Plants Given RHS Exhibition Awards from 2008–2010

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Hanburyana 6: 83–139 (2012) 83 Plants given RHS Exhibition Awards 2008–2010

C.M. Whitehouse & J.J. Cubey RHS Garden Wisley, Surrey GU23 6QB

The following list of 416 awards has been compiled from the plant award descriptions written by Plant Committee Secretaries, or in the case of the Orchid Committee by Johan and Clare Hermans, for the period from September 2008 until the end of December 2010. Awards made prior to this that were confirmed during this period, following, for example, application or registration of a cultivar name, are also included. References to further information and catalogued herbarium specimens and images relating to plant awards are included. Anyone wishing to visit the Herbarium at Wisley, to view the herbarium specimens or images, should contact the Keeper of the Herbarium. Paintings are commissioned for many orchids that are given awards and these can be consulted by contacting the RHS Lindley Library. References such as 155D refer to colours in the RHS Colour Chart (Fifth edition, 2007).1 For enquiries regarding these awards please email plantcommittees@rhs. org.uk or telephone 0845 260 9000. These will then be forwarded to the appropriate Plant Committee Secretary or member of staff.

Key AM Award of Merit BC Botanical Certificate (awarded to the species) E Exhibited by D Description DCP Description & colour photograph FCC First Class Certificate PC Certificate of Preliminary Commendation R Raised by S Submitted by § As a flowering plant for exhibition * As a hardy flowering plant for exhibition † As a tender flowering plant for exhibition ‡ As a flowering plant for cultivation in containers

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Aeranthes polyanthemus ‘Tideswell’ to 30mm, pale purple, style arms 3. BC (awarded to the species). Herbarium specimen (WSY0109032) E: Mr Johan Hermans, Enfield, in WSY. DCP: The Alpine Gardener 77: Middlesex on 27 July 2010. DCP: The 502–504. Orchid Review 118: 238–239. Androsace coronata Aeranthes schlechteri ‘Tideswell’ PC*. E: Dr C Lafong, Glenrothes, Fife, BC (awarded to the species). Scotland on 10 April 2010. Cushion- E: Mr Johan Hermans, Enfield, forming perennial to 120mm across as Middlesex on 21 March 2009. DCP: The exhibited. Leaves 7 × 3mm, more or Orchid Review 117: 115. less obovate, hairy, forming globular rosettes mounted on a base of dead Allium aff. elburzense leaves. Inflorescence an umbel of up PC§. E: Mr I L Betteridge, Ashby-de- to 10 flowers each borne on pedicels la-Zouch, Leicestershire on 1 May to 3mm long. Flowers white, to 6mm 2010. Bulbous perennial to 90mm. across with a yellow-green eye, aging Leaves 2 or 3 per bulb, strap-shaped to red. to lanceolate, to 180mm long, green (136D). Inflorescence an umbel borne Androsace spinulifera on an erect scape; pedicels to 20mm; AM§. E: Mr T Anderson, Kendal, flowers star-shaped; perianth segments Cumbria on 19 June 2010. to 8 × 2mm, greyish white; anthers off- white, filaments green; style to 3mm. Anemone trullifolia ‘Waverley Cream’ PC*. E: Mr H C A McBride, Lisburn, Co. Allium insubricum Antrim, Northern Ireland on 25 April PC*. E: Buried Treasure, Llwyn Ifan, 2009. Spreading perennial to c. 350mm Porthyrhyd, Carmarthen, Dyfed as exhibited. Leaves 90 × 40mm long, SA32 8BP on 6 June 2009. Bulbous petiole to 45mm, canaliculate with perennial to 200mm as exhibited. patent, wavy, soft hairs, blade divided Leaves erect, lanceolate, c. 220 × 5mm to four fifths into 3, the divisions split at anthesis, blunt-tipped, surfaces into 3 lobes with rounded teeth in the glabrous but minutely ciliate, veins upper half and a small sinus at the point prominent and parallel, both surfaces of attachment, upper surface green similar, green (137C). Stem yellowish, (N137A) with silver adpressed hairs and erect, fleshy, curved at the apex. frequent glands, underside with long Inflorescence an umbel subtended by woolly hairs. Stems to c. 300mm, yellow 2 papery oblong bracts to 20 × 10mm; green (close to 145A), striate with long, pedicels nodding to 15mm, glabrous. patent, silver hairs. Bracts collar-like, Tepals equal, narrowly obovate, sessile, leafy, divided irregularly into separate, rounded at the apex with a 3. Pedicel c. 70mm, nodding. Tepals minute tip, 13 × 7mm, purple (77D), obovate, 14 × 10mm, obscurely darker at the base; anthers dark, pollen notched at the apex, yellow (160B) white, filaments pale purple; style flushed orange-brown (164B), lower Plants given RHS Exhibition Awards 2008–2010 85 surface purple (N77C-D) with brownish Arisaema concinnum hints in apical portion, becoming dark PC*. E: Jacques Amand Ltd, The purple (N186), dark blue (92A) towards Nurseries, 145 Clamp Hill, Stanmore, base; anthers yellow-green (N144A). Middlesex HA7 3JS on 30 May 2009. DCP: The Alpine Gardener 78: 255–257. Deciduous perennial to 750mm. Pseudostem green with reddish Angraecum platycornu ‘Tideswell’ mottling. Cataphylls 3 with reddish BC (awarded to the species). mottling. Leaves 1–2, radiate with E: Mr Johan Hermans, Enfield, 8–10 oblanceolate, acuminate Middlesex on 7 December 2010. leaflets; leaflets green 250 × 50mm. DCP: The Orchid Review 119: 55–56. Inflorescence held below the leaves, to 550mm. Spathe-tube and spathe- Angraecum urschianum ‘Tideswell’ limb variable in colour, black to BC (awarded to the species). dark brown (200A–202A) or green E: Mr Johan Hermans, Enfield, (144B) with white stripes and veins, Middlesex on 21 March 2009. DCP: The the limb approximately as long as Orchid Review 117: 115. the tube, deltoid in shape and held horizontally, tip extended into a Aquilegia canadensis ‘Nana’ long tail c. 150mm long. Spadix only PC*. E: Mr H C A McBride, Lisburn, Co. slightly exserted. DCP: The Alpine Antrim, Northern Ireland on 25 April Gardener 78: 241–242. 2009. Dwarf herbaceous perennial. Basal leaves biternate, green (N137A), Arisaema iyoanum subsp. nakaianum with adpressed hairs becoming PC*. E: Jacques Amand Ltd, The thicker on the petiole; stem leaves Nurseries, 145 Clamp Hill, Stanmore, reduced becoming merely lobed at the Middlesex HA7 3JS on 5 June 2010. apex. Stem slender with two sessile, Pseudostem to 130mm, green and narrowly ovate bracts. Flowers single, white mottled. Cataphylls 1, pale solitary; spur to 12mm, hooked, red; brown, mottled. Leaves 1, held above sepals 11 × 4mm, forward-pointing, inflorescence, petiole 110mm, similar in slightly recurved at the subacute colour to pseudostem, blade with well apex, attached by a very short stalk; developed rachis, leaflets 9, somewhat petals 7 × 5mm, yellow in upper overlapping, central leaflet 95 × 28mm, half, apex truncate; stamens tangled plain green. Peduncle 60mm long; and exserted. Herbarium specimen spathe tube more or less cylindrical (WSY0109017) in WSY. D: The Alpine 70 × 16mm wide, white with purple Gardener 78: 254–255. dotted stripes, mouth margins strongly recurved, spathe limb deltoid, down- × Aranda Broga Giant gx ‘Bright curved and involute, 80mm long, Garden’ purple (187B); spadix-appendix slightly AM†. E: Bright Gardens, c/o OSSEA, exserted from tube, club-shaped, Singapore on 24 May 2010. DCP: The stipitate, green with purple dots, Orchid Review 118: 168–169. 65mm long.

Arisaema lobatum ‘Mount Emei’ (177A) and greyed purple (187A) PC*. E: Mrs A Chambers, Killearn, markings. Spadix club-shaped and pink Glasgow on 1 May 2010. Deciduous, to pale cream-pink. DCP: The Alpine tuberous perennial to 45cm. Gardener 78: 232–233. Pseudostem to 235mm, reddish with dark markings. Cataphylls 3, reddish Arisaema serratum var. mayebarae with dark mottling. Leaves subopposite, PC*. E: Jacques Amand Ltd, The petiole to 200mm with same coloration Nurseries, 145 Clamp Hill, Stanmore, as pseudostem, blade subopposite, Middlesex HA7 3JS on 5 June trifoliate with reddish margins, 2010. Pseudostem to 300mm long. central leaflet to 140 × 120mm, Cataphylls 3, reddish and mottled. broadly lanceolate, lateral leaflets to Leaves pedate with 9–13 broadly 220 × 100mm wide. Inflorescence lanceolate leaflets, and a well more or less at the level of the leaves; developed rachis; petiole green peduncle 115mm long, reddish; spathe with dark marking, to 160mm long. tube 100mm long, yellow–green Inflorescence held at level of the (145C) at base and yellow-green (150D) leaves; peduncle to 130mm, green at the mouth with a red edge (37A) to and purple mottled; spathe tube the mouth and spathe limb. 90 × 220mm wide, cylindrical but spreading towards the mouth, purple Arisaema nepenthoides (187A) with white stripes, mouth AM*. E: Jacques Amand Ltd, The margins recurved; spathe limb deltoid Nurseries, 145 Clamp Hill, Stanmore, and slightly down-curved with Middlesex HA7 3JS on 30 May 2009. acuminate tip, 60mm long, purple Deciduous, tuberous perennial to 83cm (187A); spadix-appendix club-shaped as exhibited. Pseudostem to 50cm tall, and stipitate, greenish with purple whitish green with dark purple-brown, stripes and slightly exserted from longitudinal markings. Cataphylls 2, tube, 40 × 4mm. greenish with dark markings. Leaves 2, pedate and subopposite with Arisaema speciosum 5–7 broadly oblanceolate leaflets, PC*. E: Jacques Amand Ltd, The 120 × 4mm. Petiole whitish green Nurseries, 145 Clamp Hill, Stanmore, with dark markings to 30cm long. Middlesex HA7 3JS on 30 May 2009. Inflorescence mostly held above Deciduous perennial to 100cm. the leaves. Peduncle approximately Cataphylls 2–3, pink. Petiole green 200mm long, greenish white with dark (143C) and greyed purple (187A) brown markings, infused with greyed mottled. Leaves 1, trifoliate, with three purple towards the apex. Spathe petiolulate leaflets; leaflets green tubular for 80mm with a deltoid, with an acuminate tip and wavy, more or less horizontal limb bearing red-tinged margins, the central leaflet 7 prominent pale whitish green veins, ovate-lanceolate, 300 × 170mm wide to 100mm with small auricles, greyed and the lateral leaflets asymmetrical, green (195A) with greyed orange 300 × 130mm wide. Inflorescence held Plants given RHS Exhibition Awards 2008–2010 87 below the foliage. Peduncle pink- Astelia nivicola purple, 200–250mm long. Spathe-tube PC as a hardy foliage plant for funnel-shaped, c. 100mm long, purple exhibition. E: Mr H C A McBride, brown with white stripes. Spathe-limb Lisburn, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland deltoid, up to 200mm long and held on 25 April 2009. Clump-forming horizontally to more or less upright, perennial to 250mm as exhibited. tip acuminate and dark purple. Spadix Leaves silvery green (197B) laid over extended into a long, usually red dark greyed green (between N189A and thread up to 800mm long, variably 191A), underside paler (195B–196B), graded in colour from white to greyed linear-lanceolate, acuminate, often purple. DCP: The Alpine Gardener 78: dying back from the tip with a channel 240–241. at the centre and U-shaped in cross section, midrib thickened and other Arisaema tortuosum veins prominent, margins downturned, PC*. E: Jacques Amand Ltd, The sparsely ciliate, underside silvery-scaly Nurseries, 145 Clamp Hill, Stanmore, with uneven, sparse hairs. Herbarium Middlesex HA7 3JS on 30 May 2009. specimen (WSY0109018) in WSY. Deciduous perennial to 120cm. DCP: The Alpine Gardener 78: 234–235. Pseudostem green, variably mottled with greyed purple. Cataphylls 2, Aster novae-angliae ‘Flora Dean’ green to reddish mottled. Leaves 2, AM§. E: Mr G W Goddard, Chingford, pedate with a well-defined rachis, London on 7 October 2008. Parentage leaflets 7, linear-lanceolate, central unknown, 150cm high, 60cm wide, leaflet sessile to 150 × 40mm. pure pink, perhaps a finer flower than Inflorescence terminal, held above A. novae-angliae ‘Harrington’s Pink’ the foliage. Spathe-tube green with and possibly a more vibrant colour. pale yellow-green (145B) markings, Does not get mildew. Arranged very cylindrical 50–80mm long, spathe- well, petals well held in water which limb more or less equal to the tube, can be difficult. Herbarium specimen horizontal, green with an acuminate (WSY0112186) in WSY. tip. Spadix sigmoid and long- exserted, to 220mm long, green Begonia ‘Rose with Bronze Leaf’ (Big (146B). DCP: The Alpine Gardener 78: Series) 239–240. PC and AM†. E: Mr Peter Seabrook on 13 October 2009 and 5 October 2010. Asarum maximum Flowers to 65 × 5mm; upper surface FCC§. E: Mrs C M Coller, Sutton, of petals rose pink (c. 55A/B), slightly Norfolk on 6 April 2010. shimmery; lower surface darker than upper (to c. 54A/55A), also shimmery; Asarum trigynum ‘Album’ darker in bud (c. 53C). Stems and BC (awarded to the species). petioles c. 46a. Leaves with upper E: Mrs C M Coller, Sutton, Norfolk on surface dark purple-green with red- 6 April 2010. purple-green margins.

Begonia taliensis Bulbophyllum makoyanum ‘Bonnie’ AM as a semi-hardy foliage plant for BC (awarded to the species). E: Mr Larry exhibition. E: Mr John Fielding, London Bracewell, Abingdon, Oxfordshire on on 10 September 2008. Late into 9 December 2009. DCP: The Orchid growth, flowers just starting and will Review 118: 56 – 57. continue over next 2 months above foliage, followed by attractive veined Bulbophyllum phalaenopsis ‘Marja’ seed heads. A little variable from seed, AM†. E: Orchideën Wubben, one seedling with pure green foliage Tolakkerweg 162, Rading, Maartensdijk and one with black foliage, generally 3739 Jt, Netherlands on 20 June 2009. have the darker markings as exhibited. DCP: The Orchid Review 117: 176. Dormant tubers were over-wintered in a frost free environment. Calanthe judithiae ‘Lydia Ruth’ BC (awarded to the species). Bessera elegans E: Mr Colin Carter, Romsey, Hampshire AM§. E: Mr Colin Rogers, Holloway, on 20 June 2009. DCP: The Orchid London on 25 September 2010. Review 117: 177. Erect bulbous perennial to 430mm as exhibited. Leaves to 250 × 3mm, Calanthe Mont Mado gx ‘Saint Mary’ narrowly lanceolate, hard, glabrous, AM†. R and E: Eric Young Foundation, margins with minute teeth. Victoria Village, Trinity, Jersey, Channel Inflorescence a few-flowered umbel; Islands JE3 5HH on 7 December 2010. peduncle to 400mm or so, stiff, DCP: The Orchid Review 119: 52–53. upright, slender with occasional minute hairs; bracts to 5mm, ovate-acuminate. Calanthe Mont Nicholle gx ‘Saint Scarious, purplish with glandular hairs Saviour’ towards the apex; pedicels slender, AM†. R and E: Eric Young Foundation, held at c. 45° angle, 40mm long, Victoria Village, Trinity, Jersey, Channel sharply hooked at the apex which Islands JE3 5HH on 9 November 2010. bears scattered glandular hairs. Flowers DCP: The Orchid Review 119: 49–50. pendent, fuchsia-like, outer perianth segments spreading, to 25 × 8mm, Calanthe Mont Perrine gx ‘Saint blunt-tipped, orange-red (N30A), Saviour’ underside cream with an orange- AM†. R and E: Eric Young Foundation, red stripe; inner segments to 15mm Victoria Village, Trinity, Jersey, Channel forming a ‘tube’, cream; filaments red, Islands JE3 5HH on 7 December 2010. exserted by 12mm, anthers black. DCP: The Orchid Review 119: 53–54.

× Brassocattleya Gulfshore’s Beauty Calanthe Mont Pinel gx ‘Saint Peter’ gx ‘Green Gem’ AM†. R and E: Eric Young Foundation, AM†. R and E: Suwada, Ichikawa, Chiba Victoria Village, Trinity, Jersey, Channel 272–0825, Japan on 7 December 2010. Islands JE3 5HH on 9 November 2010. DCP: The Orchid Review 119: 54–55. DCP: The Orchid Review 119: 49–50. Plants given RHS Exhibition Awards 2008–2010 89

Calanthe Mont Pretre gx ‘Saint darker and shortly hairy at the apex. Brelade’ Flowers solitary; pedicel narrow, to AM†. R and E: Eric Young Foundation, 18mm; calyx forming a cup to 4 × 4mm Victoria Village, Trinity, Jersey, Channel with linear, acute lobes to 6mm Islands JE3 5HH on 7 December 2010. long; petals to 20 × 20mm, fused for DCP: The Orchid Review 119: 52. 16mm, campanulate, lobes triangular, shortly pointed to 8mm across at base, Calanthe Mont Ube gx ‘Saint Martin’ violet-blue (93B). Herbarium specimen AM†. R and E: Eric Young Foundation, (WSY0112946) in WSY. DCP: The Alpine Victoria Village, Trinity, Jersey, Channel Gardener 78: 242–244. Islands JE3 5HH on 9 November 2010. DCP: The Orchid Review 119: 49. Campanula zangezura PC§. E: J Dower, Frodsham, Cheshire Calanthe Portelet gx ‘Saint Brelade’ on 19 June 2010. Spreading perennial AM†. R and E: Eric Young Foundation, to 150 × 280mm as exhibited. Foliage Victoria Village, Trinity, Jersey, Channel in loose rosettes to 90mm across; Islands JE3 5HH on 9 November 2010. leaves narrowly obovate-spathulate, DCP: The Orchid Review 119: 48–49. long-cuneate, 60 × 10mm, sheathing at the base, upper surface yellowish Calochortus albus ‘Coastal Pearls’ green (147B) with a light covering of AM§. E: Mr and Mrs R Wallis, soft, occasionally gland-tipped hairs Carmarthen, Dyfed, Wales on 6 June becoming very dense at the base, 2009. DCP: The Alpine Gardener 77: underside dense silver-hairy. Peduncle 503–505. to 75mm, strongly upright, silvery hairy. Inflorescence a dense compound Campanula myrtifolia ‘Helmi’ umbel subtended by a whorl of leaf-like AM§. E: Dr M Sheader, Southampton, bracts to 20 × 4mm; rachis to 7mm, Hampshire on 19 June 2010. silvery hairy; umbels subtended by a ring of triangular bracts to 5mm; Campanula thyrsoides pedicels to 6mm, yellowish; petals AM§. E: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, forming a tube to 4 × 1mm, separate to Richmond, Surrey TW9 3AB on 24 May beyond halfway, green-yellow (1B) with 2010. a central darker line.

Campanula ‘Timsbury Chimes’ Cattleya Mari’s Beat gx ‘Humming’ AM*. E: Mr G E Nicholls, Timsbury, AM†. R and E: Suwada, Ichikawa, Chiba Avon on 6 June 2009. Spreading 272–0825, Japan on 7 December 2010. perennial to 140 × 220mm as exhibited. DCP: The Orchid Review 119: 53–55. Leaves ovate in outline, to 5mm long on long petioles, toothed to pinnatifid Chrysanthemum ‘Allegro’ with short hairs along the midrib, AM§. S: Mr Richard Coles, Raunds, green (141B/C) with a minute dark Northamptonshire on 9 September tip. Stems green, flexible becoming 2008.

Chrysanthemum ‘Amelia Rose’ Chrysanthemum ‘Blaze Away’ PC§. S: I Martin, Hook, Hampshire on PC§. E: Mr John Nevill, Burntwood, 30 October 2008. Staffordshire on 23 September 2008.

Chrysanthemum ‘Annie Lea’ Chrysanthemum ‘Bon Green’ FCC§. E: Mr J Peace, Easington, County PC§ in containers. E: Cleangro Ltd, Durham on 8 September 2009. Vinnetrow Road, Chichester, West Weather resistant, healthy growth. Sussex PO20 6QD on 5 November Degree of resistance to pests and 2009. 3b. White, late-flowering indoor, disease. Very attractive flower form. incurved, medium-flowered.

