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SRGC Shows and Events => SRGC Shows Questions and Answers => Topic started by: ChrisB on March 09, 2017, 12:44:53 PM
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This show will be held in the Wentworth Leisure Centre in Hexham on Saturday, April 1st.
Please find a list of the 9 Garden Plant Nurseries that have now confirmed that they will be at the Hexhan Spring Show on Saturday 1st April 2017
Aberconwy Nursery - Wales
Slack Top Nursery - West Yorkshire
Harperley Hall Farm Nursery - Durham
Ryal Nursery - Northumberland
Timpany Nursery - Ulster
Potterton Nursery - Lincolnshire
Hartside Nursery - Alpines with Altitude - Northumberland
Rumbling Bridge Nursery - Kinross - Scotland
Edrom Nursery - Coldingham - Scotland
In addition we wlii have our Group Members Plant stall.
Parking in Hexham is a controlled by zones where depending on the colour zone controls the time limit you can park - please see the SRGC Forum item posted by Peter Maguire for last years show. It is self explanatory.
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Peter's post mentioned by Christine is here : http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=14175.msg354346#msg354346 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=14175.msg354346#msg354346)
Wentworth/Hexham parking sign -
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Hexham details for joint show
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Susan and I are hoping to get there this year and are looking forward to it. :)
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Thanks Maggi, was doing this for Angus.....
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Thanks Christine - worth repeating here from the News section, that there is a new contact for this show : Angus Thompson, The Old Garden House, Belsay Hall, Belsay, Northumberland NE20 0DX
Telephone 01661 881240 Email: Angus.Thompson@agsgroups.org
Here is the Show Schedule : http://files.srgc.net/show_info/Northumberland2017.pdf (http://files.srgc.net/show_info/Northumberland2017.pdf)
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Thanks again, Maggi! Darren, will be great to see you there if you can make it. Would love to catch up on what you two have been up to, I help with the entries now in the mornings but I'm off the hook in the afternoon....
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Remember that parking restrictions can catch out the unwary - though with a little care there is plenty free parking - you can read more here : http://www.alpinegardensociety.net/stoppress/Northumberland+AGSSRGC+Show+Hexham+this+Saturday/201/ (http://www.alpinegardensociety.net/stoppress/Northumberland+AGSSRGC+Show+Hexham+this+Saturday/201/)
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Here we are about to set off. Up at 4:45 on a saturday. Voluntarily. Talk about April fools day....
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I'm pretty impressed that you can operate an electronic machine and type at that hour, Darren ;D
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The AGS/SRGC Show at Hexham seems to be going well- Andrew Radley has pictured some super trilliums on show - still time to visit of course! Open till 3.30pm
Andrew Radley's photos ..... including T. albidum amd T. pusillum pusillum
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Two very fine yellow forms of Trillium chloropetalum which took Andrew's eye ....
an excellent pot of Trillium chloropetalum 'Bob Gordon' and also Trillium chloropetalum 'Val Mulvihill'
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Andrew also notes a selection of Trillium rivale colours....
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More pix from Andrew Radley at the show today ....
Callianthemeum kingishiense
Caltha himalaica
Cyclamen persicum
Fritillaria ( - looks like some sort of F. hermonis?)
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A very fine Ranunculis alpestris ( with a good Phylliopsis in the background, I think )
Pulsatilla vernalis
Saxifraga dinnikii
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I'm pretty impressed that you can operate an electronic machine and type at that hour, Darren ;D
Sadly it is only an hour earlier than I get up on weekdays. Like to be early to work so I can achieve something before the distractions start arriving.
We just got home after a lovely day in Hexham and we are having a cuppa and a hot cross bun before I go out and water the many new purchases then make my driver her well earned tea!
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First the Levers' Farrer plant Sebaea Bychan which had to beat off some every strong competition - see merit certificates shortly. Don Peace's fine plants took several awards with a merit certificate for a Fritillaria Lentune Slate , the AGS small 6 pan medal and the Sandhoe trophy for best plant in a 19 cm pot with another frit F. pinardii. He also took the Cooke plate for most points in the open section. Final one of this group is George Young's 3 pan from a named continent - North America - which took the Bill McKenzie trophy.
