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SRGC Shows and Events => SRGC Shows Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Maggi Young on April 02, 2018, 02:37:40 PM
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SRGC rules and Forrest Medal potential at this year's show!
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Nurseries attending the show will be:
Edrom Nurseries - Coldingham Eyemouth
Hartside Nursery - Alston Northumberland
Pottertons Nursery - Market Rasen Lincolnshire
Aberconwy Nursery - Colwyn Bay - Wales
Ryal Nursery - Ryal Northumberland
Harperley Hall Farm Nurseries - Stanley Durham
Laneside Hardy Orchids Preston Lancashire
Halls of Heddon - Heddon Northumberland
Rockpots - Derbyshire - Hand made stone troughs
Rumbling Bridge Nursery will also be attending the Hexham Show
And of course the NE Alpine Group will also have a plant stand. ...... lots of chances for the proverbial "retail therapy" !
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Graeme and Hilary Butler of Rumbling Bridge Nursery will also be attending the Hexham Show
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The weather seems to have taken a major turn for the better - so I hope there will be lots of folks heading for the Hexham show on Saturday 14th - whether as exhibitors, nursery folk or visitors - to have a wonderful time at the show!
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Maggi do you have any info about the parking facilities? Last year you needed a Doctorate in Parking Mismanagement to work it out.
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Hi Shelagh,
It’s free to park all day up behind the swimming pool building, south and slightly east of the venue. If you are not sure come find one of us and we will try to help, but everywhere else it’s time limited, but free.... I think .... if anyone knows differently do enlighten me tks
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Just took a look at the council site. The red bays are 2hrs, blue bays 4hrs and only the white bays all day, but All are free of charge. You do need a parking disc though... And those all important all day bays are the ones I mentioned in the other post, and many are taken up by people who work in the town ...
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Hartside Nursery getting great plants ready for Hexham Show for Scottish Rock Garden Club and Alpine Garden Society on Saturday at WentworthLeisure Centre - Other nurseries there too - rare plants on display and for sale! All Welcome!!
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Rob and Jackie of Pottertons Nursery are set up at Hexham for Alpine Garden Society / Scottish Rock Garden Club Show tomorrow.... Have fun everyone!
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and Graeme and Hilary Butler of Rumbling Bridge are also ready to go.....
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Forrest Medal plant at Hexham today was this large pot of Saxifraga retusa ssp augustana grown by Alan Furness - the photos are from Rob Potterton.
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Graeme Butler of Rumbling Bridge pictured their lovely Caltha hybrid 'Moonshine' which was given an Award of Merit by the Joint Rock Garden Plant Committee at Hexham
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I think the plant is a C. polypetala x C. leptosepala cross. (checking on that!)
Thanks to Hilary Butler for this note for clarification....
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Photo of the RBG Edinburgh Alpine Dept's display at Hexham ..... photo by Alan Gardner
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Here are some photos from Hexham Show -the plants which took his eye, kindly provided by Alan Gardner....
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Some cracking plants on show - look carefully, you'll see that there are plants featured from the likes of Christine Boulby, Cliff Booker, Sue Simpson and many more forumists!
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Many thanks for the photos, Alan!
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some lovely pictures there from Alan Gardner, saves me posting some of my pictures though i will add where I can put in names and exhibitors. Was a nice show, blessed by good weather....actually had sunshine...and what I would have said was a reasonable number of general public through the doors and the sales tables seemed to sell what I hope was a fair amount of stuff.
I intend to post pictures starting from Class 1 on as that is how I took them...except there was no entries in class 1 so start with 2....Stan da Prato was a big miss both from the entries point of view and his photography, hope he is getting better steadily.
Class 2 from Don Peace, made up pf Corydalis solida ssp incisa, Primula 'Broadwell Milkmaid' and Callianthemum anemonoides
Primula 'Coy' from David Millward (3). Although he listed the breeding I am pretty sure it should be HME 443-87, from Margaret Earle who raised it
Androsace laevigata from Frank and Barbara Hoyle (4)
Primula 'Netta Dennis' from Joan Bradbury (6), she had some lovely specimens throughout the show
Androsace muscoidea breviscapa from me (8)....judges said it was a poor form
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Dionysia 'Orion' from John Bunn (11) and here he is admiring plants with Barry Winter
Primula odontocalyx 'Snow Flurries' from Ian Christie (6)
Draba longisiliqua from Tommy Anderson, and here he is (will have to be at him about that look!!)
