Edinburgh SRGC News and Show 2016

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Margaret & Henry Taylor won class 5 for 3 pans from seed so received the Curle Memorial Trophy. Club president David Rankin won the Corsar Trophy for best European primula while show secretary David Millward won the RE Cooper Bhutan drinking cup for the best Asiatic. The Bill Mackie Quaich for best saxifrage went to Sue Simpson-Watt. The Kilbryde cup now goes to the best plant in a small-17.5cm-pot of which there were many fine examples. The judges decided that John Di Paolo's Fritillaria aurea was the worthy winner.

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Former show secretaries Carole & Ian Bainbridge's fine pot of Narcissus Abaleish won the Henry Tod Carnethy Quaich for the best bulbous plant. Alan Furness was one of several growers from the north of England who greatly enhanced the show with their plants.  He took the Alf Evans Quaich for the best ericaceous plant other than rhododendron. My rhodo Lucy Lou received  the Midlothian Vase  while my mini garden won the Boonslie Cup. By again bringing  most plants I retained the Reid rose bowl.

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Section 2 was full of excellent plants. The best plant,  receiving the Midlothian Bowl,  was Mala Jane's Fritillaria while the Bronze Medal for most successful exhibitor in section 2 went to Tony Taziker. Iain Mathewson won the special prize for the best plant from a new exhibitor with a form of Primula elatior. The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh mounted a typically fine display at one end of the show hall mainly of bulbs which duly received  the appropriate gold medal.

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I omitted to record  that Tom Green, another good grower from Northumberland, received a merit certificate for a pale form of Primula henrici -at the front left of this group of Asiatic species.

[Maggi Young]

Cracking show it seems - Show Secretary David Millward and his helpers  must be well pleased with the day.
Well done to all the exhibitors and  winners  !!

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A fine show indeed. We shall start a round of the show with Class 1 for 6 small pans which had five entries

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Then classes for new, rare plants and those grown from seed by the exhibitor then 3 Scottish plants

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moving on along the first bench by the window and into lots of colourful primulas

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yet more primulas

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by the end of the window bench we have primula family other than the primula genus

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Now for the middle bench starting with plants for foliage effect, then cushion plants and then various forms of Ranunculaceae 

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now into all sorts of bulbs then succulents

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moving on and round the end of the middle bench to its second side with even more bulbs

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continuing through trilliums, aroids, iris and 2 pans sax class

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finishing the middle bench with dwarf shrubs and the single succulent class.