Kincardine SRGC Show 25.3.17 part 3

More nice pictures the little troughs look nice even if they were planted up for the show,the amount of flowers on the small Trillium is amazing,in same picture that looks like a Lewisia that is early so far north.
thanks x

there were some treasures on show weren't there? Love the trilliums too.
the stone troughs are very attractive.

How long did it take you to see the whole show? Its huge!

The Trillium for me,please!.Someone had one at our meeting last night,not as big,but superb.

Bjs I wondered how they managed to get all those plants in the mini gardens to flower at the same time. I must be a bit thick. I never considered that they would have been planted up recently. They were beautifully executed anyway. I have had a look through the original photos and I failed to get the name of the ? lewisia. It is smashing wee plant. I realised that there is so much more to learn when you see the Class is for plants from a specific region or country. The shows never disappoints Sbg. It is amazing that it is free to enter plants in the show and visitors also come in free. The only time one spends money is on buying food and drink or on plants. The money raised on food, members plant sales table and raffles at our Early Bulb Show in Dunblane pays for putting on this show. Steragram once the judging is over at 12 noon the Show opens to the public until 4pm when exhibitors and traders can clear up. I was not up to standing around for too long so we sat in the restaurant for quite a while. Pcw I wonder how long it takes to grow a plant to the size of that trillium? I enjoy seeing plants flourish from one year to the next regardless of who owns them.

I'm not any good with Trilliums in pots,or Erythroniums,another that I wished I was.

You cannot be good at everything but I find just by good fortune that something works and hey presto I can try different plants in the same family. I read the other day that to show a Pulsatilla it must be grown in a pot from the beginning. Apparently they have a long tap root which does not take kindly from being moved from the garden in to a pot. I will definitely have a try at that because I do like Pulsatillas. I wonder if the Erythroniums and Trilliums also have long tap roots. I have never seen the roots on either. In one of the pots of daffodils which I had planted in pots to keep them safe from frost the bulbs had come through the big holes in the bottom of the pot. Not just the roots which I could understand but the whole bulbs. I suppose they went down as bulbils and over time grew to flowering size. I left them at home.

trilliums and erythroniums grow from tubers/corms and produce fibrous roots but these are very brittle.

Thank you SBG. It seems funny that we see lots about seeds and seedlings and plants in flower but I have seen very little about roots for plants. Being brittle these two would probably be better grown in a pot too if they are intended for showing.. I wonder if that is why I have not had much success with T. dens canis. Maybe I was not gentle enough in planting them even though they were bought growing in pots.

E. dens-canis is good for naturalising.I keep meaning to get some in my lawn with the daffs and cowslips.
Pulsatillas do have a tap root,so I have mine in deep pots.Though I have read of people digging them up to show and then replanting straight after with no harm done.

My Androsaces do not seem to have been set back by being dug up but I did take a large ball of soil with the plant. I thought if I am up to it I might enter them in Edinburgh next Saturday.