tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73446776546000158192024-03-12T21:22:01.406-07:00Breeding and Showing FlowersFrank James Hartnellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759800031996558636noreply@blogger.comBlogger65125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7344677654600015819.post-23762641590727952342017-09-16T00:14:00.000-07:002018-08-14T04:17:11.009-07:00Tottington Show 9th September, 2017.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
I don't think that many people know that the name of this show actually appears in the Wallace nd Grommit film The Curse of the Were Rabbit. There are about eight classes for gladioli and in normal years I would fill it but this year the weather and season combined to wipe out most entries and as I'd been in Spain during the week my flowers had got battered by the elements. I just managed these three poor quality, underflowered prims: an Anne Milton on the left, a Marie Sandham in the middle and a new seedling on the right. They didn't deserve much but got best exhibit and a medal. If I had been judging I don't think I would have awarded a medal for these. The other glads at the show all had the bottom two or three florets gone and looked a bit bedraggled by the weather.</div>
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I just about managed to find six Sweet Peas from the bed and put in these which came second to a better six that had been staged without water and looked sad by the end of the show.<br />
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A gentleman called Derek Brooks, who sometimes writes about his garden in Garden News, is the main exhibitor in this show. Without him there would be no roses, no chrysanthemums and not so many other flowers. How he gets everything in his car is a mystery. He had some nice chrysanthemums on display. Mine had gone over so I couldn't bring them.<br />
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Above is Gillette and maybe Yellow Billy Bell and below is Matlock, one of my favourites.<br />
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His vase of five contained two different sorts of Matlock.</div>
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There are two classes for PFs in the show. I put three entries in the vase of three and one in the single.</div>
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These three Crompton Classic got the best in general flowers, although they are hardly well matched. It's a variety that appeals a lot to general judges. </div>
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I also put in a vase of two Lavender Schubert and an Unfinished Symphony.<br />
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My third vase had two Clara's Choice and a Heracles in it. </div>
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In the single class I put in what I think was my best Crompton Princess of the year. I'm not too keen on this variety. It's a short grower and many of them seem to have too much petal for me. This one was big and round.</div>
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<br />Frank James Hartnellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759800031996558636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7344677654600015819.post-87762857996395610542017-09-15T23:47:00.000-07:002017-09-15T23:47:30.262-07:00Lancs and Cheshire Carnation Society Premier Show 2nd September 2017<br />
Last year, this show had been very poorly supported and I was showing elsewhere at Liverpool on the day. I promised myself that I would try to support it this year. Then Liverpool Show fell through, which made it even easier to go to Atherton.<br />
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As it turned out it was a repeat of the previous year with only myself and Keith Horton in the PFs and maybe three entrants in the Pinks. My intention had been to just go in one or two of the big classes, as I didn't have much but when I realised the situation at the venue, I split my blooms up to make more entries and at least give some semblance of a show. The crazy thing was that not only was there mountains of food, but the two judges travelled all the way down from the North-<br />
East to do the judging and didn't have much of a job to do.<br />
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The one Heracles that I had wasn't very round.<br />
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This Lavender Schubert caused some confusion for the judges as I don't think they'd seen one before. At the moment it's classified as both self and a fancy which can't help matters. One of the judges thought it had sported from being self. In fact it's always like this.</div>
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The ever-reliable Crompton Classic gave me my white ground fancy.</div>
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Another that I've used a lot this year has been Clara's Choice. I don't think it has anything to do with Clara at all as it repeats fast like a Dutch variety. The late Brian Dean was of the same opinion. The stock came from him.<br />
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More consternation from the judges over this Unfinished Symphony below. It's a red ground fancy, classified as a pink ground fancy, another Schubert Sport. Mine got more and more red as the season progressed. The judge removed it from the Any Other Fancy class, put it in the red self class and judged it as a self.<br />
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To add to the judges' misery, I put in an Olivia, a commercial green variety which judges loathe with a passion. Compared to Elsie Kitchen, it has too much petal according to the arbiters of these things and after a similar one at Southport had been totally ignored it was hardly surprising that it only got a third from the judge.</div>
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Two Crompton Princess and a Winter Wonderland gave me my three whites.<br />
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Three Lavender Schuberts gave me another three selfs.<br />
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Best in Show went to these three Clara's Choice.<br />
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The Pinks saved the day and were probably of higher quality than my PFs.<br />
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It's a job to know what to do about this show. This year, I was unopposed in lots of classes at many venues. There is very little pleasure in receiving awards when you're the only exhibitor in those classes. I didn't have the luxury of choosing another show on the same day. </div>
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This was one of those Nationals which was perfectly o.k. with lots of spike on the benches, but I personally did not think that the very top quality spikes were there this year. It was a great show for the public and there was much to see but there are some years and some glads that just leave you in awe of their glowing magnificence and maybe those were a bit thin on the ground. </div>
