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Aberdeen Show Report 2006

By Sandy Leven The granite city is a very special place the most radioactive in the UK People from all over the world study at its ancient university Home of the Doric and perhaps many a Doric column

Pillars of Aberdeen Any Doric here It is famed for fish and oil and in my humble opinion for the cold North Sea haars Aberdeen has many climates but in May it is usually warm and welcoming It is no wonder that the Aberdeen Scottish Rockers grow a wonderful selection of plants from all over the floral world When they ask you Fit like they are not asking how robust you are

Union Street Aberdeen heart the city At Aberdeen the locals provide the backbone of the show This is particularly in evidence in Section 2 where Show secretaries Ian and Maggi are always well supported by the locals

Section 2 is on the far side of the hall

Ian likes to offer personal encouragement Here he is describing how to fly somewhere over the rainbow s is a bird Is is a plane No Itshelliphelliphelliphellipjust himsel

Epimedium grandiflorum nanum

IUvularia grandiflora John Graham won the SRGC Bronze Medal for most points in section 2 Among his plants was this fine Uvularia grandiflora He also showed the delightful Epimedium grandiflorum nanum We various southerners drive up with our contributions and pinch some of the awards Mind you Cyril has garnered top awards from all our shows [except I think Blackpool but he will probably go there next year] This year Cyril took the Forrest with a fabulous neat Cypripedium calceolus one of 2 superb pans of the species which he showed

Cypripedium calceolus You can walk round he show and see other plants which gained medals for Cyril in previous years He does not just grow the plants but keeps them growing

Silene hookeri bolanderi One major surprise at this years show was that I won the Simpson Salver for Best Rhododendron Thank you Glendoik for raising Rh Swift Thats twice I have won a trophy for Best Rhody at an SRGC show in 30 years - one more than England have won the World Cup [SO FAR But they are doing well] Sylvia Simpson was a wonderful show secretary in Aberdeen for many years I am delighted to keep her trophy in Dunblane for the next year

Rhododendron Swift You can see just how well grown it is Alan Newton won the trophy for Most Points at this years show Alan delighted us with several other Cypripediums [Cypridedia]

Cypripedium calceolus

Cypripedium tibeticum

Cypripedium ventricosum Barry and Cathy Caudwell had a wonderful 2 pan entry of Zaluzianskya Semonkong and Zaluzianskya ovata [great plants and even more wonderful names Type them into Google and you get results] Both have white flowers The former has pink colouration on the reverse of the petals and the latter marvellous orange centres it is in fact named after Adam Zaluziansky von Zaluzian a 16th century Bohemian botanist (Quite how a relatively unknown South African plant was named after the first man to argue for the separation of botany from medicine and for a universal classification of plants remains unclear) There are 54 species of Zaluzianskya that are found in southern Africa (mainly around Lesotho Natal and in the Drakensburg mountains) few are grown in gardens

Zaluzianskya Semonkong and Zaluzianskya ovata The ovata shown on the web site of pioneer nurseries does not have the fabulous orange centre of Barry and Cathys plant Best Primula was Brian and Maureen Wilsons Primula forrestii I want this species to win a Forrest medal one day perhaps in a 2 pan class with Pieris forrestii The latter did appear in the class for cut flowers and did get a first so Uncle George did OK with his introductions

Primula forrestii

Rosemary Lupton had a ice 6 pan class which had the distinction of containing five ericaceous plants if you include Epacridaceae in Ericaceaehellipand you dont have to but they look very alike

Harry Bush is a fantastic selection of Dryas octopetala and according to Graham Butler is a very dependable flowerer even on young plants Plants which I grow have proved him correct

Dryas octopetala Harry Bush Other plants which caught my eye

Corydalis flexuosa

Trillium grandiflorum flpl

Cassiope selaginoides LampS which I bought from Ian Christie at Gardening Scotland A fantastic plant with a local heritage

Ramonda serbica

Polemonium viscosum

This fantastic Scottish native from Margaret and Henry Paris quadrifolia

Saxifraga caespitosa another plant in the class for Scottish natives which might have won a prize for Nick Boss [if only he had not written on its label that it grew between 5000 and 8000 feet in tundra in Norway]

Serapias lingulata Who would have expected to see this in Aberdeen

Lewisia stebbinsii

Briggsia speciosa x aurantiaca from Brian and Maureen Wilson

Aquilegia scopulorum

Calanthe discolor

Corydalis meifolia violacea

Meconopsis x cookii Old Rose the best and most perennial of the cross between Mec punicea and quintuplinervia

Ranunculus amplexicaulis Pic dAnie [in the Pyrenees]

Oxalis enneaphylla Dark Eye There were more many more Aberdeen is the last of the early shows but not the end of our flowers Saxifrages campanulas Rhodohypoxis Bulbinellas Alliums and many more are just getting going Maybe we can have a summer show some day On behalf of everyone who went to any show and all who enjoy the pictures on the repot may I thank the Exhibitors Show secretaries judges and workers at the SRC show for giving us months of pleasure If you did not take part this year Shame on youhellip But there is always next year

