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SRGC Shows and Events => SRGC Shows Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Maggi Young on February 28, 2020, 07:40:34 PM
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Alpine Plant Show & Plant Fair Kendal 14th March 2020 plant sales from 10am -3.30pm, Show Hall opens about 11am.
Kirkbie Kendal School, Lound Road, Kendal LA9 7EQ
Organised by the Alpine Garden Society in conjunction with Scottish Rock Garden Club
AGS/SRGC members Free, non-members entry £3.
Specialist nurseries in attendance …… Aberconwy, Edrom, Harperley Hall, Hartside, Kevock, Laneside Hardy Orchids, Pottertons, Slack Top. Summerdale House.
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Coronavirus Statement from Alpine Garden Society
March 6, 2020
"The health and wellbeing of people attending AGS events is top priority for the Society. We are monitoring the situation with coronavirus very closely and following all advice from government and health authorities.
AGS Shows & Events Continue
In line with current advice, all AGS shows and tours are due to continue as planned. Should the advice from the authorities change, we will take appropriate measures and notify any affected parties straight away. You can read the government’s coronavirus action plan here (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-action-plan/coronavirus-action-plan-a-guide-to-what-you-can-expect-across-the-uk).
Feeling Unwell?
At this time of year, cold and flu viruses are common. As of 9am on 5th March, there were only 115 confirmed cases of coronavirus among the UK’s population of 66.4 million people. Given these figures, if you feel unwell it is far more likely that you have cold or flu than coronavirus.
If you have reason to suspect that you have been exposed to coronavirus, the government asks that you call the NHS’s 111 service (and do not go to your GP or hospital). Most cases of coronavirus can be treated with over the counter medications and isolation at home while the affected person recovers.
Everday Measures to Stay Well
Everyday measures that the AGS advises everyone to take to stay fit and healthy include:
Wash hands thoroughly and frequently, especially before eating, or use hand sanitiser when handwashing is not possible
Catch coughs and sneezes in tissues and immediately throw them away or catch them in the crook of your arm
Stay at home if you feel unwell to keep other people healthy
These simple measure are very effective at reducing the spread of all viruses, including coronavirus. If we all take these measures, they should help to keep everyone fit and well. We will update you straight away should the situation change."
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From Hartside, one of the specialist nurseries attending the #Kendal Show 14-03-20: "Now the snow that fell overnight has thawed, we are sorting plants out for the joint Alpine Garden Society Scottish Rock Garden Club Show at Kirkby Kendal School, Kendal on Saturday, lots of excellent Show plants and Nurseries selling a wonderful selection of Alpines"
All Welcome!
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It is planned for the Kendal Show to go ahead on Saturday 14th March 2020 - but the RHS Joint Rock Committee meeting has been cancelled.
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Difficult to see the logic of cancelling one and not the other? I'm still going but wonder if it's the right thing to do. Should we be thinking of online shows this spring?
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My understanding is that joint rock cancelled because some members decided not to travel. Am on my way to Kendal now to help with setup later.
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From Alpine Garden Society March 13, 2020
The Kendal Plant Show on 14th March is going ahead as planned in line with government advice.
The Kendal Plant Show, brought to you by the Scottish Rock Garden Club and the AGS, will go ahead tomorrow as planned. It will begin at 10am in Kirbie Kendal School, Kendal (near the Lake District).
The show will feature a range of specialist alpine plants as exhibitors battle it out for sought-after medals and trophies. It will also feature quality plants for sale from nine specialist nurseries under one roof.
Coronavirus Actions
Questions have been raised over whether this show will go ahead due to coronavirus concerns. The AGS would like to make clear that, in line with the latest government advice, the Kendal Plant Show will continue as planned. The only difference is that the Joint Rock Garden Plant Committee Meeting that would usually take place at this event has been postponed.
We ask that anyone with a high temperature or new, continuous cough stay away from the show. We also ask that attendees be extra vigilant about ensuring hands are washed regularly to keep surfaces clean.
