THE DELPHINIUM SOCIETY 2010 SHOW

This Show was held at the Hillside Events Centre of the Royal Horticultural Society's Garden at Wisley, Surrey on 26th/27th June 2010.

Click on the appropriate section of the CONTENTS LIST for pictures of some prize-winning entries.

Arrangement by Anne Blissett

Class 1. FIRST PRIZE

Class 1. THIRD PRIZE

Class 2. FIRST PRIZE

Class 2. SECOND PRIZE

Class 4: Two spikes, one dark, one light excluding white. No first prize was awarded but Bob Banks was given SECOND PRIZE. On Sunday one bloom had dropped to pieces and the THIRD PRIZE entry of small blooms of Walton Gemstone and Fenella from Graham Austin then looked superior.

Class 3. SECOND PRIZE (L), FIRST PRIZE (R)

Class4. THIRD PRIZE

Class 5. FIRST PRIZE

Class 5. SECOND PRIZE

Class 13: One spike, any cultivar and six florets of the cultivar.

The FIRST PRIZE card was awarded to a bloom and set of florets of 'Lucia Sahin', a deep dusky pink staged by Terry Woolley. SECOND PRIZE went to Warwick Brench and THIRD PRIZE to Stan Ellison.

Terry Woolley's wining bloom was particularly nice, with regularly spaced flowers open right to the top and this bloom won the Mary Pope Trophy for the best bloom at this Show.

Class 18: One spike, multi-coloured or double flowers. This class again attracted questioning as to what constitutes a 'multi-coloured flower'. This time, the FIRST PRIZE was won by Doug Pounds with a very large bloom with flowers that open white but develop large areas of brown pigmentation around the edge of the sepals as the bloom ages, as seen more clearly in the close-up picture of another bloom below. THIRD PRIZE went to a small bloom of 'Tiddles' from Warwick Brench..

Class 13 FIRST PRIZE

Class 18 FIRST PRIZE

FIRST PRIZE went to Bob Banks for a set of three blooms seen below of an un-named purple flower open right to the top of the spikes. A set of neat blooms in different colours from David Bassett was awarded SECOND PRIZE and THIRD PRIZE went to a vase of small but fresh blooms from Terry Blissett. Another vase of three large blooms of excellent quality was present on the bench but was not considered because the exhibit was considerably oversize.

Class 21 FIRST PRIZE

Class 21 SECOND PRIZE

Class 22 (L) FIRST PRIZE

A brown-tinged white from Doug Pounds

Class7: Two spikes, white or cream. From the six entries here, the two large but loosely-packed blooms of a selected seedling from John Flowerday took FIRST PRIZE. Doug Pounds staged blooms of a white seedling with lovely clean white florets for SECOND PRIZE and THIRD PRIZE went to Graham Austin for broad tapering blooms of 'Elisabeth Cook' .

Class 8: One spike, white or cream. FIRST PRIZE was awarded to a nice tapered bloom of an un-named white with a honey brown eye from Doug Pounds. A small but fresh bloom of cream-flowered 'Sunkissed' from Terry Blissett won SECOND PRIZE and THIRD PRIZE went to Alaster Calder's entry.

Class 7. THIRD PRIZE

Class 8. (Centre) FIRST PRIZE

Class 9: Two spikes, any blue cutivars. No first prize was awarded but Doug Pounds added to his points total with SECOND PRIZE for blooms of two gentian blue seedlings that were not well matched. Graham Austin took THIRD PRIZE for two small and rather crowded blooms of 'Margaret'.

Class 9. SECOND PRIZE

Class 9. THIRD PRIZE

Class 10.

David Basssett's Blues

Class 11: Two spikes, any pink cultivar. There were six entries and the Judges gave the FIRST PRIZE to the neat and broad-based blooms of 'Darling Sue' staged by Graham Austin. This cultivar raised by the late Jim Cooke has a pretty brown eye. SECOND PRIZE was awarded to Bob Banks and the THIRD PRIZE went to small blooms of 'Lucia Sahin' staged by Stan Ellison.

Class 12: One spike, pink. FIRST PRIZE went to Doug Pounds for a lovely bloom of one of his many seedlings. SECOND PRIZE went to a large immature bloom from Bob Banks and Graham Austin's pretty bloom of 'Foxhill Nina' was awarded THIRD PRIZE.

Class 11

Class 12. First Prize

Class 14. FIRST PRIZE

Class 14. Highly Commended

Class 15. FIRST PRIZE

Class 15.

Class 17: One spike, seedling, pink. A FIRST PRIZE was awarded to Doug Pounds for another of his nice selected seedlings and a THIRD PRIZE went to Mark Lyman for a small, neat bloom of light pink flowers.

Class 17. FIRST PRIZE

Large but rather untidy blooms from Peter Pearce were rewarded with a FIRST PRIZE.

Class 20. FIRST PRIZE

Bob Banks gained the FIRST PRIZE for an excellent set of very large light pink florets with a neat eye. Shirley Bassett gained SECOND PRIZE for a set of attractive bright mid pink florets set off by a good white eye. THIRD PRIZE went to Terry Woolley for his set of pale violet florets with dark eyes.

Class 19: 1st Prize

Class 19: 2nd Prize

Class 19. 3rd Prize

FIRST PRIZE went to David Bassett for a set of seedling florets in pale pink and violet/mauve shades and Shirley Bassett's set of seedling florets in more intense colours took the SECOND PRIZE. Unfortunately by Sunday they looked to have been displaced from their original arrangement, possibly due to the way the leaves forming the background change as they take up water overnight....a hazard of not being able to check exhibits immediately before judging if you stage flowers on Friday evening! A set of florets of two blue cultivars from Mark Lyman took the THIRD PRIZE.

Class 20: 1st Prize

Class 20: 2nd Prize

Class 20: 3rd Prize

Duncan Hagan

Warwick Brench

Carolyn Clarke

Carolyn Clarke

Anne Blissett

In a Year when Staff Shortages and changes in personnel have afflicted the RHS at Wisley, special thanks are due to the Staff of the Royal Horticultural Society's Garden for their cooperation and assistance in making this Show a reality.