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Union Street Aberdeen heart the city At Aberdeen the locals provide the backbone of the show This is particularly in evidence in Section 2 where Show secretaries Ian and Maggi are always well supported by the locals

Section 2 is on the far side of the hall

Ian likes to offer personal encouragement Here he is describing how to fly somewhere over the rainbow s is a bird Is is a plane No Itshelliphelliphelliphellipjust himsel

Epimedium grandiflorum nanum

IUvularia grandiflora John Graham won the SRGC Bronze Medal for most points in section 2 Among his plants was this fine Uvularia grandiflora He also showed the delightful Epimedium grandiflorum nanum We various southerners drive up with our contributions and pinch some of the awards Mind you Cyril has garnered top awards from all our shows [except I think Blackpool but he will probably go there next year] This year Cyril took the Forrest with a fabulous neat Cypripedium calceolus one of 2 superb pans of the species which he showed

Cypripedium calceolus You can walk round he show and see other plants which gained medals for Cyril in previous years He does not just grow the plants but keeps them growing

Silene hookeri bolanderi One major surprise at this years show was that I won the Simpson Salver for Best Rhododendron Thank you Glendoik for raising Rh Swift Thats twice I have won a trophy for Best Rhody at an SRGC show in 30 years - one more than England have won the World Cup [SO FAR But they are doing well] Sylvia Simpson was a wonderful show secretary in Aberdeen for many years I am delighted to keep her trophy in Dunblane for the next year

Rhododendron Swift You can see just how well grown it is Alan Newton won the trophy for Most Points at this years show Alan delighted us with several other Cypripediums [Cypridedia]

Cypripedium calceolus

Cypripedium tibeticum

Cypripedium ventricosum Barry and Cathy Caudwell had a wonderful 2 pan entry of Zaluzianskya Semonkong and Zaluzianskya ovata [great plants and even more wonderful names Type them into Google and you get results] Both have white flowers The former has pink colouration on the reverse of the petals and the latter marvellous orange centres it is in fact named after Adam Zaluziansky von Zaluzian a 16th century Bohemian botanist (Quite how a relatively unknown South African plant was named after the first man to argue for the separation of botany from medicine and for a universal classification of plants remains unclear) There are 54 species of Zaluzianskya that are found in southern Africa (mainly around Lesotho Natal and in the Drakensburg mountains) few are grown in gardens

Zaluzianskya Semonkong and Zaluzianskya ovata The ovata shown on the web site of pioneer nurseries does not have the fabulous orange centre of Barry and Cathys plant Best Primula was Brian and Maureen Wilsons Primula forrestii I want this species to win a Forrest medal one day perhaps in a 2 pan class with Pieris forrestii The latter did appear in the class for cut flowers and did get a first so Uncle George did OK with his introductions

Primula forrestii

Rosemary Lupton had a ice 6 pan class which had the distinction of containing five ericaceous plants if you include Epacridaceae in Ericaceaehellipand you dont have to but they look very alike

Harry Bush is a fantastic selection of Dryas octopetala and according to Graham Butler is a very dependable flowerer even on young plants Plants which I grow have proved him correct

Dryas octopetala Harry Bush Other plants which caught my eye

Corydalis flexuosa

Trillium grandiflorum flpl

Cassiope selaginoides LampS which I bought from Ian Christie at Gardening Scotland A fantastic plant with a local heritage

Ramonda serbica

Polemonium viscosum

This fantastic Scottish native from Margaret and Henry Paris quadrifolia

Saxifraga caespitosa another plant in the class for Scottish natives which might have won a prize for Nick Boss [if only he had not written on its label that it grew between 5000 and 8000 feet in tundra in Norway]

Serapias lingulata Who would have expected to see this in Aberdeen

Lewisia stebbinsii

Briggsia speciosa x aurantiaca from Brian and Maureen Wilson

Aquilegia scopulorum

Calanthe discolor

Corydalis meifolia violacea

Meconopsis x cookii Old Rose the best and most perennial of the cross between Mec punicea and quintuplinervia

Ranunculus amplexicaulis Pic dAnie [in the Pyrenees]

Oxalis enneaphylla Dark Eye There were more many more Aberdeen is the last of the early shows but not the end of our flowers Saxifrages campanulas Rhodohypoxis Bulbinellas Alliums and many more are just getting going Maybe we can have a summer show some day On behalf of everyone who went to any show and all who enjoy the pictures on the repot may I thank the Exhibitors Show secretaries judges and workers at the SRC show for giving us months of pleasure If you did not take part this year Shame on youhellip But there is always next year

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Ian likes to offer personal encouragement Here he is describing how to fly somewhere over the rainbow s is a bird Is is a plane No Itshelliphelliphelliphellipjust himsel

