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SRGC Shows and Events => SRGC Shows Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Maggi Young on January 20, 2016, 03:44:01 PM
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DUNBLANE EARLY DWARF BULB DISPLAY
20th February 10.00 am to 4.00 pm
Victoria Hall, Stirling Rd, Dunblane, Perthshire FK15 9EX
LOCATION: Opposite the railway station.
ALL WELCOME!!
Talks and Display of plants plus plant sales
Talks:
11.00am Neil Huntly - Roscoeas
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11:30am Ian Christie - Trilliums
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2.00pm Alan Mcmurtrie (Canada) - Reticulata Irises new hybrids
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SHOW SECRETARY:Mr Sandy Leven, 2 Leighton Court, Dunblane, Perthshire, FK15 0ED
Telephone 01786 824064 sandy.leven@btinternet.com
ENTRIES: To be staged on the day. Queries to the Show Secretary
STAGING: 9.00 - 10.00 am, Saturday of the show
PARKING: Owing to road works parking may be restricted outside the hall.
Parking can be found in Station Square, Mill Road, Tesco, on the main road, or
behind the Cathedral
RHS JOINT ROCK GARDEN PLANT COMMITTEE: will meet at 12.00 noon.
Plants for consideration must be registered by 11.00 am.
TROPHIES & PRIZES
BROOKFIELD PRIZE one pan Crocus grown from seed by the exhibitor.
First prize £10 Second £5 Third £3
Members: Please Read This Before You Attend
Members are invited to contribute to the day by bringing as many pans of dwarf bulbs and early flowering alpine plants as
possible.
Space will be available for cut flowers of plants which members do not want to disturb in the garden. Please bring your
own vases for cut flowers.
Every contribution increases the value of the display for others.
Please bring as many pans of bulbs and alpines as possible.
Plants will be grouped into `classes' on the morning between 9 am and 10 am.
The usual rule of one pan per class per exhibitor will be waived. No points will be awarded.
Members may also stage small exhibits comprising several exhibits to show variation in species etc.
Contributions are invited to the 50:50 plant sale and raffle, which will be held to cover expenses.
Members are asked to help with the teas and plant stall as this day is organised by the Bulb Group rather than a local
group
The Bulb Group’s activities benefit all members.
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I wonder if Anthony D is going? Perhaps I could hitch a ride if he is. I'd love to hear Alan and see his reticulatas. We should be able to get these in NZ if they are available from the Dutch wholesalers. But not a whiff so far. We need some contact addresses.
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I believe one of Alan McMurtie's Dutch colleagues is in talks about exporting some Iris to New Zealand.... I'm sure we'll hear when something concrete is known.
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To note: Alan McMurtie's irises grace the cover of February's issue of The Garden (RHS) together with an illustrated three-page review. He's also to be featured in the March issue of The Plantsman. www.rhs.org.uk/theplantsman (http://www.rhs.org.uk/theplantsman)
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Some of the nursery vans loaded up yesterday ready for Dunblane ....
Macplants ....
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Ardfearn....
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and the Kevock plants being set up today ...
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Robert Ross "tweeted" this earlier to encourage visitors...
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These next photos are all by Alan Gardner........
including some reticulate Irises bred by Alan McMurtie, one of the day's speakers....
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'Eyecatcher'
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Iris 02-ID-1
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Iris 03-FQ-1
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Iris 98-EQ-2
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'Mars Landing'
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more Iris ...
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'Sea Breeze'
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'Splish Splash'
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'Sunshine'
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'White Caucasus'
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More pix from Alan Gardner, some Galanthus now, not sure of names
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A few more iris pictures -some will duplicate Alan's but they might be useful to give different angles and allow labels to be read on what was a very fine display by John Amand-I think it had been at the RHS show a few days previously.
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some more - there were rather a lot!
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final batch
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Sandy Leven compered the day in his usual inimitable fashion. The second photo shows him introducing Alan the Iris expert. Show expert Cyril Lafong was presented with a gold Forrest Medal by club president David Rankin to recognise his achievement in winning 50 Forrest medals achieved at the Kincardine show in 2015. He has added a couple more since!. This award was then complemented by Pam Whittle as President of the Caley(RCHS) who gave Cyril their Dr Patrick Neill Medal awarded every two years for outstanding contribution to horticulture in Scotland by a distinguished botanist or cultivator. As Maggi has pointed out in the next post the previous recipient was also an SRGC stalwart, Ian Christie.
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What a great day - and especially so for Cyril Lafong! I believe the Neill Medal is the same award that was given the other year to Ian Christie- it is, I thought, given to an outstanding " botanist or cultivator." Cyril 's record as a cultivator is easily seen at all SRGC Shows!
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Sandy and Anne Leven - organisers of the Dunblane Day - with some of the ir snowdrops - pic by Julia Corden
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Modest star, Cyril Lafong, was presented with his GOLD medal award to commemorate winning 50 Forrest Medals by Club President David Rankin - that's 50 Best in Show Plants! Cyril was also presented with an award by Pam Whittle Pres. of the Royal Caledonian Hort. Society- well deserved recognition on both counts!
pic by Julia Corden
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Alan McMurtie had several of his Iris reticulata hybrids up for consideration by the Joint Rock Garden Plant Committee -
He tells me that 'Spot On' was recommended for Award of Merit, and 'Sunshine' and 'Scent Sational' were recommended for Preliminary Commendations 8)
The plants on display in Dunblane were in the Gold Medal winning display by Jacques Amand International at the RHS London Show earlier this week
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Thanks everyone for organising another good day out for us at Dunblane. Always look forward to this and those bacon rolls smelt so nice when we arrived. Lots of lovely plants to buy and nice catching up with friends.