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Trevor Fawcett won almost everything and deservedly so. Some of us had clearly suffered from the delayed emergence problem following the dry spring. People who would normally put in a hatful of entries were only able to bench three or four entries. To be honest, if we had been up to our full complement of spikes ,it would have been hard to fit everything in.</div>
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The show ran smoothly, thanks to all the hard work that Nigel put into its organisation. </div>
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I had hoped that I might do all right with this pink one in the prim seedlings class as it scores very highly on novelty. However, it didn't even get a card, that honour being reserved for rather more conventional seedlings. The winner did have some very sharp markings and looks to be an improvement on Shalimar. The photos of it are on the BGS Facebook page.</div>
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This prim, Leslie Swinnerton is named after the owner of the care home where my mother-in-law, Peggy Roseby, spent her last years.<br />
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These three Kathryn exhibited by Peter Forrow were not as good as the ones he won with previously which appeared in the BGS Annual a couple of years ago.<br />
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Bonzo which I hope will be a 500 smokey, was named after a late friend of mine Dennis 'Bonzo' Roberts.<br />
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This is an old garden prim in bright orange which was actually shown on TV years ago in a programme called The Flying Gardener. Named after my daughter, this is Sally's Orange II.<br />
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So the judging was over. Deals were done over exchanges of plants and requests for the same. Then it was the long drive back home. I had to stop for a power nap not far down the A19 but then it was all plain sailing. That's my judging done for this year so I can relax and enjoy the remaining shows. Next up is the National where i won't have as much as last year but I hope to have some novelties for people to look at. Poynton have asked me to enter the PF Carnations section so I hope I can do that justice for them. The forecast here is rain all week so I may well be getting the bags over some of my spikes to stop them from being spoiled. As I have other things on on Thursday afternoon it's going to be a mad rush to cut the glads on Thursday morning and on Friday I'll dress them before I get them over to the show. I was thinking today that most winners are made at home in the way that people look after them before the show. </div>
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Peter (Forrow) texted me with some news and photos on the morning of the show. I was shocked to find that my single prim had won its class. I had spent quite a time trying to twist the second floret into shape. Anyway, win it did and I contacted the person it is named after, Anne Milton, and she was very pleased. You can see what I mean about the second floret below.<br />
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So the only other glads I had were short seedlings and more spikes from the cormlet trays. I put these together in the six class. I'm sure the judge only gave them a passing glance but I'm also sure that plenty of people coming to the show wouldn't have seen these sorts of colours before. I might even make a thing of doing this. An entry for the public's delight. So, here is my 'novelty entry'.<br />
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Graham Anderson had said to me as we were staging that the spike at the top right was the most interesting one in the show. Informal, gappy but very different. The others were all prims or pseudo prims. The middle right one is called 'Mari Lowri' (when it's got some buds) and the bottom left is 'Sally's Orange' (when it's got the buds and more than one open). The others are out of my seedling pots or beds. <br />
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The judges didn't give me anything for my other entries and rightly so. I had bred an early 200 that I put three in, in the three of one variety class but apart from being early it has no real redeeming feature. I might just cross it on, onto something like' Ever So Sweet' which is going to be flowering in a couple of days. We'll see.<br />
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There were some surprises in the glads classes. I was very surprised that Peter only got a third in the nine class. Graham Anderson I imagine won it. He had in his nine a very impressive white called 'River Dove' which was spot on. But Peter had some quality flowers including three big Pink Elegance, and three nice Our Les. I'm surprised that stuff like Secret Lady and Careless got the nod over these. But I wasn't judging and no doubt when you got into the detail of it there was more than met the eye.<br />
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I was pleased that Ron and Glynis Taylor had travelled up from Devon. I should have spent more time with them but I was a bit pushed for time. Len, Terry, Jim and Karen all turned up while I was there and no doubt others did later in the night. <br />
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I enjoyed myself with these and with Peter whom I cooperate with the most in our selection of spikes etc. We did say that it's about time you were able to put more than one entry in the glads (in fact in everything). Peter had lots of very nice spikes but couldn't put them all in which is silly.<br />
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I'll have to try harder to get a hotel for next year. My usual place was full when i tried to book a few months back.<br />
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Tomorrow (Friday) I will be pootling up the motorways to Hartlepool where I'm judging the Northern Gladiolus Show on Saturday morning. I'll have some plants for Brian Bland in the car as he's going to try a few Borders and I'll be returning some pots from stuff I was given last year.<br />
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It's a really great show Hartlepool, though this year we will be missing Paul Webster and Bill Grahamslaw, two of my favourite exhibitors who passed away recently. Let's hope the other exhibitors bring plenty to fill in the gaps left by those two lovely men. I've no idea how many years I've been judging this show but it's always a great honour and a real pleasure. I'll post some photos on here soon.<br />
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Anyway, I love the schedule at the YGS show. There are thirty odd classes for glads: something for everyone. The only thing that stops it from being a really big show is that it's a bit early in the season for some.<br />
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Peggy Roseby was named after my wife's mother. This one had lost the colour in the bottom floret.<br />
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Mira is named after one of my Albanian students.<br />