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Some photos from the Kendal Show today posted on Facebook- the first by Rob Potterton ...
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A couple of nurseries expected to attend the Kendal Show today pulled out from the event - this will be happening everywhere in the next while.
Whether or not nurseries decide to withdraw from any events, or the events themselves are cancelled, please bear in mind that these specialist nurseries do not have an easy time of business at the best of times, and many will lose substantial percentages of their income because of this situation, as I have just been reading about on social media from Tonkin's Nursery in Australia. Without these nurseries we would also lose out in a major fashion as hobby growers - saving the nurseries is definitely in our own interest!
Be kind- use mail order where you can!
Handy list ..... ....http://files.srgc.net/journals/NurseryListSRGC.pdf (http://files.srgc.net/journals/NurseryListSRGC.pdf)
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Some more photos lifted from Ian Smith on FB!
Frank Hoyle looking suitably delighted with another Farrer Medal win at AGS/SRGC
show today at Kendal with this large and wonderful Saxifraga- a lovely smile from a happy exhibitor!
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Congratulations, Frank!
This Shortia was shown by the Bookeroo - sadly Cliiff isn't feeling too well so his plant was prepared by Sue and taken to the show by Norman Davies - and got a red ticket too!
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This is a 3 pan Dionysia entry - how smart it is!
Well done to Alan Oatway and his team for managing to have a great show under difficult circumstances !!
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Frank Hoyle's winning Sax is Saxifraga 'Coolock Gem' - a well-grown specimen of the cultivar raised by Jim Almond. Congrats to both!
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first two snaps of Frank Hoyle's superb large 6 pan entry which won the AGS Sewell medal - the Farrer medal plant is the white saxifrage.
Don Peace again won the Hollett trophy for most firsts in the open section with 19 points. Brian Burrow's Iris willmottiana won the Duncan Lowe award for best plant in a 19cm pot and the 90th anniversary award. David Millward's Helichrysum coralloides won the Kirby cup for a foliage plant.
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Bob Worsley's Hepatica acutiloba took the Clarkson trophy for best Ranunculaceae. He also received a cert of merit for Fritillaria ariana x bucharica. Another merit cert went to Alan Spenceley for Trillium nivale. Diane Clement received a merit cert for Fritillaria wendelboi while Derek Pickard received one for Dionysia freitagii
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Frank Dobson won the Michael Roberts trophy for section 2 as well as an SRGC bronze medal. Andrew Ward won the David Mowle award for best bulb in sections 2 & 3 with Fritillaria sewerzowii. local grower Pat Murphy won the Reginald Kay trophy for section 3.
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That 6 pan from Frank is simply fantastic!
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Frank Hoyle doesn't just grow excellent large pots of alpines, he takes good photos of plants in the wild and makes up excellent large display boards with them. These five snaps don't do justice to his display on Colorado for which he received a well deserved large gold medal.
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a walk round the benches starting with the open section -there is a view from each end so two snaps per bench
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benches 3 & 4
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rest of open section
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section 2 in two places then S3
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some snaps of plants
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and a few others
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judges and stewards
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and more plus the how to grow class
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What a lovely show - and what super photos, Stan - THANK YOU!
A thought that comes to mind - How big a truck do the Hoyles drive to get those fabulous large plants to the shows?!! ;D ;D :-X :o
Another thought - it's lovely to see how sisters Diane C. and Carol K. share the same lovely, naughty smile!!
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how about adding a class for the four footed?
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how about adding a class for the four footed?
Molly the Westie would vote for that!
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last nursery and the club plant stall
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….packing up time.
Thanks to show secy Alan and all his helpers from the local group, Diane who was the AGS organiser on the day. I'm told by the very efficient admin team that there were 44 exhibitors in the open section with 376 plants in 265 entries; 15 exhibitors in section B with 88 plants in 81 entries; in section c 4 exhibitors showing 18 plants in 15 entries.