Nice to see Cyril Lafong receive his medals, well deserved just wish that he would give us hopeless growers a chance ;D ;D ;D
Thanks everyone.
Angie :)
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Thank you for sharing the show pictures, Maggi and Stan :)
And congratulations Cyril :D :D :D
McM's hybrids Iris 02-ID-1 and I. ‘Mars Landing’ are put on the top of my wish list!
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How wonderful it must've been to be there! I'm so jealous! February is not a month for us to be away from the garden.
'Mars Landing' is outstanding - especially to those of us who love brown flowers! Sadly it will be a miracle for us to get it here in Australia :'(
cheers
fermi
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A few snaps of some nice bulbs outwith John Amand's display: Crocus tauricus, Iris winogradowii, I. Sheila Anne Germaney and I. histrio aintabensis and one entertaining exhibit of three garden centre primroses.
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a few snaps of the many and varied things people do at the early bulb day.
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more
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Great day had by all, thank you Sandy for organising the day. Stan thank you for posting pictures so we can see what we missed - as never enough time in the day 😃
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... and one entertaining exhibit of three garden centre primroses.
:o :o ;D
Thank you for the additional pictures Stan 8) I wish I had been there!
Didn't you see garden pansies with shocking pink containers this year by the way?
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What a fantastic start to the SRGC events in 2016. I'm just back home, so a bit late bringing my photos to the party, but will post them regardless as there are a few plants that have not been shown yet (believe it or not, there were more than just Irises on show!) ;)
Starting with the snowies:
Galanthus 'Gold 'n Green' - a hybrid created by Henry Taylor (G. p. 'Wendy's Gold' x G.n. 'Janet Aspland')
Galanthus 'Little Ben' - huge flowers on a wee dote of a plant (I managed to tuck one away into a boot in my luggage and it has safely made it home on the plane!)
Galanthus alpinus
Galanthus 'Alison Hilary'
Galanthus gracilis
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Ok, here are the Reticulata Irises. Some large pans of Alan's plants were away to Joint Rock when I was snapping, so some of the others:
00-DH-1
'Reine(?) Immaculata'
01-ID-1
'Velvet Smile'
98-EQ-2
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Fritillaria alburyana
Helleborus thibetanus
Colchicum luteum
Colchicum szovitsii
Corydalis schanginii
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Now my favourites, the Crocuses. Tightly closed when carried in to the hall, they opened up nicely. All lovely!
Crocus malyi
Crocus reticulatus 'Feathered Sulphur'
Crocus cvjicii
Crocus biflorus alexandri
Crocus reticulatus
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Finally, our own Cyril Lafong receiving his award from the Caley and Alan McMurtrie enthusing the audience for his many hybrids.
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Thank you all for the congratulations. I felt very honoured and grateful to be the recipient of the Gold Forrest Medal from SRGC and Patrick Neill Medal from The Caley yesterday. My thanks to Sandy and Anne for organising a super day. With the lectures and so many entries (including many of Alan McMurtrie's irises) to the Joint Rock for awards, there was hardly any time left to meet people and see around the nursery plant stalls and the show.
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Hello many thanks to all for the super pictures, I am posting two more Eranthus Noel Ayres and Eranthus schwefelglanze a super peach clone name means sulphur glow, cheers Ian the Christie kind
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Sandy Levens' report of Cyril's great day - and links to whole pdf, from this thread (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=14076.0)
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How wonderful that Cyril won these beautiful medals or perhaps "earned" is a better word since "won" suggests luck whereas he has worked for many years to produce such thrilling plants and of such superb quality that he is the envy of, but more, the inspiration for every alpine gardener who aspires to a place at the top table for his or her plants. Cyril's skills are absolutely the tops and I can only be grateful that the photographic skills of SRGC members make the plants he shows available to be seen by me and others at the other side of the world.
Well done Cyril, very well done.
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Lesley, thank you for these kind words. Although it is a lot of work, as I said on Saturday, for all of us plant lovers, it is a labour of love.
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I just want to say thank you to Sandy and his army of volunteers who help every year to make the day the huge success it always is. I think I look forward to this day more than any other in our calendar of events because for me it kick starts my gardening year and is a chance to catch up with everyone again. Cyril's awards were a special extra joy to the day, so richly deserved. I always stand in awe of his magnificent plants at shows I can get to, and having put in a few puny bits myself I understand a bit more how much effort goes into his exhibits. Also enjoyed the two morning talks and seeing the painstaking work put in by Mr McMurtrie over 30 years to produce his new Iris cultivars. Must get some this year! Hope they make it to Australia Fermi, they are well worth growing and quite reasonably priced by Jacques Armand here too.
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Sandy Leven's report on the Early Bulb Day is now online : HERE (http://files.srgc.net/Showreports/EarlyBulbDay2016.pdf) 8) 8)