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Articles, News and
Updates:
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Major
News for 2007 (item
added 9th December 2006)
NCS-UK announce that all registered cultivars of any
classification may now be shown as sprays. This may be a great
idea but what happened to the trials and consultation period and the
opportunity for members to discuss and debate the desirability or
otherwise of such a sweeping change?
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Congratulations!! National Late show
winners. (item
added 7th November 2006)
Information is coming in about the 2006 U.K. National Late Show.
Congratulations to Barry and Pauline Bickerdyke on winning the class for
five vases of decoratives, gaining the Best Vase in Show award for their
vase of Cerise Patricia Millar (picture below from Jack Gilbert) and
gaining the Bentley Trophy for the Exhibit of Most Merit. It really
doesn't get much better than this!
Click this link to view the 2006
Shows page
Other winners include Ivor Mace (18 Large Exhibition), Sheila Johnson
(18 Medium Exhibition), John Hobbs ( five vases of Incurved), Peter
Fawcett (Large Singles).
More details and pictures coming shortly.
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2007 Novelties Preview. (item
added 25th October 2006)
Information is coming in about 2007 Novelties and is now available on
the 'New Releases' page. This page contains all the information I
currently have available and is not meant to be a definitive list of all
2007 releases. This page will be updated as new information becomes
available.
Click here for 2007
Novelties Preview
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Early Show reports 2006. (item
added 3rd October 2006)
Show reports are now available for many of the shows in Scotland and a
number of other major shows.
Click this link for Early
Show Reports 2006.
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Directory of Popular Cultivars (updated
28th August 2006)
Directory updated with new entries for Intermediate cultivars in all sections (Early, Late,
October). Also a few more new entries for Reflexed cultivars have been
added.
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Directory of Popular Cultivars (updated
24th August 2006)
Directory updated with more entries for Late flowering Singles, with
thanks to Nick Trotman for supplying the pictures. New entries have also
been added for many Reflexed cultivars in all sections (Early, Late,
October).
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Directory of Popular Cultivars (updated
31st July)
Directory updated with initial entries for Late flowering Singles, with
thanks to Richard and Sheila Coles for their contribution of pictures
and cultural information.
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Directory of Popular Cultivars (updated
2nd July)
Directory updated with initial entries for Early and Late flowering
spray cultivars.
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Timely advice from Harry Lawson (published
19th June)
Some timely advice on feeding from Harry Lawson:
18th June 2006 - by now Plants should look good; the warmer weather will
certainly bring forth the buds of earlies, I am counter acting by using
Calcium Of Nitrate to soften the over ripeness & make growth. Lots
of people use either Ammonia Sulphate /Ammonia Nitrate in liquid form, I
am great believer in watching the weather pattern. My main liquid feed
are 9oz of Urea & 7oz Nitrates of Potassium to 5 litres of water
stock solution then 25mls to gallon of water. 1 pint to whatever the
plants are grown in. This will help even growth. Once the side shoots
appear they get 9oz Nitrates of Potassium & 7 oz of Urea to Gallon
of water stock solution & 30mls to gallon of water. You can give
them this via the spraying programme, I use this three times during the
growth phase with Maxicrop added. This is very safe.
A word of warning: Never spray in strong sunlight. Early Morning or late
at night is best. If you have any queries contact Harry
by e-mail: harry.lawson@ntlworld.com
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Directory of Popular Cultivars (published 16th June)
This is a new initiative to create a single point of reference for U.K.
growers. Each cultivar in the directory will have as a minimum,
information about the classification, colour and size. As the directory
expands additional information will be added, such as pictures, cultural
techniques and hopefully stopping times by broad geographic region. To
begin with, the directory focuses primarily on popular U.K. exhibition
disbud cultivars, but over time there is no reason why coverage should
not expand to include other popular sections such as sprays, and non-exhibition
sections.