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Best 400 and grand Champion was this Pink Elegance exhibited by Peter Forrow.<br />
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As it was I was the only entrant in the Borders. I put five Bofield Emily and two Show Girl in the seven class. In the three selfs I had two entries of 3 Rita Lilian May and Bradshaw Beacon. In the single self I put in two entries, Bradshaw Heartblood and Eudoxia Sport. In the three Fancies I put in 3 Show Girl and a mixed vase of Irene de la Torre, Mystic Mel and Mystic Dawn. In the single fancy I put what was probably my best bloom, a Bradshaw Sunset. I used Lucy Hogg for the three picotees and an Ann S Moore for the single picotee. Apart from the Sunset, these were not my best flowers, but all I had left.<br />
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The glads exhibitors were there with Peter Forrow from Chesterfield having a hatful and Nigel showing some very nice seedlings. Unfortunately the best laid plans go awry. Peter was going back on opening day to get the results and let me know (I couldn't stay for the actual show). However, such was the rain that the car parks were closed and Peter queued for two hours before being told he couldn't park. A shambles really. You would think that such a show would have a Plan B for wet weather but no. Ivor posted a few results about the PFs but I will only know when the prize money and Borders Section silver medal arrives whether I got a placing in the PFs. Peter was also going to take the photos so that never happened. I only took two: one of my vase of seven and one of the Bradshaw Sunset but unfortunately reds and apricot ground fancies don't photograph very well.<br />
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So I've now started taking my cuttings, mostly Borders but also a few PFs that have cutting material on them. I don't have electricity at the allotments so I just take them early, shade from the sun and spray with water every day for three weeks. I add some Maxicrop to the sprayer from the third week. The cuttings mix this year is three Perlite to one grit sand. Nothing else. They are usually rooted in four or five weeks.<br />
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No shows for me this first weekend of August. Next weekend I'm judging the Yorkshire Gladiolus Show on the Saturday and then I'm over to Doncaster on the Sunday for the Yorkshire Carnation Society second show with just a few PFs if I'm lucky. I think there will be a presentation of the awards from the Early Show and I'm in line for some fancy cut glass and hopefully a medal for something. It's been a lucky year for me so far with six medals for Borders and PFs. I'll be fortunate if I do so well in the glads as, like many, I have suffered from late emergence after the dry spring. Southport is only 11 days away and I don't seem to have enough to compete in the big classes but the luck might hold and a few might open dead on time. And pigs might fly, I suppose. Still a bit early for my plot that only really gets going around the time of the National in late August. The seedlings are keeping me busy but most have been also rans so far.<br />
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So, Sunday Doncaster, Tuesday Tatton and now Saturday 22nd July at Atherton for the Lancs and Cheshire Carnation Society Early Show. This is only half an hour away for me, so I was there bright and early and helped put out the tables. It ended up being a very good show for the PFs, but typical for this year, not so many Pinks or Borders. As usual for this year, I was the only entrant in most of the Border classes as others had flowered out. <div>
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A shock in the single fancy class where Phil had a lovely sport of Mystic Mel, plus a very good Mystic Mel itself plus a nice Forest Glow, three entries but the judge gave the class to me with this Lord Nuffield below which isn't even round.<br />
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I put three entries in the five class but didn't have five of the same for one vase so I put this seedling, now called Bradshaw Beacon, in with four Ann S Moore. The other two vases were five Lucy Hogg and 5 Bradshaw Heartblood. The Heartblood got the Best Exhibit in the Borders.<br />
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Here are my three vases of five.<br />
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Show Girl was still very young and on the small side but I didn't have anything else so that was my vase of three fancies. This is the middle bloom.<br />
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Another shot of the five Bradshaw Heartblood.<br />
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One Bradshaw Beacon and four Ann S Moore:<br />
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Five Lucy Hogg, the front right was a bit wangy.<br />
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The three Show Girl.<br />
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In the PF section I was happy with my results though I had mostly single blooms to put together. These three were Lavender Schubert, Crompton Princess and Unfinished Symphony, second in the Grower's Choice class.<br />
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Phil Cross won Best Exhibit with these nine Heracles which he staged for Tony Derrick who couldn't come.<br />
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Kevin Earl had some lovely flowers there. This is Meg Earl, second in the nine.<br />
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I didn't know that last year the RHS in its infinite lack of wisdom had supplied glasses not unlike champagne flutes in size in which to stage the blooms - a totally daft move by typically out of touch committee members who have probably never been near a carnation show before. This year, thankfully, and due to the entreaties of our committee members, there were bikini vases for us. Some of the pinks still had to go in the glasses.<br />
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Anyway, there I was. And Graham Davies, Marie Ann and Ivor and his wingman, Roy Tudor. Then Liam et fils turned up. By then I'd just about staged mine so I don't know if many others came. I think not. i was quite pleased with what I'd managed to stage. I still don't have the results but hope to get them from James Akers some time. Oddly, I didn't take any photos and remembered this when I was on my way home, so I phoned Graham and asked if someone could take some for me. Keith Mastaglio duly obliged and three photos from him are below. First a shot of twelve of my Bradshaw Heartblood, the new crimson clove. The angle makes them look bit gappy! Viewed from higher up they looked ok. The red is not dark enough here but reds are a problem for most cameras.<br />
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Before I came away from Tatton I said to myself that unless Liam had something outstanding, I stood chance of getting Best Bloom with an Ann S Moore. Sure enough, the judge agreed and the one below got that award.<br />