Chrysanthemum ‘Anthony Peace’ Chrysanthemum ‘Boulevard Yellow’ PC‡. S: Fides Goldstock Breeding, FCC‡. S: RHS Garden Wisley, Wisley, PO Box 26, 2678 ZG De Lier, Woking, Surrey GU23 6QB on Netherlands on 11 September 9 September 2008. 2009. 25b. Early-flowering outdoor intermediate, medium-flowered, white. Chrysanthemum ‘Boulou Red’ AM§ in containers. E: Fides Goldstock Chrysanthemum ‘Bacardi’ Breeding, PO Box 26, 2678 ZG De Lier, PC§ in containers. S: Cleangro Ltd, Netherlands on 17 November 2008. 11. Vinnetrow Road, Chichester, West Red, very uniform habit and flower of Sussex PO20 6QD on 17 November lasting quality. 2008. Lovely clean white, very attractive plant. Chrysanthemum ‘Braque Pink’ PC§. E: Mr John Nevill, Burntwood, Chrysanthemum ‘Ballet’ Staffordshire on 9 September 2008. PC‡. S: Walkers Nurseries, Chester, Cheshire CH3 6ZZ on 21 October Chrysanthemum ‘Burnside’ 2008. Holding form, fading evenly. PC§. S: Southway Nurseries, Cottingham, East Yorkshire on Chrysanthemum ‘Beacon’ 20 November 2009. 2. Yellow, late AM§. S: Fides Goldstock Breeding, flowering indoor, medium exhibition. PO Box 26, 2678 ZG De Lier, Netherlands on 17 November 2008. 5a. Beautiful red, Chrysanthemum ‘Caukeel Cadmium’ full flower held on strong stem, vigorous PC§. S: Southway Nurseries, and floriferous, good rust resistance. Cottingham, East Yorkshire on 5 September 2008. Chrysanthemum ‘Biarritz’ PC‡. S: Cleangro Ltd, Vinnetrow Road, Chrysanthemum ‘Caukeel Ciao’ Chichester, West Sussex PO20 6QD on PC§. S: Southway Nurseries, 17 November 2008. 19f. Light purple, Cottingham, East Yorkshire on attractive, healthy plant, vigorous 5 September 2008. spoon, even habit. Plants given RHS Exhibition Awards 2008–2010 91

Chrysanthemum ‘Caukeel Corn’ Chrysanthemum ‘Dark Pink Fiji’ PC§. S: Mr L Youell, Norwich, Norfolk PC‡. S: Fides Goldstock Breeding, on 5 September 2008. PO Box 26, 2678 ZG De Lier, Netherlands on 17 November 2008. 9c. Deep purple, Chrysanthemum Chesapeake good height, excellent uniformity of (‘Yochesapeake’) habit, floriferous, attractive colour. PC§ in containers. E: Cleangro Ltd, Vinnetrow Road, Chichester, West Chrysanthemum ‘Dark Runner’ Sussex PO20 6QD on 17 November PC‡. S: Fides Goldstock Breeding, 2008. 10a. White, compact, good PO Box 26, 2678 ZG De Lier, habit, uniform flower, healthy clean Netherlands on 7 October 2008. foliage. Chrysanthemum ‘Diva’ Chrysanthemum ‘Chester PC‡. S: Cleangro Ltd, Vinnetrow Road, Millennium’ Chichester, West Sussex PO20 6QD on PC§. S: Mr John Nevill, Burntwood, 7 October 2008. Staffordshire on 30 October 2008. Chrysanthemum ‘Downpour’ Chrysanthemum ‘Chloe Ball’ PC§. E: Mr L Youell, Norwich, Norfolk PC§. E: Mr John Nevill, Burntwood, on 20 November 2009.10a. White, late Staffordshire on 5 November 2009. flowering indoor, quill. 13b. Yellow, October flowering, incurved, medium-flowered. Chrysanthemum ‘Dream Jogger’ PC§ in containers. S: Fides Goldstock Chrysanthemum ‘Clarksdale’ Breeding, PO Box 26, 2678 ZG De Lier, PC§. S: Mr John Nevill, Burntwood, Netherlands on 21 October 2008. Staffordshire on 30 October 2008. Chrysanthemum ‘Emperor’ Chrysanthemum ‘Conaco Orange’ AM‡. S: Cleangro Ltd, Vinnetrow Road, PC‡. S: FlorElite Plants and Seeds Ltd., Chichester, West Sussex PO20 6QD on Hoogeweg 12, 2231 MS Rijnsburg, 23 September 2008. Netherlands on 7 October 2008. Chrysanthemum ‘Firebird’ Chrysanthemum ‘Conaco Yellow’ PC§. E: Mr Richard Coles, Raunds, PC‡. S: FlorElite Plants and Seeds Ltd., Northamptonshire on 4 November Hoogeweg 12, 2231 MS Rijnsburg, 2010. 7b. Red, late-flowering indoor, Netherlands on 7 October 2008. single, medium-flowered.

Chrysanthemum ‘Daphne Davis’ Chrysanthemum ‘Geoff Aird’ FCC§. S: Mr G Garratt, Kenilworth, PC§. E: Mr H Lawson, Hartlepool, Warwickshire on 22 September 2009. County Durham on 18 September Lovely firm flowers in an unusual peach 2009. 15b. October flowering colour, lasting well. intermediate, medium-flowered.

Chrysanthemum ‘Geoff Brady’ Chrysanthemum ‘Hoagy’ AM§. E: Mr H Lawson, Hartlepool, PC§ and cutting. E: Mr R Fox, County Durham on 18 September Cottingham, East Yorkshire on 2009. 15a. Red, October-flowering 10 September 2010. 29d. Bronze, early- intermediate, large-flowered. flowering outdoor, spray, single.

Chrysanthemum ‘George Cannell’ Chrysanthemum ‘Hollie Elizabeth’ PC§. E: Mr H Lawson, Hartlepool, PC§. E: Mr B Croft, Sutton Trust Estate, County Durham on 11 September Hull on 18 September 2009. 14a. Pink, 2009. 25b. Light bronze, early- October flowering reflexed, large- flowering outdoor intermediate, flowered. medium flowered. Chrysanthemum Ibis Sunny (‘Fiibis Chrysanthemum Gigi Pink (‘Yogigi Sunny’) Pink’) PC‡. S: Fides Goldstock Breeding, AM‡. S: Yoder Toddington, Toddington PO Box 26, 2678 ZG De Lier, Lane, Littlehampton, West Sussex, Netherlands on 17 November 2008. BN17 7PL on 23 September 2008. Good colour tone, neat flower, and uniform height. Chrysanthemum Golden Cheryl (‘Golden Yocheryl’) Chrysanthemum ‘Intermezzo’ AM‡. S: Yoder Toddington, Toddington FCC§. S: Cleangro Ltd, Vinnetrow Road, Lane, Littlehampton, West Sussex, Chichester, West Sussex, PO20 6QD on BN17 7PL on 21 October 2008. 21 October 2008.

Chrysanthemum Gudrun Chrysanthemum ‘Jimmy Simpson’ (‘Yogudrun’) PC§. S: Mr G Dowson, Bishop Auckland, AM‡. S: Yoder Toddington, County Durham on 12 September 2008. Toddington Lane, Littlehampton, West Sussex, BN17 7PL on 23 September Chrysanthemum ‘Joan Waugh’ 2008. PC§. S: Mr John Nevill, Burntwood, Staffordshire on 30 October 2008. Chrysanthemum ‘Helen Louise’ PC§. S: Mr G Dowson, Bishop Auckland, Chrysanthemum ‘Joshua Hunter’ County Durham on 12 September FCC§. S: Mr L Hunter, Barnsley, South 2008. Yorkshire on 22 September 2009. A lovely vibrant yellow chrysanthemum; Chrysanthemum ‘Helen Louise’ flowers stay fresh for a long time. AM§. E: Mr B Hogg, Bishop Auckland, County Durham on 10 September Chrysanthemum Kerry (‘Yokerry’) 2010. 25b. Light yellow, early-flowering AM‡. S: Yoder Toddington, Toddington outdoor, intermediate, medium- Lane, Littlehampton, West Sussex, flowered. BN17 7PL on 23 September 2008. Plants given RHS Exhibition Awards 2008–2010 93

Chrysanthemum ‘Klondike’ Yellow, late-flowering indoor, medium PC‡. S: Fides Goldstock Breeding, exhibition. PO Box 26, 2678 ZG De Lier, Netherlands on 17 November 2008. Chrysanthemum Michelle 9d. Red, holding flowers well, even (‘Yomichelle’) flowering, very floriferous. FCC§ in containers. E: Fides Goldstock Breeding, PO Box 26, 2678 ZG De Lier, Chrysanthemum ‘Lava’ Netherlands on 9 September 2008. PC§. E: Mr L Youell, Norwich, Norfolk on 5 November 2009. 10a. Late- Chrysanthemum ‘Millie Matthews’ flowering indoor spider. PC§. S: Mr John Nevill, Burntwood, Staffordshire on 30 October 2008. Chrysanthemum ‘Lemon Fizz’ AM‡. S: Cleangro Ltd, Vinnetrow Road, Chrysanthemum ‘Morton Johnson’ Chichester, West Sussex, PO20 6QD on PC§. E: Mr M Johnson, Bishop 21 October 2008. Auckland, County Durham on 14 November 2008. Red, late- Chrysanthemum ‘Lighthouse’ flowering, medium exhibition. PC§. E: Mr and Mrs D Peel, Mirfield on 20 November 2009. 12a. White, late- Chrysanthemum ‘Myss Amber’ flowering indoor cascade. PC§. E: Southway Nurseries, Cottingham, East Yorkshire on Chrysanthemum ‘Lilac Eleonora’ 11 September 2009. 29c. Light PC‡. S: Fides Goldstock Breeding, bronze, early-flowering outdoor spray, PO Box 26, 2678 ZG De Lier, reflexed. Netherlands on 17 November 2008. 9a. Light purple, clean foliage, upright and Chrysanthemum ‘Myss Dorothy’ very floriferous. PC§. E: Mr R Fox, Cottingham, East Yorkshire on 10 September 2010. Chrysanthemum ‘Mag Pat’ 29c. Early-flowering outdoor, spray, PC§. S: Mr H Lawson, Hartlepool, reflexed. County Durham on 12 September 2008. Chrysanthemum ‘Myss Eliza’ PC§. S: Southway Nurseries, Chrysanthemum ‘Malcolm’s Choice’ Cottingham, East Yorkshire on PC§. E: Mr J M White, Gawber, Barnsley 12 September 2008. on 4 November 2010. 15a. Light pink, October-flowering, intermediate, large- Chrysanthemum ‘Myss Marion’ flowered. FCC§ and for cutting. S: Southway Nurseries, Cottingham, East Yorkshire Chrysanthemum ‘McDowell’ on 22 September 2009. Well balanced PC§. E: Mr John Nevill, Burntwood, growth, clean colour, excellent Staffordshire on 4 November 2010. 2. uniformity and form.

Chrysanthemum ‘Myss Marjorie’ Chrysanthemum ‘Purple Glow’ PC as a flowering plant for cutting. PC‡. S: Walkers Nurseries, Chester, E: Southway Nurseries, Cottingham, Cheshire, CH3 6ZZ on 17 November East Yorkshire on 11 September 2009. 2008. 5a. Purple, clean foliage, 29e. Cream, early-flowering spray, attractive purple florets. intermediate. Chrysanthemum ‘Purple Talbot Chrysanthemum ‘Nellie Jones’ Parade’ PC§. E: Mr R Fox, Cottingham, East FCC§. S: Mr Frank Charlton, Witherwack, Yorkshire on 20 November 2009. 5b. Sunderland on 7 October 2008. Light purple, late flowering indoor, intermediate, medium -flowered. Chrysanthemum ‘Redeye’ PC§. E: Mr R Fox, Cottingham, East Chrysanthemum ‘Orno’ Yorkshire on 10 September 2010. 29d. FCC§. S: Walkers Nurseries, Chester, Red, early-flowering outdoor, spray, Cheshire, CH3 6ZZ on 9 October 2009. single. Very floriferous with a long flowering period. Excellent flower quality. Good Chrysanthemum Regal Cheryl (‘Regal weather resistance. Yocheryl’) AM§ in containers. S: Fides Goldstock Chrysanthemum ‘Paloma Regent’ Breeding, PO Box 26, 2678 ZG De Lier, PC§ and cutting. E: Mr R Fox, Netherlands on 21 October 2008. Cottingham, East Yorkshire on 10 September 2010. 29d. Purple, early- Chrysanthemum ‘Ruby Raynor’ flowering outdoor, spray, single. FCC§. S: Mrs Judy Barker, Colney, London on 22 September 2009. Very Chrysanthemum ‘Paloma Rose’ floriferous with a long flowering period PC§. E: Mr R Fox, Cottingham, East from mid July to mid October. Yorkshire on 10 September 2010. 29d. Light purple, early-flowering outdoor, Chrysanthemum ‘San Remo Runner’ spray, single. AM§ in containers. S: Fides Goldstock Breeding, PO Box 26, 2678 ZG De Lier, Chrysanthemum ‘Paloma Vivid’ Netherlands on 21 October 2008. PC as a flowering plant for cutting. E: Mr R Fox, Cottingham, East Chrysanthemum ‘Sarah Ann’ Yorkshire on 10 September 2010. 29d. PC§. E: Mr V Aldred, Dronfield, Dark red, early-flowering outdoor, Derbyshire on 11 September 2009. 29d. spray, single. White, early-flowering outdoor spray, single. Chrysanthemum ‘Pamplona Jogger’ AM§ in containers. S: Fides Goldstock Chrysanthemum ‘Savanna Charlton’ Breeding, PO Box 26, 2678 ZG De Lier, PC§. E: Mr F Charlton, Sunderland on Netherlands on 9 September 2008. 11 September 2009. 25a. Light purple, Plants given RHS Exhibition Awards 2008–2010 95 early-flowering outdoor anemone, large Breeding, PO Box 26, 2678 ZG De Lier, flowered. Netherlands on 21 October 2008.

Chrysanthemum ‘Saxon’ Chrysanthemum ‘Stallion Anemone’ PC§. E: Mr John Nevill, Burntwood, PC‡. S: Fides Goldstock Breeding, Staffordshire on 5 November 2009. 1. PO Box 26, 2678 ZG De Lier, Light bronze, late-flowering indoor, Netherlands on 17 November 2008. large exhibition. 9c. White, delicate pompon of excellent form, very floriferous, good height, Chrysanthemum ‘Seymour Eve’ long flowering, excellent vase-life. PC§. S: Mr Christopher Webber, Wellington, Somerset on 30 October Chrysanthemum ‘Starling’ 2008. PC‡. S: Fides Goldstock Breeding, PO Box 26, 2678 ZG De Lier, Chrysanthemum ‘Sheena’ Netherlands on 17 November 2008. PC‡. S: Fides Goldstock Breeding, Striking spoon-quill of unusual colour, PO Box 26, 2678 ZG De Lier, single, well controlled uniform growth. Netherlands on 17 November 2008. 9f/10. Cream, unusual spray-quill, long Chrysanthemum ‘Starstruck Pink’ flowering, good height. AM‡. S: Cleangro Ltd, Vinnetrow Road, Chichester, West Sussex, PO20 6QD on Chrysanthemum ‘Southway 23 September 2008. Shinagawa’ PC§. E: Southway Nurseries, Chrysanthemum ‘Steve Packham’ Cottingham, East Yorkshire on PC§. E: Mr H Lawson, Hartlepool, 11 September 2009. 29d. Purple, early- County Durham on 10 September flowering outdoor spray, single. 2010. 23b. White, early-flowering outdoor, incurved, medium-flowered. Chrysanthemum ‘Southway Sizzle’ PC as a flowering plant for cutting. Chrysanthemum ‘Symphony’ E: Southway Nurseries, Cottingham, PC§. S: West Heddon Nursery Centre, East Yorkshire on 11 September 2009. Heddon-on-the-Wall, Newcastle Upon 29d. Bronze, early-flowering outdoor Tyne, Tyne and Wear, NE15 0JS on spray, single. 17 November 2008. 10a. Light bronze, lovely depth of colour, compact and Chrysanthemum ‘Southway Sloe’ very floriferous. PC§. S: Southway Nurseries, Cottingham, East Yorkshire on Chrysanthemum ‘Tigerrag’ 12 September 2008. PC‡. S: Fides Goldstock Breeding, PO Box 26, 2678 ZG De Lier, Chrysanthemum Spicy Cheryl (‘Spicy Netherlands on 17 November 2008. Yocheryl’) 9d. Dark red, very consistent old variety, AM§ in containers. S: Fides Goldstock clean foliage, excellent colour.

Chrysanthemum ‘Troyes’ Colchicum cousturieri PC‡. S: RHS Garden Wisley, Wisley, PC*. E: Mr and Mrs R Wallis, Woking, Surrey GU23 6QB on Carmarthen, Dyfed, Wales on 17 November 2008. 9a. Purple. 26 September 2009.

Chrysanthemum ‘Upton Rose’ Colchicum ‘Dick Trotter’ FCC§. S: Walkers Nurseries, Chester, AM*. E: Revd R J Blakeway-Phillips, Cheshire, CH3 6ZZ on 22 September Great Haseley, Oxfordshire on 2009. Rose-pink, floriferous, resistant to 7 October 2008. Cormous perennial white rust, early single spray. to 200mm as exhibited; tube c. 100mm long, rosy pink to light Chrysanthemum ‘Vivid’ purple (75A–75B); perianth segments PC§. S: Fides Goldstock Breeding, obovate to 85 × 30mm at widest part, PO Box 26, 2678 ZG De Lier, apex evenly rounded, tapering to a Netherlands on 17 November 2008. width of c. 8mm at base; outer tepals Excellent rust resistance, neat fresh vivid purple (duller than N81A); inner flower, uniform structure. tepals purple (N81C); throat white, filaments purplish, pollen orange- Chrysanthemum ‘White Lightning’ yellow; style exceeding anthers; PC§. E: Mr John Nevill, Burntwood, stigma linear, slightly recurved. Staffordshire on 5 November 2009. 2. Herbarium specimen (WSY0107181) White, late-flowering indoor, medium in WSY. DCP: The Alpine Gardener 77: exhibition. 466–468.

Chytroglossa aurata ‘Sandra’s Colchicum ‘Felbrigg’ Valentine’ PC*. E: Dr C Grey-Wilson, Bury St BC (awarded to the species). Edmunds, Norfolk on 25 September E: M Armstrong, Muston, Notts on 2010. Cormous perennial to 190mm 16 February 2010. DCP: The Orchid as exhibited. Leaves absent at anthesis. Review 118: 113. Tube c. 120mm, glabrous, rosy pink; perianth segments, equal, oval to Cleisocentron merrillianum ‘Gaytarn’ obovate, to 65 × 30mm at widest part, BC (awarded to the species). E: Mr John apex evenly rounded to obscurely Gay, Wakefield, West Yorkshire on pointed, tapering to a width of 8mm at 17 August 2010. DCP: The Orchid Review base; pink with little tessellation, throat 118: 241. white; filaments to 25mm, anthers to 10mm; style to 45mm. Coelogyne judithiae ‘Beverston Castle’ Colchicum stevenii BC (awarded to the species). PC*. E: Mr and Mrs R Wallis, E: Mr R Stevens, Tetbury, Carmarthen, Dyfed, Wales on Gloucestershire on 11 September 2008. 26 September 2009. DCP: The Orchid Review 116: 357–358. P lants given RHS Exhibition Awards 2008–2010 97

Corydalis ‘Golden Sunrise’ globe. Many suborbicular-cordate PC*. E: Dr C Lafong, Glenrothes, leaves to 28mm long, 25mm wide. Leaf Fife, Scotland on 21 March 2009. margin shallowly denticulate, marbled Tuberous perennial to 200mm bearing above with pale green (190A). Petiole to multiple stems. Leaves ternate to 80mm arising from tuber, petiole and weakly biternate, obovate with a red underside of leaf red (59A). Pedicels to apical spot. Inflorescence a raceme of 80mm, red-purple in colour, abruptly 10–15 flowers; pedicels to c. 20mm, down-turned at the calyx. Calyx 6mm elongating with age, subtended by long split to the mid point into 5 ovate- obovate bracts to13mm becoming lanceolate teeth. Flowers single, to smaller and sessile towards the apex. 20mm long, sharply reflexed. Corolla Flowers to c. 30mm, yellow (11A) with white (155D), tepals twisted, margins brownish grey markings on the upper, fringed. Tepal base with a very pale inner and lower petals. Spur to c. 17mm pink flush. Stamens included and style long, curving along its length, grading not exserted. in colour from yellow to buff. DCP: The Alpine Gardener 77: 496–498. Cycnoches barthiorum ‘Hänge’ AM†. E: Röllke Orchideenzucht, Cyclamen hederifolium var. confusum Flössweg 11, 33758 Schloss Holte- AM§ and foliage plant for exhibition. Stukenbrock, Germany on 24 October E: Mr P Nicholls, Shoreham, West 2008. DCP: The Orchid Review 117: 53. Sussex on 25 September 2010. Tuberous perennial to 160 × 300mm Cymbidium erythraeum ‘Charlotte’ as exhibited. Leaves to 120 × 40mm BC (awarded to the species). of which the petiole accounts for a E: Mr P White, Banbury, Oxfordshire length of 80mm; blade deeply cordate, on 24 October 2008. DCP: The Orchid roughly pentagonal, blunt-tipped Review 117: 54–55. with alternately large and small, not overlapping, rounded teeth at the Cymbidium erythrostylum ‘Suzy’ margin, leathery with scattered, very AM† and BC (awarded to the species). short, glandular hairs, glossy, dark E: Sue Lane, Cullompton, Devon on green (139A), with paler green (137A) 24 October 2008. The BC was awarded and almost white marbling. Flowers to encourage the cultivation of the solitary, nodding, borne on a stalk to species. DCP: The Orchid Review 117: 54. 140mm long; petals strongly reflexed and twisted, the free portion to Cymbidium goeringii 35 × 10mm, pink (c. N74B) becoming AM§. E: Mrs Wilma Wright, Southport darker at the mouth. on 1 May 2010. Perennial to 210mm as exhibited. Leaves linear, to 250mm, Cyclamen mirabile f. niveum entire, yellow-green (146B), borne PC*. E: Mrs J Wyllie, Dunblane on in rosettes. Stems, 140–180mm, 25 September 2010. Tuberous perennial unbranched, arising from below soil to 90mm. Tuber to 65mm, shallow level. Flowers borne horizontally; sepals

