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RNRS and Provincial Rose Shows

2009 CHAMPIONSHIPS
Open Champion and Dean Hole Trophy	Alice and Tony Bracegirdle
250s Champion -	David Bryant
Under 100s Champion -	Dick Bathe
Spring Champion -	David Weatherby

The Spring Show 2009 at at Malvern Showground
Kilbee Cup and Spring Champion - David Weatherby
Gregory Challenge Cup  -  Dave Weatherby
Francis Turner Trophy  -  John Anthony
Premier HT bloom - variety Andrea Stelzer exhibited by Bill Heath
Best Exhibit in Show - Basket of miniatures exhibited by Dave Weatherby
Spring Show 2009 Results Click Here
HT Signature in frame Pauline and Ray martin	Dave Weatherby's winning basket of Luis Desamero	Golden Mimi and Little Buckeroo bowl - Pauline and Ray Martin	HT in a rame - Dreamtime by Gareth Davies
Spring Champion - Dave Weatherby	Pauline and Ray Martin's Bees Knees	Pauline and Ray Martin's Chelsea Belle and Irresistible basket	Dave Weatherby's winning bowl of miniature Irresistible
John Anthony's winning miniature box and palette	Pauline and Ray Martin's 2nd placed box and palette	Dave Weatherby's 3rd placed box and palette	MiniFlora box of 4 Rocky Top and two Class of 73 - Pauline and Ray Martin

EARLY SUMMER SHOW 2009 at Squires Garden Centre, Badshot Lea
Open Show Champions - Pauline and Ray Martin
Under 250s Champion -
Under 100s Champion -
Early Summer Show 2009 - full results - CLICK HERE TO DOWN LOAD pdf

MID SUMMER SHOW 2009 at Austins Roses

AUTUMN SHOW 2009 at Harrogate
Due the desert-like conditions on our allotment in Felixstowe we were able to cut only enough blooms to fill a mixed basket and even that came second to Tony Bracegirdle's entry. The drought that we have experienced seems not to have affected the rose growers of Cumbria. John Bell, Ian Graham and Mark Hewertson staged some marvellous exhibits and they along with others produced some excellent autumn HTs. At the end of the show, I gathered up these few random blooms and photographed them in some disbelief. They had stood in the show for three days and still looked in top condition! Incredible.
Andrea Stelzer	Racy Lady	Silver Anniversary	Signature
Until Harrogate I had only ever seen the name, Neil Duncan on exhibitors cards, often with red labels on them, and had never actually met the man himself. Neil works, along with his lovely new wife Paula, at a racing stables and because of the demanding hours that they have to put in, need to get to a show early; stage the roses and head off home before most of us have even arrived! 'Riding out' the race horses is an early morning task and has to be done every day. A rare week-end off meant that Neil could actually see the roses after they had been judged! His roses are magnificent and he will be a real force to be reckoned with next year as he gradually builds his stock of roses. The picture below shows Neil with his first attempt at a miniature basket using the variety Hot Tamale. I have never cut that many blooms from my Hot Tamale bushes in total in the many years  that I have tried to grow it!  Congratulations Neil and we look forward to your roses next season - how about putting a few bushes into the greenhouse for Malvern?   John Bell brought many fine blooms to Harrogate, none better than the twelve he selected for his 'Best in Show' bowl of twelve HTs.
Neil Duncan		John and his best bowl	John's bowl
This year's Autumn show marked the end of an era when Ron and Ann Nilett retired from their Show Manager position. They truly will be impossible to replace and while the show Committee decide how future shows will run without them, here's a  picture of Ann and Ron recieving the gifts that the exhibitors contributed to to thank them for their years of unstinting service and one of the cake baked by Pauline Naylor to mark the event.
Ann and Ron Niblett with Ann Bird and John Anthony	Ann and Ron's Retirement cake	The roses at Harrogate this year were amongst the best that I have seen at the Autumn Show. The cool weather during the weekend ensured that the roses remained in good condition until breakdown on sunday.
David Parker's box of HTs	David Parker's Glowing Amber basket	Alice and Tony's bowl of mixed roses	Our basket of mixed roses

Only three entries in this class but it does take an awful lot of roses to fill the one square metre of tabling	Beginner's luck? Maybe but we were really chuffed to get the first prize certificate and the Piggott Cup at our first attempt
One bowl of HTs and One bowl of Floribundas - after the weather we've had in the UK you may have thought that quantity rather than quality would be the order of the day. Paul Evans fromNorth Wales took the honours with some nice floribundas and some very clean HTs. Tony and Alice Bracegirdle were second and we were third.	Our miniature bushes are very much 'in between flushes' at the moment and these were all we could muster for the miniature bowl class