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This year, I've been growing both PFs and Borders for shows. Most of the PF growers who go in the shows grow a large number of plants and dedicate one or more large greenhouses or tunnels to them. I don't know the average number but I certainly know a few who grow 300 or more PFs which amounts to thousands of flowers over the year. Border growers on the other hand, especially when showing them, tend to grow the same sort of numbers of plants in pots but with only one flower per plant: you are talking maybe 300 blooms over roughly an eight week period.<br />
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Each year is different. This year we didn't have lots of frost, maybe just one or two nights. We had a dry spring, then a very hot period, then thunderstorms. At the moment in late July, my area is set to receive rain on most days. For some Border growers, this year was very early in terms of flowering and some plants started flowering five weeks early. Come the shows, there was not much left for some. In England, there are three Border areas that concern me and my fellow growers, these being the Lancashire Moors, where my own plots are, Hull and Doncaster where Phil Cross, Barrie Gamble and Billy Stokes are and the North East where Keith Mastaglio, Liam Leger and other growers live. I am usually later flowering my Borders than the others because my plots are high above sea level near Winter Hill. But that's not the only thing that makes a difference. English weather not only splits North and South but also East and West. So some years, I can flower out before the others. Mostly it's the other way round.<br />
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Many not only flowered out early this year but flower size was generally down. I have to bear this in mind as I was experimenting with pot size on some borders and the season has perhaps skewed the results a bit. Barrie Gamble had said to me in 2016 at Atherton that Borders could be flowered perfectly well in four inch pots. I tried this on some and produced good flowers. However, the stems were not as good as my other stock. What I have found generally is that plants grown outside and only brought under cover when showing colour never have weak stems. Bring them into a glasshouse earlier than that and even with some glass removed and regular damping down, it's not easy to keep the temperature down in hot weather ( I don't have electricity up the plots) and some stems suffer and the flowers droop or as I call it 'go all wangy'. Not what you want. The temptation with 13cm pots of Borders is to think that you can stand them pot-thick and thus get more in the same space but they can get drawn up. Next year I shall go back to my 15C pots for all of my Borders except those I propagate for the society to sell at Atherton and Harrogate.<br />
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The first show was on Sunday 16th July at Doncaster, home of the Yorkshire Carnation Society. <br />
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Entries were down on last year and growers who would normally think nothing of bringing 200 pinks turned up with very few. Borders were thin on the ground as well and the very few PF classes weren't exactly overflowing.<br />
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In the Borders I won the grandiose sounding British Border Championships with three vases of three but I was unopposed as the others didn't have enough left, always a disappointment.<br />
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The above seedling of mine was admired by those present. It has a strong clove scent and is to be called 'Bradshaw Venus'. I took some others that I have been bulking up and the one below is a rough example of one which has done well this year, a crimson clove type to be called 'Bradshaw Heartblood'. I'll have some better photos from other shows later.<br />
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Below is a rather wangy example of another seedling which I used in the scented class, called 'Bradshaw Blessing'.<br />
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The best bloom in the Borders went to Phil Cross for this lovely example of 'Clunie'.<br />
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In the PFs, I had no competition in the three selfs or the three fancies. For the fancies I used three Clara's Choice like the one below. I don't grow as many PFs as I do Borders - I only have sixty this year in a 10x8 greenhouse which I have to keep on top of because they are quite tightly spaced and sprayed regularly to keep off the red spider mite.<br />
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This was my 'station' at the show. The box on the left holds 28 Borders and the crate a further 20 Borders or PFs with a few more flowers in the white tubed bin.<br />
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Below is a shot of five Mystic Mel bred by Phil Cross.<br />
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Below are three Winter Wonderland with which I won the three selfs in the PFs against no opposition.</div>
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One class they have at Doncaster and nowhere else as far as I know, is the floret box for any dianthus.<br />
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Apart from the Mystic Mel I didn't take any other varieties except my new ones. I also took 'Bradshaw Beacon', a light red self that can have very good form.</div>
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Phil Cross beat me in the seven and the five but neither of us could find enough blooms to do the 12. </div>
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Most things are now planted or sown. Because of previous calamities with chrysanthemums being ripped to shreds by winds or hammered by the heavy rains up here on the moors, I've planted these earlies in a small tunnel. the space on the left has been sown with zinnias as I'm hoping to exhibit these at Southport. </div>
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Outside glads beds are almost all seedlings this year. The trouble when you have lots of seedlings is keeping them all labelled properly as you can see from all the canes. These are mostly 400s and 500s but there are two or three new 300s that I have about ten each of, besides what I'm bulking up in trays and pots.<br />
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In this bed pictured below the left hand side is full of 3/4/500 size seedlings that haven't yet flowered whilst the shorter space on the right, below some flowered out daffodils, contains new prim and 200 crosses that should flower this year plus some that I have bulked up.<br />
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This bed below has all my other prims on the left-hand side and my 400s and 500s on the right-hand side.<br />
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I have a lot of border carnations in pots now, most of which I have bred myself and they are almost all clove-scented.<br />
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These are trays of glads -small corms at about twelve to the tray. A couple of pots of flowered daffs at the front. Larger pots of smalls and cormlets on the floor.<br />