© 2012 The Royal Horticultural Society 98 C.M. Whitehouse & J.J. Cubey to 25 × 10mm, yellow-green (146D); subtended by a leaf-like bract to petals to 10 × 10mm, white; lip to c. 60mm. Pedicel to c. 10mm, straight. 20mm, white with maroon blotches. Flowers white (155D) with greyed purple (187A) tepals and greyed purple Cypripedium flavum (White-flowered markings on the lip; dorsal sepal broad Group) ‘White Lady’ lanceolate, acuminate, c. 45 × 10mm; BC (awarded to the species). E: McBeans synsepal 40 × 8mm, lanceolate, bifid at Orchids Ltd, Cooksbridge, Lewes, East the apex; lateral petals linear, twisted, Sussex BN8 4PR on 21 April 2009. 60 × 5mm; lip saccate, c. 30mm long DCP: The Orchid Review 117: 118, 179. with a smooth mouth; ovary somewhat hairy, to 20mm long; column to Cypripedium macranthos 10mm long. Herbarium specimen PC*. E: Mr Ian Christie, Christie’s (WSY0109021) in WSY. DCP: The Alpine Nursery, Downfield, West Muir, Gardener 77: 487–488. Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland DD8 5LP on 30 May 2009. Clump-forming perennial Cypripedium Ursel gx to 400mm. Leaves 4–5 per stem, to PC*. E: Dr C Lafong, Glenrothes, Fife, 120 × 85mm, elliptic to lanceolate. Scotland on 18 April 2009. Clump- Inflorescence with 1 flower per stem forming perennial to 330mm. Leaves subtended by a leafy, lanceolate bract. 4 to 5 per stem, to 120 × 60mm, Peduncle 10mm long. Flowers, pink narrowly elliptic, acuminate, sessile with (186C) with greyed purple (183C) clear longitudinal venation, margins sepals and petals and greyed purple minutely ciliate. Stems pubescent, markings on the lip, dorsal sepal ovate- erect. Inflorescence mostly 2-flowered, lanceolate, 55mm long, 24mm wide; subtended by a leaf-like bract to synsepal, ovate-lanceolate and bifid at c. 80mm, acute. Flowers large, yellow the tip, c. 50 × 25mm; petals lanceolate (2D); dorsal sepal broad-lanceolate, and curving forward, 60 × 10mm. Lip acuminate, margins undulate, saccate, 30mm long, with a small mouth; c. 50 × 20mm; synsepal lanceolate, ovary to 30mm long; column 12 × 6mm. bifid at the top c. 45 × 20mm; laterals D: The Alpine Gardener 78: 242. lanceolate, c. 60 × 10mm wide, acuminate, villous at the base in the Cypripedium Sebastian gx inner surface; lip deeply saccate, 35mm AM§. E: Dr C Lafong, Glenrothes, long, toothed at the opening, with Fife, Scotland on 16 May 2009. maroon spotting on the outside. Ovary Clump-forming perennial to 420mm densely glandular-pubescent, to 17mm as exhibited. Leaves 4 per stem, long. Column to 16mm. Herbarium to 110 × 35mm, alternate, elliptic, specimen (WSY0109020) in WSY. acuminate, sessile, clasping the stem DCP: The Alpine Gardener 77: 499–501. at the base, glabrous, veins prominent, parallel. Stems straight, upright, covered Dahlia ‘Dikara Apricot’ with short, patent, gland-tipped AM§. E: Mr Roy Rogers, Nr Horsham, hairs. Inflorescence of 1 to 2 flowers West Sussex on 29 September 2008. Plants given RHS Exhibition Awards 2008–2010 99

Plant to 130cm. Outer florets moderate umbel. Hypanthium evenly covered yellowish pink (37C), with brilliant with patent, white hairs, pinkish purple greenish yellow (4A) at base, paling to (68B/D), narrowly tubular to 8 × 2mm; light yellow (12C) towards the midrib, lobes triangular, blunt-tipped, with strong purplish red (63B) towards 2 × 2mm. apex; inner florets light orange-yellow (24C), with pinkish hue. Central Daphne × hendersonii ‘Blackthorn unfurled petals tinted pink (51C). Rose’ Herbarium specimens (WSY0112195, FCC*. E: Blackthorn Nursery, Kilmeston, WSY0112198) in WSY. Alresford, Hampshire SO24 0NL on 18 April 2009. Spreading shrublet, Dahlia ‘Oreti Bliss’ 170 × 340mm as exhibited. Leaves AM§. E: West Heddon Nursery Centre, densely alternate, c. 12 × 3.5mm, Heddon-on-the-Wall, Newcastle Upon oblanceolate, rounded at the apex Tyne, Tyne and Wear NE15 0JS on with a small tip, subsessile, surface 16 September 2008. Flowers 100– dark green (136A), coriaceous, 150mm wide. Florets white. underneath paler with a prominent midrib and downturned margin. Stems Dahlia ‘Shep’s Memory’ reddish, shiny, glabrous. Inflorescence AM§. E: Mr P Godsmark, Ryecroft a stalkless, few-flowered umbel. Dahlias, Storrington on 16 September Flowers pink (63D), tube to 15 × 3mm 2008. Plant to 160cm. Outer florets expanding slightly at the apex, lobes strong orange (26B), with brilliant salverform, 5 × 5mm, broad-ovate to greenish yellow (6C) at base and sub-orbicular, overlapping at the base; touched vivid reddish orange, with anthers orange. Herbarium specimen vivid red at margins; inner florets (WSY0109029) in WSY. DCP: The Alpine strong orange (26B), with brilliant Gardener 77: 464–465. greenish yellow (6C) at base and strongly flushed strong reddish Daphne × hendersonii ‘Jeanette orange (31A) and (N34A). Herbarium Brickell’ specimens (WSY0112191, WSY0112192, AM*. E: Blackthorn Nursery, Kilmeston, WSY0112194) in WSY. Alresford, Hampshire SO24 0NL on 18 April 2009. Spreading shrublet, Daphne petraea ‘Idro’ 100 × 270mm as exhibited. Leaves PC*. E: Blackthorn Nursery, Kilmeston, densely alternate to subopposite, Alresford, Hampshire SO24 0NL on c. 14 × 3mm, oblanceolate-oblong, 1 May 2010. Spreading shrublet to rounded at the apex with a small 30 × 110mm as exhibited. Leaves sharp tip, subsessile, surface dark clustered at stem tips, 6 × 2mm, green (136A), grooved at the midrib, oblanceolate, rounded at the apex, coriaceous, underneath paler with a margins entire, glabrous, coriaceous, prominent midrib and downturned green (139B), midrib thickened. margins. Stems reddish brown Inflorescence a few-flowered, sessile with some short, curly white hairs.

Inflorescence a stalkless, c. 6-flowered inside from deep pink-purple (71A / umbel. Flowers pink (63D), upper N77A / 64A) buds. Petals 5, free, surface of lobes much paler, tube to elliptic, acute-tipped, broadest above 10 × 3mm, expanding at the apex, the middle, 14–16 × 7–8mm, the lobes ovate-oblong, 5 × 5mm, forming adaxial surface white, the abaxial a cross, little overlapping at the base; surface with a broad, deep pink-purple anthers orange. Herbarium specimen (71A–N77B) central band, paling (WSY0109028) in WSY. DCP: The Alpine to white at the margins. Calyx olive Gardener 77: 484–486. green with 5 triangular teeth, c. 3mm long × 1.5mm broad at the base. Daphne × hendersonii ‘Marion White’ Pedicels reddish, 10–15mm. Petals, AM§. E: Mr Geoff Mawson, Dronfield, sepals and petiole all with dense 6- to Derbyshire on 18 April 2009. For a 12-rayed, stellate hairs. Stamens 10, description of this plant see Extracts c. 1cm, with white, winged filaments, from the Proceedings of the Royal the pinkish wings forming a shallow Horticultural Society 128: 150 (2004). ‘V’ terminating 1–2mm below the Further DCP: The Alpine Gardener 77: golden yellow anthers. Styles 3, 485–486. slightly shorter than the stamens. Herbarium specimen (WSY0112443) Deutzia ‘Iris Alford’ in WSY. FCC*. E: Sir Harold Hillier Gardens and Arboretum, Ampfield House, Dianthus ‘Bofield Bab’ Jermyns Lane, Ampfield, Nr Romsey, AM§. R and E: Mr Peter Booker, Hampshire SO51 0QA on 18 May Barnetby le Wold, North Lincolnshire 2009. An outstanding early-flowering on 18 May 2009. Dwarf pink; flowers hybrid between D. longifolia ‘Veitchii’ 3.7cm diameter; dark, dusky-pink (60C) and D. × hybrida ‘Magicien’, raised by with bright, purple-maroon eye (60A). Alf Alford and named after his wife. Small, floriferous shrub with a height Dianthus ‘Braeside Boy’ and spread of about 1.8–2.4m. Leaves AM§. E: Mr Vic Borrett, Kettering, lanceolate with acute tips and cuneate Northamptonshire on 14 July 2009. bases, to 55 × 14mm, finely toothed, Flowers double, 7.5cm diameter; dull olive green, with c. 4 pairs of petals broad, more or less entire, veins, and stellate hairs, 4- to 6-rayed arranged loosely; colour – equal above, 7- to 12-rayed below, some proportion of random sectors in hairs near the base and along the strong red-pink (closest to N57B) and main veins with a longer, outward- purple sectors closest to, but slightly pointing ray like a simple translucent greyer than, 79C. Colour photograph hair. Petioles 2–4mm, with stellate (WSY0101356) in WSY. hairs. Young shoots reddish brown, with sparse 7- to 12-rayed stellate Dianthus callizonus hairs. Flowers c. 2.5–3cm across, in PC*. E: Mrs Joy Bishop, Lightwater, corymbose panicles, opening white Surrey on 6 June 2009. Mat-forming Plants given RHS Exhibition Awards 2008–2010 101 perennial to 70 × 230mm as exhibited. Dianthus ‘Clifford Sun’ Basal leaves in rosettes forming a layer AM§. R and E: Mr Maurice Woodfield, to 30mm, sessile, linear, 15 × 2mm, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire on green (141C), blunt-tipped, margins 29 June 2010. with short, regularly-spaced, forward-pointing hairs. Cauline Dianthus ‘Egret’ leaves in opposite pairs to 25 × 2mm, PC§. E: Mr Peter Booker, Barnetby le subsessile, lanceolate. Bracts 4, Wold, North Lincolnshire on 14 July 2 long, 2 short, long to 18 × 2.5mm, 2009. Flowers double, 7cm diameter; green, short to 10 × 2mm, acuminate, petals broad, more or less entire, reddish. Calyx tubular, 6 × 15mm, arranged loosely; colour white ground, reddish purple (59A), lobes free edged and striped bright pink (N66B); for 3mm, triangular, acute. Corolla slightly scented. Has fresh, clean salverform, lobes deltoid, 12 × 14mm, appearance. apex crimped, pink (N74C) with darker central markings (N74B) with Dianthus ‘Kessock Annie’ a very dark ring around the eye. PC§. R: Mr Don Portman, Inverness, Anthers violet-blue, filaments pale. Inverness-shire and E: Mr Peter Booker, Style bifid, pale. Herbarium specimen Barnetby le Wold, North Lincolnshire (WSY0109031) in WSY. DCP: The on 18 May 2009. Garden pink. Flowers Alpine Gardener 77: 505–507. single; 3.5cm diameter; magenta laced maroon with white throat; petals slightly Dianthus ‘Chamford’ overlapping; maroon (59A) eye and band PC and AM§. R and E: Mr Maurice with wire-edge of white; central blotches Woodfield, Stratford-upon-Avon, are magenta (N74A), surrounded by Warwickshire on 18 May 2009 and fine white margin. Herbarium specimen 29 June 2010. Perpetual flowering (WSY0112381) in WSY. carnation. Flowers fully double; 9cm diameter; light salmon-pink self, with Dianthus ‘Kessock Zambra’ effect of 48D, although raiser advises AM§. R: Mr Don Portman, Inverness, that blooms in summer are paler; petals Inverness-shire and E: Mr Peter Booker, are pale-pink (56B) with a very soft Barnetby le Wold, North Lincolnshire blush of salmon-pink (55A). on 18 May 2009. Flowers single; 4.5cm diameter; scented; white ground, Dianthus ‘Clifford Pipperoo’ maroon lace; petals slightly overlapping; AM§. R and E: Mr M Woodfield, maroon (59A) eye is speckled as ground Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire shows through; central blotch is divided on 18 May 2009. Fully double; white in two by fine maroon line that extends ground, edged and ticked magenta- from eye to band; band is maroon purple (71C); 7cm diameter. Herbarium (59B) with a wire-edge of white; central specimen (WSY0051804) and blotches are white, stippled with photographic slides (WSY0051805, magenta (N74B). Herbarium specimen WSY0051806) in WSY. (WSY0112382) in WSY.

Dianthus ‘Mike Briggs’ purple, single, solitary, carried on a AM§. E: Mr Vic Borrett, Kettering, pedicel to 5mm, tube parallel-sided Northamptonshire on 14 July 2009. to 5 × 1.5mm, lobes salverform, Flowers double 7.5cm; petals broad, individually obovate to rectangular, entire, arranged loosely; colour light 5 × 3mm, apex deeply notched. pink ground (65B), flecked dark pink (58B). Dionysia ‘Corona’ PC§. E: Mr P M Ranson, Chippenham, Dicentra canadensis Wiltshire on 7 March 2009. Cushion- PC*. E: Mrs Joy Bishop, Lightwater, forming perennial to 30 × 70mm Surrey on 31 March 2009. Spreading as exhibited. Leaves forming multi- herbaceous perennial. Leaves layered rosettes to 5mm across borne tripinnate, petiole fleshy, c. 80mm, on short stalks, individually 3 × 2mm, flattened on inner side, pinkish at obovate with a minute subacute tip, base, blade glabrous, upper surface surface sparsely hairy, margins ciliate. of leaves bright green (more glaucous Flowers single, solitary, erect; tube to than 143A), underside bluish green 10mm or more, base hidden among (greyer than 136D). Stems to 200mm leaves, bulging slightly around the flattened on one side, fleshy, pinkish anthers and broadening at the apex; at base, green at apex, central section lobes salverform, 5 × 4mm, with a straw yellow. Inflorescence one- shallow notch at the apex, purple (76B) sided, each flower subtended by an with a white ring around a yellow acuminate bract, 6 × 2mm; pedicel eye; pin-eyed. Herbarium specimen slender, drooping to 10mm with paired (WSY0109025) in WSY. DCP: The Alpine bracteoles, c. 3mm, halfway along Gardener 77: 495–496. length; flower 18 × 10mm, ivory white, outer petals deeply saccate at base. Dionysia ‘Geist’ Herbarium specimen (WSY0107447) PC§. E: Mr P M Ranson, Chippenham, in WSY. DCP: The Alpine Gardener 78: Wiltshire on 7 October 2008. Cushion- 252–253. forming perennial to 80mm across as seen. Leaves oblong-obovate to Dionysia ‘Annielle’ 4mm long forming a rosette. Flowers AM§. E: Mr P M Ranson, Chippenham, solitary, single, reaching a height of Wiltshire on 7 March 2009. DCP: The 13mm, erect, tube to 8mm long; lobes Alpine Gardener 77: 473–474. 5 × 4mm, salverform, white, yellow at the base forming an eye, anthers Dionysia archibaldii ‘Amethyst’ yellow. PC§. E: Mr P M Ranson, Chippenham, Wiltshire on 6 March 2010. Cushion- Dionysia iranshahrii forming perennial. Leaves forming BC. E: Mr P M Ranson, Chippenham, rosettes, 5 × 2mm, oblanceolate, Wiltshire on 7 March 2009. Herbarium blunt-tipped, dark green but covered specimen (WSY0109024) in WSY. in tangled, white, woolly hairs. Flowers DCP: The Alpine Gardener 78: 258–259. Plants given RHS Exhibition Awards 2008–2010 103

Dionysia lurorum Eriogonum flavum PC§. E: Mr E Jarrett, Stroud, PC*. E: Mr A R Furness, Hexham, Gloucestershire on 17 April 2010. Northumberland on 19 June 2010. Cushion-forming perennial to Spreading perennial to 150 × 280mm 70 × 150mm as exhibited. Leaves as exhibited. Foliage in loose rosettes to forming an open rosette, broad ovate- 90mm across; leaves narrowly obovate- elliptic, sessile, apex subacute, margins spathulate, long-cuneate, 60 × 10mm, entire, sometimes with occasional sheathing at the base, upper surface teeth in the upper half, green (142B). yellowish green (147B) with a light Stems upright, leafless, to 12mm covering of soft, occasionally gland- with white, patent, eglandular hairs. tipped hairs becoming very dense at Flowers solitary, sessile, yellow (6B), the base, underside dense silver-hairy. subtended by opposite leaf-like bracts Peduncle to 75mm, strongly upright, to 7mm, the margins jagged in the silvery hairy. Inflorescence a dense upper half; calyx lobed almost to the compound umbel subtended by a base, lobes to 7 × 1.5mm, covered whorl of leaf-like bracts to 20 × 4mm; with short hairs, subacute at tip, rachis’ to 7mm, silvery hairy; umbels forming a parallel-sided cup shape; subtended by a ring of triangular bracts tube much narrower than calyx, to to 5mm; pedicels to 6mm, yellowish; 12 × 2mm, expanded around anthers, petals forming a tube to 4 × 1mm, with very short, patent hairs; lobes separate to beyond half way, green- 5 × 4mm, suborbicular, forming a flat yellow (1B) with a central darker line. face. Eriogonum holmgrenii Disa chrysostachya ‘Cressingham’ PC and AM*. E: Mr A R Furness, BC (awarded to the species). Hexham, Northumberland on E: Mr Simon Powers, Reading, Berkshire 4 October 2008 and 19 June 2010. on 20 June 2009. DCP: The Orchid Mat-forming perennial to 80mm Review 117: 177. as exhibited. Leaves greenish grey, spathulate, to 19 × 6mm, petiole to Empodium flexile 8mm, blade elliptic, tip blunt, midrib AM§. E: Dr and Mrs R Wallis, Lower indistinct, surface covered in long, Beeding, West Sussex on 25 September white, woolly hairs. Flower stem to 2010. 50mm, slender, upright. Inflorescence a globular, congested umbel, c. 18mm Encyclia mariae ‘Herrenhausen’ across. Flowers white aging to deep AM†. E: Andreas Stockelbusch (on cherry red (53A). D: The Alpine Gardener behalf of Herrenhausen Gardens), 78: 244–245. Wielohweg 9, 30938 Fuhrberg, Germany and Eric Young Foundation, Euonymus morrisonensis Victoria Village, Trinity, Jersey, Channel PC as a hardy flowering and fruiting Islands JE3 5HH on 20 June 2009. plant for garden decoration. DCP: The Orchid Review 117: 174 –175. E: Mr M C Foster, Sevenoaks, Kent

© 2012 The Royal Horticultural Society 104 C.M. Whitehouse & J.J. Cubey on 16 December 2008. Spectacular, Stems stiff, covered with silvery stellate arching, hardy, evergreen shrub hairs. Pedicels c. 10mm, silvery. Calyx producing conspicuous, creamy tubular, 10 × 3mm, lobes fused forming yellow flowers, collected in Taiwan a tube, inflated, auriculate at base, by the ETOT (1992) expedition from lobes triangular, blunt-tipped, 2mm. Kew. Large, evergreen shrub or small Corolla luminous yellow (5B), petals free tree with angular, glabrous, yellowish but forming a ‘tube’ to 12mm, limb at green young shoots. Leaves to 75mm sharp-right angles to claw, rounded long × 27mm wide, elliptic to slightly cuneate, 7 × 7mm. Smelling of cress. obovate, crenulate to finely serrate, Herbarium specimen (WSY0107446) slightly coriaceous, hairless, sub- in WSY. DCP: The Alpine Gardener 78: opposite, tips acute or obtuse, bases 250–252. attenuate, mid-green, drying to yellow- green (146B/C). Petioles to 5mm. Fritillaria camschatcensis ‘Aurea’ Flowers 4-merous, in 3-flowered cymes, PC*. E: Mr Ian Christie, Christie’s the main peduncle to 30mm, the Nursery, Downfield, West Muir, two side peduncles c. 5mm. Pedicels Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland DD8 5LP on c. 13mm, creamy green, dark red (187B) 5 June 2010. Bulbous perennial to at the base. Calyx of 4 shallow, rounded 220mm at anthesis. Lower leaves in lobes, to 5mm across, projecting 3 whorls of 3–5, each c. 93 × 28mm, c. 1mm from the fleshy disk. Dehisced upper leaves 68 ×18mm, alternate, capsules with 4 fleshy, heart-shaped, lanceolate. Flowers 1–2 per stem, apiculate-tipped lobes, to 12mm long bell–shaped, to 35mm across; tepals × 10mm wide, the outer surfaces deep to 30mm long × 12mm across, inner pinkish red (187C/D), the inner sandy surface of yellow (13B), outer surface yellow (160B). Herbarium specimen yellow with a greenish tinge (153C); (WSY0107459) in WSY. nectaries small, more or less triangular; style small and atrophied, to 2mm; Fibigia triquetra stamens to 12mm. PC*. E: Mrs Joy Bishop, Lightwater, Surrey on 31 March 2009. Clump- Fritillaria epirotica forming subshrub to 150mm as seen. PC§. E: Mr R Rolfe, West Bridgford, Basal leaves borne in rosettes at the Nottinghamshire on 1 May 2010. end of bare branches, variable, the Erect bulbous perennial to 150mm. lowest spathulate with a small tip, Leaves alternate, lanceolate to 80mm, c. 20 × 9mm, the upper c. 35 × 8mm, glabrous, entire. Flowers solitary, oblanceolate, long-cuneate with a small carried pendently on a stem to 15mm tip, all with occasional suppressed teeth, long, broadly campanulate; perianth prominent midribs underneath and segments 25 × 15mm, outside uniform covering of silver (188B) stellate brownish purple, speckled with yellow; hairs. Stem leaves oblanceolate with inside yellow with brownish purple more clearly defined teeth becoming speckling; anthers 6, creamy yellow; smaller towards the apex, silvery hairy. stigmas 2, creamy yellow. Plants given RHS Exhibition Awards 2008–2010 105