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Hymenoxis torreyana from me in 13, had a job getting the flowers open as light so poor of late, spent some time in the house
Corydalis decipiens from Rod and Hillary Price (14)
Saxifraga retusa spp augustana won the Forrest Medal for Alan Furness, a splendid specimen. Alan also won the Eric Watson prize at the show with 3 celmisia
Narcissus rupicola watieri 'Abaleish' from Carole and Ian Bainbridge (20) .... sorry not the best picture
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Tulipa heweri from Clare Oates (21) certainly brightened up the benches
Fritillaria yumminensis roseoflora (22) got an Award of Merit from the Joint Rock...again from me
Primula elatior ssp pseudoelatior from John Richards (21) and here he is talking to Dave Riley
Trillium rivale from Cyril Lafong, a nice seed raised plant from 'Purple Heart' (26)
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Pulsatilla ambigua from F&B Hoyle (27), they had
Pulsatilla vernalis in (29)
Primula elatior from Mike Dale (28). The Dale's also had a lovely display documenting a road trip round the North of Scotland showing plants, view and wild life...much admired
Asarum maximum from Bob Worsely (30)....there he is in the middle with the wife!!.He is running the new East Cheshire AGS show this year, hopes they get good entries
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Just realised this is listed as the 2017 show but the pictures shown at the start are all of the 2018 show, now see there is another Hexham Show 2018 been started...will just plod on, let the powers that be sort if they can
Class 50, known as the Small Six, winner takes an AGS Medal. Two fine entries but neither got a Red Sticker so Sue Simson (entry of the right) was second and Don Peace third. Some of the plants were
Dioysia 'Marika' from SS
Plieone 'Ueli Wackernagel' (DP)......am wackernageled just writing it out a few times!!
Callianthemum anemonoides (DP)
Soldanella alpina alba from Cliff Booker (55)
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Well spotted about the date, George!
Great photos - you had some super plants as usual - and thanks for the people pix as well!
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Two plants in class 54 from Don Peace
Androsace vandellii and
Dionysia khuzistanica
Primula henrici from Peter Hood (44) he had a few at the show all very nice
A view down the Open bench from Class 1 on...not the best of shots but
Hepatica 'Millstream Merlin' from Dave Riley (69)
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Maggie,I cannot understand how I missed it from the start, just saw Hexham and there was the right poster when I opened the posts up so never mind, you sorted it.
A run of Primula now
Primula juliae from Brian Burrow (57)
Primula albenensis from Ian Kidman (57)...is the real thing
Primula 'Loisach' from Alan Spenceley (58)...will have to be after him for a bit!!
Primula 'Broxbourne' from Clare Oates, won the class (59) against a big entry
Middle bench at the show, the Open small pans
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Better to ask how I got the date wrong in the first place, George!! :-[
Does anyone know what Loisach means (is it a place perhaps?) in the name Primula 'Loisach' ?
edit to add .... had a rootle around wikipaedia - which tells me :
The Loisach is a river that flows through Tyrol, Austria and Bavaria, Germany. Its name is Celtic in origin, from Proto-Celtic *lawo and *iskā, both of which mean "water."
The Loisach is a 113 km long left tributary to the Isar. The source of the Loisach is near Ehrwald in Austria. The Loisach flows past Garmisch-Partenkirchen and into the Kochelsee. At the Kochelsee the water that was diverted from the upper river Isar for power generation at the Walcheseekraftwerk joins the Loisach. The Loisach then flows out of Kochelsee and joins the Isar at Wolfratshausen. A canal joins the Isar and the Loisach returning the water diverted for power generation to the Isar before Wolfratshausen to reduce the risk of flooding in the town.
Seems reasonable!
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More primula
Primula marginata from Jim Watson (60) won the class for P marginata excluding hybrids!!!
Primula marginata 'Casterino' from Sue Simpson (60)
Dionysia bryoides from Derek Pickard (63) and here he is being told how to do it by Ian Kidman
Narcissus obesus 'Lee Martin' Dave Millward (81), thought this a good exhibit, great colour.