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These are my PFs which I hope to exhibit at some shows this year. I stopped growing them for a while as I was so keen on the borders but there aren't many border shows so I decided to grow some PFs again. This is only a 10 by 8 greenhouse so I will have to keep on top of the spraying to avoid the red spider mite. <br />
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In the larger greenhouse, yet more pots of cormlets of my most recent selected seedling glads.<br />
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And more again. Note the beverage facility.<br />
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Outside, at the back of this greenhouse I have some pots of new maiden prims that should flower for the first time this year plus yet more borders.<br />
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and even more on this outdoor staging.<br />
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Finally, yet more on the other side of the 10 by 8 greenhouse.<br />
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My sweet peas are very late this year so I'm going to be using them for the September shows maybe. I haven't even sorted out the trench yet. All those other pots and trays took up a lot of time earlier in the year.<br />
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The next day, Sunday 9th April, I was off to Ramsbottom for another show. With the same flowers, but in slightly different order, I managed to win the Championship three vases of three (see below). </div>
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I was lucky enough to win the six class (note the leaves Andrew!)<br />
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The one Division 4 came my way with a Bala.<br />
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There were only two entries in the threesomes class and of course I was second.<br />
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The Loch Alsh and Loch Assynt did well<br />
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My two entries in the three Div 4s came first and second. Seagrave above<br />
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I got a third with these Trecarra which have yet to get me a first anywhere as they are a bit rough.<br />
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and some nice Pacific Rim from Ken Ellis.<br />
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Not the biggest entry I've ever seen at Ramsbottom as the season has been an early one and some had flowered out but a fair show of daffodils. Jim Foote deservedly got the medal for the most points. Well done, Jim. I think he had something like 12 firsts to my nine.<br />
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A week after Tottington, we had two shows in one weekend, one at Colne on the Saturday and one at Ramsbottom on the Sunday.<br />
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In the big class I staged mine (on the left here) a bit too high. The middle one of the back three did not not have a circular corona and the front right double was a bit bendy. The judge, Ian Tyler, advised me not just stick them in oasis as they tend to wang about a bit. He preferred the use of moss but of course one has to get hold of the stuff. I don't like using the real thing though there is some sort of dried alternative which I may experiment with a try dyeing it green as it's a straw colour when bought. So I didn't repeat my last year's entries where I won a lot. It was Andrew 'D'Artagnan' Clark who won the lion's share of the trophies thist time. Tom Alty, who had not been to Tottington, was a bit disappointed in the quality of his blooms, though he still won here and there. So in the first class it was Andre first, Porthos (myself) second and Dianne Mason third.<br />
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Class 2 calls for six stems shown in beer bottles. The three musketeers filled this class with D'Artagnan first, me second and Aramis (Tom) third.<br />
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Class 3 is for 5 blooms of one variety (cultivar) from any division. There were eight entries here. A bit disappointed that there weren't enough bases to go round. My Bell Rock (top left) won the day. This is a small but nicely formed Division 1 that Aramis had recommended to me. Dianne was second and D'Artagnan third.<br />
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Above is a better shot of the Bell Rock.<br />
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I was first in the three Division 3s. I have been very impressed with some of the Loch varieties and this was one that I did well with last year here as well, called Loch Assynt. I also like Loch Alsh. A similar spelling is one called Loth Lorian or Lorien which I find always has some sort of problem with 'mittens' or nicks on the edge of the petal. </div>
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Another shot of my three Loch Assynt.<br />
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In the three doubles or Division 4s I was third with Bala or maybe Seagrave. Crowndale won which was no surprise.<br />
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In the three Division 5-12 the 11bs didn't win but what looked like a Division 7 did.<br />
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In the single bloom classes I didn't get anything except a third in the specimen class. I'd used up all my best stuff in the big classes.<br />
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Above is another single bloom class.<br />
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There's always a good orchids section in the show.<br />
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Aramis and Porthos seated with the victorious D'Artagnan behind.<br />
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And here he is with the trophies that I had last year. Well done, Andrew!<br />
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With the demise of what used to be our first show of the Spring, the Catforth Daffodil Show, it was not until April 1st that I showed any daffodils this year. I had hoped that Tom Alty (a.k.a. Aramis) was going to join us as the third musketeer but he didn't have enough flowers to warrant the trip and indeed was unhappy about his particular daffs from Scamps this year. D'Artagnan, in the shape of Andrew Clark, turned up with some excellent material while the humble Porthos had some but not what I would have liked. Dianne Mason brought a hatful, and Jim Foote and Tom Tinkler were also about. At first, it looked like the six class would be a tussle between the two musketeers and I noticed D'Artagnan's face drop when he saw that the humble Porthos had included leaves in the vases for the first time. However, his flowers even without leaves were a bit better than mine so I thought that would be that. How wrong can you be! Half way through the morning, Ken Harrop, renowned National exhibitor, and his accomplice were spotted in the car park with some quality blooms. I ended up unplaced in the six, though D'Artgagnan got a creditable second. I didn't have enough ammunition to go in the three threes, of which more later, but unleashed my best in the other classes.</div>