Galanthus elwesii ‘Godfrey Owen’ spreading, white, spathulate when AM*. E: Dr R M MacKenzie, Shilton, pressed; inner tepals forming a ‘tube’, Oxfordshire on 17 February 2009. 15 × 10mm, white, with a single green Bulbous perennial. Leaves to c. 80mm apical, u-shaped mark around the at anthesis, glaucous and bloomed on shallow notch. Herbarium specimen both surfaces, tips hooded, prominent. (WSY0107451) in WSY. DCP: The Alpine Scape to c. 120mm, upright, light Gardener 78: 245–247. green. Spathe yellowish, sometimes variegated green, tip hooked. Pedicel Galanthus fosteri yellow, arching-pendulous. Flowers PC*. E: Dr R M MacKenzie, Shilton, solitary, ovary rather small, c. 5 × 4mm, Oxfordshire. Bulbous perennial top-shaped, green. Outer segments 6, to c. 70mm as exhibited. Leaves strongly clawed, c. 18 × 9mm, boat- c. 40 × 7mm at anthesis, dark green shaped, hooded with a small tip, white; (147A), strongly hooded with a pale tip. inner segments 6 forming a cylindrical Stem c. 45mm, gently curving in upper ‘tube’, outside marked with 2 triangular, portion, olive green (137B). Spathe to pale greenish yellow marks at the base 35mm, curved from about half way, and two green marks at the apex, apical yellowish green (137C). Pedicel, slender, notch broad and shallow; inside the 25mm, hooded at the apex, yellowish central 6 veins green running almost green (darker than 148B). Ovary top- from base to apex, some stamens in shaped, 9 × 5mm, abruptly constricted some flowers petaloid, of various forms, at apex, yellow-green (144B). Flower variably marked with green. (The solitary, single, pendulous; outer description is from the occasion of the perianth segments c. 18 × 10mm, award of a PC on 14 February 2006). boat-shaped, clawed to 4mm at base, Herbarium specimen (WSY0107438) drooping, white. Inner segments to in WSY. DCP: The Alpine Gardener 77: 11 × 3mm forming a ‘tube’, outside 469–470. white with a small horseshoe-shaped, green mark around the shallow, narrow Galanthus elwesii var. monostictus apical notch, basal half with paler green ‘Alexander the Great’ marking, inside veins in the central PC*. E: Mr A J Leven, Dunblane on third green becoming pronounced 21 February 2009. Bulbous perennial to at the apex. Herbarium specimen 200mm as shown. Leaves oblanceolate, (WSY0107439) in WSY. DCP: The Alpine mid green, 160 × 10mm with a small Gardener 77: 491–493. pale tip, scarcely hooded. Stem upright, c. 160mm. Spathe more or less straight Galanthus ‘Lady Fairhaven’ and erect, to 40mm with a small hook AM*. E: Dr R M MacKenzie, Shilton, at the apex. Pedicel slender, upright, Oxfordshire on 17 February 2009. 35mm, sharply bent at the apex. Bulbous perennial to c. 100mm as Ovary 7 × 6mm, top-shaped to bell- exhibited. Leaves c. 65 × 10mm at shaped, dark green. Flowers solitary, anthesis, fleshy, deep green (139A), single; outer tepals to 40 × 25mm, with a paler bloom (138C), hooded at

© 2012 The Royal Horticultural Society 106 C.M. Whitehouse & J.J. Cubey the apex with a pale tip. Stem erect to outside green (144D) darker along leaning, to c. 80mm. Spathe to 40mm, the veins and remaining white in an sharply curved in the upper third to irregular band at the margins and almost horizontal, hooked at the apex. apex, inside similar but paler (145D); Pedicel to 40mm curving in the upper inner segments 10 × 6mm forming a half. Ovary 7 × 4mm, green, weakly broad ‘tube’; outside green (between bell-shaped, appearing sterile. Flower 141A and 141B) except for a narrow solitary, pendulous; outer perianth white line around the v-shaped notch segments strongly boat-shaped, and at the margins, inside similar but c. 17 × 10mm, rounded with a small tip, paler between the veins. Herbarium held nearly horizontally, white; inner specimen (WSY0107437) in WSY. segments strongly doubled forming DCP: The Alpine Gardener 77: 494–495. a neat, level rosette of c. 8 whorls of segments becoming much reduced Galanthus plicatus ‘Diggory’ towards the centre, outside with a AM*. E: Monksilver Nursery, Oakington green (141B) mark around the v-shaped Road, Cottenham, Cambridgeshire notch becoming yellowish at the point CB4 4TW on 17 February 2009. For a and sometimes a further two pale green description of this plant see Extracts marks c. a third of the way up from from the Proceedings of the Royal the base, inside the central c. 9 veins Horticultural Society 123: 100 (1999). faint green (144C), darker at the apex. Herbarium specimen (WSY0107436) Herbarium specimen (WSY0107441) in WSY. DCP: The Alpine Gardener 77: in WSY. DCP: The Alpine Gardener 77: 470–471. 468–469. Galanthus plicatus ‘Little Emma’ Galanthus nivalis ‘Green Tear’ PC*. E: Mr Ian Christie, Christie’s PC*. E: Avon Bulbs, Burnt House Farm, Nursery, Downfield, West Muir, Mid-Lambrook, South Petherton, Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland DD8 5LP on Somerset TA13 5HE on 17 February 21 February 2009. Bulbous perennial 2009. Bulbous perennial to c. 140mm to 135mm as exhibited. Leaves as exhibited. Leaves c. 80 × 8mm at oblanceolate to very narrowly elliptic, anthesis, glabrous, plicate to beyond 80 × 6mm at anthesis, plicate to about half way, green (N138B) with a paler half way, tip blunt, pale, hooded. Stem bloom below, hooded with a white, slender, arching, c. 90mm. Spathe to pointed tip. Stem straight to curved, 35mm, evenly curving with a minute c. 105mm. Spathe to 300mm, arching hook at the apex. Pedicel 30mm, from base, white and sharply hooked sharply bent at half way. Ovary small, at the apex. Pedicel curving, to 25mm. top-shaped, 4 ×3mm. Flowers solitary, Ovary deep green, top-shaped, single; outer tepals 18 × 11mm, 7 × 5mm, not or little constricted at the rounded at the apex, white; inner tepals apex. Flower solitary, single, pendulous; forming a ‘tube’, white with a green outer segments boat-shaped, hooded, y-shaped mark around the shallow 20 × 10mm, clawed to 4mm at base, notch, extending almost to the ovary Plants given RHS Exhibition Awards 2008–2010 107 and becoming broader at the base. dark green, 6 × 4mm. Flower solitary, Herbarium specimen (WSY0107450) in single, pendulous; outer perianth WSY. D: The Alpine Gardener 78: 245. segments 17 × 4mm, narrower at the base, narrowly boat-shaped, white; Galanthus plicatus ‘Yvonne’ inner segments, 12 × 5mm, forming PC*. E: Mr Ian Christie, Christie’s a ‘tube’, outside white with a heart- Nursery, Downfield, West Muir, shaped green mark to between a Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland DD8 5LP on third and a half around the deep 21 February 2009. Bulbous perennial. apical notch, inside white with green Leaves large, deep green, 150 × 22mm, veins to the base becoming stronger oblanceolate, much narrowed at the towards the apex. Herbarium specimen base, margins plicate almost to the (WSY0107435) in WSY. DCP: The Alpine apex, tipped with a small, pale hood. Gardener 77: 493–494. Stem straight to 140mm. Spathe to 40mm, bending only towards the Galanthus ‘Ronald Mackenzie’ apex with a small, weak hook. Pedicel PC*. E: Dr R M MacKenzie, Shilton, straight, upright to 45mm, flower held Oxfordshire on 17 February 2009. horizontally. Ovary 7 × 5mm, top- Bulbous perennial to c. 100mm as shaped. Flower single, solitary; outer exhibited. Leaves c. 90 × 9mm at segments long, spreading, 27 × 16mm, anthesis, glabrous, green (138B), white; inner segments forming a hooded with a large pale top. Stem ‘tube’, 11 × 10mm, becoming flared at upright to arching, to c. 55mm. the apex with an apical mark around Spathe c. 45mm strongly curved the v-shaped notch, quickly fading in the upper portion to horizontal and then re-asserting itself around or down-curved, little hooked at the middle. Herbarium specimen the apex. Pedicel c. 30mm, sharply (WSY0107449) in WSY. D: The Alpine curved in the upper third, yellow Gardener 77: 496. (6B). Ovary top-shaped, 8 × 5mm, yellow (6B), somewhat constricted Galanthus reginae-olgae subsp. at the apex. Flowers solitary, single, vernalis ‘John Marr’ pendulous; outer perianth segments, PC*. E: Monksilver Nursery, Oakington boat-shaped, hooded at the apex, Road, Cottenham, Cambridgeshire 18 × 8mm, clawed to 3mm at base, CB4 4TW on 17 February 2009. Bulbous held more or less horizontally, white; perennial to c. 130mm as exhibited. inner segments to 12 × 7mm, forming Leaves glabrous, c. 70 × 3mm, green a ‘tube’, outside with two yellow (6B) (N137C), tip white. Stems to 100mm, apical marks either side of the deep, green (137B), yellowish at the base, v-shaped notch and a basal yellow straight but some emerging at an (6B) mark to beyond half way; inside angle. Spathe to 25mm, erect, curved basal and apical marks more or less in upper half, scarcely hooked at apex. connected. Herbarium specimen Pedicel, slender, 25mm, erect, sharply (WSY0107440) in WSY. DCP: The bent at the apex. Ovary top-shaped, Alpine Gardener 77: 492–494.

Gaura lindheimeri ‘Ruby Ruby’ plicae obscure, acute; anthers white; AM§. E: Hardy’s Cottage Garden filaments pale blue; stigma branched, Plants, Freefolk Priors, Freefolk, bluish white. Whitchurch, Hampshire RG28 7NJ on 5 October 2010. Habenaria myriotricha ‘Blackwater’ BC (awarded to the species). E: Plested Gentiana ‘Amethyst’ Orchids, Camberley, Surrey on AM*. E: Mr A Newton, Ponteland, 13 October 2009. DCP: The Orchid Newcastle upon Tyne on 26 September Review 117: 240–241. 2009. Mat-forming perennial to 130 × 300mm as exhibited. Stems × Hamelwellsara Happy Hour gx straw-coloured, slender, minutely hairy. ‘Purple Emperor’ Leaves opposite, to 18 × 4mm, connate AM†. R and E: McBeans Orchids Ltd, for 2mm, lanceolate, acute, glabrous, Cooksbridge, Lewes, East Sussex green. Flowers solitary, erect, sessile; BN8 4PR on 15 September 2010. calyx to 30mm, tubular to c. half way, DCP: The Orchid Review 118: 242. lobes narrow, leaf-like, spreading; corolla obconic, to 40mm long, violet Helleborus Walberton’s Rosemary blue (94A), lobes to 10mm wide, (‘Walhero’) regularly triangular, blunt to acute AM§. E: Hardy’s Cottage Garden Plants, at the apex, slightly recurved; plicae Freefolk Priors, Freefolk, Whitchurch, weakly triangular with a low apex; Hampshire RG28 7NJ on 16 February anthers yellow; filaments greeny blue; 2010. Herbaceous perennial, flowering stigma branched, dark blue. without leaves; flowering stems up to 25cm high. Bracts up to 5-lobed, 5.5cm Gentiana scabra long, 5cm wide, dark green (N137A). PC*. E: Mr Tony Hale, Stevenage, Flowers up to 3 per stem, 5-sepalled; Hertfordshire on 26 September 2009. sepals broadly ovate, 4.5cm long, 3.5cm Spreading perennial to 130 × 200mm wide, dull purplish-red (185B–C) with as exhibited. Stems flexible, yellow white veining on reverse, front of sepals with occasional minute hairs. Leaves dull purplish-pink (186B), fading to opposite, subsessile, elliptic to narrowly white towards the centre and lightly elliptic, to 20 × 9mm but mostly purplish-red (64A) speckled in the smaller, clasping the stem for 2mm, middle; stigma 3-lobed, maroon (59A) acute to blunt with a prominent tipped yellow; nectaries 8mm long, midrib, very minutely ciliate, green bright yellowish green (144B); stamens (143A), paler on the underside. Flowers numerous, filaments 13mm long, white, solitary, borne on a stalk to 5mm; calyx anthers 2mm long, creamy yellow (2D). to 35mm, tubular for 15mm, lobes lanceolate, 20 × 6mm, acute, glabrous; Hepatica nobilis var. japonica f. magna corolla obconic to 50mm long, 20mm FCC§. E: Miss C Oates, Scunthorpe, across at the mouth, blue (96B); lobes Lincolnshire on 7 March 2009. DCP: The 9 × 6mm, acute, high-shouldered; Alpine Gardener 77: 462–464. Plants given RHS Exhibition Awards 2008–2010 109

Hepatica yamatutai white, with hint of very light purple PC*. E: Mr John Gennard, Sileby, (76C/D) and hint of yellow/green Leicestershire on 6 March 2010. (lighter than 150C) at base of petals. Spreading perennial to 90 × 300mm Spur c. 4cm long, white-tipped yellow as exhibited. Leaves borne on long green (c. 144A). Petals notched. Leaves petioles to 70mm clad in long, white, variegated, green margined with yellow eglandular hairs; blade green (131A/B), centres, fading on older leaves (c. 8C/D) 60 × 70mm, 3–5-lobed, central and a brighter yellow on younger leaves lobe triangular, blunt-tipped, basal (c. 9B/C). Green margin (closest to lobes smallest, becoming obscure, 147A), narrow to broad, extending over base cordate, upper surface sparsely half way to midrib. Petiole white flushed adpressed hairy, hairs more numerous pink (lighter than 75C/D). Stems beneath, margins ciliate. Flowers single, reddish (closest to 180C). Ovary green solitary, borne on an erect pedicel to (144A/B). Buds yellow/green to green 75mm covered with long, slender, (1C/D/144B). Herbarium specimen white hairs; flowers salverform; sepals (WSY0109887) in WSY. 3, separate, ovate-elliptic, to 10 × 6mm, reddish green, separate, margins ciliate, Iris aucheri ‘Olof’ petals separate, numerous, oblong, to PC§. E: Royal Botanic Garden 15 × 9mm, white; ovaries forming a Edinburgh, 21A Inverleith Row, central boss to 2.5mm across, stamens Edinburgh, Scotland EH3 5LR on numerous, to 5mm, white. 21 March 2009. Bulbous perennial to 420mm as exhibited. Leaves clasping Hypoxis parvula var. albiflora ‘Hebron stem, free for the upper half, glabrous, Farm Biscuit’ lanceolate, ridged, acuminate, PC§. E: Mr Gary McDermott, Harperley 300 × 44mm. Inflorescence c. 6 flowers Stanley on 5 June 2010. Bulbous borne in the leaf axils; flowers to 74mm perennial. Bulb 20 × 10mm across across, deep violet blue (89A), falls with from which arises a tuft of 6–7 basal pale central stripe, standards to 34mm leaves. Leaves sheathing, strongly long, obovate, descending. DCP: The keeled, arching, 150 × 13mm wide. Alpine Gardener 77: 498–499. Flower stems to 200mm. Bract solitary linear, to 28 × 2mm above which arises Iris cycloglossa 1–2 flowers on c. 50mm peduncles. FCC§. E: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Flowers to 25mm across, starry; tepals Richmond, Surrey TW9 3AB on 24 May white (157C), 12 × 6mm wide, with a 2010. Bulbous perennial exhibited as pale green (150C) reverse and a central cut stems. Stems to c. 70cm, glabrous, darker green stripe. pale green. Leaves sheathing stem, free for up to c. 30cm, to 12cm across Impatiens ‘Sunsplash White’ but folded along midrib, glabrous with (Sunpatiens Series) prominent parallel veining, lanceolate, AM†. E: Mr Peter Seabrook on held at an acute angle to the stems. 13 October 2009. Flowers 5cm across, Flowers borne alternately on upper

© 2012 The Royal Horticultural Society 110 C.M. Whitehouse & J.J. Cubey part of stem subtended by leaf-like Iris magnifica ‘Virginity’ bracts that enclose the tube; tube to PC§. E: Mr Colin Rogers, Holloway, c. 65mm, green at the base, above half London on 6 April 2010. Bulbous way purple (86B) with green streaking; perennial. Leaves borne in neat, falls 55 × 25mm, obovate, obscurely alternate ranks, decreasing in size notched, pale purple (91B) with darker towards the apex, to 200 × 60mm or (91A) streaking, central section white, more, sessile, glabrous, slightly fleshy, lobed at the apex with a broad, egg pale green, faintly bloomed between yolk yellow streak along the slightly the parallel veins, keeled along the raised midrib, marked with irregular midrib, curling strongly along its purple dots and dashes; standards length, base clasping the stem, apex 25 × 15mm, boat-shaped, strongly acute, margins very undulate. Tube to clawed, obscurely pointed at the apex, 50mm, greenish (145 A/B), contained purple (91B); style crests 40 × 10mm, in sheathing bracts, scarious, pale almost parallel-sided, cleft at the apex, green, glabrous, triangular, apex acute purple (91B), paler at the margins with to acuminate, shiny on the inside; falls a sharply raised midrib. to 70 × 30mm, broadly elliptic, heavily ruffled, strongly recurved in the top Iris ‘Gordon’ third, white, with a small central crest, PC§. E: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, stained egg yolk yellow, extending Richmond, Surrey TW9 3AB on to a raised midrib, greenish on the 17 February 2009. Bulbous perennial to underside and margined with thin c. 130mm as exhibited. Leaves linear, purple lines; standards small, obovate 130 × 1.5mm at anthesis, four-angled to spathulate, to 30 × 10mm, ruffled, in cross-section, strongly upright, white, strongly recurved; style crests to exceeding the flowers. Spathes to 50 × 15mm, expanding and bifid in the 50 × 3mm, lanceolate, acuminate. upper third, white, undulate. Flowers to 60mm across; tube 55mm, mostly covered by spathes; standards Iris suaveolens c. 30 × 5mm, violet-blue (94B), fall AM§. E: Mrs C M Coller, Sutton, Norfolk c. 35 × 10mm, pale violet-blue (paler on 6 April 2010. Clump-forming than 94B) at the margins flecked with perennial. Leaves in low fans, leathery, blue and green markings and becoming dark green, apex acute to c. 80 × 10mm white in the upper portion, apex velvet at anthesis, curved to falcate, glabrous dark violet (N92B), central portion with c. 3 veins prominent. Bracts yellowish becoming golden toward sheathing, ovate, strongly keeled, the tip; style arms to 40mm, lobed glossy inside, hooded, blunt at the to 15mm at the apex, strong purplish apex, margins and midrib purple. Tube blue (96C/D). Filament to 15mm pale to 50mm, pale green (close to 141D) violet (94B), anther to c. 10mm, golden with veins brownish toward the margin, yellow (7A). Herbarium specimen to 40 × 10mm; falls oblanceolate to (WSY0107442) in WSY. DCP: The Alpine obovate, bent at right angles at half Gardener 77: 490–492. way, apical portion purplish violet (close Plants given RHS Exhibition Awards 2008–2010 111 to 91A), beard white to 2mm high Lachenalia mathewsii extending from about half way to the AM†. E: RHS Garden Wisley, Wisley, base; standards 35 × 15mm, elliptic, Woking, Surrey GU23 6QB on 7 April strongly clawed, apex with a tiny tip, 2009. Bulbous perennial to c. 300mm midrib prominent, margins ruffled, as exhibited. Leaves to c. 170×14mm, yellowish green (greener than 154C), glabrous, lanceolate, long-apiculate, veins at the base liverish brown (176A) sheathing at the base, glaucous-green suffusing the area, darker at the midrib; (mix of 147B–191B), silvered, clear style crests silvery white, greenish at the yellow-green towards base, slightly apex and along the raised midrib, bifid fleshy. Stem glabrous, green (paler at the tip. than 143A–145B), curving, fleshy, to c. 350 × 4mm when straightened, Japonolirion osense inflorescence confined to the apical BC for its rarity in cultivation and as the quarter. Inflorescence a spike-like only endemic genus in the alpine zone raceme of c. 18 flowers. Pedicels in Japan. E: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, subtended by small, scarious bracts Richmond, Surrey TW9 3AB on 18 May attached along the margins and 2009. DCP: The Alpine Gardener 78: forming a cup. Pedicels to 2mm, 260–262. green. Flowers 10 × 18mm, urn-shaped to parallel-sided, yellow (c. 5A but Lachenalia bulbifera ‘George’ greener yellow) with an apical green AM†. E: Dr Terry Smale, Surrey on marking (144A). Inner segments slightly 16 December 2008. Leaves slightly longer, slightly recurved at apex, outer fleshy, up to 14 × 3.8cm, sheathing segments erect; stamens exserted, flower stem at base and with smaller anthers creamy yellow (7C), filaments leaves c. 12 × 1.8cm higher up the cream; style cream. Herbarium stem, green (similar to 137A at darkest specimen (WSY0112803) in WSY. point) and fading through to yellow- DCP: The Alpine Gardener 78: 230–231. green at base (N144D). Flower stem to 19cm, inflorescences slightly one-sided, Lachenalia zeyheri flowering sequentially from the base PC†. E: RHS Garden Wisley, Wisley, with c. 10 flowers open at any one Woking, Surrey GU23 6QB on time. Flowers comprising an inner and 31 March 2009. Bulbous perennial. outer whorl, each of three parts; outer Leaves linear-lanceolate to 250mm whorl to 26 × 5mm, bright pink (61C to long, glabrous, fleshy, strongly 63C); inner whorl to 30mm long, channelled, hugging stem at base and broadening along length to 8mm wide; cylindrical in the upper third, curving warm white with top quarter green throughout their length, deep green (145A-C) and a slight hint of bright (135B), thickly speckled liverish brown pink; 6 stamens, near black; white (178A). Scape terete, fleshy, without filaments; white style; yellow-green flowers for c. 120mm with liverish (145A-C) ovary. Herbarium specimen brown speckling especially at base (WSY0107455) in WSY. and apex. Inflorescence to c. 60mm

