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Post by MarkE on Sept 20, 2014 19:19:31 GMT
Thankyou everyone! Had a really good day! It was a learning experience and great to watch the experienced growers staging, ive only ever been to village shows where most people stage at home, so to see some staging first hand was great! Everyone was dead good crack!
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dahliadave
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Post by dahliadave on Sept 20, 2014 21:02:06 GMT
Hope its at least dry tomorrow!!....despite not feeling well, Husband is going to take me to Halls of Heddon for their Special Open Day tomorrow. I think he really wants to sample Sue's cakes!! Forecast looks better than it has been lately for tomorrow so fingers crossed. 30 cakes and 8 tray bakes done over the last 36 hours. All that is needed now is a good nights sleep and the sun to shine. I will need to do some more dead heading in the morning and cut a few blooms so it will be an early start. Our trial beds are looking pretty good though but unfortunately some of the giants and mediums have suffered a bit with the continual damp weather. Actually saw the sun at 5pm today!! Look forward to seeing you tomorrow Lou.. |
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Post by scrumpy on Sept 20, 2014 21:20:28 GMT
Would your dad remember Wallace Farr?
I was talking to him last week at the Wrekin Show. Bit sad in a way, as he suffers from Parkinsons so can't grow anything, but still as committed as ever.
Wallace won the giant dahlia championships at the nationals many years ago, and was also a good Chrysanth grower. He rues the arrival of Sir Alf Ramsey because he reckons everyone grows that one at the expense of other good giants.
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Post by Cherry on Sept 21, 2014 6:16:11 GMT
Moonlight's father would remember Wallace Farr scrumpy. It is great to talk to the old people in any hobby. Parkinsons is a sad thing to witness.
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Post by Tel on Sept 21, 2014 17:39:00 GMT
A good day at Wilsden show, 6 Firsts and a Third, silver medal for a vase of Hillcrest Candy.  upload a gif |
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Post by Lou78W on Sept 21, 2014 18:50:06 GMT
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Post by Lou78W on Sept 21, 2014 18:52:09 GMT
Hope its at least dry tomorrow!!....despite not feeling well, Husband is going to take me to Halls of Heddon for their Special Open Day tomorrow. I think he really wants to sample Sue's cakes!! Forecast looks better than it has been lately for tomorrow so fingers crossed. 30 cakes and 8 tray bakes done over the last 36 hours. All that is needed now is a good nights sleep and the sun to shine. I will need to do some more dead heading in the morning and cut a few blooms so it will be an early start. Our trial beds are looking pretty good though but unfortunately some of the giants and mediums have suffered a bit with the continual damp weather. Actually saw the sun at 5pm today!! Look forward to seeing you tomorrow Lou.. So sorry I couldn't make it today Dave......Husband not well at all. Hope you had lots of visitors to eat up all that cake.!! Hopefully we will be over before the frosts are  |
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Post by Raymond on Sept 21, 2014 18:53:05 GMT
A well done to both Tel scrumpy MarkE fantastic looking blooms and great results. Many congratulations to you all  |
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Post by dcdahlia on Sept 21, 2014 20:23:12 GMT
Took 14 tubs to bishop auckland society show this morning,managed 6 firsts,5 seconds and 5 thirds,the silver medal for the 3 vases of three dahlias with kenora challenger and 2 vases of eastwood moonlight and the society trophy for most points in show.Won the poms with gurtla twilight,mini decs with dikara superb,medium cactus with ruskin michelle,mini cactus with weston pirate and the 3 dahlia blooms one bloom per vase with eastwood moonlight ryecroft brenda t and cherwell goldcrest.Well done everyone who has shown and picked up prizes this weekend.
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Post by dahliadave on Sept 21, 2014 21:46:13 GMT
Sorry you could not make it Lou. We had a brilliant day! Hope your husband is feeling better soon. We had over 500 visitors but most importantly raised well over £1000 for the National Gardens Scheme. Not too many cakes left either out of the 30 baked. We had visitors from Co.An trim, Perth, Dunbar, Cumbria, Staffordshire and lots of exhibitors from the North East and Yorkshire. We had to do a lot of dead heading this morning with the help of some local NDS members. Still a lot of colour to come if the weather holds.
Glad to see you had a good show DC, especially after all the miserable weather. The Northumberland and Durham show was apparently pretty good yesterday with some good entries-shsme I did not get.
Sounds like your Ryecroft Zoe sport did well Scrumpy.
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dahliadave
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Post by dahliadave on Sept 21, 2014 21:51:23 GMT
Thought I would add a few photos of our fields if that,s OK. The group of Dahlias was taken by one our visitors today. |
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Post by Raymond on Sept 21, 2014 22:06:45 GMT
dahliadave I would love to visit your fields at some point in the future. The varieties in the pictures in the bottom can I ask what they are ? Sorry to ask but so many different dahlias and for a newbie gets so confusing. Great pictures .
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dahliadave
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Post by dahliadave on Sept 22, 2014 6:45:58 GMT
Would your dad remember Wallace Farr? I was talking to him last week at the Wrekin Show. Bit sad in a way, as he suffers from Parkinsons so can't grow anything, but still as committed as ever. Wallace won the giant dahlia championships at the nationals many years ago, and was also a good Chrysanth grower. He rues the arrival of Sir Alf Ramsey because he reckons everyone grows that one at the expense of other good giants. My dad remembers Wallace mainly from the time he put up a Chrysanthemum trade display at Stafford back in the 90's. He came up in conservation the other day on the way back from Harry Lawson's funeral. I was chatting to Tom Bebbington both at Wisley and Harrogate -another great grower of giants. Although still growing, he is having to cut back but still fully committed. My dad himself is 90 now and although struggling physically I still get him up to our fields to go through and assess all the trial varieties with me. |
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Post by Moonlight on Sept 22, 2014 8:33:04 GMT
Lovely photos dahliadave
Are there any photos of the Tom McClelland seedling in the field? If you do have any I would love to see it. Saw a photo of it ages ago and have been hopeful ever since.
(Link to past post)
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Post by Tel on Sept 22, 2014 13:44:01 GMT
Sorry you could not make it Lou. We had a brilliant day! Hope your husband is feeling better soon. We had over 500 visitors but most importantly raised well over £1000 for the National Gardens Scheme. Not too many cakes left either out of the 30 baked. We had visitors from Co.An trim, Perth, Dunbar, Cumbria, Staffordshire and lots of exhibitors from the North East and Yorkshire. We had to do a lot of dead heading this morning with the help of some local NDS members. Still a lot of colour to come if the weather holds. Glad to see you had a good show DC, especially after all the miserable weather. The Northumberland and Durham show was apparently pretty good yesterday with some good entries-shsme I did not get. Sounds like your Ryecroft Zoe sport did well Scrumpy. That is a lot of money you managed to raise David, hope you enjoyed the day, plus a few new customers. |
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