Epimedium grandiflorum nanum

IUvularia grandiflora John Graham won the SRGC Bronze Medal for most points in section 2 Among his plants was this fine Uvularia grandiflora He also showed the delightful Epimedium grandiflorum nanum We various southerners drive up with our contributions and pinch some of the awards Mind you Cyril has garnered top awards from all our shows [except I think Blackpool but he will probably go there next year] This year Cyril took the Forrest with a fabulous neat Cypripedium calceolus one of 2 superb pans of the species which he showed

Cypripedium calceolus You can walk round he show and see other plants which gained medals for Cyril in previous years He does not just grow the plants but keeps them growing

Silene hookeri bolanderi One major surprise at this years show was that I won the Simpson Salver for Best Rhododendron Thank you Glendoik for raising Rh Swift Thats twice I have won a trophy for Best Rhody at an SRGC show in 30 years - one more than England have won the World Cup [SO FAR But they are doing well] Sylvia Simpson was a wonderful show secretary in Aberdeen for many years I am delighted to keep her trophy in Dunblane for the next year

Rhododendron Swift You can see just how well grown it is Alan Newton won the trophy for Most Points at this years show Alan delighted us with several other Cypripediums [Cypridedia]

Cypripedium calceolus

Cypripedium tibeticum

Cypripedium ventricosum Barry and Cathy Caudwell had a wonderful 2 pan entry of Zaluzianskya Semonkong and Zaluzianskya ovata [great plants and even more wonderful names Type them into Google and you get results] Both have white flowers The former has pink colouration on the reverse of the petals and the latter marvellous orange centres it is in fact named after Adam Zaluziansky von Zaluzian a 16th century Bohemian botanist (Quite how a relatively unknown South African plant was named after the first man to argue for the separation of botany from medicine and for a universal classification of plants remains unclear) There are 54 species of Zaluzianskya that are found in southern Africa (mainly around Lesotho Natal and in the Drakensburg mountains) few are grown in gardens

Zaluzianskya Semonkong and Zaluzianskya ovata The ovata shown on the web site of pioneer nurseries does not have the fabulous orange centre of Barry and Cathys plant Best Primula was Brian and Maureen Wilsons Primula forrestii I want this species to win a Forrest medal one day perhaps in a 2 pan class with Pieris forrestii The latter did appear in the class for cut flowers and did get a first so Uncle George did OK with his introductions

Primula forrestii

Rosemary Lupton had a ice 6 pan class which had the distinction of containing five ericaceous plants if you include Epacridaceae in Ericaceaehellipand you dont have to but they look very alike

Harry Bush is a fantastic selection of Dryas octopetala and according to Graham Butler is a very dependable flowerer even on young plants Plants which I grow have proved him correct

Dryas octopetala Harry Bush Other plants which caught my eye

Corydalis flexuosa

Trillium grandiflorum flpl

Cassiope selaginoides LampS which I bought from Ian Christie at Gardening Scotland A fantastic plant with a local heritage

Ramonda serbica

Polemonium viscosum

This fantastic Scottish native from Margaret and Henry Paris quadrifolia

Saxifraga caespitosa another plant in the class for Scottish natives which might have won a prize for Nick Boss [if only he had not written on its label that it grew between 5000 and 8000 feet in tundra in Norway]

Serapias lingulata Who would have expected to see this in Aberdeen

Lewisia stebbinsii

Briggsia speciosa x aurantiaca from Brian and Maureen Wilson

Aquilegia scopulorum

Calanthe discolor

Corydalis meifolia violacea

Meconopsis x cookii Old Rose the best and most perennial of the cross between Mec punicea and quintuplinervia

Ranunculus amplexicaulis Pic dAnie [in the Pyrenees]

Oxalis enneaphylla Dark Eye There were more many more Aberdeen is the last of the early shows but not the end of our flowers Saxifrages campanulas Rhodohypoxis Bulbinellas Alliums and many more are just getting going Maybe we can have a summer show some day On behalf of everyone who went to any show and all who enjoy the pictures on the repot may I thank the Exhibitors Show secretaries judges and workers at the SRC show for giving us months of pleasure If you did not take part this year Shame on youhellip But there is always next year

^ back to the top ^

IUvularia grandiflora John Graham won the SRGC Bronze Medal for most points in section 2 Among his plants was this fine Uvularia grandiflora He also showed the delightful Epimedium grandiflorum nanum We various southerners drive up with our contributions and pinch some of the awards Mind you Cyril has garnered top awards from all our shows [except I think Blackpool but he will probably go there next year] This year Cyril took the Forrest with a fabulous neat Cypripedium calceolus one of 2 superb pans of the species which he showed

Cypripedium calceolus You can walk round he show and see other plants which gained medals for Cyril in previous years He does not just grow the plants but keeps them growing