© 2012 The Royal Horticultural Society 112 C.M. Whitehouse & J.J. Cubey long as seen, opening from the base, Lathyrus vernus ‘Alboroseus’ each flower suspended by a small, PC*. E: Mr M Hopkins, Kemnay, broad, rectangular bract, 1 × 3mm, Aberdeenshire on 16 May 2009. Very free at the margins; pedicels c. 5mm bushy, erect, clump-forming perennial long, white, slender, extending with to 230mm as exhibited. Leaves age; segments equal, keeled, joined with 4 or 5 pairs of leaflets lacking at base; 4 × 2.5mm, long-ovate with a a terminal leaflet, with prominent, spout-like tip, each with a 1.5mm long, auricled stipules to 15mm at the base; narrow green mark borne centrally at leaflets 45 × 10mm, lanceolate, acute the tip merging into a purplish pink with very small hairs at the margin. midrib. Stamens borne on same plane Inflorescence axillary, few-flowered, as segments, equal or slightly exserted, one-sided. Peduncles upright, glabrous, anthers brown; ovary bright green. striate. Pedicels c. 5mm, slender. Herbarium specimen (WSY0107445) in Calyx 2-lipped, fused for c. 5mm, WSY. DCP: The Alpine Gardener 78: 250. campanulate with acute lobes to 1.5mm on the lower half. Flowers pea- Laelia pumila f. coerulea like to 12mm across, pink (62D) flushed ‘Herrenhausen’ with (62A) and white. Herbarium AM†. E: Andreas Stockelbusch (on specimen (WSY0109022) in WSY. behalf of Herrenhausen Gardens), D: The Alpine Gardener 78: 257. Wielohweg 9, 30938 Fuhrberg, Germany on 24 October 2008. Lemmaphyllum microphyllum DCP: The Orchid Review 117: 52. BC as a foliage plant for exhibition. E: Mr R Drew, Laindon, Essex on × Laeliocattleya Mary Elizabeth Bohn 25 September 2010. gx ‘Royal Flare’ AM†. E: Mr C Lloyd, Exeter, Devon on Leontice leontopetalum 24 October 2008. DCP: The Orchid PC§. E: Royal Botanic Garden Review 117: 54. Edinburgh, 21A Inverleith Row, Edinburgh, Scotland EH3 5LR on Lathyrus odoratus ‘Sky Lark’ 10 April 2010. Rhizomatous perennial to PC§. S: Mr K M Brewer, Ventnor, Isle of 210mm. Leaves smooth, greyish-green Wight on 24 June 2010. Plant 2.15m composed of about 30 broadly ovate high, vigorous; flower stems to 30cm leaflets, 30 × 10mm, with a slightly long, 4 flowers per stem. Flowers hooded tip. Many flowers borne on a 5.5cm in diameter; standards round branched raceme on a solitary stem to and waved; wings spreading, round 12mm across, yellow (12B). and waved; both white flushed with light violet (91B) giving a pale blue Leucojum vernum var. vagneri appearance. Keel cream with light AM*. E: Mr D Boyd, Alnwick, violet (91B) to the lower edge. Flowers Northumberland on 21 February 2009. highly scented. 50% Flowering from Bulbous perennial. Leaves glabrous, 14th June 2010. glossy, parallel-sided to oblanceolate, Plants given RHS Exhibition Awards 2008–2010 113 to 170 × 15mm at anthesis, blunt Lilium mackliniae ‘Saramati’ and hooded at the apex. Stems PC*. E: Mr Ian Christie, Christie’s to c. 250mm, flattened. Spathe to Nursery, Downfield, West Muir, c. 45 × 5mm, blunt at the apex, Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland DD8 5LP on much shorter than pedicel. Flowers 1 May 2010. Bulbous perennial to borne in pairs; pedicels to c. 50mm, 230mm as exhibited. Leaves 20–25 per slender, drooping; ovary top-shaped stem, glabrous, lanceolate, 40 × 8mm to barrel-shaped, much constricted at with three prominent veins. Flowers the apex; perianth segments equal, single on upright stems which become free, oblanceolate, hooded and decumbent at the tip; pedicel to blunt, 23 × 11mm, each with a green 20mm; perianth segments white (155D) mark inside and outside in the upper with a very faint pink flush, pendent, fifth, not extending to the margins. campanulate with three inner tepals Herbarium specimen (WSY0107448) to 60 × 27mm and 3 outer tepals to in WSY. DCP: The Alpine Gardener 78: 60 × 20mm; anthers 30mm long, 229–230. pollen yellow; style 40mm long and trifid at the apex. Lilium mackliniae AM*. E: Mrs B McNaughton, Lophosoria quadripinnata Spilmersford Bridge, Pentcaitland on PC as a hardy foliage plant for 30 May 2009. Bulbous perennial to exhibition. E: Mr W Moore, Dublin, 400mm. Flowering stem with alternate Republic of Ireland on 25 April 2009. lanceolate leaves to 47 × 6mm. Pedicel Fern to c. 200mm as exhibited. Fronds to 65mm. Flowers up to 8 per stem, to 260mm long, the base naked nodding and openly campanulate to for c. 70mm, the blade narrowly 80mm across, tepals recurved at apex triangular in outline, tri-imparipinnate, white (155D), flushed red (56C and leaflets to 80mm long, becoming 56D), tepal tipped with red-purple (59A). much smaller towards the apex; D: The Alpine Gardener 77: 488–489. pinnae to c. 20mm, leathery, glossy, dark green (N137A), underside very Lilium mackliniae dark form pale blue (122D); pinnules obtuse PC*. E: Mr Ian Christie, Christie’s to subacute, sessile, margins folded Nursery, Downfield, West Muir, under, overlapping with occasional Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland DD8 5LP on translucent glands and a minute sinus 30 May 2009. Bulbous perennial to at the apex. Herbarium specimen 50cm. Flowering stem with many, (WSY0109013) in WSY. DCP: The scattered, alternate lanceolate leaves to Alpine Gardener 78: 235–237. 60 × 15mm. Flowers 1 to 2 per stem, nodding and openly campanulate to Lycaste Shoalhaven gx ‘Grouville’ 90mm across, 35mm deep with flared AM†. E: Eric Young Foundation, Victoria petals, greyed purple (186C); pollen Village, Trinity, Jersey, Channel Islands orange-brown; stigma 4–5mm long JE3 5HH on 10 November 2009. with a three-lobed tip. DCP: The Orchid Review 118: 55.

Lycaste Shoalhaven gx ‘Trinity’ violet (slightly redder than N80A), AM†. E: Eric Young Foundation, Victoria inner surface N80A, paler midrib Village, Trinity, Jersey, Channel Islands becoming white at base. Anther base, JE3 5HH on 10 November 2009. back and tips N80A, orange-white DCP: The Orchid Review 118: 54–55. (159B) elsewhere. Ovary greyed yellow (160A/B); stigmas red-purple (71A). Magnolia ‘Caerhays Belle’ Herbarium specimen (WSY0133144) FCC§. E: Mr Charles Williams, St Austell, in WSY. Cornwall on 24 March 2009. Flowers to 26cm across with 12 perianth segments Massonia pygmaea subsp. to 11 × 8cm, the outer pubescent, kamiesbergensis dark brown (N200A), the inner with PC§. E: RHS Garden Wisley, Wisley, outer surface pink (73C/D), paler at Woking, Surrey GU23 6QB on edge, deeper pink veins and at base, 13 October 2009. Bulbous perennial slightly paler and pinker than N78B, to 35mm high, 125mm spread as inner surface very pale pink to white exhibited. Leaves 2, spreading, concave, (approximately 69C/D). Filaments pale broadly ovate, 85 × 65mm, apex cream/buff (159B/C), marked purple shortly acuminate, hairless, greyish (70B) at base and tip. Ovary pale green, green (137B). Inflorescence a compact styles purple (N79C). head of numerous flowers situated at the base of the two leaves; each flower Magnolia ‘Delia Williams’ subtended by a membranous bract up FCC§. E: Mr Charles Williams, St to 20mm long. Flowers whitish cream Austell, Cornwall on 24 March 2009. (155A); tube 15mm long, tepals filiform, A hybrid between Magnolia sargentiana 8 × 0.5mm, strongly curved upwards; var. robusta and M. campbellii subsp. filaments 9–13mm long, anthers brown mollicomata. Flower to 30cm across (197B); style 14mm long. with 12 perianth segments to 14 × 9cm, the outer pubescent, grey brown Maxillaria sanderiana ‘Megan’ (N199A/B), the inner with outer surface BC (awarded to the species). pale pink (73D), sparsely and finely E: Mr K Bush, Bristol on 19 June 2010. dotted purplish pink (N66D) at tip, DCP: The Orchid Review 118: 172–173. becoming more intense at base, inner surface pale pink (73D) to almost white Meconopsis ‘Maggie Sharp’ on innermost segments. Filaments PC*. E: Dr E Stevens, Sheriffmuir, cream/buff (159B), marked at base Dunblane on 30 May 2009. Rosette- bright purple (N79C). Ovary green, forming perennial to 95cm at anthesis. styles red/purple (N77B). Basal leaves to 185 × 49mm or more with stalk to 200mm; blade ovate- Magnolia ‘F.J. Williams’ lanceolate, tapering to the petiole, PC§. E: Mr Charles Williams, St Austell, margins occasionally toothed, surface Cornwall on 24 March 2009. Perianth light green with occasional brown hairs segments with outer surface purple- especially at the apex. Flower stalk pale Plants given RHS Exhibition Awards 2008–2010 115 green, cauline leaves sessile, ovate- orbicular to rhomboid, white (155A); lanceolate, margins with a few irregular, stamens numerous, filaments thread-like square teeth. Flowers to c. 100mm, to 13mm, anthers dark orange; ovary forming an open, broad cup to with long orange-yellow hairs, style to c. 35mm depth; petals 4, overlapping, 5mm, stigma capitate. orbicular-obovate to 64 × 62mm, margins slightly undulate, violet-blue Meconopsis (Infertile Blue Group) (97A), fading to blue (106C); stamens ‘P.C. Abildgaard’ numerous, filaments thread-like to AM*. E: Mr Ian Christie, Christie’s 9mm, anthers orange, stigma capitate. Nursery, Downfield, West Muir, Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland DD8 5LP on Meconopsis ‘Marit’ 30 May 2009. Described in Hanburyana AM*. E: Dr E Stevens, Sheriffmuir, 4: 77. Dunblane on 30 May 2009. Rosette- forming perennial to 120cm at anthesis. Miltonia Grune de Becquet gx ‘Saint Basal leaves to 370 × 65mm with stalk Aubin’s Village’ to 155mm; blade narrowly elliptic to AM†. R and E: Eric Young Foundation, oblong, base tapering gradually into Victoria Village, Trinity, Jersey, Channel stalk, regularly dentate, the basal pair Islands JE3 5HH on 18 May 2009. lobe-like, adaxial surface pale to mid DCP: The Orchid Review 117: 173. green with a pale yellowish midrib becoming dark along the petiole and Miltonia Grune de Becquet gx ‘Saint scattered long, bristly, reddish brown Mary’s Village’ hairs interspersed with short hairs AM†. R and E: Eric Young Foundation, forming a light fringe at the margin Victoria Village, Trinity, Jersey, Channel and along the upper half of the petiole, Islands JE3 5HH on 20 June 2009. abaxial surface greyish green with DCP: The Orchid Review 117: 174 –175. scattered long reddish brown hairs becoming thicker at the midrib. Flower Miltonia Point des Pas gx ‘Jersey’ stalk mid to dark green with sparse, AM†. R and E: Eric Young Foundation, patent, uneven, reddish brown hairs Victoria Village, Trinity, Jersey, Channel becoming thicker towards the apex; Islands JE3 5HH on 21 April 2009. cauline leaves elliptic-lanceolate, cuneate Herbarium specimen (WSY0112805) in at the base, regularly dentate with WSY. DCP: The Orchid Review 117: 118. sometimes obscure or suppressed teeth, adaxial surface with short bristly reddish Molinia caerulea subsp. arundinacea brown hairs becoming longer at the ‘Transparent’ base and at the margin forming a light AM§. E: Great Dixter Nurseries, fringe, midrib yellowish white, abaxial Northiam, Rye, East Sussex surface pale green with few reddish TN31 6PH on 7 October 2008. Yellow brown hairs becoming somewhat thicker autumn foliage; airy wide-spaced at the at the midrib. Flowers to 130mm flowerheads; height to 2m. Herbarium across, flat; petals 4, to 50 × 40mm, specimen (WSY0107042) in WSY.

Narcissus ‘Amazing Grace’ Narcissus ‘Camaraderie’ PC*. E: Mr Nial Watson, Ringhaddy PC*. E: Mr Brian Duncan, Omagh, Co. Daffodils, Ringhaddy Lodge, Killinchy, Tyrone, Northern Ireland on 24 May Co. Down on 27 April 2010. Flowers 2010. Flowers 113mm wide; perianth 114mm wide; perianth segments 45mm segments very broadly ovate in outline, long, very broadly ovate, blunt, slightly rounded or slightly truncate at apex, mucronate, greenish white (155A), scarcely mucronate, white, spreading, spreading, concave, with margins plane, with margins minutely incurling, incurved, smooth and of heavy substance, smooth and of heavy substance, overlapping half; the inner segments overlapping half or more; the inner narrower, shouldered at base, more nearly segments a little wavy; corona bowl- acute, not noticeably mucronate; corona shaped, ribbed, lemon yellow, with a 19mm long, cup-shaped, smooth, rich broad band of deep orange (23A) at pink (40C), with a band of light pink rim, mouth tightly ribbed and frilled, (39D) at base, mouth narrowly flared and with rim dentate. Mid-season. wavy, with rim crenate. Narcissus ‘Camborne’ Narcissus ‘Angel’s Breath’ PC*. E: Mr Brian Duncan, Omagh, Co. PC*. E: Mrs Terry Braithwaite, Bramcote, Tyrone, Northern Ireland on 6 April Nottingham on 13 April 2010. Flowers 2010. Flowers 42mm wide, greenish usually 3 per stem, 39mm wide, brilliant white (155A); perianth segments 22mm greenish yellow 3B; perianth segments long, spreading, almost plane, slightly 16mm long, ovate, slightly reflexed; ribbed, of thin texture, overlapping; corona 8mm long, cup-shaped, corona 23mm long, narrow at base, constricted at base, with mouth slightly slightly expanding, lightly ribbed, flared and rim crenate. Dwarf. frilled. Dwarf. Early.

Narcissus ‘Burt House’ Narcissus ‘Carib’ AM*. E: Mr Brian Duncan, Omagh, PC*. E: Mrs Terry Braithwaite, Bramcote, Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland on Nottingham on 13 April 2010. Flowers 24 May 2010. Flowers 110mm wide; 82mm wide; perianth segments perianth segments 43mm long, very 83mm long, broadly ovate, blunt, only broadly ovate, truncate, prominently very slightly mucronate, ivory white mucronate, white, spreading, plane to a (157B), reflexed, with margins wavy, little concave, smooth, overlapping half overlapping one-third to a half; the or more; the inner segments narrower, inner segments more nearly spreading shouldered at base, blunt, with broad at base, reflexed at apex, with margins midrib showing; corona 22mm long, more heavily wavy or twisted; corona funnel-shaped, angled, deep coral pink 32mm long, cylindrical, lightly ribbed, (33D), with a narrow band of a paler moderate yellowish pink (39C), toning tone at rim, mouth straight, wavy, to peach-pink at rim, with a paler tone irregularly lobed, with rim slightly outside, mouth flared, split in places flanged, entire. Mid-season. and overlapping, lightly frilled. Plants given RHS Exhibition Awards 2008–2010 117

Narcissus ‘Causeway Sunset’ bowl-shaped, ribbed, deep lemon PC*. E: Mr Nial Watson, Ringhaddy yellow (4A), with deep green at base, Daffodils, Ringhaddy Lodge, Killinchy, mouth smooth, heavily frilled, with rim Co. Down on 27 April 2010. Flowers split and overlapping in places. Mid- 108mm wide; perianth segments season. broadly ovate, blunt, mucronate, 43mm long, deep golden yellow (7A), Narcissus ‘Flashback’ spreading, a little concave, smooth and PC*. E: Mr Brian Duncan, Omagh, Co. of heavy substance, overlapping half; Tyrone, Northern Ireland on 6 April the inner segments a little narrower, 2010. Flowers 70mm wide; perianth somewhat inflexed; corona 20mm long, segments 21mm long, narrowly ovate, cup-shaped, narrow, broadly ribbed, acute, brilliant yellow 7A, with white deep orange-red (N30D), mouth wavy, mucro, strongly reflexed, concave, with rim dentate. overlapping at base only; corona 35mm long, cylindrical, constricted near Narcissus cavanillesii mouth, lightly ribbed, slightly darker AM§. E: Mr I Robertson, Shaftesbury on in tone (c. vivid yellow 9A) than the 25 September 2010. perianth, with mouth flared and rim deeply notched. Dwarf. Very early. Narcissus ‘Cutting Edge’ PC*. E: Mr Paul Payne, Norwich, Narcissus ‘Frozen Jade’ Norfolk on 7 April 2009. Flowers PC*. E: Mr Chris Yates, Taunton, forming a double triangle, 98mm Somerset on 7 April 2009. Flowers wide; perianth segments broadly ovate, 110mm wide; perianth segments blunt, close to brilliant yellow 7A, but broadly ovate in outline, blunt or deeper in tone, with slight white mucro, squarish at apex, slightly mucronate, spreading, plane, of heavy substance, greenish white (157C), with strong overlapping half; the inner segments yellow-green (144B) at base, spreading, shouldered at base; corona funnel- plane or slightly concave, smooth and of shaped, angled, orange (N25D), with heavy substance, overlapping half; the mouth flared and frilled. Herbarium inner segments narrower, shouldered specimen (WSY0109886) in WSY. and a little inflexed at base, recurved towards apex, with margins wavy; Narcissus ‘Emerald City’ corona funnel-shaped, smooth, paler in PC*. E: Mr Brian Duncan, Omagh, Co. tone (157D) than the perianth segments, Tyrone, Northern Ireland on 24 May mouth ribbed and slightly flared, with 2010. Flowers 115mm wide; perianth rim notched and crenate. Herbarium segments 45mm long, very broad, specimen (WSY0109885) in WSY. rounded, mucronate, white, spreading, plane, smooth, overlapping half; the Narcissus ‘Greek Surprise’ inner segments narrower, shouldered AM*. E: Mr Brian Duncan, Omagh, Co. at base, not noticeably mucronate, with Tyrone, Northern Ireland on 24 May margins wavy; corona 12mm long, 2010. Flowers rounded, 106mm