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New Gallery - Dennis Maher's photos of
Fantasy Chrysanthemums
(published 12th June)
Use this link to 'The
World of Fantasy Chrysanthemums' page,
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News from Canada - Hamilton C&D
Society Show (published 9th June)
Hamilton Chrysanthemum and Dahlia Society show - 20th-29th October at
Gage Park Hamilton. Theme for the show is 'A walk in the woods'.
For details contact Sheila Munday by e-mail smunday@hamilton.ca
or check the details on the website www.hamilton.ca/mumshow
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White Rust information page (published
3rd June, extended 7th June)
A new page providing information about Chrysanthemum White Rust, how to
recognise the disease and how to handle it. Also read comments from
Frank Mastramano (USA) on first hand experience with the disease
Click here for Chrysanthemum
White Rust page
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Global Calendar (updated
26th May)
The Global Events Calendar is now updated with currently available
information. Use the navigation link in header area to view the contents
of the calendar.
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Regional News and Information page (published
7th June)
A new page providing information for growers in Scotland. Additional
pages can easily be created for news in your area/region. Please send
your details by e-mail.
Click the link in the left hand navigation bar.
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Picture Gallery 2006 (added
26th May)
This new page will be updated from time to time as new pictures become
available. The first pictures were kindly supplied by Ivor Mace
and show NCS-UK floral displays at Malvern Spring Show and Chelsea
Flower show. Thanks Ivor.
Click here for the 2006
Picture Gallery.
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New Article - The world of Fantasy
Chrysanthemums (added 7th May
2006)
An excellent article by Dennis Maher (Australia) with drawings by Mikio
Okanoya (Japan). Originally published in 'Chrysanthemums Down Under' and
reproduced with kind permission from Dennis Maher. This is probably the
most comprehensive and informative article yet written on this
fascinating section of chrysanthemums.
Click here for 'The
World of Fantasy Chrysanthemums'
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New Page added - Classification changes
(announced 17th May 2006)
This new page shows recent changes in classification for some U.K.
exhibition cultivars. Use the link on the left side of this page to view
Classification changes.
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National Society News item (added
12th May 2006)
NCS-UK will
present a Floral display at the Chelsea Flower Show 22nd
to 27th May. The NCS are on Stand A9 in The Great Pavilion.
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UK National Shows 2006
(added 17/04/06)
The U.K. Early National will be held at the County Showground,
Stafford on 9th and 10th September.
The U.K. Late National will also
be held at the County Showground, Stafford on 3rd and 4th
November.
Both shows are well worth a visit
to see the standards achieved by the country's top exhibitors.
Click here for Shows
location
map.
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U.S.A. National Show details
Information provided by Carmen Keister (9/4/06).
"We are having a
National Show and Convention on 10/18/06 through 10/22/06 at the
Hyatt Dulles in Herndon, Virginia.
The Old Dominion Chrysanthemum
Society is hosting the show and the NCS is handling the
Convention."
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New Page added - Classification changes
(announced 17th May 2006)
This new page shows recent changes in classification for some U.K.
exhibition cultivars. Use the link on the left side of this page to view
Classification changes.
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Updates notification list
News items will typically appear as
soon as they become available, substantial additions and new
articles will also be
announced by e-mail to my global notification list - if you are not
on the list please contact me to have your details included.
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N.C.S. Five Year Plan (added
25/04/2006)
In response to the questions posed in 'Safeguarding the future' and in
order to satisfy the requirements of the Charity Commission, the
Trustees of the N.C.S. UK announced a Five Year Plan at the Annual
General Meeting in March 2006.
Read an assessment of the plan - NCS-UK
Five year plan assessment
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NCS U.K. Membership Drive
Information from Peter Fraser NCS U.K. membership manager
(5/4/06):
"On the membership front we
are having a real push at the Harrogate Spring Show with a 1000
leaflets going out, 800 to be issued with the sale of plants and
the rest in the Society marquee".
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New Releases 2006
Page updated with comments and some pictures
(updated 14/04/06)
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