Silene hookeri bolanderi One major surprise at this years show was that I won the Simpson Salver for Best Rhododendron Thank you Glendoik for raising Rh Swift Thats twice I have won a trophy for Best Rhody at an SRGC show in 30 years - one more than England have won the World Cup [SO FAR But they are doing well] Sylvia Simpson was a wonderful show secretary in Aberdeen for many years I am delighted to keep her trophy in Dunblane for the next year

Rhododendron Swift You can see just how well grown it is Alan Newton won the trophy for Most Points at this years show Alan delighted us with several other Cypripediums [Cypridedia]

Cypripedium calceolus

Cypripedium tibeticum

Cypripedium ventricosum Barry and Cathy Caudwell had a wonderful 2 pan entry of Zaluzianskya Semonkong and Zaluzianskya ovata [great plants and even more wonderful names Type them into Google and you get results] Both have white flowers The former has pink colouration on the reverse of the petals and the latter marvellous orange centres it is in fact named after Adam Zaluziansky von Zaluzian a 16th century Bohemian botanist (Quite how a relatively unknown South African plant was named after the first man to argue for the separation of botany from medicine and for a universal classification of plants remains unclear) There are 54 species of Zaluzianskya that are found in southern Africa (mainly around Lesotho Natal and in the Drakensburg mountains) few are grown in gardens

Zaluzianskya Semonkong and Zaluzianskya ovata The ovata shown on the web site of pioneer nurseries does not have the fabulous orange centre of Barry and Cathys plant Best Primula was Brian and Maureen Wilsons Primula forrestii I want this species to win a Forrest medal one day perhaps in a 2 pan class with Pieris forrestii The latter did appear in the class for cut flowers and did get a first so Uncle George did OK with his introductions

Primula forrestii

Rosemary Lupton had a ice 6 pan class which had the distinction of containing five ericaceous plants if you include Epacridaceae in Ericaceaehellipand you dont have to but they look very alike

Harry Bush is a fantastic selection of Dryas octopetala and according to Graham Butler is a very dependable flowerer even on young plants Plants which I grow have proved him correct

Dryas octopetala Harry Bush Other plants which caught my eye

Corydalis flexuosa

Trillium grandiflorum flpl

Cassiope selaginoides LampS which I bought from Ian Christie at Gardening Scotland A fantastic plant with a local heritage

Ramonda serbica

Polemonium viscosum

This fantastic Scottish native from Margaret and Henry Paris quadrifolia

Saxifraga caespitosa another plant in the class for Scottish natives which might have won a prize for Nick Boss [if only he had not written on its label that it grew between 5000 and 8000 feet in tundra in Norway]

Serapias lingulata Who would have expected to see this in Aberdeen

Lewisia stebbinsii

Briggsia speciosa x aurantiaca from Brian and Maureen Wilson

Aquilegia scopulorum

Calanthe discolor

Corydalis meifolia violacea

Meconopsis x cookii Old Rose the best and most perennial of the cross between Mec punicea and quintuplinervia

Ranunculus amplexicaulis Pic dAnie [in the Pyrenees]

Oxalis enneaphylla Dark Eye There were more many more Aberdeen is the last of the early shows but not the end of our flowers Saxifrages campanulas Rhodohypoxis Bulbinellas Alliums and many more are just getting going Maybe we can have a summer show some day On behalf of everyone who went to any show and all who enjoy the pictures on the repot may I thank the Exhibitors Show secretaries judges and workers at the SRC show for giving us months of pleasure If you did not take part this year Shame on youhellip But there is always next year

^ back to the top ^

Silene hookeri bolanderi One major surprise at this years show was that I won the Simpson Salver for Best Rhododendron Thank you Glendoik for raising Rh Swift Thats twice I have won a trophy for Best Rhody at an SRGC show in 30 years - one more than England have won the World Cup [SO FAR But they are doing well] Sylvia Simpson was a wonderful show secretary in Aberdeen for many years I am delighted to keep her trophy in Dunblane for the next year

Rhododendron Swift You can see just how well grown it is Alan Newton won the trophy for Most Points at this years show Alan delighted us with several other Cypripediums [Cypridedia]

Cypripedium calceolus

Cypripedium tibeticum

Cypripedium ventricosum Barry and Cathy Caudwell had a wonderful 2 pan entry of Zaluzianskya Semonkong and Zaluzianskya ovata [great plants and even more wonderful names Type them into Google and you get results] Both have white flowers The former has pink colouration on the reverse of the petals and the latter marvellous orange centres it is in fact named after Adam Zaluziansky von Zaluzian a 16th century Bohemian botanist (Quite how a relatively unknown South African plant was named after the first man to argue for the separation of botany from medicine and for a universal classification of plants remains unclear) There are 54 species of Zaluzianskya that are found in southern Africa (mainly around Lesotho Natal and in the Drakensburg mountains) few are grown in gardens