© 2012 The Royal Horticultural Society 118 C.M. Whitehouse & J.J. Cubey wide; perianth and other petaloid margins plane; corona bowl-shaped, segments in several whorls, regularly ribbed, deep lemon yellow (9A), with arranged, very broad in outline, blunt green at base, mouth expanded, lobed, or rounded at apex, white, of heavy frilled. Mid-season. substance, deeply overlapping; the outer whorl mucronate, spreading, Narcissus ‘Little Alice’ somewhat concave; the inner whorls PC*. E: Mr Nial Watson, Ringhaddy less noticeably mucronate, inflexed, Daffodils, Ringhaddy Lodge, Killinchy, more deeply concave and with margins Co. Down, Northern Ireland on incurled; the segments at centre 13 April 2010. Flowers 64mm wide, strongly inflexed, with margins folded rounded; perianth and other petaloid inwards or very deeply incurved; corona segments 24mm long, in two whorls, segments two-thirds the length of the yellow (c. 7A); the outer whorl very petaloid segments and interspersed broadly ovate, rounded at apex, with among them, deep lemon yellow (7A). prominent white mucro, spreading, Mid-season to late. plane to concave, with margins a little wavy, smooth and of heavy substance, Narcissus ‘Hummingbird’ overlapping half or more; the inner PC*. E: Mr Brian Duncan, Omagh, Co. segments narrower, less prominently Tyrone, Northern Ireland on 6 April mucronate, more nearly plane; the 2010. Flowers 60mm wide, clear deep inner whorl not noticeably mucronate, yellow (c. vivid yellow 9A, but with with margins strongly inflexed, deeply a darker tone), of good substance; incurved and folded inwards along perianth segments 27mm long, ovate, the midrib; corona segments 15mm acute, with slight white mucro, reflexed, long, half to two-thirds the width with margins wavy, overlapping at of the perianth and other petaloid base only; the inner segments twisted segments and regularly arranged or with margins more strongly waved; between them in two whorls, orange corona 23mm long, cylindrical, lightly (N25B), obscurely bilobed; the outer ribbed, with mouth very slightly flared, whorl spreading or slightly inflexed, rim notched. Early. plane; the inner whorl strongly inflexed and folded inwards along the midrib. Narcissus ‘Jammin’ Sweetly scented. AM*. E: Mr Brian Duncan, Omagh, Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland on Narcissus ‘Maria Pia’ 24 May 2010. Flowers rounded, PC*. E: Mr Nial Watson, Ringhaddy 106mm wide; perianth segments Daffodils, Ringhaddy Lodge, Killinchy, very broad, blunt, mucronate, white, Co. Down on 13 April 2010. Flowers slightly reflexed, plane, with margins 100mm wide; perianth segments incurved at apex, smooth and of heavy 40mm long, broadly ovate in outline, substance, overlapping; the inner blunt or somewhat rounded at apex, segments broadly ovate, not noticeably deep yellow (9A), with slight white mucronate, more nearly spreading, with mucro, spreading, plane, smooth and Plants given RHS Exhibition Awards 2008–2010 119 of heavy substance, overlapping one- Narcissus ‘Pops Legacy’ third to a half; the inner segments more AM*. E: Mr John Goddard, Banstead, narrowly ovate; corona 25mm long, Surrey on 31 March 2009. Flowers split to base, the 6 segments closely 110mm wide; perianth segments 42mm overlying the perianth segments in two long, very broadly ovate, blunt, only overlapping whorls of three, as broad as very slightly mucronate, greenish white the perianth segments and half as long, (155A), spreading, a little concave, of loosely ribbed, rich orange-red (N25C). heavy substance, overlapping half; the inner segments shorter, more narrowly Narcissus ‘Pequenita’ ovate, square-shouldered at base; PC*. E: Mrs Terry Braithwaite, Bramcote, corona 43mm long, cylindrical, broad, Nottingham on 13 April 2010. Flowers lightly ribbed, brilliant yellow 8A, paling 35mm wide, primrose yellow (2B); a little to base, mouth more strongly perianth segments 14mm long, very ribbed, slightly flared, wavy, with rim broadly ovate in outline, rounded or notched and crenate. squarish at apex, with whitish mucro prominent, a little reflexed, smooth, Narcissus romieuxii subsp. albidus var. overlapping one-third to a half; the inner zaianicus segments more narrowly ovate, only PC§. E: Mr Neil Hubbard, Barrow- very slightly mucronate, more nearly upon-Soar on 6 March 2010. Bulbous spreading, with margins wavy; corona perennial to 140 × 180mm as exhibited. 7mm long, cup-shaped, very lightly Leaves linear, erect, 17 × 1mm, ribbed, darker in tone than the perianth, glabrous, green (137A). Flowers single, with mouth straight or slightly incurved, solitary, yellow (4C) borne on an erect wavy, rim entire or obscurely crenate. stem to 80mm; spathe to 35mm, acute, papery, enclosing ovary and base Narcissus ‘Pink Silk’ of flowers; segments 6, 25 × 3mm, AM*. E: Mr John Goddard, Banstead, narrowly triangular, acute; corona to Surrey on 31 March 2009. Flowers 50 × 30mm, funnel-shaped, crimped forming a double triangle, 95mm wide; at the apex; anthers 6, orange-yellow; perianth segments 45mm long, very filaments pale yellow; style single, to broadly ovate, blunt, slightly mucronate, 40mm, pale yellow. white, spreading, plane, smooth and of good substance, with margins slightly Narcissus ‘Xit’ incurling, overlapping half; the inner PC*. E: Mrs J Doulton, Folkestone, Kent segments more narrowly ovate, a little on 13 April 2010. Flowers 46mm wide; inflexed, with margins sometimes wavy; perianth segments 22mm long, broadly corona 45mm long, funnel-shaped, ovate, prominently mucronate, pure angled, strong yellowish pink (31C), white, somewhat reflexed, concave, paling to a very light tone at base and 5mm long, smooth, overlapping one- shading to a darker tone towards the third; the inner segments more nearly mouth, mouth ribbed and flared, wavy, ovate, with margins wavy; corona disc- rim minutely and regularly crenate. shaped, strongly ribbed, greenish white,

© 2012 The Royal Horticultural Society 120 C.M. Whitehouse & J.J. Cubey with green at base, mouth even or a little undulate, pink (c. 68B) white / pale pink wavy, rim entire or minutely notched. between median stripe and margin, glittering conspicuous, segment Narcissus ‘Yellow Xit’ arrangement strongly irregular. PC*. E: Mrs Terry Braithwaite, Bramcote, Stamens as long as perianth segments. Nottingham on 13 April 2010. Flowers Anthers reddish purple. Style straight. 50mm wide; perianth segments 24mm Herbarium specimens (WSY0100629, long, oblong to broadly ovate, blunt, WSY0100631, WSY0100632, prominently mucronate, greenish white WSY0100633, WSY0100634) in WSY. (157C), reflexed, somewhat twisted, smooth and of heavy substance, Nerine gaberonensis overlapping at base only; the inner PC*. E: Mr Chris Norton, Lightwater, segments narrower, not noticeably Surrey on 4 October 2008. Bulbous mucronate; corona 5mm long, disc- perennial to 400mm. Leaves linear, shaped, deeply ribbed, pale yellow- glabrous, c. 220 × 1.5mm at anthesis, green 4D, deepening to base, mouth a arching. Scape erect, subglabrous, little expanded, three-lobed, with rim c. 330 × 3mm, slightly striated. Spathes minutely crenate. 2, papery, pinkish, c. 20 × 5mm, acute to acuminate. Inflorescence Nerine bowdenii ‘Quinton Wells’ an umbel to 90mm diameter with AM§. E: Mrs Margaret Owen, Acton c. 8 flowers. Pedicels erect, 18 × 35mm Burnell, Shropshire on 5 October 2010. with short, patent, glandular hairs. Scape 36cm (49cm including flowers). Ovaries suborbicular, to 4mm across; Twelve flowers per inflorescence. perianth spreading, to 40mm across; Breadth of inflorescence 23cm, length tepals narrow, 30 × 3mm, gracefully of pedicels 75mm, width of perianth recurved, joined only at the base, pink segments 7mm, reflexed, crisped, (68B); stamens prominent; filaments main colour pink (68B) either side of thread-like, 30mm, upcurved, pink median stripe white. Segments strongly (68B); anthers black; style pink (68A). irregular. Stamens as long as perianth Herbarium specimens (WSY0100559, segments. Colour anthers before WSY0107452) in WSY. DCP: The Alpine shedding pollen (paler than 77A). Gardener 78: 233–234. Style recurved. Herbarium specimen (WSY0101826) in WSY. Nerine rehmannii BC (awarded to the species). Nerine bowdenii ‘Sheila Owen’ E: Dr C Bainbridge, Easter Howgate, PC§. E: Mrs Margaret Owen, Acton Edinburgh on 4 October 2008. Burnell, Shropshire on 5 October 2010. Scape 59cm, green (c. 144A–146A). Nerine sarniensis ‘Emily Valentine’ Flowers per inflorescence 8, breadth AM†. E: Mr C Edwards, Newport, Isle of inflorescence 21cm. Pedicel 38mm, of Wight on 13 October 2009. Primary green (c. 144A–146A), flushed brownish flower colour 39B with a white central red. Perianth segments 10mm, reflexed, stripe. Plants given RHS Exhibition Awards 2008–2010 121

Nerine sarniensis ‘Kaslo’ × Odontioda Coin Varin gx ‘Saint PC†. E: Mr C Edwards, Newport, Isle of Helier’ Wight on 7 October 2008. AM†. R and E: Eric Young Foundation, Victoria Village, Trinity, Jersey, Channel Nerine sarniensis ‘Kerry Green’ Islands JE3 5HH on 20 March 2010. AM†. E: Mr C Edwards, Newport, Isle DCP: The Orchid Review 118: 118. of Wight on 13 October 2009. Primary flower colour white. × Odontioda La Ronde Selhere gx ‘Saint Ouen’ Nerine sarniensis ‘Kimberley’ AM†. R and E: Eric Young Foundation, AM†. E: Mr C Edwards, Newport, Isle of Victoria Village, Trinity, Jersey, Channel Wight on 7 October 2008. Islands JE3 5HH on 17 February 2009. DCP: The Orchid Review 117: 113. Nerine sarniensis ‘Mike Garrett’ PC†. E: Mr Ken Hall, Sandown, Isle of × Odontioda Les Brayes gx ‘Pontac’ Wight on 7 October 2008. AM†. R and E: Eric Young Foundation, Victoria Village, Trinity, Jersey, Channel Nerine sarniensis ‘Petersfield’ Islands JE3 5HH on 12 January 2009. PC†. E: Mr C Edwards, Newport, Isle DCP: The Orchid Review 117: 111. of Wight on 13 October 2009. Primary colour 70B, centre vein 63A. × Odontioda L’Etacquerel gx ‘Trinity’ AM†. R and E: Eric Young Foundation, Nerine sarniensis ‘Royal Tribute’ Victoria Village, Trinity, Jersey, Channel AM†. E: Mr C Edwards, Newport, Isle Islands JE3 5HH on 24 October 2008. of Wight on 13 October 2009. Primary DCP: The Orchid Review 117: 52. flower colour 58A, centre vein 53A. × Odontioda Moulin de Louis gx Nerine sarniensis ‘Severn Stoke’ ‘Portelet’ AM†. E: Mr Ken Hall, Sandown, Isle of AM†. R and E: Eric Young Foundation, Wight on 7 October 2008. Victoria Village, Trinity, Jersey, Channel Islands JE3 5HH on 7 December 2010. Nerine sarniensis ‘Shillingstone’ DCP: The Orchid Review 119: 52–53. PC†. E: Mr C Edwards, Newport, Isle of Wight on 13 October 2009. Primary × Odontioda Moulin de Louis gx colour 179A, centre vein 34A. ‘Saint Martin’ AM†. R and E: Eric Young Foundation, Nerine sarniensis ‘Tony Norris’ Victoria Village, Trinity, Jersey, Channel PC†. E: Mr Ken Hall, Sandown, Isle of Islands JE3 5HH on 20 March 2010. Wight, PO36 0JX on 13 October 2009. DCP: The Orchid Review 118: 117. Primary colour 68D, centre 67D, also blended between two colours. × Odontioda Trodais gx ‘Saint Clement’ AM†. R and E: Eric Young Foundation,

Victoria Village, Trinity, Jersey, Channel 2009. Shrub or small tree to 4m. Islands JE3 5HH on 21 April 2009. Older stems rough, with furrowed and Herbarium specimen (WSY0112806) in peeling bark, young stems yellowish WSY. DCP: The Orchid Review 117: 118. green, pubescent, with dense, silky, buff and white pubescence. Leaves × Odontioda Ville a L’Eveque gx alternate, elliptic to narrowly elliptic, ‘Saint Brelade’ 45–70 × 16–25mm, tips acute to AM†. R and E: Eric Young Foundation, acuminate, bases cuneate to rounded, Victoria Village, Trinity, Jersey, Channel margins wavy, with 6–8 undulations Islands JE3 5HH on 20 March 2010. on each side, with reticulate venation DCP: The Orchid Review 118: 117–118. and a prominent midrib, covered with buff-coloured pubescence. Young Odontoglossum Black Diamond gx leaves silky hairy above, densely so ‘Gorey’ below, with adpressed, villous to AM†. E: Eric Young Foundation, Victoria felted, silvery, translucent hairs. Petiole Village, Trinity, Jersey, Channel Islands 10–15mm, with dense, tawny, felted JE3 5HH on 6 April 2010. DCP: The hairs, continuing along the midrib. Orchid Review 118: 119. Flower heads, c. 15mm, in corymbs, c. 100 × 50mm, with 10–20 flowers Odontoglossum Hyphen gx ‘Saint per head. Capitula with 10–14 white Ouen’s Village’ ray flowers, 5–7 yellow disc flowers AM†. E: Eric Young Foundation, Victoria and downy outer involucral bracts. Village, Trinity, Jersey, Channel Islands Herbarium specimen (WSY0109019) JE3 5HH on 18 May 2009. DCP: The in WSY. Orchid Review 117: 173. Olsynium junceum ‘Menelik’ Odontoglossum Petit E’taquerel gx PC§. E: Dr M Sheader, Southampton, ‘Saint Brelade’ Hampshire on 17 April 2010. AM†. E: Eric Young Foundation, Victoria Rhizomatous perennial to Village, Trinity, Jersey, Channel Islands 400 × 90mm. Stems upright to JE3 5HH on 24 May 2010. DCP: The c. 170mm, glabrous. Inflorescence Orchid Review 118: 169. a few-flowered umbel; pedicels to 15mm, narrow, wiry, glabrous, the Odontoglossum Portinfer gx ‘Saint lower part enclosed in several papery, Mary’s Village’ boat-shaped to ovate-acuminate AM†. R and E: Eric Young Foundation, bracts c. 30 × 10mm, margins hyaline. Victoria Village, Trinity, Jersey, Channel Spathe similar to bracts but with long, Islands JE3 5HH on 18 May 2009. needle-like tip extending to 100mm. DCP: The Orchid Review 117: 172–173. Ovaries 4 × 2mm, obovate to top- shaped, dark; petals free, 15 × 10mm, Olearia cheesemanii flimsy, obovate, rounded to truncate PC§. E: Mrs Victoria Wakefield, at the apex, white with irregular Alresford, Hampshire on 18 May maroon striping around the veins, Plants given RHS Exhibition Awards 2008–2010 123 sometimes suffused to cover up to diameter; tepals 5, white, mid vein half the petal; anthers 3, yellow; style prominent on exterior, bright green branches 3, white. (144C); filaments white: anthers yellow. Slightly scented. Herbarium specimen Oncidium manuelariasii ‘Gaytarn’ (WSY0112801) in WSY. DCP: The Alpine BC (awarded to the species). E: Mr John Gardener 78: 259–260. Gay, Wakefield, West Yorkshire on 10 November 2009. DCP: The Orchid Paphiopedilum Angel Hair gx ‘Gorey’ Review 118: 55–56. AM†. R and E: Eric Young Foundation, Victoria Village, Trinity, Jersey, Channel Oxalis adenophylla ‘Purity’ Islands JE3 5HH on 12 January 2009. PC*. E: Captain P J Erskine, Petersfield, DCP: The Orchid Review 117: 112. Hampshire on 6 June 2009. Spreading perennial, 80 × 10mm as exhibited. Paphiopedilum Du Motier gx Leaves arising from underground ‘Victoria Village’ tubers, petiole slender to c. 55mm, AM†. R and E: Eric Young Foundation, strongly palmate, leaflets free to base, Victoria Village, Trinity, Jersey, Channel obcordate, 80 × 120mm, yellow green Islands JE3 5HH on 17 August 2010. (147D) with some long, silvery hairs. DCP: The Orchid Review 118: 240–241. Flowers single, solitary, stem upright, c. 60mm, glabrous. Calyx lobes to Paphiopedilum gigantifolium 4 × 1.5mm, free, green. Petals 5, ‘Gaytarn’ spreading, 15 × 6mm, apex truncate, BC (awarded to the species). E: Mr John white. Anthers yellow, filaments to Gay, Wakefield, West Yorkshire on 5mm. Styles 5, to 10mm, pale green. 21 March 2009. DCP: The Orchid Review Herbarium specimen (WSY0112945) 117: 116 –117. in WSY. DCP: The Alpine Gardener 77: 506–508. Paphiopedilum hangianum ‘Wössen’ AM†. E: Mr Franz Glanz, Unterwössen, Oziroë arida Germany on 24 October 2008. BC. E: RHS Garden Wisley, Wisley, DCP: The Orchid Review 117: 53. Woking, Surrey GU23 6QB on 7 April 2009. Bulbous perennial to 320mm Paphiopedilum Iantha Stage gx as exhibited. Leaves linear-lanceolate, ‘Wössen II’ 250 × 10mm, veins parallel, glabrous, AM†. E: Mr Franz Glanz, Unterwössen, green (146B). Stem narrow, erect, Germany on 24 October 2008. glabrous, branched at the apex, olive DCP: The Orchid Review 117: 52. green (148A), bloomed. Inflorescence c. 6-flowered; pedicels subtended by Paphiopedilum Karl Ploberger gx scabrous bracts to c. 15 × 3.5mm, ‘Barbara’ ovate-lanceolate, apiculate. Pedicels AM†. E: Ernst F Horn, Bad-Hersfeld, narrow, glabrous, yellowish green Germany on 19 June 2010. DCP: The (c. 144B), to 35mm. Flowers to 22mm Orchid Review 118: 170 –171.

Paphiopedilum La Garenne gx ‘Saint Paphiopedilum rothschildianum John’ ‘Grands Vaux’ AM†. R and E: Eric Young Foundation, AM†. R and E: Eric Young Foundation, Victoria Village, Trinity, Jersey, Channel Victoria Village, Trinity, Jersey, Channel Islands JE3 5HH on 17 February 2009. Islands JE3 5HH on 17 February 2009. DCP: The Orchid Review 117: 112–113. DCP: The Orchid Review 117: 113.

Paphiopedilum Le Noir Pre gx ‘Jersey’ Paphiopedilum Vieux Moulin gx ‘La AM†. R and E: Eric Young Foundation, Ponterrin’ Victoria Village, Trinity, Jersey, Channel AM†. R and E: Eric Young Foundation, Islands JE3 5HH on 17 August 2010. Victoria Village, Trinity, Jersey, Channel DCP: The Orchid Review 118: 239–240. Islands JE3 5HH on 16 February 2010. DCP: The Orchid Review 118: 112–113. Paphiopedilum Le Noir Pre gx ‘Saint Helier’ Paphiopedilum Wössner China Moon AM†. R and E: Eric Young Foundation, gx ‘Bärbel’ Victoria Village, Trinity, Jersey, Channel AM†. E: Ernst F Harn, Bad-Hersfeld, Islands JE3 5HH on 11 August 2009. Germany on 21 March 2009. DCP: The DCP: The Orchid Review 117: 238–239. Orchid Review 117: 114.

Paphiopedilum Michael Koopowitz Paris axialis gx ‘Dragon’ BC. E: Mr Ian Christie, Christie’s Nursery, AM†. E: Röllke Orchideenzucht, Downfield, West Muir, Kirriemuir, Flossweg 11, 33758 Schloss Holte- Angus, Scotland DD8 5LP on 16 May Stukenbrock, Germany on 24 October 2009. D: The Alpine Gardener 78: 262. 2008. DCP: The Orchid Review 117: 53. Penstemon uintahensis Paphiopedilum micranthum ‘Frieda’ PC*. E: Mr Peter Farkasch, Sandbach FCC†. E: Mr D Mathers, Richmond, on 1 May 2010. Spreading perennial Surrey on 20 March 2010. DCP: The to 70 × 140mm. Leaves to 80 × 9mm, Orchid Review 118: 114 –115. borne in a loose rosette, oblanceolate, acute, glabrous with a very narrow Paphiopedilum micranthum f. translucent margin and occasional, glanzeanum ‘Gillian’ poorly resolved teeth. Inflorescence AM†. E: Mr D Mathers, Richmond, a raceme to 70mm. Pedicel to 5mm. Surrey on 21 March 2009. DCP: The Flowers borne horizontally; sepals Orchid Review 117: 113 –114. 7 × 5mm, ovate, free with very short hairs and a broad, scarious margin; Paphiopedilum Mount Toro gx corolla 2-lipped, conical, to 20 × 10mm, ‘Watling Hall’ blue (100B) with violet streaks, upper lip AM†. E: Mr Weng Lim, Dover, Kent on 3-lobed, lobes overlapping, 7 × 7mm, 20 June 2009. DCP: The Orchid Review broad-ovate, rounded at the apex, 117: 173 –174. lower lip 2-lobed, lobes slightly smaller. Plants given RHS Exhibition Awards 2008–2010 125

Petrocosmea grandiflora tube asymmetric, 9mm long below, PC§. E: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 4mm above, upper lip short, 3 × 3mm, Richmond, Surrey TW9 3AB on slightly bilobed, lower lip prominently 16 December 2008. Stemless 3-lobed, lobes 7 × 8mm; 2 stamens perennial herb. Leaves basal to attached to lower half of tube, anthers 55 × 25mm, petiole narrow, to 15mm, yellow; style curved under upper lip blade obovate, base cuneate, apex and protruding beyond it, 7mm long rounded, margin undulate, upper (N79B). half regularly and shallowly dentate, midrib obscure, dark green, adaxially Phlox hoodii subsp. muscoides sericeous, abaxially sparsely sericeous. PC§. E: Mr E Jarrett, Stroud, Pedicels lax, bearing a single flower, Gloucestershire on 17 April 2010. pilose, c. 175mm long. Calyx woolly- Cushion-forming perennial to hairy, cut almost to the base, lobes 55 × 95mm as exhibited. Leaves equal, acute, narrowly triangular, to forming a very small rosette to 7 × 2mm; corolla zygomorphic, to 10mm across, oblong, blunt-tipped, c. 10mm across; tube short; upper 3 × 1.5mm with reinforced margins lip comprised of 2 overlapping lobes, and midrib, margins ciliate. Flowers ovate, blunt-tipped, violet (N88A), solitary, sessile, erect, white; tube to lower tip deeply cut into 3 distinct 3mm, lobes spreading, rectangular, lobes, oblong, blunt-tipped, white 3 × 1.5mm, apex truncate to fringed; becoming yellow at the centre with anthers yellow. a purple throat. Herbarium specimen (WSY0107444) in WSY. D: The Alpine Phragmipedium Don Wimber gx Gardener 77: 489–490. ‘Saint Martin’ AM†. R and E: Eric Young Foundation, Petrocosmea ‘Purple Puzzle’ Victoria Village, Trinity, Jersey, Channel PC§. E: RHS Garden Wisley, Wisley, Islands JE3 5HH on 17 February 2009. Woking, Surrey GU23 6QB on DCP: The Orchid Review 117: 112. 13 October 2009. Rosette-forming perennial to 12cm high as exhibited. Phragmipedium Grande gx ‘Victoria Leaves obovate, 35–41 × 24–30mm, Village’ petiole to 32mm long, densely hairy, AM†. R and E: Eric Young Foundation, hairs up to 6mm long, adpressed Victoria Village, Trinity, Jersey, Channel and silvery beneath, greener than Islands JE3 5HH on 21 April 2009. 146A above. Inflorescence 4-flowered, Herbarium specimen (WSY0112869) in peduncle to 85mm long, 2mm WSY. DCP: The Orchid Review 117: 118. diameter (N77A); pedicels 21–26mm long, with bracts 5mm long at base Phragmipedium kovachii ‘Gaytarn’ and 0–2 bracteoles 3mm long, along BC (awarded to the species). E: Mr John the stem; calyx with 5 narrowly Gay, Wakefield, West Yorkshire on triangular sepals, 5 × 2mm. Flowers 7 December 2010. DCP: The Orchid purple (N88A to 93B), two-lipped, Review 119: 56 – 57.

