SRGC "Glasgow" Show - Milngavie 7th May 2016

[Stan da Prato]

nursery stands, club plant sale and seeds

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Liz Mills demonstrates the delight show goers feel when  my  camera appears

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a selection of views round  the show hall and cafe

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more

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and more

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and others

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last batch including  the mystery person

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by 4.30pm the hall was cleared,  exhibitors on their way homewards and the local group able to relax after an excellent day.

[Maggi Young]

Crikey, that's a tricky one - I can't even ID the tree never mind the person!
Lovely  to see so many friends in your photos, Stan - and such a fine range of plants - I'm noticing the name of Sue Simpson Watt on a large number of crackers! Some of John di Paola's that I'd happily take home too!
Thank you for sharing the show with us all.

[shelagh]

Thanks to all the wonderful Scots who always offer a warm welcome to the border reivers.

[angie]

What a lovely display. Don't know how folks do it. Thanks Stan for sharing with us this wonderful show.
Angie 

[Lesley Cox]

Yet another wonderful SRGC Show! Thank you Stan for the super pictures. We have a second Otago Alpine Garden Group show coming up on 1st and 2nd October (our spring of course). It will be very hard to match this one but we'll be trying for sure.

[veteran vet]

Stan has done a very comprehensive coverage of the show, gives a great impression of how the show looked, the canteen always seemed packed out with folk chomping away and the nursery folk always seemed to be busy....all the things John Lee would want for the Glasgow Show.
I will post quite a few pictures of plants that caught my eye and for which the photographs were decent enough (one or two that are not!)
Class A, the winner of the class on the right and second on the left. The exhibitors were Ian Kidman and Lionel Clarkson
Class 1 winning entry from Lionel Clarkson, two plants in this entry were
Daphne petraea 'Grandiflora'
Pulsatilla patens v nuttalliana, went up before the Joint Rock
Ian Kidman and Lionel Clarkson admire their entries

[veteran vet]

Ian Kidman had two nice plants worthy of a picture in class 2
Ranunculus alpestris and
Cassiope lycopodioides
Paris quadrifolia from Watt Russell, he also had
Corydalis wilsonii (25)
Podophyllum delavayii Bob Worsley (11), the purple or variegated foliage class

[veteran vet]

As has been well reported Sam Sutherland had a fine day, 3 plants and a shed load of awards including the Forrest Medal with
Ranunculus parnassifolius 'Picos x Nuria', a lovely plant. I had a long chat to him during the afternoon and said that in my opinion a man made 'hybrid' should not be entered in the 'new,rare or difficult' class as for me the spirit of the class is for natural wild material, not man made hybrids (in this case a cross made by Margaret and Henry Taylor) that could be rare just because the were not available to many....I wondered what the forum folk think?
Sam also had a lovely
Androsace cylindrica x hirtella...this would have been my choice for the Forrest I have to admit, this was a large pan. the picture does not do it justice
Primula rusbyi also was the best primula in the show, another Sam plant. In the same class was
Primula rusbyi ellisiae (18) from Carole and Ian Bainbridge...is much more like the plant that I grow. I also liked, in the same class (glad I was not in it)
Primula aureata from John da Paola