Zaluzianskya Semonkong and Zaluzianskya ovata The ovata shown on the web site of pioneer nurseries does not have the fabulous orange centre of Barry and Cathys plant Best Primula was Brian and Maureen Wilsons Primula forrestii I want this species to win a Forrest medal one day perhaps in a 2 pan class with Pieris forrestii The latter did appear in the class for cut flowers and did get a first so Uncle George did OK with his introductions

Primula forrestii

Rosemary Lupton had a ice 6 pan class which had the distinction of containing five ericaceous plants if you include Epacridaceae in Ericaceaehellipand you dont have to but they look very alike

Harry Bush is a fantastic selection of Dryas octopetala and according to Graham Butler is a very dependable flowerer even on young plants Plants which I grow have proved him correct

Dryas octopetala Harry Bush Other plants which caught my eye

Corydalis flexuosa

Trillium grandiflorum flpl

Cassiope selaginoides LampS which I bought from Ian Christie at Gardening Scotland A fantastic plant with a local heritage

Ramonda serbica

Polemonium viscosum

This fantastic Scottish native from Margaret and Henry Paris quadrifolia

Saxifraga caespitosa another plant in the class for Scottish natives which might have won a prize for Nick Boss [if only he had not written on its label that it grew between 5000 and 8000 feet in tundra in Norway]

Serapias lingulata Who would have expected to see this in Aberdeen

Lewisia stebbinsii

Briggsia speciosa x aurantiaca from Brian and Maureen Wilson

Aquilegia scopulorum

Calanthe discolor

Corydalis meifolia violacea

Meconopsis x cookii Old Rose the best and most perennial of the cross between Mec punicea and quintuplinervia

Ranunculus amplexicaulis Pic dAnie [in the Pyrenees]

Oxalis enneaphylla Dark Eye There were more many more Aberdeen is the last of the early shows but not the end of our flowers Saxifrages campanulas Rhodohypoxis Bulbinellas Alliums and many more are just getting going Maybe we can have a summer show some day On behalf of everyone who went to any show and all who enjoy the pictures on the repot may I thank the Exhibitors Show secretaries judges and workers at the SRC show for giving us months of pleasure If you did not take part this year Shame on youhellip But there is always next year

^ back to the top ^

Cypripedium calceolus

Cypripedium tibeticum

Cypripedium ventricosum Barry and Cathy Caudwell had a wonderful 2 pan entry of Zaluzianskya Semonkong and Zaluzianskya ovata [great plants and even more wonderful names Type them into Google and you get results] Both have white flowers The former has pink colouration on the reverse of the petals and the latter marvellous orange centres it is in fact named after Adam Zaluziansky von Zaluzian a 16th century Bohemian botanist (Quite how a relatively unknown South African plant was named after the first man to argue for the separation of botany from medicine and for a universal classification of plants remains unclear) There are 54 species of Zaluzianskya that are found in southern Africa (mainly around Lesotho Natal and in the Drakensburg mountains) few are grown in gardens

Zaluzianskya Semonkong and Zaluzianskya ovata The ovata shown on the web site of pioneer nurseries does not have the fabulous orange centre of Barry and Cathys plant Best Primula was Brian and Maureen Wilsons Primula forrestii I want this species to win a Forrest medal one day perhaps in a 2 pan class with Pieris forrestii The latter did appear in the class for cut flowers and did get a first so Uncle George did OK with his introductions

Primula forrestii

Rosemary Lupton had a ice 6 pan class which had the distinction of containing five ericaceous plants if you include Epacridaceae in Ericaceaehellipand you dont have to but they look very alike

Harry Bush is a fantastic selection of Dryas octopetala and according to Graham Butler is a very dependable flowerer even on young plants Plants which I grow have proved him correct

Dryas octopetala Harry Bush Other plants which caught my eye

Corydalis flexuosa

Trillium grandiflorum flpl

Cassiope selaginoides LampS which I bought from Ian Christie at Gardening Scotland A fantastic plant with a local heritage

Ramonda serbica

Polemonium viscosum

This fantastic Scottish native from Margaret and Henry Paris quadrifolia

Saxifraga caespitosa another plant in the class for Scottish natives which might have won a prize for Nick Boss [if only he had not written on its label that it grew between 5000 and 8000 feet in tundra in Norway]

Serapias lingulata Who would have expected to see this in Aberdeen

Lewisia stebbinsii

Briggsia speciosa x aurantiaca from Brian and Maureen Wilson

Aquilegia scopulorum

Calanthe discolor

Corydalis meifolia violacea

Meconopsis x cookii Old Rose the best and most perennial of the cross between Mec punicea and quintuplinervia

Ranunculus amplexicaulis Pic dAnie [in the Pyrenees]

Oxalis enneaphylla Dark Eye There were more many more Aberdeen is the last of the early shows but not the end of our flowers Saxifrages campanulas Rhodohypoxis Bulbinellas Alliums and many more are just getting going Maybe we can have a summer show some day On behalf of everyone who went to any show and all who enjoy the pictures on the repot may I thank the Exhibitors Show secretaries judges and workers at the SRC show for giving us months of pleasure If you did not take part this year Shame on youhellip But there is always next year

