I accidentally left my camera at home re-charging so my Canberra show report this year is limited. One named flower that caught my eye that I had not seen before was Ian Dyson’s ‘Ettamogah’. It has a strong yellow perianth, as in his photo on daffseek, but with a well contrasting white cup.
I did take a few snaps of Graham Fleming’s big bulbocodiums (not miniature) prior to judging.
Graham had some nice miniature 7Y-P’s and as always, the nicest non-miniature 5’s in the show, one of which was judged as best 5. A nice ivory 11aW-W of his won best 11. This fragment from a photo gives some idea of the 5’s.
Graeme Davis won champion standard seedling, and best trumpet as I recall, with a nice 1Y-Y.
I had a stellar show. Grand Champion was my 04_171 Capree Elizabeth x (Crystal Blanc x Daydream), photographed here with a buddy after the show. The muted color didn’t please everyone and the rushed color coding of 2Y-P was thought to be a little optimistic.
It was my turn this year to win the miniature collection, of which I have no photo. It included Champion miniature which was a nice specimen of N. triandrus, a reminder, if it was ever needed, that the grace of the miniature species is hard to improve.
A nice apodanthi hybrid from N. marvieri 2Y-Y was awarded best miniature seedling in the seedling classes. The other two miniatures in the picture are a 10Y-Y from Gold Step and a 3W-O from (poet x alpestris) OP – a surprising result, but not a very good one in this case.
To complete my day, Champion intermediate was 10_19E 2Y-Y. Unfortunately it is on its last legs in this photo.
A favorite intermediate of mine is the lightly reflexed 12_10E 2Y-OY.
And as a special homage to Mike and Geoff Temple-Smith who passed away earlier this year, an intermediate bred from one of their seedlings.
Lastly, is a photo of an array of splits that were scattered about the show.
Thanx for showing us some of the Canberra Show bench. It’s much appreciated.
Here are a few more photos from the Canberra Show. The form of the Grand Champion was excellent but in terms of colour it was somewhat lacking compared to the best available these days.
The highlight of the Show for me was the high quality poeticus bred by Tony Davis. They are simply outstanding and while one got best poeticus in Show they should have done much better than that. Lawrence also had some nice poeticus at the show but most were in a one container.
Lawrence had some nice split cups. We have had a lot of rain and one of our seedlings that normally is more intermediate in size was standard sized this year and it was everything you want in a split.
We had a good Brooke Ager and its pollen has been put to good use after the show.
Lawrence mentioned our high quality Division 5’s. We have been breeding Division 5’s for a while and we are finally seeing the rewards.
Hi Lawrence,
A photo I took of your Grand Champion.