Phragmipedium Les Platons gx Primula ‘Broadwell Buttercup’ ‘Victoria Village’ PC§. E: Mr Peter Maguire, Gosforth, AM†. R and E: Eric Young Foundation, Newcastle-upon-Tyne on 10 April Victoria Village, Trinity, Jersey, Channel 2010. Clump-forming perennial Islands JE3 5HH on 7 October 2008. to 200mm. Leaves to 75 × 45mm, DCP: The Orchid Review 117: 51. spathulate, tapering to a broad, short petiole, very sparsely farinose Primula ‘Ardinamir’ with regular teeth and a farinose PC*. E: Mr A R Furness, Hexham, margin. Flowering stems to 160mm, Northumberland on 28 March sparsely farinose with c. 15 flowers 2009. Clump-forming perennial on peduncles up to 13mm long. to 125mm as exhibited. Leaves to Calyx bell-shaped to 6mm; corolla c. 50 × 30mm, elliptic to rounded, funnel-shaped, yellow (10B) to 22mm broadly and bluntly toothed, diameter, the tube twice the length margins ciliate, upper surface of the calyx; lobes broad, blunt with a minutely pubescent. Stems slender to shallow notch. c. 80mm. Inflorescence c. 5-flowered umbel subtended by narrow, blunt- Primula handeliana tipped bracts to 4mm. Pedicels to PC*. E: Mr Ian Christie, Christie’s 8mm minutely pubescent; sepals Nursery, Downfield, West Muir, 4 × 2mm, minutely pubescent, ovate Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland to obovate; corolla white (155C), DD8 5LP on 25 April 2009. Perennial 22mm across, tubular for c. 15mm, to 180mm as exhibited. Leaves lobes c. 12 × 10mm, somewhat glabrous, 80 × 20mm, petiole long, cupped, deeply notched at the apex. grooved and winged, green flushed Herbarium specimen (WSY0107469) brownish red (181A-B), blade to in WSY. DCP: The Alpine Gardener 78: c. 50mm, elliptic- cuneate, sharp- 248–250. pointed, margins single or doubly serrate, teeth gland-tipped, green Primula beesiana (143A–146A), pale bluish green PC*. E: Prof & Mrs D Rankin, on the underside. Stem fleshy to Lasswade, Midlothian, Scotland on c. 150mm, green (145A), flushed 30 May 2009. Rosetted perennial brownish red in the basal portion to 450mm. Plants efarinose with (181A-B). Inflorescence a c. 6-flowered bright green leaves to 220 × 65mm, umbel, each flower subtended by a unevenly but finely toothed and with narrow, tapering bract to 12mm long a prominent pale midrib. Inflorescence that remains upright as the flower 2–4 whorls of 10–15 slightly pendent develops. Pedicels slender to 6mm. flowers. Calyx 5 angled, acuminate Calyx to 10 × 5mm, green (145A), to 6mm. Flowers purple-violet (81B), constricted around ovary, lobes sharp- 24mm across, with a yellow eye, tube tipped, joined in basal third. Corolla to 12mm; pin-eyed. D: The Alpine to 15mm long, tube yellow-green Gardener 77: 501–502. (150D), lobes 6 × 3mm, rounded Plants given RHS Exhibition Awards 2008–2010 127 at apex forming a flat face, green- in length, filaments white, anthers yellow (1C). Herbarium specimen brown. Style c. 45mm long, white (WSY0109014) in WSY. DCP: The glandular hairy on lower third, cream Alpine Gardener 78: 237–238. with pale green tinge to base. Ovary cylindrical c. 8mm long, yellow-green Primula marginata ‘Shipton’ (c. 144B/C), shortly white glandular AM*. E: Dr A J Richards, Hexham, hairy. Pedicel c. 20mm long, yellow Northumberland on 27 March 2010. green (c. 145A). Calyx with unequal Spreading perennial to 100 × 400mm lobes, lower largest to 15mm long, as exhibited. Leaves in rosettes, c. 155C. Leaves to 135 × 60mm. spathulate, 50 × 35mm, sessile, Oval-elliptic, slightly cordate at glabrous, coarsely, jaggedly toothed, base, mucronulate at apex, mid- glabrous, green (137B/D), farinose. green (c. 137B/C) on upper surface, Stem to 40mm, upright, glabrous; paler yellow-green on lower surface. inflorescence a few-flowered umbel, Petiole bright yellow-green (151B). subtended by a whorl of bracts, Herbarium specimens (WSY0107461, 4 × 2.5mm, ovate, farinose, connate WSY0107462) in WSY. at base; pedicels to 10mm, farinose; sepals 4 × 2mm, farinose, free in top Rhododendron ‘Caerhays Crossbill’ two thirds; flowers violet-blue (192B), PC*. E: Mr J P Williams, Redruth, tube 10 × 4mm, lobes salverform, Cornwall on 24 March 2009. Trusses overlapping, 8 × 8mm, orbicular- of up to 15 flowers, to 8cm across. obovate, shallowly notched at apex; Corolla funnel-shaped to 28mm long, pin-eyed; style 7–8mm, creamy white. yellow (c. 10C, 1D, and 160B), tinged red (a bit more pink than 38A/B). Prosthechea garciana ‘Burnham’ 6 petals, ± equal, overlapping at base BC (awarded to the species). of free part of petals. Short hairs on E: Burnham Nurseries Ltd, Forches the outside of the tube. 10 stamens, Cross, Newton Abbott, Devon filaments pink-red (c. 53C) fading TQ12 6PZ on 16 December 2008. to cream (158B/C) at each end, DCP: The Orchid Review 117: 57–58. anthers brown (177A/B). Style exserted, c. 39mm long, same colour Rhododendron ‘Brimble’ as filament. Ovary conical, ridged, AM*. E: Mr A Craig-Mooney, pubescent, green, c. 3mm long. Yelverton, Devon on 25 April 2009. Pedicel c. 12mm long, green tinged Trusses, rounded, dense to 17cm red (c. 47C). Calyx tiny, c. 1mm, green, across, with 9 flowers. Corolla pubescent. Calyx, pedicel and ovary 70 × 100mm, open funnel shape, white hairy and with green/yellow 5 lobed, lobes wavy-edged and scales. Leaves acuminate to 87mm overlapping at base of free part, long, elliptic, entire, green tinged creamy green-yellow (155B to deep red (closest to 187A), glabrous 2D/11C). Buds same colours as on upper surface, with a few hairs on corolla. Stamens up to 12, unequal veins and midrib on underside and

© 2012 The Royal Horticultural Society 128 C.M. Whitehouse & J.J. Cubey brown scales. Herbarium specimen Trusses of 3–4 flowers, diameter (WSY0112838) in WSY. 10cm, loose outward to semi- upward-facing, quite flat, often in Rhododendron Calfort Group groups usually of 5 to 8 trusses. FCC*. E: Mr Malcolm Pharoah, Devon Buds purplish pink (68A), pale pink on 25 April 2009. Dense, rounded (186C) fading to white at base. trusses to c. 22cm across, with up to Flowers tubular-campanulate, 16 flowers. Corolla 65 × 90mm, open 38–50 × 50–55mm, 5-petalled, white, funnel-shaped, 7 lobes, lobes wavy- exterior blushing of pink (75B/70B) edged and overlapping at base of free concentrating on central portion part, white with red-purple blotch and of lobes, stronger purplish pink on speckles (c. 59A/187B), on inside lower upper three lobes (not as bright as tube of calyx, also showing through on 73A). Petal apices notched in centre, outer surface as a hint of pink. Stamens and undulate. Stamens 10, filaments 16, unequal in length, filaments white, white, anthers golden brown. Style anthers light brown. Style 37mm long, white, can be flushed pink at apex yellow-green (c. 150C) at base, paling and at base, stigma creamy yellow. to c. 150D at apex, with a faint hint Calyx irregular, 10–11mm, bright of red. Stigma yellow (c. 4A). Ovary yellow-green (145A), frequently cylindrical, 9mm long, yellow-green flushed brownish red, stiff hairs at (c. 144B), pubescent. Pedicel to 55mm, margins. Pedicel bright yellow green yellow green (c. 150B/C), salmon pink (145A), patent hairs. Leaves elliptic, (c. 48A) on lower surface sparsely 45–78 × 19–37mm, matt (slightly pubescent. Corolla inserted obliquely glossy), glandular, green (c. N137A), on pedicel. Calyx lobes unequal. ciliate and rufous hairs to 1mm and Lowest lobe largest, c. 4mm long, on mid-vein (those on mid vein are yellow red, tipped with salmon-pink brownish red at base becoming white/ (c. 48). Leaves to 210mm long, oblong- cream towards middle and apex), elliptic, acute at apex. Mid green lower surface smooth, brown scales. on upper surface, lighter on lower. Herbarium specimens (WSY0112835, Petiole to 35mm long, yellow-green WSY0112836) in WSY. (c. 144B/C) on lower surface tinged red on sides and/or on upper surface to Rhododendron dendrocharis c. 185A. Glendoick Gem (‘Gle002’) AM*. E: Mr B Davidson, Castle Rhododendron ‘Charles Michael’ Douglas, Dumfriesshire, Scotland PC§. E: Mr Charles Williams, St Austell, on 28 March 2009. Evergreen shrub Cornwall on 24 April 2010. to 260mm as exhibited. Leaves congested, shortly petiolate, petiole Rhododendron ciliatum ‘Scented covered with long, rust coloured Border’ hairs, blade c. 15 × 5mm, elliptic to FCC*. E: The Hon. Evelyn Boscawen, oblong with an acute tip, coriaceous, Truro, Cornwall, on 24 March 2009. margins inrolled on the underside with Plants given RHS Exhibition Awards 2008–2010 129 a fringe of rust-coloured hairs, midrib base, sparsely brown scaly. Leaves to prominent on the underside, indented 52mm, ovate-elliptic, upper surface, above; underside covered in coppery semi-glossy, closest to 147A, lower scales. Stems stout, covered by woolly surface c. 148B lighter, with scales on rust-coloured hairs. Flowers terminal, underside. Petiole c. 10mm, yellow- single; sepals 5 × 2mm, blunt-elliptic, green with brown scales. Herbarium green, pubescent; corolla 42mm specimen (WSY0112427) in WSY. across, joined to about halfway, red- purple (65B) with darker red-purple Rhododendron ‘Hampshire Belle’ edge to the petals and spotting in the AM*. E: Mr Wolfgang Bopp, Sir throat (57B), petals crimped and frilled Harold Hillier Gardens, Jermyns at the apex. Herbarium specimen Lane, Ampfield, Romsey, Hampshire (WSY0107468) in WSY. DCP: The SO51 0QA on 18 May 2009. Truss Alpine Gardener 77: 480. loose, to 14cm across, with up to 15 flowers. Corolla open funnel- Rhododendron ‘Elfin Gold’ shaped, to c. 40mm long by 60mm AM§. R and E: Mr Barry Starling, Exeter, across, 5-petalled, free part of corolla Devon on 24 April 2010. R. keiskei ‘Yaku (lobes c. 20mm), tube c. 20mm. Fairy’ × R. luteiflorum. 1m × 1.3m. Corolla pink exterior (74B-D), exterior midrib c. 70B fading to 74C-D; interior Rhododendron ‘Forest Sprite’ pinker than 77D paling to almost PC*. E: Mr Barry Starling, Exeter, white on inside of tube, speckled red Devon on 25 April 2009. Trusses (c. 58A) on lower central petal. Pedicel loose, to c. 80mm across, generally c. 30mm, light green on lower surface, with 5–7 flowers, sometimes with red (c. 178B) on upper surface, white- lateral trusses grouped together with hairy with pink and slightly glandular the terminal truss. Corolla funnel- tipped. Sepals red, c. 0.5mm. Stamens shaped, 25 × 40mm, 5 petals, mauve 10, unequal, pink (74C), white at (c. 78B/C), with 70A on outer midrib base, curling downwards at apex, of petal lobes, and fawn speckles on white hairy on lower third, anthers a mauve to green/white background fawn-coloured. Style c. 37mm long, on upper 2 petals. Inside base of white, becoming pink towards apex corolla tube also paling to green/ (74C/D), curling down at apex. Ovary white. Tips of some petals white. cylindrical c. 5mm long, reddish- Stamens up to 12, unequal in length, green, but covered in white adpressed, filaments white with a hint of pink, sometimes glandular hairs. Leaves hairy in lower third, anthers light linear to c. 83mm long by 13mm wide, brown. Style exserted 27mm, white, slightly, and irregularly repand, dark with tint of green at base, stigma green on upper surface with a lighter brown-green. Ovary cylindrical, 4cm green midrib. Lighter green on lower long, yellow-green, scaly. Calyx small, surface. Petiole to c. 9mm, green, yellow-green, c. 2mm long, scaly. tinged red. Herbarium specimen Pedicel to 25mm, rusty red on a green (WSY0107220) in WSY.

Rhododendron ‘Loch Awe’ Mount Emei, Sichuan, China. Truss AM§. R: Glendoick Gardens loose, domed, 8–14cm high, 16cm Ltd, Glencarse, Perth, Scotland wide, 19–22 flowers/truss. Corolla PH2 7NS and E: Mrs P Hayward, tubular- to funnel-campanulate, Woodtown, Yelverton, Devon on 30–35mm long, 32–50mm diameter, 24 April 2010. five-lobed, wavy-edged, lobe apex retuse, free lobe 14–18mm high, Rhododendron ‘Penvergate’ 18–21mm wide, pink (75B) or white AM*. E: Mr Charles Williams, St washed with pale bluish pink (75B), Austell, Cornwall, on 24 March outer surface stronger pink (overall 2009. Trusses with 7–11 flowers, to colour still remaining 75B), basal 13cm. Flowers funnel-campanulate, portion pink (73B). Stamens 8–12, 35–40 × 50–55mm, 5-lobed, wavy- filaments white flushed pink in places edged, notched, flowers vivid pinkish 7–14mm. Style 15mm, pale yellow red, inside pinker than greyish pink to green, stigma bright yellow-green (186C–63B), spotting dark red to green. Ovary green, pubescent. (59A) on dorsal lobe and spreading Calyx insignificant. Pedicel 40–42mm, slightly into lobes either side, basal pubescent, pale greenish cream, marking vivid red (brighter than flushed red (180D). Leaves matt, green 46A, perhaps a mix of 46A and 46 B). (brighter and yellower than N137A), Buds deep pinkish red (53C). Calyx lower surface greyed green (whiter billowing, rounded, irregular to than 196A) indumentum, pale green 8mm, colour reflects flowers, (pink midrib (yellower than 145C). Petioles 51A) with dark red marks on interior green (143C to 146B), to 22mm, paler surface, ciliate, otherwise glabrous. green on lower surface, indumentum Stamens not exserted, but peeping present. Herbarium specimens out, 10, filaments white, anthers ( WSY0112426, WSY0112428, brown. Ovary white hairy. Pedicels WSY0112429) in WSY. yellow-green (150C) with some faint reddish blushing on upper exposed Rhododendron ‘Tinner’s Blush’ surface, covered in white hairs. Leaves AM§. R: F J Williams and E: Mr Charles matt, elliptic- lanceolate, mucronate Williams, St Austell, Cornwall on 50–76 × 20–29mm, dark green 24 April 2010. (darker than 147A) with brighter green (c. N137A-B). Herbarium specimens Rhododendron ‘Trewithen Purple’ (WSY0110643, WSY0110644) in WSY. AM*. E: Mr Long, Nr Truro, Cornwall on 24 March 2009. Trusses dense with Rhododendron pingianum up to 7 flowers up to 11cm across in AM*. E: Mr Keith D Rushforth, groups of up to 7. Flowers 5-petalled, Cullompton, Devon on 25 April 2009. widely funnel shaped c. 18mm long Rhododendron pingianum KR 150 & × 28mm wide, c. N80B-D, reverse KR 184. Wild collected in 1980, central base c. N74 extending into c. 2200–2300m above Lei Dong Ping, each petal midrib then fading out. Plants given RHS Exhibition Awards 2008–2010 131

Free part of petals slightly overlapping Romulea tempskyana at base. Occasionally inside of corolla AM*. E: Mrs C M Coller, Sutton, few-speckled (very few) – fawn, usually Norfolk on 31 March 2009. Cormous at junctions of just a couple of petals, perennial. Leaves linear, to 120 × 1mm but position does not appear fixed. long, curved and folded along their Inner throat of corolla tube white hairy. length, striated, glabrous, dark green 10 stamens, violet (cN80B), anthers (131B), tip acute. Flowers single, brown, not exserted, but as corolla solitary; pedicels upright to curved, opened wide are very visible from top, fleshy, pale green (143C), c. 45mm filaments white hairy at base. Ovary, long; spathe split, each half c. 15mm, pedicel, calyx covered with white scales. pointed, lanceolate, keeled, light Calyx minute, with unequal lobes, green. Tepals equal, similar, oblong to c. 1mm long. Style glabrous, c. 20mm narrow elliptic, 20 × 6mm, hooded, long, white to pink/red (c. 51A). Stigma apex rounded to subacute, velvet also red. Ovary cylindrical, 2–3mm purple (83A); stigmas exceeding long. Leaves matt, scales prominent, tepals; anthers included, adpressed brown on reverse, white on upper to style, 10mm long, bright yellow. surface, elliptic to 23 × 10mm. Petiole Herbarium specimen (WSY0107453) with brown scales. Herbarium specimen in WSY. DCP: The Alpine Gardener 77: (WSY0112833) in WSY. 483–485.