^ back to the top ^

Cypripedium ventricosum Barry and Cathy Caudwell had a wonderful 2 pan entry of Zaluzianskya Semonkong and Zaluzianskya ovata [great plants and even more wonderful names Type them into Google and you get results] Both have white flowers The former has pink colouration on the reverse of the petals and the latter marvellous orange centres it is in fact named after Adam Zaluziansky von Zaluzian a 16th century Bohemian botanist (Quite how a relatively unknown South African plant was named after the first man to argue for the separation of botany from medicine and for a universal classification of plants remains unclear) There are 54 species of Zaluzianskya that are found in southern Africa (mainly around Lesotho Natal and in the Drakensburg mountains) few are grown in gardens

Zaluzianskya Semonkong and Zaluzianskya ovata The ovata shown on the web site of pioneer nurseries does not have the fabulous orange centre of Barry and Cathys plant Best Primula was Brian and Maureen Wilsons Primula forrestii I want this species to win a Forrest medal one day perhaps in a 2 pan class with Pieris forrestii The latter did appear in the class for cut flowers and did get a first so Uncle George did OK with his introductions

Primula forrestii

Rosemary Lupton had a ice 6 pan class which had the distinction of containing five ericaceous plants if you include Epacridaceae in Ericaceaehellipand you dont have to but they look very alike

Harry Bush is a fantastic selection of Dryas octopetala and according to Graham Butler is a very dependable flowerer even on young plants Plants which I grow have proved him correct

Dryas octopetala Harry Bush Other plants which caught my eye

Corydalis flexuosa

Trillium grandiflorum flpl

Cassiope selaginoides LampS which I bought from Ian Christie at Gardening Scotland A fantastic plant with a local heritage

Ramonda serbica

Polemonium viscosum

This fantastic Scottish native from Margaret and Henry Paris quadrifolia

Saxifraga caespitosa another plant in the class for Scottish natives which might have won a prize for Nick Boss [if only he had not written on its label that it grew between 5000 and 8000 feet in tundra in Norway]

Serapias lingulata Who would have expected to see this in Aberdeen

Lewisia stebbinsii

Briggsia speciosa x aurantiaca from Brian and Maureen Wilson

Aquilegia scopulorum

Calanthe discolor

Corydalis meifolia violacea

Meconopsis x cookii Old Rose the best and most perennial of the cross between Mec punicea and quintuplinervia

Ranunculus amplexicaulis Pic dAnie [in the Pyrenees]

Oxalis enneaphylla Dark Eye There were more many more Aberdeen is the last of the early shows but not the end of our flowers Saxifrages campanulas Rhodohypoxis Bulbinellas Alliums and many more are just getting going Maybe we can have a summer show some day On behalf of everyone who went to any show and all who enjoy the pictures on the repot may I thank the Exhibitors Show secretaries judges and workers at the SRC show for giving us months of pleasure If you did not take part this year Shame on youhellip But there is always next year

^ back to the top ^

Zaluzianskya Semonkong and Zaluzianskya ovata The ovata shown on the web site of pioneer nurseries does not have the fabulous orange centre of Barry and Cathys plant Best Primula was Brian and Maureen Wilsons Primula forrestii I want this species to win a Forrest medal one day perhaps in a 2 pan class with Pieris forrestii The latter did appear in the class for cut flowers and did get a first so Uncle George did OK with his introductions

Primula forrestii

Rosemary Lupton had a ice 6 pan class which had the distinction of containing five ericaceous plants if you include Epacridaceae in Ericaceaehellipand you dont have to but they look very alike

Harry Bush is a fantastic selection of Dryas octopetala and according to Graham Butler is a very dependable flowerer even on young plants Plants which I grow have proved him correct

Dryas octopetala Harry Bush Other plants which caught my eye

Corydalis flexuosa

Trillium grandiflorum flpl

Cassiope selaginoides LampS which I bought from Ian Christie at Gardening Scotland A fantastic plant with a local heritage

Ramonda serbica

Polemonium viscosum

This fantastic Scottish native from Margaret and Henry Paris quadrifolia

Saxifraga caespitosa another plant in the class for Scottish natives which might have won a prize for Nick Boss [if only he had not written on its label that it grew between 5000 and 8000 feet in tundra in Norway]

Serapias lingulata Who would have expected to see this in Aberdeen

Lewisia stebbinsii

Briggsia speciosa x aurantiaca from Brian and Maureen Wilson

Aquilegia scopulorum

Calanthe discolor

Corydalis meifolia violacea

Meconopsis x cookii Old Rose the best and most perennial of the cross between Mec punicea and quintuplinervia

Ranunculus amplexicaulis Pic dAnie [in the Pyrenees]

