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SRGC Shows and Events => SRGC Shows Questions and Answers => Topic started by: DaveM on April 05, 2015, 11:20:01 AM
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We're looking forward to our show next Saturday for a feast of flowers. The show is being held at its usual venue:
Fairmilehead Parish Church
Frogston Road West
Edinburgh
In addition to the fabulous display of plants there will be the usual home baking (yum, looking forward to that) and plant sales. The following nurseries will be attending:
MacPlants
Kevock
Binney
Hartside
Edrom
Peter Foley (Waddow Lodge Garden)
and of course, the local group stall.
The plant sales area will be open from 10:30 am and the Show from 12:00.
I look forward to seeing you all there.
Dave Millward (the new, and becoming increasingly twitchy, Show Secretary)
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Directions to the venue : Fairmilehead Parish Church and Halls are situated at Fairmilehead crossroads where the A702 crosses the City Bypass at Lothianburn and heads into Edinburgh.
The postal address is Fairmilehead Parish Church, 1a Frogston Road West, Edinburgh EH10 7AA
SAT NAV: EH10 7AA
It can be reached by Lothian Buses Nos. 11 and 15 from the City Centre and from the west on Oxgangs Road by Lothian Buses Nos, 4 and 18.
If travelling by car from the city, turn left at the Fairmilehead Crossroads, and the church is almost immediately on your left
If travelling by car on the bypass, take the Lothianburn exit and proceed into town. At the first set of traffic lights, turn right and the church is almost immediately on your left. The A702 comes into Edinburgh from Biggar/Penicuik/south-west, cross the City Bypass, and turn left at the first set of traffic lights - the church is almost immediately on your left.
Wheelchair access and access for those less able to manage steps is through the church halls.
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this afternoon local members gathered to get the hall ready. It takes remarkably little time for the squad to get the tables into the hall, cover them with cloth and artificial grass ready for the entries.
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several local growers stage their plants on the Friday evening
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Looking forward to the show :)
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Show is going well - judging completed - Forrest Medal winner is ......... ??? ::) ???
Hymenoxys acaulis var. caespitosa - grown by Cyril Lafong
Well done , Cyril! another triumph!
Pix by Alan Elliott
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Alpine Dept at RBGE win another Gold Medal and A Professional Medal at the Edinburgh SRGC show - Well done!
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Professional medal was awarded to Erythronium multiscapideum
pix from John Mitchell
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Chris B. is a very busy woman - she is the SRGC subscription secretary and works very hard all year for the members - she does, however, manage to have time for some other things - and she likes to enter some plants at the shows - and today at Edinburgh, Christine has won four first prizes ! Way to go Christine!
Some pix....
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Hepatica 'Millstream Merlin'
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Primula forbesii
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Primula 'Broadwell Milkmaid'
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From all I see from photos and comments- I reckon David Millward (Dr Rock) will be well-pleased with his first time as Show Secretary in Edinburgh. Congratulations to David and his super team - they've done well.
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Mikey choosing his favourite plant from RBGE display - photo from a Tweet by Leonie Paterson .
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David was indeed pleased with his first show as secretary and revealed a talent many of us were unaware of when he wrote out all the winning cards in beautiful calligraphy. This show has quite a number of trophies. Besides the Forrest Medal class 2 has it own trophy the Henry Archibald rose bowl also won by Cyril for his 3 pan which included Draba dedeana and Trillium rivale. Second in the class were the Bainbridges with their Narcissus Abaleish taking the best bulb award the Carnethy Quaich. Cyril picked up the Elsie Harvey trophy for class 3 new, rare and difficult plants with Primula odontocalyx, Saxifraga felineri and Primula bullata var, bracteata and the Bhutan drinking cup for best Asiatic Primula with P henrici.
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The Bill Mackie Quaich for best saxifrage was won by David & Stella Rankin- sorry about the poor photo. Tom Green took the Corsar trophy for best European primula with Lismore Jewel. Your reporter won the Midlothian vase for best rhododendron with Ptarmigan and the Alf Evans quaich for an Andromeda. In Class 5 for three from seed Alan Furness won the A O Curle memorial trophy with Primula rusbyi, Hymenoxys torryana and Glaucidium palmatum var. leucanthum
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The Boonslie Cup for a mini-garden again went to Watt Russell's trough. Alison Ward received a Certificate of merit for her trillium. Christine Boulby won the Midlothian bowl for best plant in section 2 while Tony Taziker took the bronze medal for most points
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Fancy that - the Farrer Medal winning plant at the Chesterfield AGS show today was an American plant too -what are the odds on that?
