Dundee Flower Show 2015
This page is dedicated to the popular Dundee Annual Flower and Food Festival held
at Camperdown Park, in early September. This show
is held over 3 days, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Making this one of the main venues in Scotland.
Well worth visiting for a great day out.
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Pot section
Six Pots
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Class 340. Six pot plant
Class 340. 1st Alistair Barnard Glenrothes
Winner of the East of Scotland Begonia Pot Plant Open Championship
The Millenium Trophy
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Three Pots
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Class 341 3 Pots
Class 341. 1st Mrs Lilian Lowden Dundee
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One Pot
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Class 343 One Pot white or cream
Class 343. 1st Mr M Hay Dundee======================================================================
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One Pot
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Class 346 One pot Orange or Red
Class 346. 1st Dr Alistair Crozier Broughty Ferry
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Foliage
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Class 349. One pot plant foliage, Rex.
Class 349. 1st Mrs Rosemary Slater, Monifeith.
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Small flowered
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Class 350. One small flowered BegoniaClass 350. 1st Dr Alistair Crozier Broughty Ferry
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Class 350. 2nd Bruce McLeod Meigle.
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One pot pendula
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Class 351 One Pot pendula
Class 351. 1st Mr A Weepers Leven
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Class 351. 2nd Dr Alistair Crozier Broughty Ferry
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Class 351. 3rd Mrs Lilian Lowden Dundee
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Species
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Class 352 One Pot Species
Class 352. 1st Bruce McLeod Meigle
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Novice
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Class 365. 1st Dr Alistair Crozier Broughty Ferry
Best exhibit in novice section
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Cut Bloom Section
Six Blooms
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Class 353. Six Begonia Blooms on a board
Class 353. 1st John Hamilton. Coalburn
Winner of A J Paterson Quaich. Best in Class 353, Six board
Varieties Tom Brownlee Colin Hamilton
Mrs Dan Ramage Tom Brownlee
Tom Brownlee Joyce Mihulka
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Class 353. 2nd Bruce McLeod Meigle.
Varieties. Ruby Young Geoff Bizley
Fair Maid of Perth Alexandria
Mrs E McLaughlan Fair Maid of Perth
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Class 353. 3rd Ian Baird, Perth.
Varieties. Hercules Gay Gordon
Sweet Dreams Peach Melba
Peach Melba Powder Puff
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3 Blooms
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Class 354. Three Begonia Blooms on board White or Cream
Class 354 1st Bruce McLeod Meigle
Varieties. Billie Langdon
Whispers
Billie Langdon
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3 Blooms Bi colour or Picotee
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Class 356. Three Begonia Blooms on board Bi-colour or Picotee
Class 356 1st John Hamilton Coalburn
Varieties. Fair Maid of Perth
Fair Maid of Perth
Fair Maid of Perth
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Class 356 2nd Bruce McLeod. Meigle
Varieties. Ruby Young
Powder Puff
Can Can
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Class 356 3rd Ian Baird, Perth.
Varieties. Ziggy
Isobel Keenan
Ziggy
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Three Blooms Mixed
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Class 357. Three Begonia Blooms Mixed on board Class 357. 1st John Hamilton Coalburn
Varieties. Tom Brownlee
Falstaff
Mary Heatley
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Class 357. 2nd Bruce McLeod Meigle
Varieties. Rob Young
Whispers
Moonlight
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Class 357. 3rd Ian Baird, Perth.
Varieties. Peach Melba
Powder Puff
Hercules
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One Bloom Pink
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Class 360. One Bloom Pink
Class 360. 1st John Hamilton Coalburn
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Around the Show.
Carnations
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A nice example of a fine edged picotee
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Another fine vase of carnations
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Nice to see as many vases entered
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Sweet Peas
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Amazing array of colour
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The scent from sweet peas is absolutely amazing in your home
and the effect set in a fan display as above shows them at their best
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Sweet peas set up in a bowl, look great with
a few pieces of gypsophila mixed in.
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Another fine bowl of sweet peas
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An excellent exhibit to finish with
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Roses
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Very traditional flowers still hard to better in a vase
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More lovely colours
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An attractive bowl of roses
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Cactii
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These plants give you thoughts of dry hot places
Alan Weepers, Leven
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A view of the staging with an array of different types
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This plant stands up well and must be a fair age.
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Another outstanding plant
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Another well grown plant
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This one is another excellent example
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An attractive group of pots
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You had better be careful around this cactus
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A varied selection of plants displayed in a box
a very impressive exhibit
Alan Weepers Leven
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Gladiolus
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Lovely spikes on display
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The size and quality is obvious
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Three sets of staging with Gladiolus an impressive sight
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Fuschias
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Widely grown by many people making it a firm favourite at the show
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This year I decided to concentrate on bowls of blooms rather than pots
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Each one is very different but still very interesting
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The blending of the colours is what really makes them very individual
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Less blooms but still worth setting up
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A great example to finish on, found these very appealing
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Chrysanthemums
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Callum Smith. Anstruther.
Winner of Forsyth Challenge Cup
& John Watson Trophy
with a fabulous display of Sprays
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Robert Jackson Tillicoultry
Impressive three pots of three Blooms
Winner of The Haggart Cup
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Robert Jackson Tillicoultry
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Fruit and Vegetables
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Fantastic Fruit and Berries on display
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Gorgeous apples and grapes
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A view of vegetable staging
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Extensive display of shallots and carrots
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Carrots
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It takes a lot of skill preparation and effort to get carrots like this
well done.
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Celery
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Good celery heads, well worthy of displaying
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A full staging of celery
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Onions
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A good number of onion sets, with shallots in the background
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Onions 1kg to 1.5 kg Top rate exhibit
Ronnie Jackson
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Onions Large Exhibition
Peter Clark, well done
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A fantastic show bench filled with good onions
These are grown from seed.
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Leeks
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A nice pair of pot Leeks
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Five fantastic blanche leeks
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A lovely display of blanche leeks
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Vegetable Collections
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The collection of six vegetables is the pinnacle of the vegetable exhibits
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This excellent collection was exhibited by Peter Clark
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Diplays
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A marvellous stand from National Vegetable Society
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This NVS section stands out as something completely different,
a barrow load of produce,they all look tremendous.
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NVS Welsh Branch winning exhibit
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NVS Scottish Branch Second place exhibit
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NVS Southern Branch Third place exhibit
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Dundee Allotment Holders exhibit well put together
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Dundee Chrysanthemum and Dahlia Society Display
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Pallet Garden
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An extremely eye catching display of Gladiolus
by Glens Garden Gems
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Display of lovely Lilies by Glens Garden Gems
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A glimpse of the Honey Section
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Alice in Wonderland
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A fantastic display
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Bonsai
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A lovely collection of mainly deciduous bonsai
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A good example of bonsai
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This is a truly classic style of bonsai
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The angle of this picture makes it look strange
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I wonder how old this plant is, these truly are
the result of many years dedication
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A true mixture of styles of bonsai in this group picture
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Dahlias
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They are called giant decoratives you can see why
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A staging full of bright colours and good blooms
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Good quality cactus dahlias
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An eye catching group of dahlias
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This staging is full of gloriously coloured dahlias
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These exhibits are a mixture of decorative and cactus, really top quality
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Food Festival
We end with the Smokies
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A very traditional way to cook fish, known as Smokies
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The very famous Arbroath smokers. Iain Spink
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Here you see the haddock racked up ready to be placed in the smoker
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Here you see one of the smokers in operation covered with a hessian sack
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Here you see the end product you can see by the colour
they are cooked and ready to eat.
Truly scrumptious believe you me.
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