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SRGC Shows and Events => SRGC Shows Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Maggi Young on January 25, 2018, 03:58:54 PM
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SRGC Discussion Weekend October 2018
The 2018 SRGC Discussion Weekend will take place in Pitlochry , perhaps the most popular visitor destination in Perthshire.
Speakers will include ........Larz Danielsson a nurseryman and explorer with a particular interest in unusual plants from Hammarstrand, Jämtland, Sweden http://www.spezialplant.nu (http://www.spezialplant.nu)
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Larz with Cremanthodiums in the wild at c4000m
John Mattingley, who runs the wonderful Cluny House Gardens with his wife, Wendy. They were recipients in 2016 of the Queen Mother Memorial Medal from the Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society. http://www.clunyhousegardens.com/ (http://www.clunyhousegardens.com/)
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John and Wendy in front of the Champion Redweod tree at Cluny
Gerben Tjeerdsma, the man from the Netherlands, transplanted successfully to Sweden - another plant hunter and nurseryman who has had long experience at the Gothenburg Botanic Gardens. http://www.gerbianska.com/ (http://www.gerbianska.com/)
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Matt Topsfield who will also be the Show Secretary for this event, fresh from the organisation of the SRGC David Boyd event in the Western Isles.
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Matt on the Isles - photo by Kathryn Sydney
David Sellars from Canada, an award winning photographer and writer. Together with his wife ( another Wendy!) he is developing an extensive alpine and woodland garden in coastal British Columbia which won a NARGS award in 2012. http://www.mountainflora.ca/ (http://www.mountainflora.ca/)
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David by a cliff of Lewisiopsis tweedyi
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Details of the event : including a reminder about the DWE Bursary....
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....and the DWE booking form:
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Fantastic Maggi thank you for posting the information on the Discussion Weekend.
Please book early especially if you require a single room as very limited only 9!
Best to share a room if you are happy to do this please put this on your booking form.
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If anyone wishes any information on the area or other places to stay please contact me either by the SRGC forum, FB messenger, julia.corden@icloud.com or mobile 07976849666
There are many beautiful things to see in Perthshire. Julia
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Well that's the first of the bookings coming in and we have SOLD OUT of all the single rooms in the first post :o so there are no single rooms left at the Atholl Palace
But we have a plan there are a number of other accommodation providers we can sort for you BUT if you are hoping to get a single room please contact me soon :)
Pitlochry will be very busy in October due to the Enchanted Forest light show which attracts over 60,000 people over about 5 weeks and the accommodation price s go up!!
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I've just booked extra single rooms at a few Hotels in town.
So please if you require a single room please email me asap.
thanks Julia
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Discussion Weekend Show Schedule Errata
Please note that a couple of errors have slipped into the schedule for the Discussion Weekend Show.
- The Peel Trophy will be award to the winner of Class 27 - 3 pans Gentiana, species and/or hybrids, distinct
- The Logan Home Trophy will be awarded to the winner of Class 48 - 1 miniature garden with longest sides or diameter not exceeding 45cm; no cut flowers
Apologies for any confusion this may have caused.
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A reminder that bookings for the 2018 SRGC Discussion Weekend at Pitlochry close on 11th August.
There is still time - but be quick to secure your place!
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The show entries are coming in! If you're coming to the Discussion Weekend and wondering whether that plant will be ready or not, bring it along anyway! It's always a joy to see the different range of plants that are performing at this end of the season. Show entries can be sent to me at perth.show@fireflyuk.net and late entries will be accepted. you can find the show schedule at: http://files.srgc.net/show_info/2018SRGCdwe.pdf (http://files.srgc.net/show_info/2018SRGCdwe.pdf) Staging 4-5.30pm on Friday and 8-9am on Saturday. Look forward to seeing you all and your plants in Pitlochry!
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Some Gentians on floor of the greenhouse to keep rain from marking the flowers -normally they live outside as do most of my plants.
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A show in itself, Stan. Lovely picture!
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A delightfully autumnal Forrest Medal plant from the SRGC DWE Show in Pitlochry today. Photo from Peter Maguire
This super Larix kaempferi nana has won the Forrest Medal - and the J.L. Mowat Trophy for best conifer - for Stan da Prato
Congratulations, Stan!