Rhododendron ‘Westport Point’ Rudolfiella picta ‘Herrenhausen’ AM*. E: Mr Barry Starling, Exeter, BC (awarded to the species). Devon on 25 April 2009. Truss loose, E: Andreas Stockelbusch (on behalf of rarely circular, generally facing Herrenhausen Gardens), Wielohweg 9, forwards, 4.5cm high × 10cm wide 30938 Fuhrberg, Germany on 19 June 6–7(–12) flowers/truss. Corolla tubular- 2010. DCP: The Orchid Review 118: campanulate, length 4cm, diameter 170, 172. 3.5–5cm, five-lobed, wavy, lilac, exterior stronger lilac pink (c N74D). Sarracenia ‘Mary Cheek’ Buds (N74D). Stamens 10, 20–29mm, AM as a plant for early winter pubescent in basal portion, filaments foliage effect. E: Mr M Soper, white. Style exserted, 35mm, pink, Hampshire Carnivorous Plants, Ya- stigma pink. Ovary green, glandular. Mayla, Allington Lane, West End, Calyx irregular to 3mm, reddish Southampton on 16 December 2008. brown, basal portion yellow-green. Pitchers to 45cm tall and up to 6cm Pedicel scaly, some pubescence wide. Base of pitcher dark red, but present, red-pink, 16–20mm long. pitcher predominantly green (brighter Leaves 78 × 28mm, oblong-elliptic, than 185A/187C) for three quarters of tip acute, glabrous, green (darker than height and then to warm white netted N137A), lower surface golden brown with green and overlaid with dark glands. Petiole 10mm. Herbarium red (185A/187C) veining. Pitcher rim specimen (WSY0112430) in WSY. tightly reflexed and dark red; pitcher

© 2012 The Royal Horticultural Society 132 C.M. Whitehouse & J.J. Cubey lid to 5.5 × 8cm, central tip acuminate, spaced hairs, green (138A). Flowers margin wrinkled, heavily netted solitary borne on wiry stalks to dark red. Internal surfaces of lid and 25–30mm bearing scale-like, sparsely pitcher covered with soft downward- hairy leaves to 3 × 1mm; sepals pointing hairs. Herbarium specimen 4 × 2.5mm, ovate, purple (N79), hairy; (WSY0107454) in WSY. petals separate, obovate, purple-violet (N80), margins crimped, 15 × 10mm; Saxifraga ‘Allendale Frost’ anthers 10, greenish yellow, filaments AM*. E: Mr David Hoare, Lyminge, purplish; stigmas 2, 5–6mm long, Kent on 6 April 2010. Cushion-forming purplish; ovaries purplish. perennial. Foliage in tight rosettes 6mm high with a diameter of 7mm. Saxifraga × edithae ‘Bridget’ Leaves 2 × 1.5mm, sessile, broad AM*. E: Mr C Lilley, Worksop, ovate, keeled, margins and blunt tip Nottinghamshire on 17 April 2010. reinforced, margins with few hairs Cushion-forming perennial to in lower half, silvery green, upper 130 × 250mm as exhibited. Leaves surface with white encrustation. forming a rosette to 20mm across, Stems upright, to 60mm, covered in sessile, oblong to strap-shaped, white, patent, red-gland-tipped hairs 8 × 2mm, pale green, margins entire, and bearing spiralling bracts, each thickened, upper surface bearing 6 × 2mm, oblanceolate to spathulate. an uneven, white encrustation. Inflorescence few-flowered; pedicels Peduncle upright, to 70mm, purple to 8mm, each subtended by a bract, in the upper half, flexible with many covered with glandular hairs; calyx curly, gland-tipped hairs and bearing cup-shaped, glandular-hairy, lobed to spiralling, slightly overlapping leaf-like beyond halfway; sepals 2 × 1.5mm, bracts. Inflorescence a few-flowered glandular-hairy, ovate, subacute; corymb; pedicels subtended by a petals 5, 9 × 6mm, obovate, white; leaf-like bract and bearing one or stamens exserted, anthers yellow; more reduced bracts along their ovaries green. length, glandular hairy, the outermost to 15mm at anthesis; calyx purplish Saxifraga ‘Björn Aldén’ (64A), glandular hairy, lobes 5, free to AM*. E: Mr David Hoare, Lyminge, halfway, 2 × 2mm, blunt-tipped; petals Kent on 6 March 2010. to 6 × 6mm, obovate to suborbicular, sometimes with a faint notch at the Saxifraga × dinninaris apex, pale pink (62D); anthers yellow; AM*. E: Mr Mark Childerhouse, ovary green. Barnetby on 27 March 2010. Cushion- forming perennial to 70 × 130mm as Saxifraga ‘Nicholas’ exhibited. Leaves forming a rosette FCC*. E: Mr A R Furness, Hexham, to 5 × 5mm, individually 2.5 × 1mm, Northumberland on 5 June 2010. lanceolate, acute with a minute tip, Cushion-forming perennial to margins undulate with patent, evenly 140mm across as exhibited. Leaves Plants given RHS Exhibition Awards 2008–2010 133

65 × 9 5mm, narrow or somewhat angle, to 15mm; flowers star-shaped; spathulate, slightly recurved at the tip, perianth segments 6, equal, blue dark green with lime pores set into (100B/C/D), strap-shaped, rounded the marginal teeth. Stems to 50cm at the apex, separate; ovary orbicular, bearing a very many-flowered panicle; prominent, to 2.5mm across, green; panicle branches c. 100–150mm anthers black, filaments to 10mm, from base with the lower branches pale blue-white; style to 12mm, pale somewhat longer (to 160mm) than blue-white. those at the tip (to 50mm); calyx lobes 5 × 2mm wide, glandular-hairy; Sievekingia fimbriata ‘Herrenhausen’ flowers to 21mm across, white with BC (awarded to the species). 3 red lines at the base of each petal. E: Andreas Stockelbusch (on behalf of D: The Alpine Gardener 77: 502–503. Herrenhausen Gardens), Wielohweg 9, 30938 Fuhrberg, Germany on 19 June Saxifraga pubescens ‘Snowcap’ 2010. DCP: The Orchid Review 118: FCC*. E: Prof D Rankin, Lasswade, 170, 173. Midlothian, Scotland, EH18 1HT on 1 May 2010. Plant forming a large Silene antarctica domed cushion, covered in long- BC for its rarity in the wild and in stalked, gland-tipped hairs. Leaves up cultivation. E: Dr M Sheader, Bitterne, to 8 × 6mm, 3–5 lobed at apex, the Southampton, Hampshire on 18 April lobes more or less oblong, obtuse, 2009. DCP: The Alpine Gardener 77: veins impressed above, dark green. 508–509. Stems c. 50mm, leafless, with a few erect branches above. Calyx 3–4mm Sinojackia xylocarpa long, with broad obtuse teeth. Flowers PC§. E: Sir Harold Hillier Gardens 9–11mm wide; petals white, about as and Arboretum, Ampfield House, broad as long, up to c. 4.5 ×.4.5mm, Jermyns Lane, Ampfield, Nr Romsey, rounded, contiguous. Anthers pale Hampshire SO51 0QA on 18 May pinkish red, conspicuous against the 2009. Small deciduous tree, with long- white petals. stalked, white flowers that tend to be somewhat hidden under the leaves. Scilla libanotica Young twigs reddish brown. Leaves AM*. E: Dr and Mrs R Wallis, alternate, thin-textured, glabrous Lower Beeding, West Sussex on above and below, slightly glossy 6 March 2010. Bulbous perennial to above, obovate, 75–100 × 50–65mm, 200 × 300mm as exhibited. Leaves with acuminate tips and cuneate forming a rosette, strap-shaped, to to rounded bases. Petioles c. 5mm. 120 × 25mm, apex rounded with Flowers white, c. 25mm across, in 3 to a small tip, glabrous, green (14A). 5-flowered cymes borne at the ends Inflorescence a few-flowered raceme; of lateral shoots. Petals 5–7, united at stem leafless, fleshy, glabrous, green, the base, elliptical, c. 15 × 7mm. Calyx erect, to 140mm. Pedicels at an acute with 5–8 triangular lobes, c. 1mm.

Calyx tube and ovary lime green, acuminate; serrate; upper surface c. 5mm. Stamens c. 6mm with yellow bright red-purple (deeper than N74A), anthers. Style c. 10mm, persistent. bordered by deep maroon (closest to Herbarium specimen (WSY0107219) N186A), which speckles out towards in WSY. narrow green margins (c. 143A); some leaves with a cream border, exterior Sobralia macrantha ‘Portelet’ to the red-purple (c. 10D), usually AM†. R and E: Eric Young Foundation, towards the base. Petioles cream. Victoria Village, Trinity, Jersey, Channel Islands JE3 5HH on 14 July 2009. Solenostemon ‘Timotei’ DCP: The Orchid Review 117: 179. PC as a tender foliage plant for exhibition. E: Mr G Roberts, Dartford Soldanella ‘Sudden Spring’ on 5 October 2010. Leaves broadly AM*. E: Mr T Harding, Saltburn by lanceolate, to 170mm, with petiole the Sea, Cleveland on 28 March 50mm; undulate; cream, with green 2009. Clump-forming perennial to towards the margins and in variable 180mm as exhibited. Leaves basal, amounts in upper parts towards leaf petioles narrow to c. 12mm, reddish, tips (yellow-green c. 143C, 144A, blades reniform, glabrous, coriaceous, with darker patches c. 137A); teeth margins inrolled on the underside, irregular, often trilobed (occasionally underside evenly covered with pitted bilobed), all green, or variable upper glands. Scapes upright, subglabrous, parts towards tip green, with lower dark, slender, to c. 160mm bearing parts cream; petioles cream to pale 1–3 flowers at the apex. Flowers green-cream (paler than 145C); stems subtended by linear bracts to 4mm green (145A-C), with a narrow band long; pedicels slender extending of red-purple at the nodes. to c. 25mm, hooked at the apex, minutely pubescent. Calyx dark, sepals Stanhopea Hautlieu gx ‘Trinity’ spreading, 5 × 2.5mm, blunt-tipped, AM†. R and E: Eric Young Foundation, narrowly ovate. Corolla campanulate, Victoria Village, Trinity, Jersey, Channel finely cut to c. halfway, c. 20mm Islands JE3 5HH on 20 June 2009. diameter, violet (84B) with red-blue DCP: The Orchid Review 117: 173 –175. markings within. Herbarium specimen (WSY0107467) in WSY. DCP: The Stenoglottis Neptune gx ‘Chelsea Alpine Gardener 77: 481–483. Frieda’ AM†. E: Mike Tibbs, Franschhoek, Solenostemon ‘Pink Chaos’ South Africa on 24 May 2010. PC as a tender foliage plant for DCP: The Orchid Review 118: 168–169, exhibition. E: Mr G Roberts, Dartford 171. on 5 October 2010. Leaves lanceolate; mostly small, up to c. 90mm, Streptocarpus ‘Franken Lilac Lace’ including long petiole of 30mm, but PC†. E: Mr F Davies, Burntwood on some lower leaves reaching 110mm; 18 September 2009. Plants given RHS Exhibition Awards 2008–2010 135

Streptocarpus ‘Hannah’ subtended by a small leafy bract; AM†. E: Dibley’s Nurseries, Llanelidan, pedicels to 2mm subtended by white Ruthin, Clwyd, Wales LL15 2LG on bract to same length. Flowers male, 18 May 2009. Herbarium specimen creamy white; calyx lobes 5, to 1mm, (WSY0112967) in WSY. forming a small tube; stamens much exserted, to 3mm, yellowish white. Streptocarpus ‘Hope’ Herbarium specimen (WSY0109026) PC†. E: Dibley’s Nurseries, Llanelidan, in WSY. DCP: The Alpine Gardener 78: Ruthin, Clwyd, Wales LL15 2LG on 238–239. 18 May 2009. Herbarium specimen (WSY0112968) in WSY. Tecophilaea cyanocrocus Storm Cloud Group Streptocarpus ‘Jessica’ AM§. E: Dr C Lafong, Glenrothes, Fife, PC†. E: Dibley’s Nurseries, Llanelidan, Scotland on 21 March 2009. Cormous Ruthin, Clwyd, Wales LL15 2LG on perennial bearing a single stem to 18 May 2009. Herbarium specimen 140mm. Leaves, 2 to 3 per stem, (WSY0112965) in WSY. lanceolate, 135 × 14mm, glabrous, apex acute. Stems to 100mm, narrow. Tanakaea radicans Flowers, 1 to 2 per stem; ovary PC*. E: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, top-shaped, 4 × 2.5mm; corolla to Richmond, Surrey TW9 3AB on 38mm across, tepals 6, free almost to 18 May 2009. Clump-forming the base, clawed, violet-blue (94B), perennial. Leaves carried on a long, shading to white in the throat, marked slender petiole with long, white, with violet-blue lines and stained with patent hairs mixed with short, some yellow. Herbarium specimen adpressed hairs, gland-tipped but (WSY0107466) in WSY. DCP: The soon necrotising from the apex; Alpine Gardener 77: 474–475. blade slightly fleshy, to 100 × 55mm but frequently much smaller, long- Thalictrum ‘Elin’ ovate, apex subacute, base cordate AM as a hardy flowering plant for with margins coarsely toothed to garden decoration. E: Great Dixter almost lobed in the upper portion, Nurseries, Northiam, Rye, East Sussex teeth tipped with a dark gland; veins TN31 6PH on 18 May 2009. Plants fanning out from the base paler on the 1.8–2.4m tall, upright stems, nice upper side; surface subglabrous with purple grey leaves and shoots, violet few very short hairs, often in small flowers dominated by yellow ruff. depressions, underside with occasional Photographic print (WSY0112338) in short hairs interspersed with longer, WSY. gland-tipped hairs. Inflorescence a much-branched raceme; peduncle Trillium rivale Purple Heart Group and pedicels covered with short ‘Purple Heart’ and long, wavy, gland-tipped hairs, AM*. E: Dr C Lafong, Glenrothes, green becoming white, each branch Fife, Scotland on 21 March 2009.

Rhizomatous perennial with single burgundy (closest to 187A) at base. stems to 160mm. Leaves distinctly Leaves rhomboid, 85 × 80mm, petiolate, petiole to 15mm long, blade sessile, acuminate, glabrous, fresh ovate, sharp-tipped, c. 36 × 22mm, pale green, silvery along veins, shiny minutely toothed at the margin, on the underside. Flowers single, veins silvery. Flowers solitary on erect solitary. Pedicels slender, curved, pedicel to 50mm; sepals ovate, to c. 50mm long; sepals c. 22 × 10mm, 10 × 4mm; corolla to 35mm across, acute, sessile, recurved at tips; petals petals suborbicular tapering to an broad ovate, 32 × 22mm, sessile apiculate tip, 22 × 20mm, white, hooded at the blunt tips, white; densely spotted with red-purple anthers short-stalked, creamy; ovary (59C); filaments equal in length to 6-locular, ovoid, 5 × 5mm, very dark the anthers, pollen yellow; stigma purple (N186A). Herbarium specimen bluntly trifid. Herbarium specimen (WSY0109027) in WSY. D: The Alpine (WSY0107465) in WSY. DCP: The Gardener 78: 231–232. Alpine Gardener 77: 475–478. Tropaeolum × tenuirostre Trillium rivale Reticulate-leaved AM§. E: Dr C Grey-Wilson, Bury Group St Edmunds, Norfolk on 17 April AM*. E: Mr G Mawson, Dronfield 2010. Twining climber to 400mm on 28 March 2009. Clump-forming as exhibited. Leaves on long, perennial to 180mm tall as exhibited. slender, twisting petioles palmately Leaves glabrous, petiole to c. 7mm, divided into 5–6, very nearly to the blade to c. 30 × 20mm, ovate, base; leaflets c. 7 × 4mm, obovate, apiculate, base truncate, rounded overlapping at the widest point, or subcordate, veins silvery white forming a sinus at the base, hairless, with a white tip at the apex. Pedicel green (143A) with a pale midrib. erect, to c. 50mm. Flowers single, Flowers to 25mm long and 13mm solitary; sepals narrowly ovate, acute, broad, borne singly on slender green; petals ovate 16 × 14mm, white pedicels to 40mm; calyx lobes spotted with red-purple (60B); stigma triangular 7 × 5mm, orange-red bluntly trilobed; stamens c. 7mm, (N34) fading to green at the margins; the filaments as long as the anthers. spur to 15mm, very narrow at the tip Herbarium specimen (WSY0107470) and slightly curved; petals 7 × 6mm, in WSY. DCP: The Alpine Gardener 77: greenish yellow (1A), throat with 478–479. maroon markings.

Trillium simile Tulipa ‘Honeymoon’ AM*. E: Mr R Gordon, Portglenone, AM*. E: Primrose Nurseries, Bloms County Antrim on 25 April 2009. Bulbs, Melchbourne, Bedford, Herbaceous perennial to 300mm Bedfordshire MK44 1ZZ on 28 April as exhibited. Stems slightly fleshy 2009. FCC*. E: Mr Geoff Hollingdale, to c. 200mm, glabrous, green but 16 Wellington Avenue, Princes Plants given RHS Exhibition Awards 2008–2010 137

Risborough, Buckinghamshire, Tulipa orthopoda HP27 9HY on 27 April 2010. Flowering AM*. E: Royal Botanic Gardens, stem 45cm tall, strong yellow-green Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 3AB on (144A). Tepals 8cm long and 7cm at 17 February 2009. Tepals boat-shaped widest point. Tepals yellowish white and acuminate, strongly reflexed (155D), with a spot of a creamier tone from midway, upper surface pure at base, midrib broad and slightly white, with yellow (12A) at base, with creased in the inner tepals, margins a thin line of grey (188A) above and and apex heavily fringed. Stamens pinkish tinge at apex; lower surface white. Anthers and style pale yellow. grey (188A), mixed with green Leaves smooth, moderate olive green tones and with pink at the margins. (137B) on underside, with moderate Leaves long, curved, canaliculate yellow-green (137C) above and a thin without a prominent midrib and band of pale yellow-green at margins. strongly hooded, (137A) overlaid with Herbarium specimen (WSY0112459) (136D) sheen. Herbarium specimen in WSY. (WSY0107443) in WSY. DCP: The Alpine Gardener 77: 471–472. Tulipa humilis ‘Alanya’ FCC*. E: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Tulipa ‘Paul Scherer’ Richmond, Surrey TW9 3AB on 6 April PC*. E: Primrose Nurseries, Bloms 2010. Flowering stem 20cm tall. Tepals Bulbs, Melchbourne, Bedford, 40mm long, ovate, slightly incurved, Bedfordshire MK44 1ZZ on 27 April overlapping at base, deep purplish red 2010. Flowering stem 56cm tall. (61A), banded with blue-purple and Tepals 7cm long and 4.5cm wide, dark purple at base. Leaves 150mm rounded, blunt, with margins long, 23mm at widest point, lanceolate, incurved, smooth, but with margins moderate yellow-green (138B). narrowly ribbed, minutely crenate and lightly notched, N79A, with pale Tulipa ‘Maureen’ tints, upper margins N187A, with a FCC*. E: Primrose Nurseries, Bloms narrow band of yellowish white at Bulbs, Melchbourne, Bedford, base; inner tepals deeply truncate, Bedfordshire MK44 1ZZ on 18 May lightly ribbed, with narrow midrib 2009. Flowering stem 88cm tall. showing, close to N187A, but with a Tepals 7.5cm long and 4.5cm at purple tone; the inside of the tepals widest point, broadly ovate, with a N187A. Stamens bright purple, narrow raised midrib, greenish white touched white at base. Anthers dark (155A), touched pale greenish yellow purple. Style yellowish white. Leaves 2D at midrib. Leaves 40cm long and broadly lanceolate, a little twisted, 5.5cm at the widest point, smooth with margins incurved from the on upper surface, lightly ribbed midrib, upper surface N138B, lower below. Stem yellow-green, with leaves surface N138B, but with yellow tints slightly darker. Herbarium specimen and pale yellow-green along the (WSY0112458) in WSY. margins. Stem c. 145A.

Tulipa ‘Toyota’ opposite pairs, joined at the base, PC§. E: Mr Paul Payne, Norwich, large 4 × 3mm, small 3 × 2mm, ovate, Norfolk on 28 April 2009. Flowering somewhat clawed, stamens 2, white. stem 58cm tall. Tepals 11cm long and Specimen of flowers only in Herb. Hort. 7cm at widest point, the outer surface Wisley (WSY). Herbarium specimen of the tepals strong red (53B) at base, (WSY0109030) in WSY. DCP: The Alpine paling towards apex, with white at Gardener 78: 253–254. margins at base and in a broad band from apex to mid-point along the Viburnum plicatum f. tomentosum margins, bilobed at apex; the inner ‘Elizabeth Bullivant’ surface of the tepals vivid red (46B) AM§. E: Mrs E Bullivant, Warminster, at base, paling to apex, with a thin Wiltshire on 5 October 2010. band of vivid purple (82A) below, A chance seedling from V. plicatum white at base, along the midrib from f. tomentosum ‘Pink Beauty’ found mid-point to apex and in a broad in Stourton House Garden. It first band from apex to mid-point along flowered in 1975 and had reached the margins. Stamens white, with a height of about 3.7m by October a thin band of purple just below 2009, with stiff, horizontal branches in the apex. Anthers black. Style pale tiers up to 2m long. It is less vigorous yellow. Leaves smooth, dark yellowish than V. plicatum f. tomentosum ‘Pink green (139B) on the underside, with Beauty and flowers and fruits freely, moderate yellow-green (148A) above producing large heads of pure, white and a thin band of bright yellow-green flowers with large ray florets along the at margins. Stem strong yellow- branches in late May. This is followed green (144B). Herbarium specimens by a second flush of flowers in (WSY0112460, WSY0112832) in WSY. September and October, at the same time as the red fruit. Grown in full Vanda Black Magic gx ‘Miriam’ sun, the leaves colour well from late AM†. E: Hilmar Bauch, Asendorf, October to November. Inflorescence Germany on 19 June 2010. DCP: The a compound umbel of up to 50 fertile Orchid Review 118: 170 –171. and a few sterile flowers, each terminal umbel containing about Veronica oltensis 6 fertile flowers. Peduncle c. 50mm, PC*. E: Mr C Lilley, Anston, Sheffield pink-flushed and pubescent. Pedicels on 18 April 2009. Mat-forming less than 2mm. Fertile flowers perennial to 30 × 300mm, as white, c. 4mm, with 5-lobed corolla, exhibited. Leaves opposite, pinnatifid, 5-lobed calyx and 5 stamens. Sterile margins entire, green (135B), to florets, white with a slight pink flush, 5mm. Inflorescence a raceme to 18–36mm. Ovary inferior. Fruits 30mm; pedicel erect, to 6mm; sepals ellipsoid, c. 5mm long by 4mm broad, dark green, linear c. 2 × 0.1mm; red (42A) ageing to maroon or black. flowers flat, 4-petalled, blue with a Leaves ovate or elliptic, to c. 9 × 5cm, white eye; petals 2 large, 2 small in with 8–10 pairs of impressed veins, Plants given RHS Exhibition Awards 2008–2010 139 developing wine-red autumn colour. bloom on the underside, venation Herbarium specimens (WSY0099291, strongly parallel. Stems upright, WSY0109697, WSY0111911) in WSY. glabrous, purplish, clad to just below the inflorescence in sheathing × Vuylstekeara Saint Aubin gx bracts, papery, green, parallel-sided, ‘Grosnez Castle’ apiculate, to 30 × 7mm. Inflorescence AM†. R and E: Eric Young Foundation, c. 10-flowered raceme. Pedicels to Victoria Village, Trinity, Jersey, Channel 10mm, purple, drooping. Flowers Islands JE3 5HH on 24 October 2008. with six equal tepals, oblong to DCP: The Orchid Review 117: 52. oblanceolate, c. 10 × 3mm, free, white; stamens to c. 15mm, anthers small, Ypsilandra cavalieri grey-black, filaments purple (76C); AM*. E: Mrs J Bramley, Holymoorside, style equal to or slightly exceeding Chesterfield on 7 March 2009. Slow- anthers, purple (76B); style small, pale, growing perennial to 180 × 300mm flat; ovary to 2.5mm, dark, superior. as exhibited. Leaves arranged in loose Herbarium specimen (WSY0109023) rosettes to c. 200mm, oblanceolate, in WSY. DCP: The Alpine Gardener 78: green, glabrous but with a silvery 247–248.