I look forward to reading others' thoughts on what was a very good show. As John Richards said at the presentation if this turns out to the last this spring due to the virus epidemic then the shortened season finished with a bang.
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Saw this posted by friends on FB - HAD to share it here .....
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What an excellent coverage of the show from Stan, it gave an good feel for how the show was. I will be posting my usual run of close up pictures and exhibitor i/d when I got it, there will be some repetition of what Stan has posted but good plants always good to see again. The pictures are in no particular order, just took the shots when I was not in spectators way, in the main they are of the first placed plants in a class.
Primula marginata 'Mrs Carter-Walmsley' from Mala Janes (10)[attachimg=1]
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Dionysia bryoides Derek Pickard (7)[attachimg=3]
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Hepatica 'Gyousei' Brian and Shelagh Smethurst (18)[attachimg=5]
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Corydalis 'Lentune Rouge' from Don Peace, I believe Lentune is the old name for the town where he lives[attachimg=1]
Iberis pruitii from Tom Green (14)[attachimg=2]
Primula allionii GFS 1984 from Edward Barraclought (12)[attachimg=3]
the previous plant was first in class
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Shortia uniflora from Cliff Booker (28)[attachimg=5]
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Narcissus cordubensis from Diane Clement (27)[attachimg=1]
also in the class but I did not get exhibitor was
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Fritillaria (aurea x pinardii) x carica from Don Peace (23)[attachimg=3]
Scilla x allenii 'Fra Angelico', again from Don Peace (22)[attachimg=4]
Fritillaria wendelboi from Diane Clement (21)[attachimg=5]
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Rhododendron 'Snow Lady from Stan da Prato (32)[attachimg=1]
Pieris japonica 'Ralto' from John Savage (31)[attachimg=2]
Trillium nivale from Alan Spencely (30), has won many times with this fantastic specimen[attachimg=3]
Kelseya uniflora from Peter Hood (30) was much admired, I have not seen it on the bench for quite some time [attachimg=4]
Soldanella montana from Brenda Nickels [attachimg=5]
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Arenaria alfacarensis won class 41 for Ian Instone
Celmisia spedenii won the silver class for me (39) though there were some doubters as to whether is was C. spedenii or not
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Class 59, 3 pans P.allionii was won by Geoff Rollinson
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Cyclamen 'Meadens Crimson' from Geoff Rollinson was much admired (53)
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Class 56, 1 pan asiatic primula first, second and third in descending order
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Primula petelotii Alan Spencely [attachimg=2]
Primula 'Arduaine' x bhutanica from Don Peace [attachimg=3]
Iris wilmottiana from Brian Burrow was the best plant in a less than 19cm pot so won two awards [attachimg=4]
Brian also won class 52 with Primula allionii Eureka' [attachimg=5]
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Following on from my previous post
Class 52, won by Brian with I wilmotiana at the back, Dionysia aretiodes in the middle and P.a. 'Eureka' at the front [attachimg=1]
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Anemone apenina 'Petrovac' from Bob Worsely [attachimg=4]
Bob also had the best Ranunculaceae with Hepatica acutiloba [attachimg=5]
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Dionysia 'Bernd Wetzel' from Jim Watson won class 65 [attachimg=1]
Dionysia freitagii won class 63 for Derek Pickard [attachimg=2]
Cyclamen coum from Geoff Rollinson (62) [attachimg=3]
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Fritillaria ariana x bucharica from Bob Worsely (75) [attachimg=1]
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Crocus heufelianus 'Brian Duncan' from me in 81, didn't think it was going to make the show but it did [attachimg=5]
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Mammillaria woodsii from Alan Spencely (84) [attachimg=2]
Geoff Rollinson won the Rare in Cultivation class 86 with
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Fritillaria sewerzowii was the best bulbous plant in Intermediate and Novice Sections for Andrew Ward [attachimg=5]
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Erythronium dens canis from Alan Oatway (141) [attachimg=1]
As has already been posted Frank Aad Barbara Hoyle won the Farrer medal with a magnificent
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Last two
Primula 'Petticoat' from Robert Scott in 155 [attachimg=1]
Puchkinia scilloides from Frank Dobson in 112, a nice exhibit [attachimg=2]
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Well that's my run through of plants in close up, given the situation with regard to the virus it was a good show from the exhibitor numbers point of view, there probably was quite a reduction in the paying public through the door but was an enjoyable day, good drive home in decent weather, enjoyed my evening malt by the fire...wonderful.