A new class - A basket of eight HT roses	Pauline's favourite class - A basket of mixed roses
Mike Thompson's miniature picture frame entry - Memphis Music	Our bowl of 12 cluster flowered
One of our Twice in a Blue Moons - not huge blooms but good enough for a bowl	Mike Thompson's bowl of twelve minis
Now that's what I call a Man's rose!!" Gareth shows his preference for HTs above those danged minis and minifloras	Mike the Rose - the Rhondda rose King
Rhondda's own - Millie Jones	Ace judge Ivor Clark, examines one of the specimen HT exhibits
New from the USA, a stunning HT from Tantau in Germany. Already winning prizes in UK rose shows - Hot Princess	Odyssey - a floribunda from amateur breeder Frank Cowlishaw
A first prize for this palette of miniatures	Mike Thompson's box of twelve miniflora

This winning exhibit by Alice and Tony Bracegirdle featuring the white HT Silver Anniversary	Dave Weatherby's bowl of the cluster flowered miniature Fired Up was judged; Best Miniature Exhibit	Never the easiest variety to stage, our bowl of Buff Beauty drew many admiring glances - good on the nose too!         .	HT in a picture frame is proving to be a very popular class. Our entry of Andrea Stelzer was placed second at judging but twenty four hours later, on the second day, looked a lot better
Dave Weatherby from Southport used Behold, Amber Star and Sweet Caroline for his winning exhibit of three vases of five stems of miniature roses	Little Muff, a superb miniature bred by the late Colin Horner, was staged here, to perfection by that man from Southport again; Dave Weatherby	Glowing Amber, the George Mander's bred miniature was used extensively by many exhibitors	Add your content here
Bowls of HTs and Floribundas  await the judges	A basket of Austin's English roses staged by Alice and Tony Bracegirdle	Our four Sally Holmes bushes produced some quality stems of this fine variety to enable us to pick up a First in this basket class	Our bowl of OGRs
I would never complain about a judging decision but was 'surprised' when this bowl was judged first ahead of ours ???	Many times National Champion, Tony Bracegirdle, explaining the finer points of the cluster flowered bowl of twelve stems	The bowl of twelve miniature roses class was keenly contested; this exhibit, by Mike Thompson, featured a vvariety of fine blooms.	Tony Bracegirdle produced this excellent bowl of twelve Amber Sunset to deservedly win a top quality class
Dave Weatherby's bowl of 12 Louis Desamero -	Our bowl of 12 Sally Holmes, Best Cluster Flowered exhibit and Garden News Best exhibit on second day	Three Wise Men - Judges, Mike Roberts, Malcolm        and Brian deliberate on the winner	Miniature rose X Rated exhibited by Steve James
Another judging 'surprise' - we were second again to Tony and Alice's basket	A good looking exhibit for sure but I really fncied ours to get the first prize. Can't  win them all!

Mid Summer Show 2008 at Newby Hall

Miniature Show 2008

Autumn Show 2008 at Harrogate

Premier Bloom  - Buxum Beauty - exhibited by David Bryant	Bloom of Merit  - Wimi - exhibited by Alice and Tony Bracegirdle	Bloom of Merit - Die Welt- exhibited by Mark Hewertson	Bowl of 12 HTs - Under 500 Div - exhibited by John Percival
Alice and Tony Bracegirdle's bowl of 18 HTs	Alice and Tony's  bowl of HTs was judged Best Exhibit on the second day	Alice and Tony's box of distinct HTs, always a challenge, particularly at the Autumn Show.	Jim Naylor presents Alice and Tony with their twelve National Championship
A well staged vase of HTs exhibited by Mark Hewertson	A stem of Sexy Rexy exhibited by Mark Hewertson	Mark's winning cluster flowered vase of Pink Flower Carpet	Mark receives the 100sDiv Championship award from Jim Naylor
HT in a picture frame class winner Julia's Kiss exhibited by Alice and Tony Bracegirdle	HT in a picture frame class runner-up was this Elina exhibited by John Anthony. Two hours after judging it looked superb and if re-judged at the time of this photograph may have won	Mavis Chaplin with her basket of single stemmed miniature roses which was judged to be the Best Miniature in the show