Oxalis enneaphylla Dark Eye There were more many more Aberdeen is the last of the early shows but not the end of our flowers Saxifrages campanulas Rhodohypoxis Bulbinellas Alliums and many more are just getting going Maybe we can have a summer show some day On behalf of everyone who went to any show and all who enjoy the pictures on the repot may I thank the Exhibitors Show secretaries judges and workers at the SRC show for giving us months of pleasure If you did not take part this year Shame on youhellip But there is always next year

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Rosemary Lupton had a ice 6 pan class which had the distinction of containing five ericaceous plants if you include Epacridaceae in Ericaceaehellipand you dont have to but they look very alike

Harry Bush is a fantastic selection of Dryas octopetala and according to Graham Butler is a very dependable flowerer even on young plants Plants which I grow have proved him correct

Dryas octopetala Harry Bush Other plants which caught my eye

Corydalis flexuosa

Trillium grandiflorum flpl

Cassiope selaginoides LampS which I bought from Ian Christie at Gardening Scotland A fantastic plant with a local heritage

Ramonda serbica

Polemonium viscosum

This fantastic Scottish native from Margaret and Henry Paris quadrifolia

Saxifraga caespitosa another plant in the class for Scottish natives which might have won a prize for Nick Boss [if only he had not written on its label that it grew between 5000 and 8000 feet in tundra in Norway]

Serapias lingulata Who would have expected to see this in Aberdeen

Lewisia stebbinsii

Briggsia speciosa x aurantiaca from Brian and Maureen Wilson

Aquilegia scopulorum

Calanthe discolor

Corydalis meifolia violacea

Meconopsis x cookii Old Rose the best and most perennial of the cross between Mec punicea and quintuplinervia

Ranunculus amplexicaulis Pic dAnie [in the Pyrenees]

Oxalis enneaphylla Dark Eye There were more many more Aberdeen is the last of the early shows but not the end of our flowers Saxifrages campanulas Rhodohypoxis Bulbinellas Alliums and many more are just getting going Maybe we can have a summer show some day On behalf of everyone who went to any show and all who enjoy the pictures on the repot may I thank the Exhibitors Show secretaries judges and workers at the SRC show for giving us months of pleasure If you did not take part this year Shame on youhellip But there is always next year

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Corydalis flexuosa

Trillium grandiflorum flpl

Cassiope selaginoides LampS which I bought from Ian Christie at Gardening Scotland A fantastic plant with a local heritage

Ramonda serbica

Polemonium viscosum

This fantastic Scottish native from Margaret and Henry Paris quadrifolia

Saxifraga caespitosa another plant in the class for Scottish natives which might have won a prize for Nick Boss [if only he had not written on its label that it grew between 5000 and 8000 feet in tundra in Norway]

Serapias lingulata Who would have expected to see this in Aberdeen

Lewisia stebbinsii

Briggsia speciosa x aurantiaca from Brian and Maureen Wilson

Aquilegia scopulorum

Calanthe discolor

Corydalis meifolia violacea

Meconopsis x cookii Old Rose the best and most perennial of the cross between Mec punicea and quintuplinervia

Ranunculus amplexicaulis Pic dAnie [in the Pyrenees]

Oxalis enneaphylla Dark Eye There were more many more Aberdeen is the last of the early shows but not the end of our flowers Saxifrages campanulas Rhodohypoxis Bulbinellas Alliums and many more are just getting going Maybe we can have a summer show some day On behalf of everyone who went to any show and all who enjoy the pictures on the repot may I thank the Exhibitors Show secretaries judges and workers at the SRC show for giving us months of pleasure If you did not take part this year Shame on youhellip But there is always next year

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Cassiope selaginoides LampS which I bought from Ian Christie at Gardening Scotland A fantastic plant with a local heritage

Ramonda serbica

Polemonium viscosum

This fantastic Scottish native from Margaret and Henry Paris quadrifolia

Saxifraga caespitosa another plant in the class for Scottish natives which might have won a prize for Nick Boss [if only he had not written on its label that it grew between 5000 and 8000 feet in tundra in Norway]

Serapias lingulata Who would have expected to see this in Aberdeen

Lewisia stebbinsii

Briggsia speciosa x aurantiaca from Brian and Maureen Wilson

Aquilegia scopulorum

Calanthe discolor

Corydalis meifolia violacea

Meconopsis x cookii Old Rose the best and most perennial of the cross between Mec punicea and quintuplinervia

Ranunculus amplexicaulis Pic dAnie [in the Pyrenees]

Oxalis enneaphylla Dark Eye There were more many more Aberdeen is the last of the early shows but not the end of our flowers Saxifrages campanulas Rhodohypoxis Bulbinellas Alliums and many more are just getting going Maybe we can have a summer show some day On behalf of everyone who went to any show and all who enjoy the pictures on the repot may I thank the Exhibitors Show secretaries judges and workers at the SRC show for giving us months of pleasure If you did not take part this year Shame on youhellip But there is always next year

