SRGC Show Report. PERTH SHOW 2006 Report by Sadny Leven. Recommend This Site To A Friend

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1 SRGC Show Report Home Recommend This Site To A Friend PERTH SHOW 2006 Report by Sadny Leven Perth the Fair City and it has its famous Fair Maid's house. The SRGC Perth show has its own Fair Maids. Julia Corden the Show Secretary and Susan Band the New Group Convener. They are a formidable hardworking pair. The show was a resounding success. Susan's family give new meaning to the term 'a Band of workers'. Thanks to all the team from the Perth Group who worked tirelessly to make the show such a success. Just beside the car park behind the Bell's Sports centre in Perth there is a fascinating old rock garden. It has been constructed to last: made from whinstone and quartzite stones cemented together into miniature Matterhorns and mountain ridges. It has few plants and little soil but does house a few weeds. It is an interesting artefact which has withstood the ravages of time, bulldozers and cars. The pictures give some idea of this early venture into rock garden construction. The Forrest medal at Perth went to James Cobb's Daphne petraea grandiflora.

2 Daphne petraea grandiflora. Cyril Lafong's Jeffersonia dubia alba and his Androsace vandellii were awarded a Certificates of merit. The Jeffersonia is a truly fabulous plant. Few have seen the normal lilac form in such great nick far less this exquisite white form. The Androsace was just perfect. Jeffersonia dubia alba Androsace vandellii The 6 pan classes attracted a lot of plants and made a fine show. I am always impressed by the range of plants in 6 pan classes. Nowadays exhibitors put their best plants in to a 6 pan while in the past they were sometimes used to display particular favourite genera or to 'soak up' plants, which exhibitors could not place elsewhere in the show. At Perth there were some terrific plants in the 6 pan entries. The Jubilee small 6 pan was won by Sam Sutherlands beautiful collection which contained the appropriately named Saxifraga 'Your Success'. Sam grows cushion plants well and it is great to see real alpines win their class.

3 Cyril Lafong is today's master of the 6 pan. He includes plants which vie with one another for the Forrest medal. His large 6 pan entry included a wonderful Androsace vandellii and his signature plants Sebaea thomassii, the South African 'yellow gentian'. and a fine group of Cypripedium formosanum Androsace vandellii Sebaea thomassii, Cypripedium formosanum Jim and Janet Paterson won the General Murray-Lion trophy for the best plant exhibited by a member of the Perthshire group with a super pan of Anemone nemerosa 'Vestal'.

4 Anemone nemerosa 'Vestal' President Ian and wife Carole showed a fine pan of Muscari macrocarpum Muscari macrocarpum 3 of the many entries in the two pan bulb class I like this tulip but forget its name

5 but I do know the next one - Tulipa albocaerulea [it doe have synonyms] Primula marginata 'Gold Plate' was exhibited in the Foliage class. Primula marginata 'Gold Plate' We were spoilt for choice when it came to Primulas in flower and I will just show a few shots of the Primula bench.

6 Ever since he days on Miss Blackwood I have associated the Perth show with Lewisia tweedy. As expected there were several spectacular plant there. The most distinctive was again one of Cyril's and was grown from seed. It has perfect cup shaped pure white flowers.

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8 .and some cracking individual plants Primula amoena

9 Primula forrestii You either love this hybrid or you don't. I love the rich golden colours. A its label sys it is a hybrid between maroon Primula calderiana and its yellow subspecies P. c. strumosa. I am not sure that the owner loves it because why draw attention to its smell?

10 The truly magnificent Primula 'Wharfdale Village' grown to perfection Margaret and Henry Taylor had the best Rhododendron, a yak hybrid?

11 Why is Fred Hunt hiding behind this tree? ^ back to the top ^