SRGC Discussion Weekend October 2018

[Maggi Young]

 again from Ian Young ....

[angie]

Hi

Having a great time here, bought some nice plants and the talks are great.
Missing your laugh Maggi , everyone is asking for you.

Angie 

[Maggi Young]

Thanks Angie!

 I hear from Matthew Topsfield  about the show : "A great turn out by all the growers and showers! 115 entries in 61 classes by 18 exhibitors. Thank you all"

[Maggi Young]

Hope Ian remembers to buy  labels!

Edit : he did!

[jomowi]

Only3 of us braved the elements to visit Cluny Gardens.  It was worth it for the autumn colours. Just a sample by way of Acers and an unusual balsam which John says nobody has a name for.  It seeds around, he says, but surplus are easily pulled out. 

[jomowi]

Very wet squirrels at Cluny, taken by a very wet photographer with umbrella in one hand and camera in the other!

[Stan da Prato]

Award winners. Some nice  plants in  section 2 where Maggie Duguid won the East Lothian Cup for the best plant with her  Saxifraga  Fumiko while David & Liz Livermore  took an SRGC bronze medal for most points. In the Open section Roma Fiddes  won the Jim Lever Memorial trophy as well as a certificate of merit  for a very good Cyclamen mirabile. Margaret & Henry Taylor  received the AGS Ulster Group Quaich a travelling award  which this year went to the best foliage plant - the  grey leaved  Senecio leucophyllus.  George Sevastopulo was given a well deserved gold medal  for a very large display  on the Burren in the west of Ireland

[Stan da Prato]

By once again  bringing   most plants I retained   the Mary Bowe trophy for most points.   I also came home with  the East Lothian Trophy for class 3 three alpines -this year all gentians- the Peel cup for the best three gentians, the Logan Home Trophy for a mini garden and the Mowat Trophy  for the best conifer a dwarf Japanese  larch now  in autumn colour which  to my delighted surprise also received  the Forrest medal.

[angie]

Stan hope you got home safely with all those trophies 
Just want to say thanks to all the organisers for making it a great weekend . It’s just some much fun. The talks were 1st class, usually I struggle a bit as the day goes on but with those talks I was wide awake all the way.
Great meeting up with everyone again and hope you all made it home safely.

Tomorrow I will planting up all my new purchases 

Thanks again to everyone.
Angie 

[Stan da Prato]

Round the benches in rather weak light

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ferns, conifers then bulbs

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onwards

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plants from certain geographical  areas then foliage

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end of open section then section 2









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[SusanS]

Hope you managed to get your planting done Angie, might take us a little while to get ours done ... too much temptation on the sales area 

Darren and I would also like to add our own thanks to the organisers for a fabulous weekend. 

After missing several years it was great to be back amongst friends, old and new, once again, and whilst there were a number of absent friends they were not forgotten with a glass was raised to them during the conference dinner.

Inspired by the excellent and informative lectures we have come away with a wish list of things to grow and places to visit.

Susan (and Darren of course) x