See Cliff's photo of Peter Farkasch's Astragalus coccineus here: http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=13050.0 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=13050.0)
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The customary tour of the show benches starting with Class 1 for 6 small pots. Then classes for new and difficult plants and raised from seed.
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......moving on along the first bench. Primulas were particularly prominent at this show.
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onto the middle bench -cushions and ranuncs in variety then the start of the many bulbs
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in among the bulbs, a good range of trilliums, some good iris badly photographed and ericaceous shrubs
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Brassica family but not a cabbage in sight. then Lewisias, foliage and Crassulas.
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Can anyone tell us the name of the first prize-winning Rhododendron in image 5639? The white one on the right. It's smothered in flowers and just beautiful.
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geographical classes then towards the end of the open section the class for plants lifted from the open had two magnificent specimens -Peter Semple's large bowl of primroses and Watt Russel's huge trillium.
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Can anyone tell us the name of the first prize-winning Rhododendron in image 5639? The white one on the right. It's smothered in flowers and just beautiful.
Lucy Lou
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Thanks, Stan. She's a stunner.
Another great photo report, I really enjoy the Edinburgh show and was disappointed not to get there this year.
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a couple more pics. from section 2 which did not have many entries but they were of a very good standard
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people among the plants
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and more
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even more
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some of the volunteers who make the whole event possible
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six nurseries and the club plant stall are popular features -look at the number of people.
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more of the sales area-Numeracy is not a new plant nursery but Binny plants
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Nice report!
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The hyacinth display that had been at Kincardine and a smaller version of the plants on stamps display from Hexham added to the entrance hall while these and other things were duly recorded by several snappers .
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The new show secretary at work - perhaps a caption for the last one??
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I've been here for hours - you'd think someone would have brought me tea and cake......
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And Noah did speak unto the people.
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...... rapid work by the local volunteers meant that all the halls were back to normal within an hour of the show closing to the public. Then its time to load up and head home. The final snap is a rare one of myself to correct inaccurate estimates of how many journeys I need to shift my motley collection of plants - they went home easily in two loads.
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Great report once again Stan. I'd like to mention that Stan entered a massive 40 classes yesterday and was the clear, runaway winner of the most points in the Open section, also winning best Rhododendron (R. Ptarmigan) and best Ericaceae (excluding Rhodo) with Andromeda polifolia 'Nikko'. Congratulations on your success!
;D I like the caption about the cakes - not that I sat eating many of them, mind you!
Indeed, I was very pleased with how things turned out yesterday - great plants on the bench, lots of plants for sale, some excellent home baking (yum yum), and lots of public through the door to enjoy the spectacle. So, I would like to say a very big THANK YOU to all the folk who helped make my first show as Secretary such a success: to the exhibitors, without whom we wouldn't have a show; to the Edinburgh group members who helped to set up the halls on the Friday, to those who helped out on the day staffing the door and to those who helped with the catering and those who provided and sold plants on behalf of the group; and finally to the stewards and judges. You are a super team - thank you all for your support.
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Edinburgh show Forrest and Professional Medal notes here : http://files.srgc.net/Showreports/2015EdinburghForrest.pdf (http://files.srgc.net/Showreports/2015EdinburghForrest.pdf)
Sandy Leven is away so these are compiled from photos and notes from various contributors. :)
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Best plant in Section 2 at Edinburgh was Hepatica 'Millstream Merlin', shown by Christine Boulby -
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I now discover that at the AGS show in Dublin the same day, a Certificate of M<erit was awarded to the same plant - this time grown by Harold McBride- this photo os pinched from Twitter and is by one "Erica cinerea"
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Many congratulations to both Christine and Harold !
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Can't resist pinching another of "Erica cinerea's" (http://ericasgarden.blogspot.co.uk/) pix - this time of the Farrer medal plant at Dublin - shown by Val Keegan - well done Val! I expect Val's sister, an SRGC member in Aberdeenshire, will be delighted with that too!
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Draba longisiliqua
It looks to have a been a super show all round. 8)
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There is a report of the Edinburgh Show now on the main site HERE (http://files.srgc.net/Showreports/EdinburghShow2015.pdf) :)
Some errors corrected now. ;)
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Just back from a few days holiday in the Edinburgh area, the highlight being the Edinburgh and the Lothians Show. We were fortunate in being able to help with the setting up and dismantling, impressively run as a military operation. This was our first show since leaving the midlands in 2008 - the anticipation palpable, which exceeded our expectations. The sale-tables were groaning with wonderful plants, of which we had a fair share. It was also a pleasure meeting some forumists for the first time.
The car returned ladened with JonDo grit, lots of plants (bought and generously given) and food - a lot of food. 8)