Yorkshire Carnation Society Late Show, Sunday 13th August.

  Another early start for the second show at Doncaster the day after Huddersfield.. I had very little to take, just four PFs but had to go anyway as I'd promised some plants to Phil Cross and I also was presented for my British Border Championship win in the early show with an engraved glass tumbler. The PFs were a bit thin - only about 96 blooms and sixty odd of those were from Brian Duffy who swept the board in most classes.

Peter Gurnhill showed an interesting bloom with this Mojace.

The Championship class entry from Brian Duffy with Jess Hewins, Max Helliwell, Crompton Princess and Solway Star.





A nice nine from Brian Duffy.

His seven comprised Crompton Princess and Max Helliwell.

My unopposed single yellow ground fancy, Clara's Choice.

I scraped a third with these three unmatched Schuberts.

Liz Earl put in an appearance to win the same class for Brian Duffy.

  There was some consternation at the fact that one of the pinks exhibitors had all of their 25-30 entries removed because of red spider mite. I had some exhibits removed once because of RSM and you don't do it twice but it seems some people either miss it or don't worry about it.

Not the biggest of shows at Doncaster but it was good to catch up with people again. i hope next year we will all have more blooms for the shows.