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Maggie I don't know re Loisach but Dave Philbey has (S. Craven)in brackets when he listed it in an article for the AGS Bulletin (72, pp 187-199) so assume Craven raised it
Saxifraga 'Allendale Bonny' from Sue Simpson (70)
Saxifraga 'Ray Woodcliffe' from Ian Kidman (70). I really like this but Ian says not easy to propagate
Saxifraga columnaris from me in 105, raised from my own seed may be S. dinninaris, the seed plant was also at the show and looks a bit different
Sue Huntley looks amazed here, would love to know why, polite guesses only please
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Narcissus cyclamineus x Bowies Early Sulphur from Alan Newton (81). He also had
Shortia uniflora precepts in 106, a seed class, have to ask him what the 'precepts means. There were other shortia on the benches one of which was
Shortia uniflora from Cliff Booker (87)
Sebaea thomasii from Jim Watson (90)
Primula 'Matthew Evans' from Tommy Anderson (82), a good tight plant
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Great news that Christine Boulby won Section 2 cup at Hexham AGS/SRGC Show yesterday....
Christine writes : At the Hexham alpine show yesterday, was gobsmacked to learn I had won the cup for most first places in section 2. Here are the plants that did it for me. " Well done , Christine!!
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Christine also wrote : "Also got a second for my wee primula auricula grown from seed 2016."
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Lewisia tweedyi from Colin and Kathleen Billington
Saxifraga burseriana 'Mangart' from me in (86)
Primula farinifolia from Brian Burrow (86)
Fritillaria whittallii from Don Peace (91)
Some of the Scottish contingent
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Daphne calcicola from Lionel Clarkson (92)
Rhododendron cephalanthum crebreflorum from me (93)
Primula renifolia from Ian Kidman (101)
Fritillaria tubiformis from me (107)
Frank Hoyle getting from tips from Edinburgh Botanics
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A picture of the Intermediate and Novice Bench, a bit reduced in entries but still nice stuff
Class 110, Primulas 'Aire Mist', 'Broadwell Milkmaid' and x pubescens 'Lilac Fairy', sorry did not get the exhibitor name
Soldanella 'Sudden Spring' Joan Bradbury (112)
Bukiniczia cabulica from Bob Braithwiate
Class 138, Saxifraga 'Leonardo da Vinci' from Christine Boulby showing her awards for the most points in Intermediate...well done lass
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Last few
Rhododendron 'Shamrock' from Elizabeth Dodds (144)
The winner of the Cyril Barnes Trophy for the most points in the Novice Section was Ian Matthewson, he had
Primula 'Johanna' and
Fritillaria eduardii 'Castor' among his entries
Bottom end Open bench
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From Cliff Booker :
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Enjoy!
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Good to confirm that Christine also won the SRGC Section II Bronze Medal for her entries .
List of Trophies and Awards made at Hexham Show
R B Cooke Plate
Open Section aggregate :Don Peace, Yarm
PRIZE POINTS: first:22 second:4 third:6
Gordon Harrison Cup
Intermediate Section aggregate Christine Boulby, Acklington
PRIZE POINTS: first:6 second:1 third:0
Cyril Barnes Trophy
Novice Section aggregate Iain Matthewson, Dumfries
PRIZE POINTS: first:5 second:4 third:0
SRGC Bronze Medal - Section TWO
Subject to SRGC rules Christine Boulby, Acklington
PRIZE POINTS: first:18 second:2 third:0
David Boyd Award
Class 46 - 6 varieties of cut alpine flowers, incl. dwarf shrubs: Fred & Pat Bundy, Hensall
Northumberland Cup
Class 170 - 1 pan rock plant shown by a new exhibitor : Bob Braithwaite, Penrith
Sandhoe Trophy
best plant in a pan not exceeding 19cms: Tommy Anderson, Kendal for Androsace idahoensis x laevigata
Ralph Haywood Memorial Trophy
best Dwarf Shrub(to be presented at the AGS AGM) : Alan Furness, Hexham for Rhododendron dendrocharis
Gold Award exhibit of outstanding merit Mike Dale, Felton for A Floral Road Trip
Silver Award exhibit of outstanding merit North Pennine P, "Plugging the Gaps"
Certificate of Merit plant or exhibit of outstanding merit : Lionel Clarkson, Blackpool for Daphne modesta
Gold Award exhibit of outstanding merit : Royal Botanic G, Edinburgh for a Display of Bulbs
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....Stan da Prato was a big miss both from the entries point of view and his photography, hope he is getting better steadily.
Thanks George -progressing ahead of schedule - managed over a mile today - I have thoroughly enjoyed your photos of the show.
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Many thanks to Cliff for this excellent presentation.
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Glad to hear you are reaching that corner, Stan, you were really missed by everyone on Saturday...
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Sandy's Forrest medal report is online here -with Rob Potterton's photos.....
http://files.srgc.net/Showreports/ForrestmedalHexham2018.pdf (http://files.srgc.net/Showreports/ForrestmedalHexham2018.pdf)