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, enjoyed my evening malt by the fire...wonderful.
Slainte mhath George -and stay safe everyone
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Sandy Leven's report on the Farrer Medal win at Kendal by Frank and Barabara Hoyle, with
their Saxifraga 'Coolock Gem' - download the report here. (http://files.srgc.net/Showreports/KendalFarrer2020.pdf)
Thank you, Sandy!
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Part 1 of Sandy Leven's reports from Kendal is now online - find it here :
http://files.srgc.net/Showreports/Kendal2020part1.pdf (http://files.srgc.net/Showreports/Kendal2020part1.pdf)
Enjoy!
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And now Part 2 of Sandy Leven's reports from Kendal is now online - find it here :
http://files.srgc.net/Showreports/Kendal2020part2.pdf (http://files.srgc.net/Showreports/Kendal2020part2.pdf)
Thanks again, Sandy!!
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Enjoyable and informative reporting as ever from Sandy. As to his disappointment that his Rhodo Snow Lady is dying back after 40 years that seems a good innings from a plant ! The one in his Kendal report was too wide after about ten years so cut back hard a couple of years ago. I find it trouble free but some report it suffers from frost. Glendoick say Lucy Lou is better. The two snaps show one of each with very little difference in the flowers. Snow Lady (not the Kendal plant ) is the first pic. It is starting to open in the middle so may get the chop soon.
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Afternoon Stan
I hope you are keeping well during these difficult times?. Do you think any dwarf Rhododendron would respond to this treatment and if so when would you advocate cutting back?
Thanks
Lawrence
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I planted out my Snow Lady and it was beautiful last year but got frosted week past Friday so no flowers this year.
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I think I need to prune mine this year to let the dwarf daffs get some more light.
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Afternoon Stan
. Do you think any dwarf Rhododendron would respond to this treatment and if so when would you advocate cutting back?
Thanks
Lawrence
Many will but I could not guarantee all! I think the answer is if it's too big or misshapen just go for it. If you do it as soon as it has flowered that gives it max regrowing time though it is likely to be more than one season to get it back to a nice shapely bush.
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While we have had success in cutting back some rhodos completely, if we can we usually leave at least one branch growing with leaves on to keep the plant "connected" to life, as it were. Having a part of the plant still with leaves to photosynthise allows the plant to have some normal growth while the plant regenerates its other growth.
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Sandy Leven has sent Part 3 of his reports from Kendal and it is now online - find it here :
http://files.srgc.net/Showreports/Kendal2020part3.pdf (http://files.srgc.net/Showreports/Kendal2020part3.pdf)
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Sandy Leven has moved on to Part 4 of his reports from Kendal and it's now online - find it here :
http://files.srgc.net/Showreports/Kendal2020part4.pdf (http://files.srgc.net/Showreports/Kendal2020part4.pdf)
Thank you, Sandy!
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Four parts - a tour de force indeed.
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Four parts - a tour de force indeed.
Aha! But Sandy has managed to get FIVE parts from his Kendal Show photos. And part 5 is now loaded to the site. ...... http://files.srgc.net/Showreports/Kendal2020part5.pdf (http://files.srgc.net/Showreports/Kendal2020part5.pdf)
Sandy, mindful of the fact that we would not have the pleasure of more show reports this year while the virus pandemic keeps us at home, has really pulled out all the stops to give us a full range of the plants at Kendal.... he hopes he'll be back at Shows next year with his camera on our behalf - we hope so too! Thank you, Sandy!