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Next the new David Boyd memorial award for a Hepatica taken by Alan Newton. Cyril Lafong won he EB Watson trophy for a new, rare or difficult plant with Saxifraga quadrifaria. The Alpines 2001 trophy -in the form of a dinosaur coprolite! - for best cushion plants which moves round the shows went to a very impressive Helichrysum pagopyhllum shown by the Hoyles. As the only entrant to class 1 I received the AGS medal for 6 large pots.
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Some well deserved merit certs. Ian Kidman's Ranunculus alpestris. Geoff Rollinson's Primula henrici. Then Billy Moore's Trillium chloropetalum Bob Gordon mentioned earlier.
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In section 2 and 3 the Gordon Harrison cup for section 2 intermediate went to Colin & Kathleen Billington who also won an SRGC bronze medal while the Cyril Barnes trophy for section 3 novice was won by Robert Dodds. RBGE pot on their customary fine display of bulbs which received a gold medal card.
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My word, some really cracking plants there - congratulations to all those growers. Angus T, the new Show Secretary, must be pleased with the day!
Very fetching large six pan, Stan -good balance. I can't tell you, though, how pleased I am not to have had to carry them!
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My sincerest thanks to the photographers for showing us these fine plants.
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The date of the show was not lost on some exhibitors.
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A couple of views of the hall from the floor above where the joint rock committee was meeting
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now some general views from ground level
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I love April 1st Shows, some people have wonderful imaginations :D
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round the benches
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more
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more
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and more
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and onwards
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and on
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continuing
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and more
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others
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more
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and onwards
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more
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and the end of the open section
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sections 2 and 3 did not have so many entries his year but there were some nice plants
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people among all the plants
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more
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and others
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more
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and more
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yet more
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and others
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continuing
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last batch
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the club plant stall and nurseries
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the others
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The local group always put on a really good display about their activities.
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As the clock on the wall shows all the plants were off the benches by 4 pm and the volunteers well on the way to dismantling the tables. Many thanks to Angus and his team for a most enjoyable day in Northumberland. I look forward to reading other contributions.
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Thanks for the images Stan; that's the first Hexham show I've not been at in 27 years and it is good to see what I missed. It seems to have gone well however, and the benches seem to be as full as ever. I see that there were even extra visitors from Ireland!
Hopefully Angus enjoyed his first experience as show secretary - he doesn't look too frayed around the edges in your picture! ;)
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A really comprehensive coverage from Stan has given us an excellent impression of what the show looked like and some of the 'personalities' viewing/commenting on the show as they inspected the results of the judges decisions...as they say 'you can't please everyone' but in the main I thought judging was pretty good.
Angus Thompson, ably abetted by his better half, seemed to sail through the day without any outward appearance of 'stress' and he just has to be pleased with the way the day went...apart from the downpour of rain just as the show ended making loading up afterwards a rather damp affair! but all done and dusted by about 4-45 which has to be pretty good going.
Will do my usual run of pictures, as Stan has done such a fine job I can even cut down on my numbers though there will still be some repetition.
So to start with Stan with one of his plants in the Big Six (1) which won him another AGS medal
Rhododendron 'Pintail'
Ranunculus alpestris from Ian Kidman was a Farrer contender and won a Certificate of Merit (C of M)
Primula Netta Dennis from Don Peace, most points in the Open section with many fine plants.
Mukdenia rossii from Mike Dale (27), not the best of pics but not easy to get at, not a plant I am familiar with. Mike also had a nice
Primula elatior in 28
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As Stan has already indicated Keith and Rachel Lever won the Farrer Medal with
Sebaea thomasii 'Bychan'. I asked Tim Lever on the culyivar name 'Bychan' and he tells me it is pronounced Buchan and is Welsh for small. He says that the 'strain' was among a batch of 'normal' thomasii they grew which was obviously shorter/smaller/more compact than the standard plant and so they grew it /them on as separate plants to what they show as Bychan today.
