Gardening Scotland

[Susan Band]

Hot off the press.
SRGC stand at Gardening Scotland has won a Gold medal. Congratulation to the team - Ian Christie, Sandy and Anne Leven, Jens Neilsen and Julia Corden.

[ChrisB]

Well done everyone!  Look forward to seeing pics from the exhibit when you can!

[Carol Shaw]

Great news - congratulations all  ! Just sorry David & I couldn't be there 

[Carlo]

Isn't it fascinating how rock garden exhibits continue to rack up gold medals at major shows, yet we seem to have trouble interesting younger gardeners in our small jewels.........hmmmmm

[Ian Minty]

Well done to all again.
Is there anyone going there from the Aberdeen or Moray area?
I am stuck offshore again this year and I was wondering if someone will buy me some plants and I will pick them up and pay for them when I get back in a few weeks time.
Carol and David Shaw kindly obliged last year but they can't make it this year.

[TC]

I took these pictures from the Beechgrove Garden on the T.V. a few minutes ago

[David Nicholson]

Congratulations to all concerned.

[Martinr]

Congratulations to all. Makes me all nostalgic thinking of the Beechgrove garden, haven't seen it for years.

[Maggi Young]

Martin, I think even in deepest Derbyshire you could perhaps watch the Beechgrove Garden on the BBC website....we can here in Scotland.
Jim Jermyn, Gardening Scotland Show Manager ( and SRGC Member!) said very nice things about the SRGC Stand this morning when he was interviewed on Radio.
It was interesting tio see the Beechgrove team do their best to make a competition out of the SRGC versus Kevock Gardens ..... Ian Christie sportingly played along with them but, as Stella Rankin of Kevock said, "we are SRGC Members, we think their stand is great too, we've been swapping plants!"
Both won a Gold medal and Kevock was also awarded the best exhibit in the Floral hall . It was great to see President Ian, the Christie kind, interviewed, mentioning that this is the SRGC 75th Anniversary year. Stella and David Rankin got some good publicity too, unusual for the BBC, and they were shown chatting with Rod Leeds (former president of the AGS and another SRGC Member) who was on the judging panel. Rod was part of the AGS display team at Chelsea, of course.

The show looks lovely, with lots of colour in the floral hall but I believe that there are actually fewer show gardens than the organisers hoped for. Karen Laing, from Aberdeen, who made her RHS show debut recently at Malvern, where she won a silver medal, has remade that garden at Ingliston and has won a Silver-gilt... and also the Best Show Garden.....which makes me think that there were no Gold medal Show Gardens outside. Great news for Karen, an artist/teacher turned garden designer to have this success.....we in Aberdeen are very pleased for her!

Well done to all the SRGC Gang for this Gold medal success!
Well done to Tom for capturing such a good photo from the TV!
I have recorded the show so I can look again at leisure!

[Maggi Young]

Typical, no sign of Beechgrove Garden in the BBC  "watch again" listings at the moment! It may appear later this week... I'll let you know. 

[mark smyth]

Martin the Beechgrove Garden is available on Sky.

I wasnt aware it was back on TV. Maggi what day and what time?

[Anthony Darby]

Friday this week, but normally Wednesdays at 7.30. We had visitors yesterday and I was only aware I'd missed it when heard the end when the children switched the TV on in their sitting room.

[Maggi Young]

Found the Beechgrove Garden Programme on BBCi player..... it is here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/page/item/b00bxv9f.shtml?q=beechgrove&start=1&scope=iplayersearch&version_pid=b00bxv6j
hope it works for you!

[Maggi Young]

I discover that the RHSA ( Royal Horticultural Society Aberdeen) have won a Silver -Gilt medal for their entry in the Pallet Garden section... well done !!

[Martinr]

Thanks Maggi, as usual the obvious answer. I have the i-player software but didn't think to use it for such a sensible purpose. More likely to be used for missed Dr Who episodes

Thanks Mark but I don't have, or want, Sky. Enough rubbish on the 4 channels I can get without paying for loads more. Probably give me crap reception anyway. Satellites only just above the horizon in our little valley with a thick deciduous wood in the way as well, no terrestrial digital signal and a dodgy basic signal from a booster transmitter that gives us 4 reasonable channels as long as our amplifier is working!

Sorry, didn't mean to go off on one about TV reception. I'm off to watch the B.G. before Dr Who comes on.