HOS Plant Show, 2000 
Here are pictures of the first prize winning plants from the HOS Plant Show in 2000. Click on the thumb-nails below to see full-size pictures. Note that, in the '3-pot' classes, only one plant is shown.  The 'Best in Show' trophy was awarded to Alan Dash for this fine pot of Cypripedium fargesii entered in Class11:

 

 

 

BEST IN SHOW

 

 

'Cypripedium fargesii '

 

Alan Dash

 

  

Class 1:

 

'British'

3 pots, distinct varieties

 

 

'Orchis anthropophora '

 

Richard Manuel

 

Class 2:

 

'European'

3 pots, distinct varieties

 

 

'Ophrys helenae '

 

Pat Titleboam

 

Class 3:

 

'Non-European'

3 pots, distinct varieties

 

 

'Cypripedium fasciolatum '

 

Alan Dash

 

Class 4:

 

'British'

One pot

 

 

'Ophrys fuciflora '

 

Jan Moors

 

Class 5:

 

'European'

One pot

 

 

'Anacamptis papilionacea var. grandiflora '

Richard Manuel

 

Class 6:

 

'Non-European'

One pot

 

 

'Cypripedium macranthum '

 

Alan Dash

 

Class 7:

 

'Dactylorhiza'

One pot

 

 

'Dactylorhiza foliosa '

 

Steven Newton

 

Class 8:

 

'Orchis'

One pot

 

 

'Anacamptis papilionacea '

 

Richard Manuel

 

Class 9:

 

'Ophrys'

One pot

 

 

'Ophrys fuciflora '

 

Nick Storer

 

Class 10:

 

'Serapias'

One pot

 

 

'Serapias lingua '

 

Tony Rymer

 

Class 11:

 

'Cypripedium'

One pot

 

 

'Cypripedium fargesii '

 

Alan Dash

 

Class 12:

 

'Any other genus'

One pot

 

 

'Pleione bulbocodioides var. New Forest '

Tony Rymer