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SRGC Shows and Events => SRGC Shows Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Maggi Young on April 22, 2018, 02:44:07 PM
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Saturday 28th April - Scottish Rock Garden Club FLOWER & PLANT SHOW at Nairn Community & Arts Centre - rare plants on display and for sale
All Welcome! 10.30 - 3.30pm Specialist plant sales from Askival, Ardfearn Nursery & Rumbling Bridge Nursery
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some pix from 2017 at Nairin....
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News from David Shaw of extra excitement for those attending the Nairn SHow on 28th April .....
"We have a very special entertainment for you. At 1330 massed pipe bands will parade down Viewfield Road (that is the access lane to the Community Centre) on their way to the Links. Nothing is too much trouble for Highland Rock Garden Club!"
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Some of the plants which will be on sale at the SRGC Nairn "Highland" Show on Saturday from Graeme and Hilary Butler of Rumbling Bridge Nursery ....
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For the second year in a row, David Millward has won the Forrest Medal at the Highland Show in Nairn with a superb pan of Saxifraga pubescens 'Snowcap" - Well done David ! Photo from Julia Corden.
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Looking at the photo from last year, shown earlier on this page, it seems the plant is even better this year. 8)
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More photos from Nairn from Julia ......
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Show hall during staging
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Benthamiella patagonica - Buttercup Yellow
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Bolax gummifera compacta
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Lewisia Carousel hybrid
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Ian Bainbridge
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Myosotis pulvinaris
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Dionysia aretiodes 'Bevere' and Pleione 'Tongariro'
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Primula allionii 'Lismore'
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Pleione 'Tongariro'
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Sanguinaria canadensis flore pleno
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Pteridophyllum racemosum
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Shortia
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Soldanella minima
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Ian Christie - right - with someone I don't recognise .... help, please !
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And to prove the point about the Pipe Bands - this from Hilary Butler ......
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Sorry to hear that Carol Shaw was not feeling up to visiting the show today - but good to know that she is making great progress after her recent major surgery. Hope the recovery continues well, Carol - and Happy Birthday !! :-*
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Some photos from Ian Christie......
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David Millward with his Forrest Medal winning Saxifraga 'Snowcap'
Some shots of the hall filling up ....
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Show plants arriving ...
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John Owen of Askival nursery - John is now Nairn Show Secretary.
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Ardfearn sales stand with Sarah
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Rumbling Bridge stand with Hilary
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Some plants for sale ...
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Graeme Butler in the background, chatting to David Millward
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few more from Ian Christie .....
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Lovely tightly grown Sempervivum
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mini garden
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primulas on the bench
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Bright and cheerful polyanthus
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Another great show, plants were looking really good.
Thanks everyone.
Angie :)
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Sandy's Nairn Forrest Medal Report : http://files.srgc.net/Showreports/Forrest-medal-Nairn2018.pdf (http://files.srgc.net/Showreports/Forrest-medal-Nairn2018.pdf)
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Sandy didn't make it to this year's Nairn show - but here is his report, recalling past times and with photos from Stan and Ian C. http://files.srgc.net/Showreports/Highland-show-Nairn2018.pdf (http://files.srgc.net/Showreports/Highland-show-Nairn2018.pdf)