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AGS Show in Kent 2014

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Yeah! It was a nice day out but a bit windy though…..

The venue:

Narcissus bulbocodium

Dionysia bryoides

Gladiolus uysiae

Hepatica x schlyteri “Ashwood hybrids”

Hepatica x media “Millstream Merlin”

Hepatica nobilis flora plena

Iris reichenbachii

Ophrys vernixia

Soldanella alpina alba

Saxifraga suendermannii major

Various Dionysias

Tulipa kurdica

Plants Sale:

After seeing the show, we went down to Whitstable for lunch and had some native oysters which had more concentrated flavour than normal rock oysters. (top : rock oyster, bottom : native oyster – much rounder and flatter shell)

[added on 25/03/2014]

This is the one I purchased on that day – Soldanella carpatica

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pcw
Pcw
 

Excellent.I have that Tulip but it doesn't flower like that. Those Dionysias are superb and something to aim at with mine.If I had to name a favourite though,it would be one of the easier ones,the Soldanella.

23 Mar, 2014

 

this is a great blog thankyou.
adore 'and covert' the Ophrys.

23 Mar, 2014

 

Thanks!

@Pcw
I envy your dionysia - I always fail.....
And I also bought a pot of Soldanella yesterday but purple/blue-ish one, not white.

@Seaburngirl
I liked the Ophrys, too - it just looks like "fly" to me.... ;-)

23 Mar, 2014

 

Lovely blog thanks for showing, love the hepaticas.
That's strange I bought a Soldenella Villosa just a couple of weeks ago too :-)

23 Mar, 2014

 

My S villosa hasn't reappeared yet :o(
I did mulch the area thickly so I will wait a little longer.

23 Mar, 2014

 

Excellent photos such a wonderful interesting blog thank you for sharing.

23 Mar, 2014

 

Thankyou for sharing your lovely photo's.....

23 Mar, 2014

bjs
Bjs
 

Thanks for showing , difficult to favourite will go with the double blue Hepatica not seen it before but the white soldanella has to be close second.
B

23 Mar, 2014

 

Lovely blog - thanks! Where in Kent do they have this show, by the way?

25 Mar, 2014

 

Thanks for all your comments, boys & girls!

My favourite of the show was definitely Hepatica x media “Millstream Merlin” - it's single flowered, but the colour was amazing and the size of the flowers was quite large. It was really an eye-catcher.

RHS web site doesn't seem to tell us the cultivation of soldanella, so I found it at one of Japanese gardening site - it doesn't like summer heat and wet so move it to shady spots, and needs to be exposed to winter coldness, but it hates strong cold wind. Preferably repot each year and remove dead leaves often.

AGS Kent is held at a girl school in Rainham.

25 Mar, 2014

 

Very interesting variety. I have never seen most of these. I'm so grateful for your blog. Very informative and well done.

27 Mar, 2014

 

Cool!>Bathgate!

30 Mar, 2014

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