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In the three Division 1s, I won with Bell Rock. Aramis had commented that this, a substitute for Pemboa from Scamps, was small but very smooth and he was right. (Photo below) </div>
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In the vase of five, I won with five Crackington (below), though one, the top right bloom, was deeper coloured than the others.<br />
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Another three Crackington gave me a first in the three Division 4s:<br />
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A single Loch Assynt also did the job in the single Division 3 class<br />
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Back to the six in Class 1. I noticed that this time, I staged mine (on the left) a bit lower than the other entries. I had a bit of a faff with getting the leaves and stem into the Oasis I was using. When I later went to Harrogate the night before it opened, I noticed that John Peace was using moss rather than Oasis and he put his leaves behind the stem and on the edge of the vase. I need to work on this.<br />
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Here you can see my six on their own. The facing was rubbish on the front left and the back two should have been swapped over to give a better balance. And Bell Rock (middle right) is just too small for this sort of class.<br />
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And here's Ken Harrop's six on the left, with Evesham (front right) as Best Bloom in Show and a pretty good Ombersley behind that.<br />
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My five Crowndale were judged to be be better than five Pink Silk and some other stuff.<br />
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I ended up with the most firsts in the daffodils with five and Dianne had four. For this I won some huge silver tray which I promptly returned as I don't take cups and things home.<br />
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Frank James Hartnellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759800031996558636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7344677654600015819.post-61303402601970713432017-04-13T02:50:00.001-07:002017-04-13T02:57:36.149-07:00Normal Service will be resumedIn conversation with D'Artagnan at Colne Spring Show about blogs in general, I realised that I have missed this blog. With more and more people using Facebook to show photos of their flowers and a good BGS Facebook group, I let this blog fade away for a while. I have now decided that the blog is better for photos as on Facebook everything is so transitory and anything posted on the weekend is buried in a sea of unscintillating drivel. So I'll try to do more on here. It looks like I will need to use my computer rather than this phone to do the photos as Google and Apple don't seem to fit well together.<br />
One thing that cropped up recently is the question of judging daffodils. There is a brief summary of the points allocation on The Daffodil Society website, and I have some idea of what makes a good flower but it's the doubles that are a bit of a mystery for me. At Ramsbottom I was first and second in the three D4s and I was also first in the single D4 with around 7 or 8 other entries in each class. In the three D4s I got first with Seagrave and second with Bala and the winner in the single D4 class was another Bala. I've won with it before so it seems to be a good variety. I get the impression it's not just the number of layers of petals but also the way the shorter petals are interspersed with the big ones that matters . I'll post some photos on here soon. Maybe when I have a closer look I'll understand more. With most of the other divisions, I have a fair idea of why I win or lose.<br />
<br />Frank James Hartnellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759800031996558636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7344677654600015819.post-87896977694020450812015-08-24T03:31:00.001-07:002015-08-24T03:31:19.369-07:00Southport Flower Show 19th August 2015<br />
With everything running about two weeks late because of the cold spring, and growing on a high altitude plot, Southport was always going to be a struggle for me this year. In fact I only managed to put two spikes on the bench and scored nul points.There were some nice flowers and I enjoyed helping others to stage them. A series of videos about some of the classes is available on the British Gladiolus Society Facebook Group pages. Serena and Careless were in abundance and some nice seedlings from Graham Anderson. Peter Forrow won most classes but not all with the judges stopping a clean sweep by awarding the nine spike Championship to Terry Morris and the single prim to Jim Moore.<br />
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After that it was home to prepare for Hartlepool on the weekend.Frank James Hartnellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759800031996558636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7344677654600015819.post-22954572553267900662015-07-25T13:28:00.001-07:002015-07-25T13:28:59.731-07:00Always next year with the daffs; border seedlings save the day; glads all behind. After Catforth, things went generally down the drain for me. I had yet another horrible chest infection which kept me in bed when I should have been on top of the flowers, and I was so rough I couldn't even get to Colne, where Tom scooped everything in sight with excellent flowers while mine sat unwatered and dying in the hot glasshouses. I managed a few of the smaller daffs at Tottington but really the year was a dead loss on the daffodil front for me.<br />
Similar neglect was suffered by my borders which got potted on miles too late after I recovered. When it came to the shows, the only borders I had in bloom were seedlings for the Yorkshire Society Show at Doncaster. I managed three 1sts four 2nds and two 3rds but generally the entry was thin. Phil Cross, Liam Leger, Bill Stokes and myself supplied the borders and Phil had an excellent new pink that he had bred which was christened Mystic Ray Knight on the day.<br />
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Mystic Ray Knight from Phil Cross, a lovely new pink.<br />
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Liam Leger had some nice flowers: this is Billy Boy, bred by Bill Stokes.<br />
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Liam again with a nice vase of Crimson Comet.<br />
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I was second and third in the single clove with a couple of small seedlings. Liam had a good Grace's Scarlet Clove.<br />
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Another ruby coloured clove seedling without much form to it.<br />
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An apricot ground fancy seedling that I will probably get rid of at the end of the season.<br />
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A nice seedling from Phil Cross.<br />
