I'll see them when they get back ....

[Maggi Young]

Yes, the Dales love your Aberdeen Show, and isn't it nice the children are showing so much interest, it seems last year when they entered and won, they were hooked so to see their progression this year is wonderful.  I'll see them when they get back ....

 You don't have to wait that long to see the little ones..........

 I took pictures of each one with the certificate and the trophy.... only fair!!

In the pic of the posies... the order is as follows, rear left, Rowan (3rd) rear right, Erica (1st)
centre left, Helen G. (2nd), centre right, Rosie (Primrose) and front left Carol M.

[Maggi Young]

now to add some of my pix... will add some details later, if poss.

[Maggi Young]

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two pans conifer
Anemones etc
Astragalus from Sam's two from seed

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 Bainbridges- Junelia  plus notes
 Laughing Lois
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best Primula... Cyril's Primula forrestii

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Bluebells and Carol Shaw, in the pink
Bob Maxwell, Sam Sutherland, and  not Jean Wyllie's Iris
colourful Callunas from Stan
Cryptogramma crispa
Daisy, daisy....

ChrisB's Scilla  (rear) and Helen Greenwood's Brimeura amethystina alba ( front).

 close-up of the Iris that was not Jean's! - Somebody will surely tell me who it belongs to!

[Maggi Young]

and some Cypripediums
first the tall,pure white one that may bethe one that caught Angela's eye....
 various cyp pix! .... including C. 'Aki' which won a Certificate of Merit for Ian Christie and  Cyp.'Ulla Silkens' from Alan J. Gardner

[Maggi Young]

there will follow a pause while I have a cuppa and see how the Giro d'Italia and Tour of California are progressing!

ericacaea

Roma's Cassiope selaginoides winning, and assorted Leiophyllum buxifolium nanum, and L. b. Hugeri

[Maggi Young]

okay, caught up with the cycling in California and the Giro standings......

a three pan class from Margaret and Henry Taylor:
Corydalis pachycentrum
Primula 'Emily' - a hybrid made by the Taylors and named for a grand-daughter, I think.
Gypsophila cerastioides 'Rosy Stripe'

[Maggi Young]

and.....
 Cyril's winning entry for the Esslemont Trophy:
Iris aff. babadagica var. alba
Linum boissieri
Haastia pulvinaris

[Maggi Young]

and....
Gymnocarpium dryopteris
Iris, Daphne two pan - this may be Jean's Iris!
Jim and Janet's two pan

[Maggi Young]

and....
Jubilee A...( six pans less tha 17.5cms diam.)

Winner, first time exhibitor, braving Section I :  Tom MacLeish from Breda, Alford.

 Second , Stan da Prato, Tranent.


 Tom  entered the Jubilee B class in Section II as well.... and won that.... and was awarded the SpecialCash Prize for a first time exhibitor... and promptly gave it back as a club donation...and he brought more Lewisias to decorate the foyer.... and helped to get all the show tables tidied away... not a bad day out for a new exhibitor!!

[Maggi Young]

next......
John Owen from Askival had this unfurling Sauromatum in Sect. 1
one of the Salix reticulata on show

pix of the mini gardens....
Lillian Chapman's garden to the rear, Ian Chapman's to the front.
overall pic
Graham Catlow's  garden, complete with lovely Trillium, which headed my sister in law and mother in law to John Owen's stall to buy some! Graham has such an artistic eye to his composition and plantings.

The planted gardens of the little girls, the Misses Beaton, Mike and Pearl Dale's Aberdeen grand-daughters.