Joint SRGC/AGS Show Northumberland April 1 2017

[ChrisB]

This show will be held in the Wentworth Leisure Centre in Hexham on Saturday, April 1st.
Please find a list of the 9 Garden Plant Nurseries that have now confirmed that they will be at the Hexhan Spring Show on Saturday 1st April 2017

Aberconwy Nursery - Wales
Slack Top Nursery - West Yorkshire
Harperley Hall Farm Nursery - Durham
Ryal Nursery - Northumberland
Timpany Nursery - Ulster
Potterton Nursery - Lincolnshire
Hartside Nursery - Alpines with Altitude - Northumberland
Rumbling Bridge Nursery - Kinross - Scotland
Edrom Nursery - Coldingham - Scotland

In addition we wlii have our Group Members Plant stall.

Parking in Hexham is a controlled by zones where depending on the colour zone controls the time limit you can park - please see the SRGC Forum item posted by Peter Maguire for last years show. It is self explanatory.

[Maggi Young]

Peter's post  mentioned by Christine is here : http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=14175.msg354346#msg354346
 Wentworth/Hexham parking sign -



 Hexham details  for joint show

[Darren]

Susan and I are hoping to get there this year and are looking forward to it. 

[ChrisB]

Thanks Maggi, was doing this for Angus.....

[Maggi Young]

Thanks Christine - worth repeating here from the News section,  that there is a new contact for this show  : Angus Thompson, The Old Garden House, Belsay Hall, Belsay, Northumberland NE20 0DX   
Telephone 01661 881240   Email: Angus.Thompson@agsgroups.org

Here is the Show Schedule :  http://files.srgc.net/show_info/Northumberland2017.pdf

[ChrisB]

Thanks again, Maggi!  Darren, will be great to see you there if you can make it. Would love to catch up on what you two have been up to, I help with the entries now in the mornings but I'm off the hook in the afternoon....

[Maggi Young]

Remember that parking restrictions can catch out the unwary - though with a little care there is plenty free parking -   you can read more here : http://www.alpinegardensociety.net/stoppress/Northumberland+AGSSRGC+Show+Hexham+this+Saturday/201/

[Darren]

Here we are about to set off. Up at 4:45 on a saturday. Voluntarily. Talk about April fools day....

[Maggi Young]

I'm pretty impressed that you can operate an electronic machine  and type at that hour, Darren 

[Maggi Young]

The AGS/SRGC Show at Hexham seems to be going well- Andrew Radley has pictured some super trilliums on show - still time to visit of course!  Open till 3.30pm

Andrew Radley's photos ..... including  T. albidum amd T. pusillum pusillum

[Maggi Young]

Two very fine  yellow forms of Trillium chloropetalum which took Andrew's eye ....
an excellent pot of Trillium chloropetalum    'Bob Gordon'  and  also Trillium chloropetalum 'Val Mulvihill'

[Maggi Young]

Andrew also notes a selection of Trillium rivale colours....

[Maggi Young]

More pix from Andrew Radley at the show today ....
Callianthemeum kingishiense
Caltha himalaica
Cyclamen persicum
Fritillaria ( - looks like some sort of  F. hermonis?)

[Maggi Young]

A very fine Ranunculis alpestris    ( with a good  Phylliopsis in the background, I think )
Pulsatilla vernalis
Saxifraga dinnikii

[Darren]

I'm pretty impressed that you can operate an electronic machine  and type at that hour, Darren 

Sadly it is only an hour earlier than I get up on weekdays. Like to be early to work so I can achieve something before the distractions start arriving.

We just got home after a lovely day in Hexham and we are having a cuppa and a hot cross bun before I go out and water the many new purchases then make my driver her well earned tea!