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A better show than last year at Atherton with loads more pinks.<br />
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Three WGF seedlings were a bit blousy.<br />
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Apart from the one Billy Boy in the middle of the front vase, these were all seedlings.<br />
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Brian Dean liked the heavy clove scent on this seedling and kept sniffing it.<br />
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Pinks in abundance.<br />
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Brian Dean with a fabulous nine Joanne's Highlight: best exhibit in the show.<br />
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I told Graham Davis that this pink of his would win the class despite the numerous entries and of course it did!<br />
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Another view of the show.<br />
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This apricot self has a slight clove scent. However, the centre is a bit darker and I'm not sure whether it will make it as a self.<br />
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Some of my new red seedlings have good round shapes to them. and plenty of petals.<br />
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This one smells very clovey as well.<br />
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Next year, the Atherton date goes back to its original 23rd July. Let's hope therefore that other border growers can be there. I am very tempted get a few PFs so that even if my borders are early or late, I can still get plenty of stuff on the tables.<br />
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Today (25th July) I did my first border crosses of the year. I hope to get a lot of seed this year. Seeing a new seedling flower for the first time is an absolute joy for me. Every one is a surprise and a delight. I was amazed to get so many nice clove-scented seedlings this time. I will probably save and propagate further around seven or eight of these.<br />
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Only a few weeks and the new gladiolus seedlings will be flowering for the first time: these will all be prims and 200s this year, whereas next year I will have hundreds of new 300s and 400s to look at plus a few 200s (hopefully some green ones).<br />
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As for the gladiolus shows, I suspect we are going to struggle with the early shows: Huddersfield is a fortnight away and I have no sign of a spike in any of the beds. The concertina patterns on the leaves bear witness to the cold nights in May and even frosts. So it is a late year. And as they always say in a late year, 'Harrogate is going to be very good'. We'll see. Still time for a heatwave or floods.<br />
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Harrogate places heavy demands upon exhibitors in that it is held when the seasons are starting to change. For me, the week is usually one of driving rain, or frost or heavy wind. It was a rare occurrence this year to be able to cut flowers in bright sunshine rather than a raincoat. However, the early season meant there wasn't much left to cut. I am normally reduced to floret box exhibits and the odd later seedling anyway and having entered Huddersfield, Southport, Ramsbottom and the Midland, I was very lucky to have a half-decent spike of Huron Silk left and some other bits and pieces. </div>
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What is always enjoyable at Harrogate is the fact that many exhibitors bring more unusual flowers for the public to see and baskets and floret boxes give added interest. There were a couple of nice baskets on display as can be seen below. </div>
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My seedlings were mostly under-flowered, and I was rather disappointed that a green one that I had brought steadfastly refused to open. Apparently it did so on the last day of the show.<br />
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The seedling class is always well filled at Harrogate and there were some nice colours on display:<br />
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The floret boxes presented a wide range of flowers. The smokey below that I'd brought didn't get anywhere but provided a talking point amongst the public. At least the florets were all single lipped.<br />
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The other box I put in wasn't up to much but all that I had.<br />
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I';d brought two prims which I had hoped would 'stick' and not open further, as most of my stuff does at this time of year, but of course they went and opened another floret just before judging so didn't stand an earthly.<br />
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Mick Jones can be relied upon to bring some good looking glads to the table at Harrogate and this year I really liked his 'Warpaint', a tall, rangey 200 in yellow and red that provided a great splash of colour in an otherwise totally boring class of mostly dumpy spikes.<br />
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My Huron Silk managed a yellow card third out of twelve in the single 300 class below. It is encouraging that 300s were more numerous than usual here this year.<br />
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Thanks to Maureen Jones for running the show and to Nigel for sorting out the judges.<br />
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<br />Frank James Hartnellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759800031996558636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7344677654600015819.post-81109342207611213912014-10-05T01:34:00.001-07:002014-10-05T01:34:15.543-07:00The BGS National, Poynton, 23rd August, 2014<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
Ken Bacon and myself judged the National this year. It was interesting to judge: there were few really good prims, probably because of the weather, the 300s continued to be under-represented but there were some good 200s. Above all, there were some awesome spikes in the bigger sizes. Twisted tops were a feature of some exhibits, giving the impression that staking had been left a little late. </div>
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Best 500 was this beefy Of Singular Beauty from Mick Jones. It had apparently been in a cooler for a week, but it held well at least until the end of the judging and deserved the award. There were some good samples of this cultivar at the show.</div>
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Grand Champion was Nigel's August Days. It was a very close run thing between this and Nigel's Babsbill, another yellow with fabulous form that was just a little young.<br />
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Best 300 was this Cream of the Crop which the camera has decided should be yellow when it isn't.<br />
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Best 200 was this Psolum. It had some faults but still beat the opposition.<br />