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Polemonium viscosum

This fantastic Scottish native from Margaret and Henry Paris quadrifolia

Saxifraga caespitosa another plant in the class for Scottish natives which might have won a prize for Nick Boss [if only he had not written on its label that it grew between 5000 and 8000 feet in tundra in Norway]

Serapias lingulata Who would have expected to see this in Aberdeen

Lewisia stebbinsii

Briggsia speciosa x aurantiaca from Brian and Maureen Wilson

Aquilegia scopulorum

Calanthe discolor

Corydalis meifolia violacea

Meconopsis x cookii Old Rose the best and most perennial of the cross between Mec punicea and quintuplinervia

Ranunculus amplexicaulis Pic dAnie [in the Pyrenees]

Oxalis enneaphylla Dark Eye There were more many more Aberdeen is the last of the early shows but not the end of our flowers Saxifrages campanulas Rhodohypoxis Bulbinellas Alliums and many more are just getting going Maybe we can have a summer show some day On behalf of everyone who went to any show and all who enjoy the pictures on the repot may I thank the Exhibitors Show secretaries judges and workers at the SRC show for giving us months of pleasure If you did not take part this year Shame on youhellip But there is always next year

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Saxifraga caespitosa another plant in the class for Scottish natives which might have won a prize for Nick Boss [if only he had not written on its label that it grew between 5000 and 8000 feet in tundra in Norway]

Serapias lingulata Who would have expected to see this in Aberdeen

Lewisia stebbinsii

Briggsia speciosa x aurantiaca from Brian and Maureen Wilson

Aquilegia scopulorum

Calanthe discolor

Corydalis meifolia violacea

Meconopsis x cookii Old Rose the best and most perennial of the cross between Mec punicea and quintuplinervia

Ranunculus amplexicaulis Pic dAnie [in the Pyrenees]

Oxalis enneaphylla Dark Eye There were more many more Aberdeen is the last of the early shows but not the end of our flowers Saxifrages campanulas Rhodohypoxis Bulbinellas Alliums and many more are just getting going Maybe we can have a summer show some day On behalf of everyone who went to any show and all who enjoy the pictures on the repot may I thank the Exhibitors Show secretaries judges and workers at the SRC show for giving us months of pleasure If you did not take part this year Shame on youhellip But there is always next year

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Lewisia stebbinsii

Briggsia speciosa x aurantiaca from Brian and Maureen Wilson

Aquilegia scopulorum

Calanthe discolor

Corydalis meifolia violacea

Meconopsis x cookii Old Rose the best and most perennial of the cross between Mec punicea and quintuplinervia

Ranunculus amplexicaulis Pic dAnie [in the Pyrenees]

Oxalis enneaphylla Dark Eye There were more many more Aberdeen is the last of the early shows but not the end of our flowers Saxifrages campanulas Rhodohypoxis Bulbinellas Alliums and many more are just getting going Maybe we can have a summer show some day On behalf of everyone who went to any show and all who enjoy the pictures on the repot may I thank the Exhibitors Show secretaries judges and workers at the SRC show for giving us months of pleasure If you did not take part this year Shame on youhellip But there is always next year

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Calanthe discolor

Corydalis meifolia violacea

Meconopsis x cookii Old Rose the best and most perennial of the cross between Mec punicea and quintuplinervia

Ranunculus amplexicaulis Pic dAnie [in the Pyrenees]

Oxalis enneaphylla Dark Eye There were more many more Aberdeen is the last of the early shows but not the end of our flowers Saxifrages campanulas Rhodohypoxis Bulbinellas Alliums and many more are just getting going Maybe we can have a summer show some day On behalf of everyone who went to any show and all who enjoy the pictures on the repot may I thank the Exhibitors Show secretaries judges and workers at the SRC show for giving us months of pleasure If you did not take part this year Shame on youhellip But there is always next year

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Meconopsis x cookii Old Rose the best and most perennial of the cross between Mec punicea and quintuplinervia

Ranunculus amplexicaulis Pic dAnie [in the Pyrenees]

Oxalis enneaphylla Dark Eye There were more many more Aberdeen is the last of the early shows but not the end of our flowers Saxifrages campanulas Rhodohypoxis Bulbinellas Alliums and many more are just getting going Maybe we can have a summer show some day On behalf of everyone who went to any show and all who enjoy the pictures on the repot may I thank the Exhibitors Show secretaries judges and workers at the SRC show for giving us months of pleasure If you did not take part this year Shame on youhellip But there is always next year

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Oxalis enneaphylla Dark Eye There were more many more Aberdeen is the last of the early shows but not the end of our flowers Saxifrages campanulas Rhodohypoxis Bulbinellas Alliums and many more are just getting going Maybe we can have a summer show some day On behalf of everyone who went to any show and all who enjoy the pictures on the repot may I thank the Exhibitors Show secretaries judges and workers at the SRC show for giving us months of pleasure If you did not take part this year Shame on youhellip But there is always next year

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