19 October 2008
BCSS Birmingham Branch Autumn show
Posted by Stuart under: Cacti; Other Succulents .
On the 5th of October we had our autumn show with the Haworthia Society at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens; there were a lot of particularly fine haworthias on display, and I was finally tempted to join the Haworthia Society. Well, there were free cabbages up for grabs, so I went home with a nice Haworthia cymbiformis, Haworthia reticulata, and another one that I can’t remember off the top of my head.
I entered a few plants in the show this time round, mostly to make up the numbers, which was just as well as I didn’t win anything at all! My Opuntia erinacea v. ursina proved to be the most difficult customer to transport to the show. Not only was it flopping all over the place, as it’s now resting, resulting in my tying it to a couple of canes for support, but it hadn’t occurred to me that planting it in a large and decorative ceramic pot would make the thing fiendishly heavy to transport. You live and learn.
Click the Haworthia to see all the show photos!
One Comment so far...
Aiyana Says:
22 October 2008 at 9:27 am.
At least you entered. I didn’t bother this year because I just didn’t feel like schlepping heavy pots through a parking lot and then walking a good distance to the display building, then repeating the whole process at show’s end. If they don’t change the means of delivery and pickup, I’m not going to bother again next year. However, it is fun to win ribbons!
Aiyana