Soldanella villosa Clare Oates (5)....sorry not the best picture
Primula henrici from Geoff Rollinson, (6) earned a C of M as another Farrer candidate, was a good sized potful
Primula villosa ssp villosa (7) from John Richards was awarded a PC by the Joint Rock Committee
Androscae vandellii from Cyril Lafong (8)
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We had a welcome visiting party from Ireland to the show, they brought some quality plants amongst which were
Cyclamen persicum from Paddy Smith who had one in classes 9 and 62, both fine examples
Draba acaulis from Frank and Barbara Hoyle (12)
Corydalis solida from Tom Green (14)
Pulsatiila vernalis (15) again from Frank and Barbara Hoyle...a really lovely specimen. They also had
Pulsatilla ambigua in 27
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Saxifraga 'Bridget' from Edward Barraclough (16), one of the older cultivars holding its flowers up well
Trillium chloropetallum 'Bob Gordon' from Billy Moore (17) another Farrer contender so a C of M, must have needed a shipping container to get it over the Irish sea
Pleione Hekla gx 'Locking Stumps' from Don Peace (19)
Narcissus obesus 'Lee Martin' from Jim McGregeor (21), which is a lovely cultivar
Fritillaria 'Lentune Slate' from Don Peace in (22), think this was also a C of M plant
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I was lucky enough to win the Bill Mackenzie Trophy as Stan has already noted (24), the plants were
Trillium rivale
Townsendia spathulata 'Cotton Balls'
Hymenoxis torreyana
Lewisia tweedyi from Tom Green (26)
Saxifraga dinnikii from Ian Kidman (71)
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The Small Six, class 50 was won by Don Peace. a plant of
Fritillaria pinardii also was the Best Plant in <19cm pot, also won by Don
Iris sari from John Bunn (76)
Another two from me were
Trillium pusillum pusillum (75) and
Saxifraga burseriana 'Mangart' (56)
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John Richards had ,in a three pan class, (82)
Primula albenensis and
Primula bhutanica. There was another
Primula albenensis shown by Tom Green in (57) but in cultivation the true P albenensis is hard to find, still one of my favourites though. John Richards is going to visit the type locality in Italy the next few weeks hoping to find it in flower, I hope he gets some nice pictures.
Kelseya uniflora from Frank and Barbara Hoyle (85)
Viola spathulata from Keith and Rachel Lever (88), believe they were selling it on the trade stand at the show
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Getting down through the classes to some of the New in Cultivation or Rare in Cultivation so I was going to do these to include the notes on the plants but the Downsizer doesn't seem able to get the picture sizes small enough for me to post, I used a different camera for these so possibly the original picture size is too much for it to cope with so had enough for today, will try again tomorrow
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I have tried this morning to reduce the size of the pictures to a meaning post that is allowed on the site with no joy, so will not post any more. I am not clued up enough to work out why, the pictures taken with my phone camera are between 2.5 and 3.69MB while my digital camera ones are in the region of 3MB...here the downsizer works perfectly bu does not reduce one of the pictures from the phone to an allowable size...must be the technology somewhere.
Never mind, to repeat was a very fine show, I thought the atmosphere around the place was really good with the paying public and the exhibitors mingling well and exchanging advise/chat freely, this was much appreciated by the visitors. I worked for a while on the Timpany sales table while Susan had a look around, steady trade with much advise being sought...seeing the plants on the bench always seems to start to see if any for sale...there sometimes is.
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Sorry for the delay while web updates were happening - here is Sandy Leven's Hexham Northumberland Farrer Medal report : of course these, and more, are all accessible on the main site Show Reports page
http://files.srgc.net/Showreports/FarrermedalHexham2017.pdf (http://files.srgc.net/Showreports/FarrermedalHexham2017.pdf)
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Sandy Leven's report on the Hexham show is now online HERE (http://files.srgc.net/Showreports/Hexham-show-2017.pdf) Thanks, Sandy.