Last modified 30th June, 2003

Dates for your Diary

Cyclamen Society Spring Show, RHS Wisley, 5th April 2003

Request for Society members to 'register'.

Cyclamen Society Journal - June 2003

With the June 2003 issue, The Cyclamen Society is introducing a redesigned journal with more colour throughout and with pictures accompanying the articles. In addition, the editor and production team are grappling with newer technology and it has become inevitable that the journal will be late. At the present time, we would estimate that it will be one month late. We apologise for this, but hope that you will find that it is worth the wait.
Please bear with us. Further updates will be posted here if necessary, and we would ask that you do not email the editor asking about progress, as this may delay things still further.

Dates for your diary

Dates for members & the public are shown in bold. Other dates are given for information only.

22nd July, 2003: Publications Sub-committee Meeting, London
6th September, 2003: Show Sub-committee Meeting, Dartford.
20th September, 2003: Main Committee Meeting, Hillside Events Centre, RHS Garden, Wisley
27th - 28th September, 2003: Conference and show at Birmingham Botanical Gardens
28th September, 2003: Annual General Meeting, Birmingham Botanical Gardens
25th October, 2003: Autumn Non-competitive Show 2003: RHS Garden, Wisley
29th November, 2003: Main Committee meeting, Hillside Events Centre, RHS Garden, Wisley

Cyclamen Society Spring Show, RHS Garden, Wisley, 5th April 2003

The show was not well attended and the number of entries was poor. There were a number of excellent entries, but otherwise the standard was not generally high.

For the purposes of the show, the latest revisions to peloponnesiacum, vividum and rhodense taxa were ignored and they were still considered to be sub-species and/or varieties of C. repandum.

Trophies were awarded as follows:
Challis Cup - Awarded for the best C. repandum in the show.
Awarded to Martyn Denney for C. repandum ssp peloponnesiacum var vividum CSE92323, class 20

Peter Jones Plate - Awarded to the best plant in the show.
Awarded to Martyn Denney for C. repandum ssp peloponnesiacum var vividum class 20

Crete Trophy - Awarded to the best C. creticum in the show.
Awarded to Harry Gill for his entry in class 11

Kath Dryden Trophy - Awarded to the best plant grown from CSE seed (with history notes).
Awarded to Ian Robertson for C. repandum ssp. peloponnesiacum class 21

Show Results

Class Species Shown for Pot size No. of entries Results
1 Three pans cyclamen, distinct Flower or foliage Any size 1 1st Ian Robertson
2 repandum flower Any size 1 3rd Peter Jones
3 persicum (species) flower Any size 2 1st Pat Nicholls
2nd Jim Novis
4 persicum (cultivar) flower Any size 0  
5 Any species not eligible for classes 2 - 4 flower Any size 1 1st David Sissons
6 Any species foliage Any size 1 1st David Sissons
7 repandum ssp repandum flower Up to 190mm top dia 1 1st M. Allen
8 repandum ssp peloponnesiacum flower Up to 190mm top dia 7 1st M. Allen
2nd Sheila Brown
3rd Peter Jones
9 repandum ssp peloponnesiacum foliage Up to 190mm top dia. 5 1st Ian Robertson
2nd M. Allen
3rd Sheila Brown
10 repandum ssp. rhodense flower Up to 190mm top dia 2 2nd Jim Novis
3rd Jim Novis
11 creticum flower & foliage Up to 190mm top dia. 3 1st Harry Gill
2nd Melvyn Jope
12 balearicum flower & foliage Up to 190mm top dia 2 1st Melvyn Jope
2nd Peter Jones
13 persicum (species) flower Up to 190mm top dia 2 1st Harry Gill
2nd M. Allen
14 persicum (cultivar) flower Up to 190mm top dia 0  
15 Any inter-specific hybrid flower or foliage Up to 190mm top dia 2 =1st Ian Robertson
=1st David Sissons
16 Any species not eligible for classes 7 - 15 flower Up to 190mm top dia 4 1st Peter Jones
2nd M. Allen
3rd David Sissons
17 Any species not eligible for classes 9, 11, 12 or 15 foliage Up to 190mm top dia 4 1st Don & Heather Hyde
2nd Ian Robertson
3rd Tim Murphy
18 (open) Any species flower Any size 7 1st Peter Moore
2nd Peter Moore
3rd Peter Moore
19 (open) Any species foliage Any size 1 1st Tim Murphy
20 (open) Any cyclamen collected on a society expedition flower or foliage Any size 4 1st Martyn Denney
2nd Ian Robertson
3rd Sheila Brown
21 (open) Any plant which is the progeny of a plant collected on a Society expedition flower or foliage Any size 6 1st Ian Robertson
2nd David Sissons
3rd Don & Heather Hyde
22 (novice) Any species flower Any size 0  
23 (novice) Any species foliage Any size 0  

Request for members to 'register'

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