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Best British was this Mac from Graham Anderson. He had some excellent spikes at the show and deserved to be among the awards.<br />
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Best Primulinus was a real headache for the judges. In the end we went for the middle one of these three Marina below by Trevor Fawcett.<br />
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The Best Novice went to Len with this very clean and well-grown Rotary. His other spikes were also very good.<br />
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This is the Babsbill which was also in contention for Grand Champion.<br />
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Graham Anderson produced a very fine exhibit with these six George's Choice. It was very nearly best exhibit but the back left spike was rather under flowered. An impressive set of spikes.<br />
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In the seedling section, this new yellow from Trevor was close to winning<br />
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I was pleased to see Peggy Roseby (above) on the bench staged by Jim Moore. Named after my late mother-in-law, this can be a useful 400.<br />
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In the single prim I tried out one of my own, Kitty Rodely, which managed a third.<br />
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The above photo is of one of Graham Anderson's fabulous whites. For some reason, the judges completely overlooked this spike and awarded first in the class to the little runt of a Serena to the left of it which was not only very short but also had one off the bottom. The other classes were well judged.<br />
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Yet more of a struggle for me in the six prims class where I couldn't even get six the same but had to sneak in a look alike seedling in roughly the same colour. Not my finest hour!</div>
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Despite all this, I love Southport as a show. It's an opportunity to meet other exhibitors of different flowers and discuss with them how they have fared since last year. One year I will perform the miracle and get flowers on time for this show but it's a little bit too early for my plots really. No matter. It's good to see others' glads in good shape.</div>
Frank James Hartnellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759800031996558636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7344677654600015819.post-31151985562871510592014-10-03T13:34:00.002-07:002014-10-03T13:34:53.021-07:00Yorkshire Carnation Society Early Show 20th July 2014 So after Atherton on the Saturday, it was Doncaster on the Sunday. More borders than at Atherton but still not as good as some years as a lot of us had almost flowered out.<br />
There were only two entries in the Championship class with Phil Cross coming first and Bill Stokes second. Phil's are on the right below.<br />
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In the vase of twelve, it was between Phil and myself. His 12 Alice Forbes Improved were first and my Welton White and Eudoxia Sport were second.<br />
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Bofield Emily was in evidence, and here's a nice vase of seven of them.<br />
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The vase below was the talking point of the show. Was it a border? Were they really PFs? Who cares. They had the most fabulous scent. Barrie Gamble has called this new cultivar Welton Kathleen Booker. It's the strongest clove I've ever met.<br />
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I was lucky enough to get first and second with my Lord Nuffields, one of which is below.<br />
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Billy Boy, bred by Bill Stokes, was on the table, looking good.<br />
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In the white classes, the newer Welton White below put up a good fight against the older White Champagne.<br />
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But here are three Welton Whites looking very white.<br />
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And here are three White Champagne.<br />
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Lucy always gets some admiring glances from the public, though we all know it's not a true picotee.<br />
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An enjoyable show in which Phil Cross came out top in the Borders section.</div>
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Phil showed the new Billy Boy bred by Bill Stokes which is a great colour. To the right you can just see Crimson Comet, also from Phil. I had to take most of mine back to the second bud to get some sort of a flower on time, as they had flowered early this year for a change.</div>
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There always seems to be one show where you have plenty of flowers and this was it for me. Another new one for me which I will grow again was Alston, a new 2W-P below. I used it in my 3x3 Championship entry (in fact I put in two entries). I could have put in thirty-three, as I was unplaced behind Alan Greenwood, Andrew and Tom.<br />
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In the six single blooms class Tom beat me into 2nd place by one point. I thought his stuff was actually a lot better than mine. I rallied in some of the other classes, winning the 3 x Div 1 with Corbiere below.<br />
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In the three Div 2s I thought I was home and dry with three good Gold Convention (below) but then Tom staged a fantastic three Cape Cornwall to take first place. I should have taken photos of other people's flowers as I usually do but forgot in a senior moment.<br />
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Bala is not often shown in the Div 4s. I managed to sneak a first with three of these, below.<br />
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Another new flower for me this year was Cadgwith which I liked very much.<br />
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Avalanche takes some beating in the 'other classes' section and I snaffled another first with the one below. It's a bit tender and I have found it does not like the cold so I don't plunge mine at all. You need a good twelve flowers open at least on the stem to win with it. I had one a few years back with nineteen open but that was exceptional for me.<br />
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I in turn received my medal from the mayor, who was impressed with the show.<br />
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Catforth and Colne stood out for me as the two best shows this spring. We had very little left after Colne so couldn't make it to Harrogate. I either have nothing or hundreds for Harrogate. This time all I had was a few miniatures - not enough to warrant the trip. I must time them better. Anyone who had flowers for Harrogate this time has my respect. In this warm weather, even standing them outside didn't slow them up enough.Frank James Hartnellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759800031996558636noreply@blogger.com0