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Meanwhile, at the AGS Show in Harlow Carr- Alan Furness has won
the Farrer Medal Best in Show there with the lovely autumn crocus, Crocus banaticus 'Snowdrift' - photo from Twitter by Vivien Self -
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Well done, Alan!
edit to clarify - Crocus was awarded Best in Show but not Farrer Medal.
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A few snaps from the show hall at Pitlochry from Ian Young.....
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Hi
Having a great time here, bought some nice plants and the talks are great.
Missing your laugh Maggi , everyone is asking for you.
Angie :)
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Thanks Angie!
I hear from Matthew Topsfield about the show : "A great turn out by all the growers and showers! 115 entries in 61 classes by 18 exhibitors. Thank you all"
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Hope Ian remembers to buy labels!
Edit : he did!
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Only3 of us braved the elements to visit Cluny Gardens. It was worth it for the autumn colours. Just a sample by way of Acers and an unusual balsam which John says nobody has a name for. It seeds around, he says, but surplus are easily pulled out.
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Very wet squirrels at Cluny, taken by a very wet photographer with umbrella in one hand and camera in the other!
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Award winners. Some nice plants in section 2 where Maggie Duguid won the East Lothian Cup for the best plant with her Saxifraga Fumiko while David & Liz Livermore took an SRGC bronze medal for most points. In the Open section Roma Fiddes won the Jim Lever Memorial trophy as well as a certificate of merit for a very good Cyclamen mirabile. Margaret & Henry Taylor received the AGS Ulster Group Quaich a travelling award which this year went to the best foliage plant - the grey leaved Senecio leucophyllus. George Sevastopulo was given a well deserved gold medal for a very large display on the Burren in the west of Ireland
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By once again bringing most plants I retained the Mary Bowe trophy for most points. I also came home with the East Lothian Trophy for class 3 three alpines -this year all gentians- the Peel cup for the best three gentians, the Logan Home Trophy for a mini garden and the Mowat Trophy for the best conifer a dwarf Japanese larch now in autumn colour which to my delighted surprise also received the Forrest medal.
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Stan hope you got home safely with all those trophies ;D
Just want to say thanks to all the organisers for making it a great weekend . It’s just some much fun. The talks were 1st class, usually I struggle a bit as the day goes on but with those talks I was wide awake all the way.
Great meeting up with everyone again and hope you all made it home safely.
Tomorrow I will planting up all my new purchases ;D
Thanks again to everyone.
Angie :)
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Round the benches in rather weak light
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ferns, conifers then bulbs
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onwards
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plants from certain geographical areas then foliage
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end of open section then section 2
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Hope you managed to get your planting done Angie, might take us a little while to get ours done ... too much temptation on the sales area ::)
Darren and I would also like to add our own thanks to the organisers for a fabulous weekend.
After missing several years it was great to be back amongst friends, old and new, once again, and whilst there were a number of absent friends they were not forgotten with a glass was raised to them during the conference dinner.
Inspired by the excellent and informative lectures we have come away with a wish list of things to grow and places to visit.
Susan (and Darren of course) x
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Sandy Leven's report on the Forrest Medal plant from the Discussion Weekend - grown and shown by Stan da Prato ....
click here to download it ..... http://files.srgc.net/Showreports/ForrestDWEPitlochry2018.pdf (http://files.srgc.net/Showreports/ForrestDWEPitlochry2018.pdf)
:) :)
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People doing things
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more folk
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Two sets of excellent photos competed in the holiday photo competition won by Liam & Joan McCaughey who had visited the Gargano peninsula in Southern Italy to photograph the orchids while a very close runner up was David Livermore with photos taken in the Russian Caucasus. These few snaps do not do the originals justice but they were certainly appreciated over the weekend by the weekenders.
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People doing things
Those coffee cups are not all mine!
Great selection of snaps, Stan.
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Sandy Leven's Show report form Pitlochry 2018 .... click here to download :
http://files.srgc.net/Showreports/DiscWeekendPitlochry2018.pdf (http://files.srgc.net/Showreports/DiscWeekendPitlochry2018.pdf)